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Preventing Google from Keeping Track of Your Google Search History, Your Location, YouTube Watched Videos, etc.

By Zubair Alexander

On November 28, 2014

Facebook makes money primarily by gathering as much information about you as possible and then selling/sharing with other vendors and businesses by using various techniques. That's basically their business model and it has worked very well for them and made the company a multi-billion dollar company....

How to Give a User Access to Only the Term Store in SharePoint 2010/2013 Central Administration

By Zubair Alexander

On November 11, 2014

There are situations when there is a need to give a regular user the ability to manage the managed metadata term store in SharePoint but you don't want the user.

Unable to Access Gmail in Any Browser But All Other Sites on the Internet Are Accessible

By Zubair Alexander

On November 4, 2014

In addition to Microsoft Outlook client, I also use different Web-based email clients on a regular basis, including Outlook.com and Gmail. There is one problem that I run into with.

Browser Fonts Messed Up after Upgrading to Windows 10 Technical Preview

By Zubair Alexander

On November 2, 2014

I recently experienced a problem with the fonts on my screen that I would like to share with you. Here's the problem and a possible solution. Problem When I upgraded my Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Technical Preview, everything looked good but the browser fonts were...

10th Anniversary of My Blog

By Zubair Alexander

On November 1, 2014

I started this blog on November 1, 2004. A decade is an eternity in the technology world. If you look at my blog from 2004 you would say it's so.

One of the Best News for Microsoft Certified Trainers in Years: Prometric Will No Longer Deliver Microsoft Exams

By Zubair Alexander

On October 19, 2014

According to Microsoft, Prometric will no longer be delivering Microsoft certification exams after December 31, 2014. If you want to take an exam on January 1, 2015, or later, you.

Error: “Failed to initialize connection subsystem” in Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client in Windows 10

By Zubair Alexander

On October 12, 2014

Today I tried to use my VPN connection to one of my business client on my laptop running Windows 10 Technical Preview with the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client version 3.1.03103. PROBLEM When I tried to connect with Cisco VPN Client, I received the following error:...

Images Turn Upside Down When Uploaded to SharePoint 2013

By Zubair Alexander

On October 4, 2014

My colleague Sharee English works with SharePoint a lot and always finds some interesting and bizarre behaviors in SharePoint. The other day she asked me to look into a behavior.

Microsoft Renames Windows 9 to Windows 10 and Releases Technical Preview

By Zubair Alexander

On October 1, 2014

Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Technical Preview, which is essentially a beta version of Windows 10. Microsoft has made some major changes to this new operating system and this is.

How to Permanently Add Exchange 2013 PowerShell Cmdlets to PowerShell ISE

By Zubair Alexander

On September 26, 2014

You can permanently register the Exchange PowerShell commands into PowerShell ISE so you don’t always have to manually add the command Add-PSsnapin *Exchange* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue every time you start PowerShell ISE. Here’s the step-by-step procedure. Activate PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). By default, PowerShell ISE is installed...

How to Fix the Corrupted System Mailboxes & “The user doesn’t have an exchange mailbox” Error in Exchange Server 2013

By Zubair Alexander

On September 17, 2014

Here's an Exchange 2013 problem and resolution. PROBLEM When upgrading from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2013 I ran into some errors. First there were several system mailboxes that.

How to Add Outlook.com POP3 Account to Microsoft Outlook 2013

By Zubair Alexander

On September 13, 2014

Outlook.com is the new Web-based email client from Microsoft. It used to be called live.com, hotmail.com, msn.com, etc. In 2014 it's called Outlook.com. Next year it may have a different.

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