Dear Mr. Nadella, Dearest Microsoft Board of Directors, Especially since you have discontinued Windows Phone, latest Windows 10 Mobile, why not just make the OS charge free? It does not necessarily need to be the bugs infested Windows 10 Mobile. Most preferably, make Windows Phone 8.1 available for the masses, with Nokia Lumia 620 as… Continue reading Open Letter to Microsoft – Please make Windows Phone 8.1 charge free
Category: IT-burstouts
Get OneNote Screen Clip Shortcut Windows+S Back
As a dedicated OneNote user I am accustomed to its screen clipping function for more than ten years now. Its long-time shortcut was Windows + S until it recently changed to Windows + Shift + S, the former being donated to Windows’ 8.X/10 search functionality. I wanted to get back the old shortcut to… Continue reading Get OneNote Screen Clip Shortcut Windows+S Back
Visual Studio Online Backlogs – Export Work Items in Correct Order
If you are using TFS on premise or VS Online work organization options, then most probably you are a software project manager or a software owner with structured mind or a manically organized developer. In any of these cases you have defined, and then re-defined to improve, a certain work items hierarchy. Either Scrum, or… Continue reading Visual Studio Online Backlogs – Export Work Items in Correct Order
SharePoint Libraries Non-Compliant
If you have data that falls under FDA, HIPAA or similar compliance, you know that records have to be protected from tampering. The so called integrity verification is usually implemented for electronic records through checksumming, also called hashing [see An Introduction to Computer Security: The NIST Handbook]. As long as the binary file is… Continue reading SharePoint Libraries Non-Compliant
Windows Phone 8.1 for Lumia 620 released in Europe
Yay! Just upgraded my Lumia 620 from WP8 to WP8.1 The current OS version reads 8.10.12393.890 and I guess there will be more updates coming soon. I like the 620 model because it is compact and has near field (my demands were to have a functional phone and not XXL chocolate or ninja weapon).… Continue reading Windows Phone 8.1 for Lumia 620 released in Europe
Comparative list of Office 365 fonts
If you are looking for the ‘common denominator’ of Office 365 available fonts / typefaces below a screenshot of comparison between Outlook Online and Word Online is provided. You are asking "Why comparison?" Well, it turns out, that different online applications have a different subset of typefaces. So if you want to create items… Continue reading Comparative list of Office 365 fonts
ValueQueries XPath Castrated
If you have come across articles how to extract event data in an event driven task (like this and this) and you want to pass this data as argument(s) to the script or program assigned to this task, you could have probably tried to parse more than a single named value as well. In… Continue reading ValueQueries XPath Castrated
Consider Considerably
I am just having fun reading a certain Microsoft blog 🙂 I hope Mr Kashman earns a bit more than the average with such a fine English parlance… Well, apart from the fun, there is really nothing to laugh about: Microsoft’s established enterprise solution doesn’t support selective sync and has a sync limitation of 5000… Continue reading Consider Considerably
Alternatives of Local Folders to OneDrive Syncing
NOTE: the following methods apply to any cloud storage with sync client, OneDrive, SkyDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, etc. There is NO ‘best solution’! And no, you cannot use robocopy for this purpose; see why at the end of this page. As soon as the cloud storage syncing was presented to the masses the question… Continue reading Alternatives of Local Folders to OneDrive Syncing
MKLINK Symlinks and Hardlinks aka Junctions
OK, For the ones like me who use this command oh-not-so-often and keep forgetting the principles: MKLINK and the difference between /D & /J, aka directory symbolic links and directory hard links MKLINK parameters overview File Folder Symbolic Link /D Hard Link /H /J Difference* between symlink vs. hardlink/junction in terms… Continue reading MKLINK Symlinks and Hardlinks aka Junctions