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Spellcheck in MS Teams

2018-04-06
By: CK_God
On: April 6, 2018
In: 365, Office, Teams
Tagged: O365, Office, Spellcheck, Teams

Like all Microsoft Office applications, the new Teams app has a spellcheck feature. One issue I have ended up investigating was for problems with spellcheck behaving unexpectedly in MS teams. What was noticed, was that users who had Teams enabled for them noticed that all text they typed in the chat window was being underlined in red. This happened regardless of whether the spelling was incorrect or not. The next odd quirk was that if a user right clicked on one of the underlined words, the Teams application would crash. First thing was to check a few of the basics: Was the issue is presentRead More →

Process Dumps without installing the full Debugging Tools for Windows

2018-04-06
By: CK_God
On: April 6, 2018
In: Debugging, Windows
Tagged: debugging, process dumps, windows

During the course of various investigations, the need sometimes arises to collect Process dumps for analysis. There are various ways of doing this, using tools such as ProcDump, but I still like using ADPlus. Unfortunately to obtain ADplus you need to download and install the Debugging Tools for Windows, which are now part and parcel with the WDK, SDK or you can use the Visual Studio debugger. Getting the average customer/end user to install that is difficult, it can involve things like change control. Due to this, I decided to try and find out what was the bare minimum needed to generate ADPlus process dumpsRead More →

Enabling Project for a user in Office 365

2018-04-05
By: CK_God
On: April 5, 2018
In: 365, Office
Tagged: 365, O365, Office, Project, Project Online

Recently I had a need to enable MS project for a user in Office 365, this was the first time I had to do this and it proved interesting and I learnt a lot. The end user already had MS Project 2016 installed on their laptop, so it was just a case of enabling Project in O365, or so I thought. I was WRONG! Login to http://portal.office.com and go to Admin section and then check the user account. The user already had O365 E3 license assigned to them, so I enable Project for the user under the additional “Project Online Professional” license. At this pointRead More →

The case of the missing System Writer

2018-04-05
By: CK_God
On: April 5, 2018
In: Windows
Tagged: backup, vss, windows

Recently I was working on a problem for a Windows Server 2008 system where the daily incremental backups were failing. These backups had never worked, but the weekly full backups were successful. First step was reviewing the failed backup logs (these were CommVault logs), and you could see the following: and So, the next thing you do is run up a command prompt and check the vss writers on that server: The system writer was not listed. Next step was to check if there were any conflicting tasks such as AV scans running at the same time as the backup, there weren’t any. I thenRead More →

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