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Setting time zone for all and for all misconfigured OWA users
live@edu/Office365 Exchange in the cloud does not seem to allow setting a default time zone, but rather leaves it to the user to change the time zone (defaulting to the time zone the cloud server is in that the user happens to hit) on first login – in the world I operate in, большая ошибка!
How to use the cmdlet set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration with parameter TimeZone to change the time zone of all your mailboxes is nicely explained on the blog How Exchange Works here, including screenshot and PowerShell command.
Unfortunately such an operation is reported to have needed 3 days for updating all mailboxes in an educational live@edu installation with 30000 users… You can restrict the mailboxes touched by examining first which are not in your local time zone (consult the MS TimeZone table for syntax, e.g. US “Eastern Standard Time”):
$mymailboxes = get-mailbox
ForEach ($examinedmailbox in $mymailboxes){
$regionalconfig = get-MailboxRegionalConfiguration –identity $examinedmailbox.identity
if ($regionalconfig.timezone -ne “Eastern Standard Time”){
Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration -identity $examinedmailbox.identity -TimeZone “Eastern Standard Time” -confirm:$false
}
}
Why does MS-OneNote fail to linkify my URLs properly?
If this is a bug, it seems a pretty basic one:
,
for a 3rd generation software plus a service pack: 
. Unless I am doing something wrong, of course (I only paste those links). It is not a link length issue, not all links break at the same length (94 would be an odd length in a binary world anyway). If it is a special character, I fail to see it.
Reports that Messenger cannot initiate a video call?
I can initiate from Windows 7 to XP, back and forth, as the following screenshots attest to (they also show my version #).
Might reports be related to the fact that, on June 14, Microsoft has made it compulsory for all Windows Live Essentials 2009 users to update to the latest version, Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE3 update, bumping the version number up to 15.4.3555.0308 (which is what I already have on Windows 7, but not on XP which cannot run Windows Live Essentials 2011, but Vista does)?
Here is a troubleshooting list from Microsoft Answers:
“repair your Windows Live Programs.
1. Click Start, select Control Panel.
2. View by: Category.
3. Under Programs, click Uninstall a program.
4. Select Windows Live Essentials, then click Uninstall/Change.
5. Click Repair all Windows Live Programs.
1. Ensure that the webcam driver is up to date.
2. Run Audio/Video Setup Wizard.
a. Start Windows Live Messenger
b. Click Tools, and then click Audio and Video Setup. (Press Alt on the keyboard to get the Menu bar) Note: For Windows Live Messenger 2011, select Set up audio and video devices.
c. Follow the directions in the wizard to select and configure the audio and video devices
Note: If you encounter an error and you have a McAfee Site Advisor, please refer to our related article below: Unable to Initiate a Video Call or Video Conversation in Windows Live Messenger
3. Remove Third Party Applications or Add-ons. – if you installed any.
How to fix inability to open notebook from web in MS-OneNote
- A lot of people seem to experience this problem, where the menu item “Open in OneNote” in the OneNote webapp results in the error: “To open this notebook your computer must be running a supported version of Microsoft OneNote and a browser that supports opening files directly from the Office Web Apps.”
- Here is what seems to have solved it for me (it only started to work when owssupp.dll was reinstalled. However, some of the earlier steps may also be necessary, notably adding to the “trusted sites”).
- To open from OneNote desktop, as opposed to form the webapp, I tried to find out the URL of OneNote notebook
- Easiest way is subtracting the edit.aspx portion from the OneNote webapp URL you are viewing.
- Or if you can open the notebook on a different computer in OneNote, right-click on the notebook in the left tree and choose properties, or hover over one of its section headers above it to read the tooltip).
- Then in OneNote on the offending computer, menu:file/open/ instead of browsing, paste the URL. This failed without providing any feedback:
- Then I tried following the tips under the link “troubleshooting” in the error message.
- However, Firefox had the office plugin already enabled:
- I made sure you I was not not running Internet Explorer IE 64-bit.
- In IE 32-bit: Enable the SharePoint OpenDocuments Class add-on in “Tools”/”Manage Add-ons”: Display the list of add-ons, Dropdown “Show” / “All add-ons” / SharePoint OpenDocuments Class, “Enable”, this had also already been the case.
- I added in IE trusted sites (these were missing – did it matter?): Tools / Internet Options./ Security / Trusted sites/ Level needs to be lower than High, Sites, Add this website to this zone box, added liv e.com and live.net (IE adds the asterisk) :
- I then followed the MS Answers forum instructions to reinstall MS-Office, or rather remove and reenable the owssupp.dll:
- before:
, then rename extension to “old”. - In control panel / programs and features / office 2010 professional plus / configure / office tools / Microsoft SharePoint Foundation support, run from my computer, to re-add the SharePoint plugin:
- after:
- Voilà: Now I could open in OneNote from OneNote webapp:
- before:
- Here is wishing that this were easier.., but now I can also open from OneNote / File / Open, and give the URL on live.net (giving the URL does not open directly, I have to press open again to open the OpenNotebook.onetoc2):
NetOp School 6 not upgrading
- Here is what we have:
- Here is what get:
- And for the indexing servers: “ Web Update failed with error: Index file could not be located at update-server.”
How to work around your HP touchpad image viewer showing only unfocused low resolution thumbnail images
Just figured out that to get past that unsatisfactory state, you only need to press the “play” button (and hold the image, if you actually use “play” only as workaround, not to actually play a slideshow). Go figure. 
When installing apache-maven-3.0.4 on Windows 7 (64-bit), environment variables do not expand in %Path%
- Do not follow the instructions for installing apache-maven-3.0.4 on “Windows 2000/XP”, or your final test running mvn –version to verify that it is correctly installed will fail.
- When adapting the Environment variable path, do not use %M2_HOME%\bin, but rather repeat the explicit path, e.g. “G:\conf\lang\java\apache\maven\apache-maven-3.0.4”
- Why is that?
Does Respondus-lockdown–browser block when a user attempts to load a Moodle quiz on 2 different computers?
- We experienced slowness of Moodle during an exam where about 12 students
- load a Moodle quiz into the Respondus lockdown browser (lockdown browser hangs with message "page loading"),
- but also already when logging into Moodle with a regular browser (hangs on login page).
- Turns out large classes used the Moodle quiz function elsewhere on campus which put lots of load on the Moodle servers.
- What can we do on our end to work around this as smoothly as possible?
- First, be patient while Respondus-lockdown–browser displays “Page loading”
- “Refresh” or “Back/forward” are the next resort once “Page loading” attempt has stopped and the page
- states it cannot be loaded
- displays an error about missing CSS component (likely due to incomplete load before timeout)
- says it “can be loaded only in Respondus-lockdown–browser” while you are in Respondus-lockdown–browser (Huh?).
- Keep calm and carry on, i.e. on your current computer.
- In general, trying on additional “fallback” computers is likely to make matters only worse, since even more load is put on the Moodle server system.
- Specifically, however, does Respondus-lockdown–browser block when a user attempts to load a Moodle quiz in Respondus-lockdown–browser on 2 different computers simultaneously? One student kept getting “can be loaded only in Respondus-lockdown–browser” consistently, until closing Respondus-lockdown–browser on this computer. Then the quiz would finally load in Respondus-lockdown–browser where she was logged in on another computer (can this being tracked by the Respondus-lockdown–browser security layer that checks whether a page is loaded within Respondus-lockdown–browser? Why then no more helpful error message, or is this “Security by obscurity”? Data seems inconclusive).
- Additional tips for takers (and authors) of Moodle exams are available.
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