As we can see from this topic
How to pre-populate the sms body text via an html link
it is possible to generate sms links that work perfectly on smartphones.
But when I click on it on my browser while I'm on the pc running windows 10, nothing happens. The link is simply ignored even though it is totally abnormal.
Don't tell me that this is normal, NO! There is the application "My phone" which is installed and which makes it possible to send sms with the PC, to answer them, to see the notifications or even the photos of the smartphone. So the pc can send sms via this application which is from microsoft and I am on a microsoft system. I often use it to write my sms. But the browser (chrome for example, but also edge for example) does not work while they should transmit the request to the application "my phone".
My question is :
How can I add parameters to the system so that it works?
It seems like such an obvious question that I'm surprised I haven't seen similar ones on the internet despite long searches.
Thanks to those who will answer and especially to those who will give a solution.
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I have developed a very basic Outlook Web Add In, with the purpose of loading a Power Apps app by using an iframe object with a URL pointing to the app, all this from Office 365 on desktop devices.
It works as intended and, when loading, Power Apps asks the user to login first, this isn't the app itself asking to login, but Power Apps asking the user to identify first and then loading the app. This also works, at least on some devices.
It has come to my attention that some users can't make it past the login request, as instead of opening a browser tab and showing the login form, the iframe in the Add In, shows this message, which, obviously, makes users think the app isn't working:
This app isn't working. Refresh your browser or try again later
Apparently this message is not that uncommon and at least from what I've read it isn't clear enough either.
Besides that, Windows is displaying this message:
You'll need a new app to open this about link
I'm not even sure what it means, but it shows a list with zero apps that can open this "about link", and the option to go the Windows Store.
What should happen (and happens on some devices):
User is shown login request (by Power Apps)
User logs in
App is loaded and shown to the user
What happens (only on some devices):
User is shown login request (by Power Apps)
Windows can't open a web browser, so the user can't log in
Message saying app isn't working appears, because app was never loaded.
As I don't quite understand why this only happens on some cases, I have been testing the issue, and I have found that when the Power Apps login button is clicked, a file called ielowutil.exe, which apparently stands for Internet Low MIC Utility Tool, is executed before the web browser is shown with the login screen, and this only happens on the devices that can eventually load the app, the ones that fail never run this program.
From what I understand this file is related to Internet Explorer.
The Outlook Web Add In is already working within a web browser, according to Microsoft the browser is chosen automatically (Browsers used by Office Add-ins), so if it's already opened then I don't quite understand why it can't open a new tab/window.
The combination of system requirements for Office Add-ins and Power Apps may be the cause of the error here. While some combinations of platforms and Office versions still support IE 11 for add-ins and may default to opening URLs in IE per Browsers used by Office Add-ins and Support Internet Explorer 11, it looks like IE is no longer supported by Power Apps (see Supported browsers for running Power Apps).
For users who experience the issue you mentioned because of IE, you may need to add an alternate experience for the add-in to gracefully fail (see Determine at runtime if the add-in is running in Internet Explorer) or consider a different solution for hosting the Power Apps app.
I am testing push notifications from different browsers and devices. I cannot find a solution to the problem when Chrome notifications are received in the Windows 10 Notifications Centre. When I send 3 notifications in a row, clicking only at the top one results in opening the browser with specified URL. The other two after being clicked disappear, cursor seems to have a loader for a short moment (as in the case of the first working one) but nothing happens - browser does not react in any way.
Firefox handles opening URLs correctly - all three notifications result in redirecting to the specified website. Same situation happens on mobile version of Chrome (tested on Android), so there is most likely an issue with Windows 10 Notifications Centre or Chrome on desktop devices.
I would be grateful for any kind of advice. Please let me know if any other information would be useful to resolve this issue, I will provide it at the earliest convenience.
I'm looking for the best approach to implement voice command in a Xamarin app.
Here are my requirements:
I don't need to launch my app by voice. Instead, my users will launch the app through touch (so, when the app is not running, no voice recognition is needed by my app)
My app is a client/server app and it will work always on (the backend will run on azure)
My app will be used primarily by car (so consider environment noise)
My app will work in many languages, such as Italian, Spanish, French and English
My app should be developed with xamarin (and eventually mvvmcross or similar)
In my app there will be two kinds of voice commands:
to select an item from a short list: app will show a list of items, such as "apple, kiwi, banana and strawberry" and user will have to say one of those words.
to change current view. Typically these voice commands will be something like "cancel", "confirm", "more" and stuff like these
The typical interaction between user, app and server should be this:
user says one of the available commands in current view/activity/page
suppose here that the user perfectly knows which commands he/she can use, it does no matter now how he/she knows these commands (he/she just knows them)
user could put before the commands some special words, such as "hey 'appname'", to have a command like "hey 'appname', confirm"
Note: the "hey 'appname'" part of the voice command has the only purpose to allow the app to know when the command starts. The app can be always in listening mode, but has to avoid to send the audio stream continuously to the server to recognize commands
best case is if app would recognize these commands locally, without involve the remote server, since the voice commands are predefined and well-known in each view. Anyway, app can send the audio wave to the server which will return a string (in this example the text returned will be "confirm", since the audio was "hey 'appname', confirm")
app will map the text recognized with the available commands, and will invoke the right one
user will receive a feedback by the app. The feedback could be:
voice feedback (text-to-speech)
visual feedback (something on the screen)
both above
I was looking for azure-cognitive-services, but in this case, as far as I've understood, there is no way to recognize the start of the command locally (everything works on server side through REST api or clients). So the user would have to press a button before every voice command, and I need to avoid this kind of interaction.
Since the app is running, my user has him/her hands on the steering wheel, and he/she can't touch everytime the display. Isn't it?
Moreover, I was looking for cortana-skills-kit and botframework, but:
It seems that Cortana Skills are available in English only
Actually, I don't need to involve Cortana to launch my app
I don't have experiences on these topics, so, hope that my question is clear and, generally speaking, that can be useful for other newbie users as well.
* UPDATE 1 *
The Speech Recognition with the Voice Command Definition (VCD) file is really close to what I'd need, because:
it has a way to activate the command through a command name shortcut
It works in foreground (and background as well, even if in my case I don't need the background)
Unfortunately, this service works only on Windows, since it uses the local API. Maybe the right approach could be based on the following considerations:
Every platform exposes a local speech recognition api (Cortana, Siri, Google Now)
Xamarin exposes Siri and Google Now apis and make them available through C#
It would be useful to create a facade component to expose the three different local speech api through a common interface
I'm wondering if there is something other solution to this. Cortana, as personal assistant, is available on Windows, iOS and Android. Since Cortana works both with local api and with remote service (Cortana Skills), is Cortana the right approach? Has Cortana the support for many languages (or, at least, has the support a road map)?
So, just some thoughts here. If you have some other ideas, or suggestions, please add here. Thanks
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I have OWA set up on IE11 with S/MIME. At some point recently things went sideways and now things are broken:
I cannot view any digitally signed email (including sent items signed by me). The emails open. The sender and recipients all show up. The body of the email is simply blank. This happens with the preview pane on the main window as well as when you open the email in a new window. No console errors show up when I try to view these emails (when I uninstall S/MIME I can see the emails in their entirety. Obviously I also get an error saying that the digital signature cannot be validated).
I cannot send ANY emails (signed or otherwise). It allows me to craft the email as normal but when I hit "send" nothing happens (without S/MIME I can send emails without issue). I receive the following javascript error in the console:
SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'replace' of undefined or null reference
fedtsmime.js (1,72117)
When crafting a new email, for some crazy reason my personalized signature (the auto-appended variety in the body of the email) doesn't show up (without S/MIME it shows up).
Information that may help inform the problem:
I have cleared ALL historical data, ALL form data, and reset my SSL state in IE11. Nothing changed.
I have traced the certificate chain all the way up and they are all properly located in the "local machine" trust store.
THIS USED TO WORK. A few weeks back I didn't have any issues. Now suddenly it all fails. That implies perhaps that something expired? But I checked the full chain and it seems OK.
I did not bother trying to work with encrypting emails since I cannot send any emails whatsoever.
My certificates are being accessed via Smart Card. I am using ActivClient.
I made sure TLS is enabled and SSL 2.0 is disabled.
We found a mitigation that lets you send & receive encrypted and unencrypted email, but will not let you open attachments:
Open the Tools menu in IE11 (the settings cog)
Under the Security tab, click Trusted Sites
Add https://*.mail.mil as a trusted site.
This should allow you to do most of what is needed. My understanding is that the null reference you're seeing is probably pointing towards an ActiveX control that is disabled in the stricter browsing modes.
We also had Enable enhanced protected mode turned on in the Advanced>Security section, but that did not seem to have an effect. We are also launching IE from Program Files (x86) instead, to try and launch in 32-bit mode, but we do not know if that has an effect.
EDIT: I found a source elsewhere that provided another helpful workaround. In addition to the above, you can view the list of already-attached attachments:
Add some attachments
Save the email as a draft. You may want to wait for the attachments to load (you'll have to guess at the upload time; but there may be some indication on the saving button)
Close the email edit window
Reopen the email edit window from the saved drafts page. You should see your attachments.
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
I have the blank email body symptom also. I solved it by running OWA in a Chrome Incognito window. Problem gone.
I know this is a super old thread but I've recently come across this problem with IE11 and was racking my brain all weekend over it.
We already know the SMIME controls don't work on Microsoft Edge, but should work in Internet Explorer (just in case new readers are looking at this thread). The one setting that needs to be changed is the compatibility view settings.
Once you add mail.mil to the compatibility view list, your SMIME control will work again.
For those that don't know how to get there:
Click on the GEAR symbol in the upper right corner of your Internet Explorer window and then select COMPATIBILITY VIEW SETTINGS.
When the pop-up windows appears, add mail.mil to the list and then
test it again.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to also add https://*.mail.mil to the list of TRUSTED SITES as well.
Good luck to those who are searching the internet and finding this thread. ;)
For IE11:
Once you do all the steps shared here, and elsewhere, you should see the email in the preview pane with the To/From info and blank body (no s/mime errors).
Simply double-click the message to open it within it's own new window to load and view the content.
I code in REALbasic.
Whenever I receive an IM via iChat, iChat runs an applescript and sends to it the last message received. I need to somehow forward this message as a string to the app I'm writing in REALbasic. REALbasic is able to respond to AppleEvents but I don't now how to implement this or if I'm even in the right ball park.
Any advice?
Unfortunately I haven´t used RB in ages, but maybe the following link (just a quick google) might be a starting point?
http://www.106automation.com/page2/RB/RB.html
(the link to download the example files is actually the title of the page, so click "REALBasic & Applescript")