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  • Windows 10 or Windows 11 GPO ADMX – Which One To Use For Your Central Store?

    Hi community, My name is Helmut Wagensonner. I’m a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and this blog should help you to understand, which Administrative Templates (admx) to choose for your Windows 11 / Windows 10 mixed environment. Note: The content of this article is only useful if you use ADMX file versions released before 21/07/23. All…

  • GimmeNote

    General Information GimmeNote is an Outlook VSTO plugin written in C#. It enables users to add notes to mail and appointment items. GimmeNote is designed to work with your primary (default) mailbox, which must be an Exchange account. IMAP and POP3 accounts do not support categories. Creating notes should also work on secondary accounts (even…

  • Programmatically delete a user’s profile

    Deleting old and orphaned user profiles on a PC can easily be done using the Advanced System Properties dialog. But is there a way to delete local Profiles remotely? In short: Yes, there is. And even better, you can do this all from command line or from Powershell. The WMI class Win32_UserProfile offers a not…

  • Fix orphaned Start Menu items

    Hey community, this is Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer for Windows Client platform. Today I want to provide you a workaround for an issue I ran into a couple of times now at my customers. Please note that at the date of writing the product group and engineers are investigating the root cause and probably…