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Error message 401.3 when setting up RPC over HTTP/S on Exchange 2003, after installing SP1 for Windows Server 2003 RPC over HTTP/S is a cool method for connecting your Outlook 2003 client to the corporate Exchange Server 2003 from the Internet or WAN, without the need to establish a VPN session to the corporate LAN…

This month sees Microsoft patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, an issue that may cause BitLocker to go into recovery mode, and the usual list of important and critical flaws for other products.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains why you probably should not enable Untrusted Font Blocking in Group Policy.

What with Thanksgiving, and Christmas soon approaching, November has been a quiet month. But Microsoft released the Windows 10 November 2021 Update, a big cumulative update for Windows 11 with a lot of fixes, and Windows 11 SE is now available for education. Windows 10 November 2021 Update (21H2) now generally available November 16th, Microsoft…

Microsoft is introducing safety tips to Office 365 to highlight bad or suspicious email that might tempt users to do things that they shouldn’t. The initiative is good and valuable, but it rather loses some of its gloss because not all safety tips are exposed in Outlook. However, Microsoft is making sure that mobile and other clients see safety tips, even if not in the same interactive manner as is possible with OWA.

You should consider installing Service Pack 2 as soon as possible On August 9, 2004, Microsoft released SP2 for Windows XP. SP2 is the latest collection of updates for Windows XP. Download Windows XP SP2 Network Installation (266mb) See the Windows 2000/XP SP Slipstreaming page for info on how to integrate SP2 into your existing…

How can I remove the IFS Mapping for Drive M in Exchange 2000 Server? MS KB 305145 has more info: This step-by-step article describes how to remove the Exchange 2000 Installable File System (IFS) mapping from drive M. The IFS provides access to the Exchange 2000 information store through Win32 file system APIs. The Exchange…

MC272080 – As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft 365 apps and services have been focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the last year. Beginning August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to,…

Microsoft releases 123 security updates, including a patch for a critical Windows Server DNS bug and Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU gets disabled.

How can I customize the Places Bar in Office XP? In Office 2000 you needed to either edit the registry or use a utility to change the places bar and could not do it on the fly. Also, the places bar was limited to no more than ten entries. With Office XP, it’s easy to…