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Windows Server 2025: Bring back the Classic Context Menus

Windows Server 2025 brings a new version of the context menus (the ones that appear when you right-click on a folder, for example). They contain less items, so this can be quite annoying. If you want to bring back the behaviour from Windows Server 2022, do the following: Open the Command Prompt (as Administrator) and run the reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve command After that, go to Task Manager and restart Explorer. Read more [...]

Windows: Prevent auto-registering of your device in Azure (Workplace Join)

In Windows 10 and Windows 11, when you log into an app (e.g. Teams) with your Microsoft Online account, you might get a pop-up: Stay signed in to all your apps You will have a big OK button to accept this or a small link saying "No, sign in to this app only". If you click on the OK button, all Apps that use a Microsoft Online account will now be logged in with the account. In addition, Windows tries to do a Workplace Join to Azure. So in most cases, clicking OK does more bad than good. To prevent Read more [...]

Outlook: Some Favorites keep disappearing on Outlook restart

I recently had an issue with Outlook 2021 and Outlook 365: Some of the favorites (located in the left pane on the top) were disappearing on Outlook restart. I found some suggested solutions to start outlook from the commend line: outlook.exe /resetnavpane. But that did not help in my case. What worked for me was to add the following Registry key and then restart Outlook: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Autodiscover DWORD: ExcludeLastKnownGoodUrl Value: 1 Read more [...]

Linux: How to use the vi Editor

In Linux, there are different editors to edit text files. The most wide-spread editor is vi. Find below the basics on how to use vi: Open a text file: vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf There are 2 modes in vi: Command mode (you are in this mode right after starting vi) You can use keyboard keys to navigate, delete, copy, paste, save the file, quit vi and do a number of other tasks - except entering text Insert mode (-- INSERT -- will appear in the bottom line of vi) You can enter text, Read more [...]

Windows 11: Bring back the Classic Context Menus

Windows 11 brings a new version of the context menus (the ones that appear when you right-click on a folder, for example). They contain less items, so this can be quite annoying. If you want to bring back the behaviour from Windows 10, do either of the following: Open the Command Prompt (admin) and run the reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve command Open the Registry in the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID" path, create Read more [...]

Exchange 2019: Search for all Email Addresses

Exchange 2019 EAC does not show results if you search for parts of email addresses if they are not in the primary email address. Let's take for example the following mailbox: Primary email address: [email protected] This mailbox has a second email address: [email protected] In EAC, you can search for "admin" and will find the mailbox. But if you search for "postmaster", you will not find it. Here, Exchange Powerhell helps, just type: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter {EmailAddresses Read more [...]

Outlook: Remove the "External" label left to the From field

If you are using Outlook and you are connecting to Exchange Online, you might see (depending on what your IT administrator has set) a big "External" label to the left of each From field on each email that has an external sender. This can be quite distracting, expecially if 95% of all your emails are coming from external senders. You can remove that "External" label, by replacing the "From" column with a custom "From" field. Here is how to do it: In Outlook, go to View > View Settings Click Read more [...]