Category Archives: IT Tips

fix new iphone can’t sync with outlook.com issue

It seems Microsoft is encourage people to use the app outlook. The app is good, but I still need to sync the contact between my iphone and outlook to get my contacts number.
Spent some time to check this issue, here is the fix:


    Login to outlook.live.com
    In the browser, click on Settings icon (gear at top right) ; scroll down the Quick Settings panel and click on 'View all Outlook settings'
    In the pop-up window, select 'General'; 'Mobile Devices'
    Select the iPhone, note if you have more than one iPhone (e.g. an older device), select the 'Edit' icon (pencil) to check the details including the version, 'OK' to exit details
    Click on the 'Delete' icon (bin) to remove the device
    Power off the iPhone
    Power on the iPhone - device should attempt to re-register with Microsoft
    Open the iPhone Mail app and look for email with subject: "ACTION REQUIRED TO SYNC EMAIL" (note, this email won't appear in the online version of Outlook, only in the iPhone Mail app)
    Scroll down the message and click on: "Continue using this email app".

Disable Firefox 65+ urlbar/address bar suggestion popups

According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502392, browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled pref is no more used in Firefox 65.
So you can’t set below pref to false to disable the annoying Firefox address bar/url bar popups.

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled
browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark;false
browser.urlbar.suggest.history;false
browser.urlbar.suggest.searches

The only way to disable the popup is to use userChrome.css to control Firefox User interface.
Add below line to userChrome.css, done.

#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult {
	display: none!important;
} 

Install / deploy Office Professional Plus 2019

Microsoft released Office 2019 yesterday. But it seems Microsoft push very hard to get people move from traditional office to office 365.

After I login Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center, I found that Microsoft stopped to provide the ISO for Office Professional Plus 2019. And Microsoft only provides the deployment tool to deploy office 2019.

Office Professional Plus 2019 will be released with Click-to-Run installation technology only. We are not providing MSI as a deployment methodology for Office Professional Plus 2019.

Ok, then how can we install Office Professional Plus 2019?

First of all, download Office_Deployment_Tools_2019_MLF_X21-88134.exe from Microsoft website.

Then create an xml file as following:

<Configuration>
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="PerpetualVL2019">
	<Product ID="ProPlus2019Volume" PIDKEY="#####-#####-#####-#####-#####" >
		<Language ID="en-us" />
		<ExcludeApp ID="Access" /> 
		<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" /> 
		<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" /> 
		<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" /> 
		<ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" /> 
	</Product>
  </Add>
</Configuration>

Please be aware “ProPlus2019Volume” is the only available channel for office 2019 “ProPlus2019Volume”.

3. Run below command to get office 2019 installed

setup /configure configuration.xml

And you can also download a copy of the installation files if you want via below command:

setup /download configuration.xml

Prevent Windows 10 from Locking When Monitor Turns Off

1,open the registry.

2. Browse the following path:

HKEYLOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7

3. On the right side, double-click the Attributes DWORD.
Change the value from 1 to 2.
Click OK.

4.open the Power User menu and select Power Options.

5.Click the Change plan settings link for the selected plan. then click the Change advanced power settings link.

6 .On Advanced settings, scroll down and expand the Display settings.
You should now see the Console lock display off timeout option, change the default time of 1 minute to the time you want, in minutes.
Click Apply.

Click OK to complete the task.