TL;DR .BGI files can be sent on mail as attachment and can execute code when opened.Requires that BGinfo.exe has been run on the remote machine once. It will also bypass Outlook attachment protection (Fixed with Defense-in-depth patch from September 2017). PowerShell functions to generate BGI and VBSWebMeter here: https://github.com/api0cradle/BGInfo I was acknowledged on […]
The last month I noticed that everytime I started Outlook without internet connection it crashed. I found this very strange so I started investigating it in more detail. I also talked to a couple of collegaues and they said excact the same. After a lot of trying I nailed it down to the TeamViewer Addon […]
I experienced a very strange issue on a Windows 2008 SP1 R2 Terminal Server. When a user attached an attachment from a network share in Outlook 2010, a dialog box came up stating the attachment was downloading. Outlook was slow, and both Outlook and Explorer.exe was getting “application errors”. The server was slower and slower, […]
I had a strange Outlook problem few days ago. When we set up a new Outlook profile Out-Of-Office worked, I forced a download of OAB. Then I tested Out-Of-Office again. It did not work!? It stated that OAB must be downloaded. I’ve turned on Expert level logging on OAB and updated OAB. (I also deleted […]
We were finish with setting up Exchange 2010, published OWA, ActiveSync Outlook Anywhere (KCD SSO) with co-existent with Exchange 2003 trough ISA. Everything worked good. Autodiscover externaly worked perfect. When we tested mailbox internally we saw that Out-Of-Office did not work. I’ve checked Autodiscover from Outlook client and it searched Autodiscover from wrong SMTP address? […]
I decided to put up a post about nice to know things about Outlook 2010. One of the big things with Outlook 2010 is that they have remove Nk2 Files completely. I know what you are thinking (of course it is stored somewhere else). So where is it stored now when the Nk2 files are […]
It happens from time to time that users only use the name cache in Outlook and does not save them as contacts as they should. I often find myself in a environment with terminal server with roaming profiles and local profiles on computers, and I need to view the contents of the NK2 files. This […]