Information wants to be free!
For a long time, we have been enjoying a Windows XP Power Tool called “Command prompt here” on our directories’ and drives’ context menus. I recently discovered that Windows Vista has this functionality build in. If you right-click your directory or drive while you press the SHIFT key, you get a few more choices. One …
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Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 was launched, every time you try to run or open a file that has been downloaded from the Internet, or more correctly, from the Internet Zone in Internet Explorer. You are prompted with the following warning message: What this message does, basically, is to warn you that you …
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Religion: “May God protect you from his followers.” Good luck: “May the Wombat of Happiness snuffle through your underbrush.” Ancient Aborigine blessing
In Exchange 2007 a mail-enabled contact represents a recipient outside your own Exchange organization. They can be recipients on your Domino server or external recipients with a partner etc. A mail-enabled contact always has at least two addresses, but can have several. One or more are addresses from you own SMTP domain that let you …
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Just finished moving all my virtual machines from VMware ESX server to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 (Beta 2). Had a couple of reasons for doing so: The SCSI requirement for ESX was a pain; SCSI is quite a bit more expensive than IDE/SATA. Plus the IBM SCSI drive I used was incredibly loud. …
Everyone downloading from MSDN, the MCT Download Center or any other semi-open Microsoft download site, is familiar with the Microsoft File Transfer Manager application. It is a rather nice utility that is installed on your machine the first time you start a download from one of the sites I mentioned. It supports queuing and resume …
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I upgraded the server hosting the blog to WSS 3.0 RTM yesterday. Some small problems since I had been running TR2, but it worked out OK. Now I am just waiting for the Norwegian language pack to become available so that I can migrate the sites that are in norwegian. Also have a few new …
I finally got the blog back online (did anyone even notice that it was gone?). I have completed an upgrade of the server that hosts the blog and am now running Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 Beta 2 Technical Refresh, intead of the old cBlog template for WSS 2.0. I must say WSS 3.0 looks good. …
This is a test of Windows Live Writer. Wonder if it will work with my own cBlogs site. Have to check that once I can get my VMWare server backup up after the last thunderstorm.
1. Open Internet Explorer. In the Address bar, type https://published_server_name/Microsoft-Server-Activesync, where published_server_name is the published name of your OWA server (the name your end users will type). 2. Type the user name and information that you want to authenticate. 3. If you receive an Error 501/505 “Not implemented” or “Not supported” error message, Exchange ActiveSync …
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