by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | Administration, Software
[:en]Buying a large number of MS’ full Office package can become quite expensive, so for some scenarios it can be an option to use some free / open source applications like LibreOffice. But for Outlook 2016 there is no 100% satisfying alternative available, so a...
by admin | Jan 10, 2018 | Administration
[:en]Powershell’s Get-Process command lists the processes run by all users, which is not always useful, e.g. when running scripts for users with non-elevated rights. Here is a workaround function: #Alternative to Get-Process (get processes of all users) #This...
by admin | Dec 16, 2017 | Administration
[:en]The MS Office original package is clearly the best Windows solution for basic text, calculation and email. But especially for enterprise usage, its administration can get tedious: Licensing and activation troubles Costs in general; in addition there are hardly...
by admin | Dec 14, 2017 | Administration
[:en]Windows 10 Fall creators update brought a new “feature” which is not useful in most cases. By default, most (not all) applications which were opened at shutdown time are now re-opened after a reboot. In most scenarios I’ve seen yet this is not a...
by admin | Nov 30, 2017 | Administration
[:en]Microsoft seems to have kind of forgotten to integrate the MAPI mapping into the modern settings, but the old default app settings via control panel are gone with v1709. So the first step has to be done via Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail ->...
by admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Administration
[:en]Just tried to sysprep a Windows 10 image which had been upgraded from 1703 to 1709. In general, sysprep does not like Win10’s modern apps. It tries to remove most of them, but this does not always succeed. After the first try,...
