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[Outlook] - [LinkedIn] - Plugin Warning

I could not find an article in English yet. But I'm sure this will hit the net soon.

I just red an article in Dutch, claiming, the LinkedIn-Plugin for Outlook does send email information to LinkedIn as unencrypted data.
It also seems to send the whole contactlist of the user to LinkedIn.

Feel free to read the whole article HERE

You can off course use google translate (or any other) to obtain the information in English.

[Windows] Log into a sever/computer as administrator without the password

I don't like 3th party programs. I prefer to stay with the base images (WinXP, Win7, Win8, Win2003, Win2008, Win...)

So for this you only need the official image with the same version of the computer/server you want to log into.

The solution:

Boot from Windows cd/dvd
Chose repair
Go to CMD

cd windows
cd system32
move Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak
copy cmd.exe Utilman.exe

reboot


windowskey + u

net user Administrator “put here your new pass”   ---> Administrator is the name of the useraccount, it may be different, just do "net user" it will give you the list of accounts.

(you can now log in with the account and new pass)

reboot

redo all steps to replace cmd with utilman again

Finish


Tested and approved on:

WinXp, Win7, Win8, Win2003, Win2008 and Win2008 R2.

[Windows] Get the option "Burn to disk" back on right click

This morning I needed to quickly burn an iso to a DVD.

I'm on Windows 8 release preview... . When I right clicked on my ISO, I did not see any "Burn to disk" option.

I found a solution on Technet,

This will get the 'Windows Disk Image Burner' back in the 'Open with' menu:

Browse to the .iso file you would  like to burn

1. Right click on it, move the courser to the
   'Open with' Sub Menu box
2. Click on 'Choose Default Program...'
3. Click on 'Browse'
4. In the address bar (The bar at the top of the
   window that shows the current directory 
   [location]) type in: "%SystemRoot%\System32"
5. ** Alternatively to Step 5** Browse to your local
   'System32' folder
6. Press the Enter Key (or Return Key)
7. (The files / folders that you were looking at should
   change to the contents of 'System32'
8. In the 'File Name:' field, type in "isoburn.exe"
9. Click 'Open'
10. **optional** Verify that the checkbox is selected so
    that this becomes the default
11. Click 'Ok'
    

Source : Technet
Author : TeckMaster

[Lync] Random helpful tip

Hello everyone,

This weeks I had a special issue (and a solution) I wanted to share with you all.

The issue:

An employee was going to have a meeting with clients. Those clients had recently installed Lync in their premises.

Whenever the clients tried to click the meeting link in their calendars their Lync would open but the meeting would not start.
They got different errors. Obviously there is nothing I could do on their firewall to allow them to join.

Even when I had them closing their Lync client, when they would click on the meeting link it would reopen it and have the same issue.

So I had them copying the link in the meeting request and past it in the browser: same problem.

The solution:

I asked them to copy the meeting link, past in in the browser and had them add this on the end of the meeting link: “?sl=” (without the “”)

This little ?sl=  will make sure the client check is bypassed. It will open a meeting window in the browser

The client then could use the option to join the meeting via web browser and it worked like a charm.

PS: Web App users do not have VoIP or Webcam Video Capability. Participants must connect to audio using Dial-in number
But you can share your slides.

Enjoy