Office 365.....

So recently the company I work for moved to office 365........ Even thought i told them it would be a bad idea. But anyway we have it now and that is that and as i look around the web I'm find lots of other people who are in the same boat so I have decided to write a post on what I have learned about 365.


1. Kaspersky hates it.

During the online installation Kaspersky will go nuts scanning all the files being downloaded by the install and it really slows down the install process..... alot. The only fix i have found for this is to temperately disable Kaspersky (I normally do it for 30mins or so).

Also if you are getting a computer ready for a new user and it needs Kaspersky and 365 on it  you are in for a treat. If you install Kaspersky first the 365 installer takes forever if you install 365 first kaspersky has trouble doing the network install from the management server (normally only getting to 50% in the installation process and then stopping).

The way I have been dealing with this is by installing 365 first then in the Kaspersky management server deleting the target computer from Unassigned computers>Domains "YourDomainName" and Workgroup then you can normally run the installer without issue.(Normally)

2. File Extensions-

Well  this is a tricky issue. After installing 365 you loose all of your office file extensions and none of your office apps show up in the default programs list. So far I have only found 2 ways to fix this.

Method 1: manually find all the office extensions and map them to the correct exe. For example:
Find a .doc file right click on it go to open with and "choose default program" then click on browse and navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15 and find WINWORD.EXE. The problem with doing it this way is that it is time consuming but it will always work.

Method 2: Microsoft suggests you run the repair tool to fix the problem. In order to do this go to Control Panel then open "Add or Remove Programs"  Click on Microsoft Office 365 (it may also show up as 2013) and click the change button and choose online repair wait for it to completely finish the repair and try to open your files again. The problem with this method is sometimes it fails and uninstalls 365 from your computer.

3. Limited offline usage.

Once a user is offline they only have a limited amount of time to use their office apps(I believe 3 days) after that 365 states that need to renew your subscription and wont let you use office until you are back online.

4. Aero Themes can cause errors in outlook

I have ran into cases where users will not be able to open outlook at all when they use Aero themes in windows 7.
Outlook will start opening but never make it past the part where it says its loading their profile. Most of the time switching to a basic theme will fix this issue.

These are the main issues I have found. If you know of more or if you know of better fixes please let me know.

Retrieve Dell Service Tags Remotely!!!

This is a trick I love so much and use all the time. Thru command Line there is a way to get Dell Service Tags Remotely with-out disturbing the user. I know right pretty sweet.

1. Click start and type CMD
2. Right click on command prompt and run as administrator
3. In command Prompt type: wmic /user:admin-account /node:remote-computer bios get serialnumber and hit enter
4. type in the password for the admin account and hit enter 
5. YOUR DONE!!

Yeah its that easy!!

Exporting Power Profiles

 This is a simple task that can save you time when bringing up a new computer or even if you are in a corporate environment imaging several computers at the same time. I will be writing this how to for windows 7 users but the same thing should work in windows 8

1. Click start
2. Type CMD into the search bar
3. Right-click on CMD.exe and choose  "Run as Administrator"
4. In there you need to input: powercfg list
5. A list of power profiles will come up look for the one you want to export and copy the GUID for it (long string of numbers and letters)
6. Now you need to type powercfg -export "%UserProfile%\Desktop\What you want to call your power profile.pow" GUID
7. Now you need to copy the .pow file you just made over to your new computer
8.  On the new computer open CMD the same way you did it before and type:
powercfg -import "Path to the copied .pow file"
9. Press enter and you are done all you need to do now is go into the power settings and select the profile you just created.

YOU DON'T NEED WINZIP!!!

 I've started to notice that a lot of people still use WinZip. From large companies to home users all still using this awful outdated piece of software to do something that windows has the ability to do out of the box. Thats right I said windows can do it WITHOUT any third party software and better yet ITS SO EASY!

Here is how:

Zipping

1. Take the file or folder that you want to zip and right click it.
2. Go to send to and click "Compressed (Zipped) Folder"
3. And your done!

Un-Zipping

1. Right click on the file you want to un-zip
2. Click Extract All
3. Choose where you would like to extract to files to
4. Click Extract and you're done