Set Excel 2013 cell size in millimeters (or inches for those relics living in US)

• Open new excel sheet.
• Select desired paper size (A4 or A3... of course), orientation and set margins.
• Open View tab.
• Click Page Layout under Workbook Views.
• Press Ctrl+A.
• Open Home tab.
• Click Format under Cells.
• Select Row height and enter desired size with mm suffix (or "in" for rednecks)
• Click Format under Cells
• Select Column width and enter desired size.
• Open View tab.
• Click Normal under Workbook Views.
• Done.

SID HISTORY: AD

Last steps with fixing SID history.

SID HISTORY: Fixing file servers

File servers are easy thanks to Microsoft tool.

SID HISTORY: Fixing SQL

SQL server logins may have old SIDs. This doesn't fix them (because we didn't have this particular problem at work) but shows if there's any that need to be fixed.

SID HISTORY: Fixing Exchange

Dumping my notes about fixing SID history at work. Use at your own risk. These worked for me but won't work for you without some adjustments.

Adding aufs support to Ubuntu LTS 14.04 with 3.16-rc5 kernel

Adding aufs support to 3.16-rc5 is little different than what is was for older kernels. Below works for Ubuntu LTS 14.04.

Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS with encrypted md mirrored rootfs and remote ssh unlock

This post is just to let everyone know old process described here in my earlier post still works and also survives upgrade from older Ubuntu version to 14.04 LTS.

Export Bitlocker recovery keys from AD using PowerShell

This exports list of BitLocker recovery keys from AD. Found it somewhere from web.

Export out-of-office (OOF) autoreplies from Exchange 2010 with Powershell

Quick and very dirty export out-of-office (OOF) autoreplies from Exchange 2010 with Powershell. 

get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited |
get-mailboxautoreplyconfiguration |
where {$_.autoreplystate -ne "disabled"} |
select identity,autoreplystate,starttime,endtime,@{NAME='InternalMessage';Expression={$_.InternalMessage -replace ("`n") -replace("</p","/<") -replace("<.*?>") -replace("&nbsp;","")  }},@{NAME='ExternalMessage';Expression={$_.InternalMessage -replace ("`n") -replace("</p","/<") -replace("<.*?>") -replace("&nbsp;","")  }} |
Export-Csv -Encoding unicode -NoTypeInformation outofoffice.csv

Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) 1.2.1 with Outlook 2010 and 2013

Many vbscripts use old Outlook / Exchange CDO components for MAPI access. Without CDO you'll get "ERROR: ActiveX component can't create object (MAPI.Session)" error message. Unfortunately CDO works only with 32-bit Outlook 2007. If you're running 32-bit Outlook 2010 or 2013 in either 32-bit or 64-bit OS following might come handy.