SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Use Microsoft Flow for handling Email
Summary: How to use Microsoft Flow (Power Automate) to automatically handle email.
Date: Around 2020
Refactor: 1 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
On this page you'll see the flows I created for automatic email handling. The following functionality is used:
- Detect a new mail in a shared Office 365 email box
- Check for advanced options in the email like sender address, subject and if the email has an attchment
- Get the attachment and save it in Sharepoint Online
- If the folder dows not exist, create it with a name like year-month format
- Use a condition on the body part of the email
- Save an email on SharePoint Online with the current date in the filename
- Mark the email as red
I used two flows for this.
Fix: X11 Forwarding Font Error
Summary: The fix for a setFont error during a Oracle installation on AIX, done from a Windows box using Cygwin.
Date: 17 June 2009
Refactor: 26 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
I received this error when trying to install Oracle 10.2g on AIX 5.3. All Oracle requirements were met, so it didn't make sense. Turned out it missed the fonts on my CygWin - X on Windows installation.
Error:
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
No pre-requisite checks found in oraparam.ini, no system pre-requisite checks will be executed.
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-06-17_11-07-38AM. Please wait ...bash-3.2$
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: java/langNullPointerException
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.pSetFont(Native Method)
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.setFont(MComponentPeer.java:308)
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.initialize(MComponentPeer.java:236)
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.init(MComponentPeer.java:279)
at sun.awt.motif.MWindowPeer.init(MWindowPeer.java:123)
at sun.awt.motif.MFramePeer.<init>(MFramePeer.java:91)
at sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.createFrame(MToolkit.java:301)
at java.awt.Frame.addNotify(Frame.java:502)
at java.awt.Window.pack(Window.java:473)
at oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OiocOneClickInstaller.createCenterPanel(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:802)
at oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OiocOneClickInstaller.init(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:409)
at oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OiocOneClickInstaller.createFrameElements(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:365)
at oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OiocOneClickInstaller.main(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:2171)
This is how to check if the required fonts are installed:
C:\cygwin\bin>cygcheck -c -d | grep font fontconfig 2.6.0-1 ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1 ghostscript-fonts-std 8.11-1 libfontconfig1 2.6.0-1 libfontenc1 1.0.4-2
As you can see, no fonts…
I changed my own howto on installing CygWin - X on Windows, and after also installing the correct fonts it worked, and this is, how the previous command output looks like when the fonts are installed:
C:\cygwin\bin>cygcheck -c -d | grep font font-bh-dpi75 1.0.0-1 font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 1.0.0-1 font-encodings 1.0.2-1 fontconfig 2.6.0-1 ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1 ghostscript-fonts-std 8.11-1 libfontconfig1 2.6.0-1 libfontenc1 1.0.4-2 mkfontdir 1.0.4-1 mkfontscale 1.0.5-1
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Creating a ScreenSaver Policy with a GPO
Summary: How to disable your screensaver using a gpo.
Date: Around 2008
Refactor: 31 December 2024: Checked links and formatting.
Fix: Windows Terminal Server License Errors
Summary: A fix for Terminal Server error 2056
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 31 December 2024: Checked links and formatting.
If you receive any of these messages:
RDP Disconnected! Error Code: 2056 Any License error regarding Windows Terminal Server
You can always try to delete the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
You can delete the complete key or just the content of the subkey “Store”.
Afterwards you'll have to start the rdp client as an administrator to recreate these keys.
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