‘Products’ Archives
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: May 11th 2010
On Tuesday May 11th Microsoft released another round of updates for the Windows Operating System. Here’s what they are and what they do: SECURITY UPDATES: Update: MS10-030/KB978542 Type: Critical Affected Systems: XP, 7, 2003, 3008, 2008 R2, Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 for 2000 What it does: Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Windows Live [...]
Exchange and iCal Problems
Recently I got a call, that a user was having problem with a program callediCal, I had seen and briefly used the software, but wasn't an expert on it. I did some research I verified that it was Apple's built in e-mail client. The user didn't always have this problem, it occured one day while he was attempting to delete stuff from the [...]
Exchange 2007 and Shared Mailboxes
In many environments it might come in handy to create a "Shared Mailbox", this would be a mailbox that does not have an "active" user associated with this. Exchange 2007 lets you create a shared mailbox, that created and then disabled an active directory account. This creates the mailbox without the pesky problem of having an active [...]
Q&A Moday: Exchange 2007 E-Mail Forwards
Question: I am new to the Exchange 2007 environment, I've worked with Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 and I'm running into a problem that I don't know how to fix. I have a user who wants to forward all incoming e-mail from our email server to his personal GMail account. I loaded his Outlook profile on my computer and set up a rule to forward [...]
Q&A Moday: Lesser Known Word Shortcut Keys
Question: I use Microsoft Word, are there any short-cut keys that could help me format my documents? I've asked my IT guys, but they show me how to bold, italicize and etc but nothing really cool...do you know any? Answer: Crtl+Shift+D = Double Underline Ctrl+] = Increase Font Size Ctrl+] = Decrease Font Size Ctrl+Shift+A = Makes [...]
Outlook 2010 Beta Bug Fix
If like me, you downloaded the 2010 Office Beta, you may be interested to know there is already a path out for the Outlook 2010 portion. Now Microsoft releasing Patches is nothing new, and I think it's funny to release a patch for the product prior to it coming out, but that's exactly what the Beta process is for. Apparently Outlook 2010 [...]
Google Sync and Outlook 2010 Beta
If you are like me, you usually rush to download the newest beta's that are released, and for some bragging rights, you loose some functionality. That was the case with me and my download of the Office 2010 Beta, I use Google Sync to sync my Google and Outlook calendars, yet the Google Sync doesn't support the new 2010 Beta. Now a geek [...]
Office 2010 Beta Review
So the otherday I got an e-mail about downloading the new Beta of Office 2010. Now prior to this year, I would have just delted the e-mail and never looked back on it. Yet, as of this year I decided to look forward and be more proactive, than reactive and take pride in my work. Plus I had great success with the Beta and Release [...]
