Here are a few tips I picked up regarding using the Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite and the Hotmail mail service. I use Hotmail to host my email with my own vanity domain, which I think works great (and it’s free!). Don’t know if these things work exactly like this if you use another mail …
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Customizing Office 2010 Setup with OCT: Adding/Removing files
The Office 2010 Office Customization Tool (OCT) can add and remove files to/from a computer that is installing Office. These are the steps in the OCT where you can add and remove files: Notice the text in the Add files step; Specify files to add to the user’s computer during installation. When you exit this …
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Office 2010 Professional Plus fails with unexpected restart on Windows XP
The Situation Office 2010 Professional Plus (32-bit) deployed to Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (32-bit) clients with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2 (64-bit). Office 2010 configured with Office Customization Tool (OCT) according to Microsoft guidelines. The Problem Upon completion the installation would initiate a forced reboot without prompting the user or giving …
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How to set non-expiring passwords for Office 365 users
OK, so this post is more of a public note-to-self. https://gist.github.com/morgansimonsen/8044861
OEM/BIOS Activating a Lenovo X1
I wanted to reinstall a Lenovo X1 portable computer. While preparing to wipe the machine I used ProduKey from NirSoft to extract the product keys for the installed software. This particular machine was sold with an OEM license, for which the product key was affixed under the machine. I quickly noticed that the key printed …