How to start Word with a specific template

Open Word the usual way. In the template selection view, select the template you want and click Create. For example, Blog Post. When Word opened your document, click Save As and select Word Template in the Save as type drop-down box. Path should change automatically to your Custom Office Templates directory. Give your template a…

April 8, 2018 · 2 min · 318 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

How to use Word for Blog publishing

Start your Office Word application. It works with any version starting with Word 2007. While you’re in the new template selection view, search for “blog” in the “Search for online templates” field. “Blog post” template should be listed. Click it and then select Create button. On first run only, you’ll be asked to register your…

April 4, 2018 · 3 min · 458 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Creating an e-book. Part 2.

Following on from previous post about creating an e-book, today we will make that “black on white” text look nicer and we will do it using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I will not detail on what CSS is because this is not the purpose of this post. If you need to refresh your knowledge, please…

April 1, 2018 · 6 min · 1141 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Creating an e-book. Part 1.

As explained in Ok, E-Books post, this topic became of an interest just recently. I have never created an e-book so you will not see me saying that I’m usually doing it this way or that way or other crap like this. No, cards on the table. I’m just as curious as you are about…

March 30, 2018 · 4 min · 776 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

HTML vs XHTML

Ever wondered what HTML and XHTML is about? Long and official story can be found at W3Schools. Short story, below. Simply put, XHTML is the same as HTML but stricter. There are rules in place that one must follow. You are no longer allowed to leave tags unclosed or place them wherever you want. And…

March 29, 2018 · 2 min · 292 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Ok, e-books

Let’s start with some bullshit talk to tell you how this topic started. Feel free to skip it if you’re not curious. Personally, I’m not the kind of person who reads books not related to IT; think I can count all books I read throughout my lifetime and there are no more than 10, but…

March 28, 2018 · 4 min · 664 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Getting back online

After many years, giving this blog a rebirth. I lost my backup files and only found very few posts and those mainly about ConfigMgr 2012. Will post them below anyway; better few than nothing. Next planned articles will be about e-books and plain html maybe, we shall see Stay tuned! Also need to create/update “About”…

March 27, 2018 · 1 min · 67 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Object Replication Manager failed to process Object changes.

Symptoms Did your SMS_OBJECT_REPLICATION_MANAGER component shows a lot or 6004 MessageIDs with the following description: “Object Replication Manager failed to process Object changes. These changes will be retried on next processing cycle.”? Cause By design, maybe. Resolution Run the following query in SQL Management Studio (Warning! modifying the database directly may not be supported by…

October 20, 2014 · 1 min · 119 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Step-by-step guide to install Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 R2

Steps to perform on primary domain controller (DC) Extend AD schema Log in using a domain admin account Insert ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 DVD Open a command prompt window Type D:\SMSSETUP\BIN\X64\EXTADSCH.EXE and press Enter. Wait for a confirmation message in CMD window and then check for the existence of ExtADSch.log file in the root of C:…

August 2, 2014 · 5 min · 893 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Despooler failed to merge delta to the compressed package. Error 112.

Symptoms You make changes to a package and update your distribution points. Shortly you receive error messages in Component Status for SMS_DESPOOLER component. Status message details is similar to the following: Cause The destination drive where site server is uncompressing the package is full. Resolution If you don’t know the drive where the package is…

March 13, 2014 · 2 min · 300 words · Vitalie Ciobanu