MyITForum: Then of an era

I have been an avid user, contributor, speaker, and blogger on http://www.myitforum.com since 2005.  It has been an amazing journey.  However with the most current owners a lot of great content is disappearing.  As such I am attempting to grab content before it disappears completely. The email lists are by far the best part still.

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Resolved: Microsoft Office 2010 Copy and Paste Stopped Keeping Source Formatting if Skype Click to Call is Installed

Written in 2011 – http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/06/19/resolved-microsoft-office-copy-and-paste-stopped-keeping-source-formatting-if-skype-click-to-call-is-installed/   I noticed recently that my copy and paste in Microsoft Office 2010 stopped keeping the source formatting.  It was only allowing the paste of text only.  If you were to check for paste special it would show only a capital A. I noticed that if you closed all internet browsers

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Marriott and SPG: Better together if you have Status

As of September 2016 Marriott purchased SPG.  If you have status  with any of the following (high enough) then you have status at them all! Marriott SPG Delta United Marriott Platinum or SPG Platinum gives you the other. http://Members.marriott.com Marriott Platinum Status gives you United Silver – https://mrrewardsplus.com United Mileage Plus Gold or Higher Gives you Marriott

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Windows 10 FIX: WebEx does not support IE 11 or Edge

Looks like WebEx does not yet work with Edge nor IE11 in Windows 10.  WebEx only says it should work.  Yet some people have issues.  The follow is the workaround WebEx says not Supported https://support.webex.com/MyAccountWeb/knowledgeBase.do?articleId=WBX87246 Issue Fixes Chrome Use the Extension IETab IE11 F12 (Developer Tools) Emulation Tab Change “user agent string” to “Internet Explorer

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Windows 10 Event 10016 Fix: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160} and APPID {9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276} to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.I a

Ran into a lot of DCOM (DistributedCOM) errors on Windows 10 machines after upgrades.  Looks like the TrustedInstaller from a previous application and the RunTime Broker did not give System and Local Administrators permission during a Windows 10 upgrade.  It just an annoying thing but also slows down a windows 10 Login. The Error The application-specific

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Windows 10 Upgrade Path is Language Specific

The silent upgrade of Windows 10 is dependent upon matching languages.  This may seem obvious when thinking about English versus French.  How about US-EN (409 or 1033) versus EN-GB (2057)?  Turns out that the CB, CBB, etc version you download will really matter.  As the error provided by SMSTS logs are opaque to say the

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Microsoft ConfigMgr and the over ambitious percent complete

The Percent complete of the Task Sequence popup rounds up. I discovered this working through testing Windows 10 upgrade and bare metal.  That means Microsoft thinks any action is at least 1%.  it also means that an action is not complete until 101%.  This explains why so many progress bars in the past showed 100% complete

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