In the most recent update of Windows 11, Microsoft added a new design of the windows 11 start menu that includes a the pane “Access your mobile devices here”, also called “Phone Link In Start Menu”. While this is a neat feature for users at home, it’s not something you really want in a company environment. And as usual, Microsoft hasn’t provided any policy or setting to easily hide this by default.
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Exclaimer Breaks Email Forwarding
UPDATE 15/09/2025: it looks like they fixed it a couple of weeks ago.
Recently, several colleagues reported that they received blank emails containing only images and a text file named ATT00001.txt. The images were part of the email signature, and the actual message body appeared inside the text attachment.
I soon found out that Exclaimer was causing the issue… sort of.
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I’m currently migrating from our Skype environment to Teams and one of the issues we had was that our internal user could not easily find the Auto Attendant or Call queue of our internal departments. Only when they searched on the virtual operator (Resource Account) full name, did they get the correct results. Fortunately, thanks to some input from my teammates we found a solution that Microsoft didn’t document. 😫
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Nothing feels so good as shutting down an old server running an EOS operating system. A couple of years ago I did a project where I needed to migrate a lot of old Windows servers. Every time I decommissioned an old server in that project, I always entered some lyrics as final message. I recently found them back I wanted them. 😊
Migrate an IIS Website to a New Server
Here is the situation. I’m running an internal IIS server with a simple website and an FTP website on Windows Server 2008 R2. Of course, Windows Server 2008 is End of Service so we need to migrate the server to a new supported server. Unfortunately, the FTP server contains allot of folders and files with the necessary configurations and permissions. While there are some websites explaining this process, most of them are outdated or are missing some extra information to help you in the process. So, for this reason I found it interesting to write a small tutorial.
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