Initiate a Chat Session from Within Groove by Using Office Communicator
When you are running Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 or 2005, you can view the awareness states (such as online, busy, or away) of your Communicator contacts directly from the Groove Launchbar or a Groove workspace. When a contact is available, you can right-click to initiate a Communicator real-time chat or phone call with that contact directly from the Groove interface.

Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith

Whilst hard at work I've been finding a few little tips and tricks using word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 to help improve my user experience!

So I thought why not create a mini series and blog about the features that are helping me on a daily basis. I'll update the series every week.

So here we go with the 1st one:-

Split the Screen
In Microsoft Office Word, on the View tab, in the Window section, click Split. This splits the screen and displays a dividing line in the current window. To switch between the screens, use the F6 key.

Written by Daniel kenyon-Smith

I have recently spoken with customers who have a single label domain and have asked the question whether the next version of Exchange will be supported. It's still a recommendation to move from a SLD, but we do support it, see for more details -

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/27/450514.aspx

Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith

Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith

If you're evaluating Windows 7 and need show off some of it's great new features to management, here is a short and sweet set of WOW factors you can demo in 7 minutes so you get the biggest impact in a short space of time:-

1. Pin your apps to start menu, like Powerpoint, Word or even Virtual PC and see the recent history.
2. Use multi preview from the task bar, demo IE for example and show you can get straight to the webpage you want without having to open IE and click the relevant tab.
3. Show that if you have multiple windows open by 'shaking' one of them all the others will minimise/maximise.
4. Move your gadgets anywhere in Windows 7.
5. View your desktop by peeking through Windows.
6. Right click on the task bar icon for IE for example and see your recent URL's.
7. And then.......connect to an internal site and show you have been connected to the Corp network all the time without the need to VPN by using Direct Access

you can even use shortcut keys to demo some of the above.

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Here is a list of some shortcut keys in Windows 7:-

Enjoy!

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Before you install Exchange 2007 SP1 onto a Windows 2008 server you'll need ensure that prerequisites are installed, by default .NET Framework 2.0 and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) will be installed but you'll need to install Windows PowerShell.

Note: You won't need to go looking around on the Internet for PowerShell all you'll need to do is:-

• Go to Control Panel
• Programs and features
• Select 'Turn windows features on or off'
• From Server Manager, click on Features and 'Add Features'
• Then scroll down and select WindowsPowershell (as Show below)

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Quick time is running out before we close the customer preview program for new registrations, so if you want to try windows 7 Beta you better get going

Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program

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This cool little tool is an Internet Explorer add-on that allows for clickable links for OCS

Outlook Click to Call

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Having just started to use windows 7, which comes with IE 8 pre-installed, I like to use the tab feature. 

With windows 7 you need to select

IE 8 will then open the tabs you had in your last session

Written Daniel Kenyon-Smith