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

  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

  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

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

  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

  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

  Here some quick test results from a recently purchased Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB. The used benchmark software was ATTO v2.47. The first test was run with a queue depth of 10 and total length of 2GB In the second test smaller queue depth of 2 and length of 128MB were chosen. The results… Continue reading Benchmark Samsung SSD 840 Pro

  Recently my server logged multiple ID 157 events texting "Disk # has been surprise removed". Check the disk number! If it is larger than the disks that you have (minus 1, since we start counting from 0), then it is safe to ignore it. Plausible check: You receive "Disk 2 has been surprise removed"… Continue reading Disk has been surprise removed

Despite the fact that Microsoft has given a green light to licensing Hyper-V under Server 2012 R2 Essentials, it is still a pain in the neck of getting it running smoothly. After a recent blog about installing ONLY the Hyper-V role here, I was confronted with another bug. The short story: Once a week our… Continue reading Essentials 2012 R2 Hyper-V Shuts Down Weekly