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Outlook 2010 | Enable/Disable Cached Exchange Mode | Regedit

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If “Cached Exchange Mode” in Outlook is grayed it can be switched on/off via regedit.

To Enable OST files and switch cached exchange mode on:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\outlook\ost]
"NoOST"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\outlook\cached mode]
"Enable"=dword:00000001

To Disable OST files and switch cached exchange mode off:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\outlook\ost]
"NoOST"=dword:00000002
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\outlook\cached mode]
"Enable"=dword:00000000

You can also enabled/disable cached exchange mode for shared mail folders (note this is only slightly different and contained under “Policies”):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\OST]
"NoOST"=dword:00000002
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Cached Mode]
"CacheOthersMail"=dword:00000000

Reference: KB982697

Change/View/Edit Microsoft Office Product Key | CScript

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View Office License/Product Key installed:

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Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows:

cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus

Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows

cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus

Office 2010 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows

cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
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Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows

cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus

Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows

cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus

Office 2010 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows

cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus

Install Office Key via *.BAT file:

cd c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14
cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
cscript ospp.vbs /act

Change Office License/Product Key installed:

Quickest method I use for Office 2010 to prompt for a new license/product key (and remove the existing one entered):

Regedit -> right click “Registration” and delete the entire key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Registration

When you load Office, it should now prompt you to enter the license/product key.

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Windows & Office Key Activation / Removal

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Windows Keys (slmgr):

Change Windows Product Key & Activate:

cmd
slmgr -ipk your-mak-key-here
slmgr -ato

Office Keys (ospp.vbs):

In order to deactivate an Office license you can use the “ospp.vbs” script located in the Office 2010 Installation directory.

This allows for a number of functions, my objective being the deactivation of a activated MAK for Visio & Office 2010.

These are the steps take for this scenario:

CD C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

or

CD C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14

(32-bit Office 2010 on a 64-bit OS)

Displays a list of Office Product keys installed / Make a note of the Last 5 char of key to be removed:

script ospp.vbs /dstatus

Remove Office Product key activation:

cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:M9TKQ

Removing “Help Protect and Improve Microsoft Office” prompt from RDS/TS

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  1. Users without administration access are unable to select the desired options on the “Help Protect and Improve Microsoft Office” prompt which is display when first loading Microsoft Office 2010 as they required elevated permissions.

This issue can be resolved via a GPO. Unfortunately Office 2010 GPOs are not integrated into the standard GPOs within Windows Server so require an additional download.

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Delegate Distribution List Modification to Users in Outlook.

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I always wondered what the “Managed By” tab was when displaying the properties of a Distribution or Security Group in Active Directory. By adding a user to the “Managed By” tab they can then be delgated to modify distribution lists using Outlook, obviously this helps with admin tasks and people complaning at you when someone is not in the list!!

  1. My Computer -> Administrative Tools -> Users and Computers
  2. Select OU – I create a seperate “Distribution_Groups_OU”
  3. Select “Distribution Group” right click “Properties”
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Checking what users are part of the Distribution group in Outlook

  1. Add Distribution in email using “to…”
  2. Simple click “+” to expand it:
  3. Note: This “+” does not apply on all distributions groups such as Dynamic groups so you may not see if. You will need to check AD to confirm what type of list it is.
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Modifying Distribution group in Outlook (For the delegated user selected in the previous step “Managed By” tab)

  1. Open Outlook -> Tools -> Address Book
  2. Locate Distribution Group -> Right Click -> Properties
  3. Click “Modify Members”
  4. Click “Add”
  5. Select Member Click “OK”
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NK2 Files & Import

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NK2 File locations in Windows XP / Windows 7

  • Windows XP: Start -> Run -> “%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook”
  • Windows 7: Start -> Run -> “%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook”

Import Outlook nicknames from .NK2 file to Outlook 2010 Profile

  1. Copy *.NK2 to %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook
  2. Change name of .NK2 file to match the Outlook profile name (This can be checked using “Mail” in control panel)
  3. Start -> Run -> “outlook.exe /importnk2” (This imports the NK2 file into the profile)
  4. Once imported the .nk2 file should get renamed automatically with . file extension
  5. Import of Contacts will merge with current cache (not overwrite)

Automatic tool to do this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980542