Manage categories in resource mailboxes / rename or delete them

Some days ago a customer had a special question concerning outlook categories inside resourcemailboxes: he wanted to change the existing categories of a room mailbox because the users used them already. Renaming by default in exchange 2013/2016 is not possible because the button is greyed out. With the following step by step guid you are …

Cleanup Exchange mailbox via scheduled task (Exchange 2013/2016)

Cleanup Exchange mailbox via scheduled task (Exchange 2013/2016) Lot’s of customers ask whether it’s possible to clean up a certain mailbox in exchange periodically. I did some scripting and made a tutorial for running the script as scheduled task. Link to the script on Github: Script to clean up a journaling mailbox via scheduled task …

GPO settings Internet Explorer Maintenance missing

When you have a look on lots of different it environments you often find old GPO settings or old templates. There are mostly new domaincontrollers or updated internet explorers on domaincontrollers. What people did not consider when updating is, that for example internet explorer maintenance disappears when updating to IE11 on a domaincontroller. NOTE: before …

Finding temporary word / excel / powerpoint files (tilde files) document locked by user

Some days ago I found an issue concerning word /excel documents. The behavior was strange, because one of these programms said that the file the user wanted to open, was locked by another user. But this user definitly did not open it. Only the mentioned user who “locked” it was able to open and change …