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How to search Outlook email for phrases using AND / OR

First make sure you can use quotations in Outlook search, so you might need to make a registry change

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/unexpected-search-results-when-you-use-double-quotation-marks-to-search-items-in-a-mailbox-in-outlook-d1de87c9-2ce6-0ce7-69b6-a6e872ba14c8

If the leading keys don’t exist, please create them

Example of searching Outlook for emails received between 01/01/2019 to 01/01/2023 with phrases, words or email address like

Name@domain.com

-OR-

New Agreement

-OR-

26/23.6

-AND

Design

How where you can type in Outlook search

received:2019/01/01..2023/01/01 (“Name@Domain.com” OR “New agreement” OR “26/23.6”  AND “Design”)

 

How to encrypt drive of Windows 10 / 11 with Bitlocker and print encryption key to copy and save for future recovery.  Don’t save on the same C drive.

Run command line as admin

manage-bde -protectors -add C: -rp

 

 

If you have an SSL certificate in pfx format (also called PKCS#12 format) and that usually includes the SSL certificate for your host or domain along with the private key (usually the key is secured with a password), and if you want to extract the certificate file and the private key, here what you can do

Assuming the name of the certificate is MyCertificate.pfx

1- download/Install/extract OpenSSL command line utility into a temp folder.

2- Copy the the MyCertificate.pfx certificate file into that folder.

3- To export the ssl certificate into pem format

openssl  pkcs12  -in  MyCertificate.pfx  -nokeys  -out  MyCertificate.pem

4- To export private key:
openssl  pkcs12  -in MyCertificate.pfx  -nocerts  -out  MyPrivateKey.pem  -nodes

5- To remove the passphrase/password from the private key:
openssl rsa  -in  MyPrivateKey.pem  -out   NewPrivateKey.key

Now you have you have the certificate MyCerificate.pem & the private key NewPrivateKey.key (the names here could be anything – you can name them or rename them to anything descriptive or to whatever your webserver/web application documentation requires).

 

My notes on Halo (unrelated to the above)

Open the “cert” on the servers desktop, backup the current certificate and private key and move them out.  Copy the new cert and private key and match the names to backup files..

Restart Halo services.

 

Mapping SharePoint Site/Folder to a network drive is only available with Windows Explorer.  This won’t work with Edge or any other browser.

If your SharePoint URL

https://www.MyCompanySite.SharePoint.Com

And the name of the site MySite (could be blank as it’s the root of SharePoint), and the folder on the root to map called Compliance.

1- Go to Control Panel, Internet Options and add that site to Trusted Site list.

2- Open Internet Explorer, login to the share point site and save password on log in.

https://mycompanysite.sharepoint.com/sites/MySite/Shared Documents/Compliance

3- Map the network drive to the Compliance SharePoint folder using the following format

In Explorer choose to Map a network drive, choose a drive and point it to

https://MyCompanySite.SharePoint.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\MySite\Shared Documents\Compliance

 

After migrating mailboxes from on-premise Exchange 2013 to Office 365, some Microsoft Outlook 2016/2019/Office 365 clients kept on getting a message on the bottom right-hand corner of Outlook saying “Need Password” without being prompted to enter it, they would click on the message and it would disappear, and Outlook would resume receiving emails but after a little time that message would come up again.. this behavior continues persistently through the day…

Modern Authentication is enabled and might have contributed to the issue.

1- The following registry keys fixed the issue (Close Outlook and other MS programs before making changes).  Reboot computer after making changes.  Add as DWORD and set to 1.  You can save it to a reg file and double-click to add the keys automatically:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity]
“Version”=dword:00000001
“EnableADAL”=dword:00000001
“DisableADALatopWAMOverride”=dword:00000001
“DisableAADWAM”=dword:00000001

 

2- Now browse to the following registry location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover

Find out if the following DWORD exists

“ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint”

and if it does delete it.

3- Reboot your the computer after that.