In a previous entry , I received a comment about how there were no examples of using WebDAV in the Exchange SDK with ASP.Net... I forwarded it to our SDK team (who can be reached at exsdkfb AT microsoft DOT com) and they pointed out several examples for...

John Durant recently blogged about his macro to create a task from an e-mail. I thought that was a great idea, so I modified it a bit to suit my purposes. I frequently take an item from my inbox and Edit | Move to Folder and move it to the tasks folder...

I noticed this blog entry (thank you, main feed!) with a feature request for Outlook, and I shared that request with the Outlook team. One of the PMs in Outlook suggested an idea of how to achieve something close to this by putting the flags on a toolbar...

This is an issue that gets debated around the company from time to time, and there are many people on both sides of the fence who feel passionately about it. In Exchange 2000 SP1, we did add a few features . In Exchange 2000 SP2, we added even more (I...

I feel bad for being so off topic lately, so here's a tip that I use nearly every day in Outlook: I often spend time carefully crafting an email to an important audience or with content I need to get exactly right/complete, so I want to review it several...

First, let me preface this entry by saying that I am an abysmal programmer. I use my basic programming skills to write code that helps me do things in the applications I use, and since these are usually one-time things, I don't worry too much about performance...

Brian Alvey points to a Word HTML cleaner , as well as explains why Word puts all those extra tags into HTML when you save a word doc as HTML, or copy from Word into another HTML editor. Also see my previous post about reducing the size of the HTML that...

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David and I recently purchased a studio setup - backdrops + stand, umbrellas + stand for flashes, and a few yards of different types of cloth for the floor. This is something I've been wanting to do for ages, but we were finally motivated due to the birth...

I keep my favorites hierarchy fairly flat, and I find the Links favorites folder pretty useless, so I hide it on every machine I use regularly. For more information on how to do this: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=179599

I stumbled across a link to this article on slipstick earlier today while researching some VBA things, and it's so simple I wanted to share it: How to assign a macro to a toolbar button in Outlook 1. View | Toolbars | Customize 2. On the Commands tab...

JWZ asked recently how ubiquitous support for HTML mail is today in the various mail clients being used. Not surprisingly, many of the comments ended up missing his point entirely, resulting in this comment of his and someone else who saw the humor in...

Today, I was very rude to a helpdesk guy. I feel horrible about it - I was projecting my annoyance with some red tape on this poor guy, who had nothing to do with the problem. I was very curt and difficult with him, which was not productive. If I'd just...

The main setting that controls this is actually a part of Windows: 1. Open Windows Explorer 2. Tools | Folder Options 3. Select the File Types tab 4. Select the extension type (such as TXT) and click Advanced 5. If "Confirm open after download" is...

In Exchange 2003 running on Windows 2003, when using NTBackup (aka "Backup Utility for Windows"), you won't be able to back up the system state at the same time as the information store, due to a change in the interaction between NTBackup on Windows 2003...

A coworker pointed this out to me recently. Looks pretty nifty. I've been sent documents before that were supposed to be final, but the change tracking information was still in it. Works with Word/Excel/Powerpoint 2002 & 2003. http://www.microsoft...

Just helping spread the word: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833330

Michael Earls sparked quite a debate with his posts over the last couple of months about asking Microsoft bloggers to blog more about the present , because although the future is interesting and good to stay on top of, it's not applicable to daily life...

I noticed a thread on one of the Exchange yahoogroups a few weeks ago about how the "Enable FBA" checkbox was grayed out on a certain server. It turns out that this is the expected behavior on clustered servers (and as a workaround, can use a front-end...

Neil posted today about lost time due to mailbox cleanup when users hit their e-mail quotas. There are tools that administrators can use to control the size of users' mailboxes, but in Outlook 2002/2003, users have a simple entrypoint to managing the...

Things like this are one of the ways in which technology has truly enriched my life: http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html (The best part is actually that my mom sent this link to me. Actually the real best part is that she used “googled”...

Tosh is a developer on the Outlook Web Access (OWA) team I used to work with when I was a PM on OWA. Of course, the one feature we worked on together never happened, but such is the breaks of the software business :-) He's posted several OWA tips recently...

PSS has created a new process whereby MVPs can submit KB articles. Hours after being submitted, they are available online and show up in the search results along with articles written by Microsoft. You can look for articles submitted by MVPs by searching...

When I was in college, my circle of friends and I all kept quotes pages. I was browsing through mine recently and ran across the following tech-related quotes which made me smile, so I wanted to share them: "If people receive executables in the...

Brian Desmond recently blogged about some funny KB articles (” Sometimes Barney Starts Playing Peekabo on His Own ” is my personal favorite). There was a stupid Exchange KB and a whitepaper with an unfortunate typo regarding “public...