In powerpoint, I like how when I open up a PPT presentation in IE, it loads it inline and I can page through the presentation and see the exact url to individual slides. So if I want to show someone else just one slide, I can point directly at that slide...

Bill sent out an e-mail today to a whole bunch of people, and I wanted to highlight some of the Exchange-related parts of it: Exchange Edge Services: This new technology addresses the evolving security problems associated with Internet email. Exchange...

I recently got a mail about this problem. After a little research, I ran across the following article: Problems Occur When You Open a Custom Form by Using the Favorites Folder http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=831586 As a temporary...

I was just pointed at these tips on Office's site. Most are well known to experienced Outlook users, but I was surprised that I didn't know some of them: Flag that message fast To quickly flag a message, select a message in the message list, and...

A coworker pointed at the Graphical User Interface Gallery ... pretty neat. One of the coolest parts is the scan of ads from the way-back machine, including some publicity photos of a young Bill .

Scott Oseychik, previously a PM on the Exchange team, recently left Microsoft to be a full-time comedian: http://www.oseychik.com/ If you'll be in any of the areas below on these dates, I highly recommend checking out his show. Not because I've ever...

Scott Mitchell has an interesting post today which analyzed the date/time of the comments on his blog to look for patterns. Quote: ...the later in the week a blog entry is made, the less likely it is to receive comments. However, the hour of the...

Kent pointed at Intel's IT Manager Game , which is a flash sim game that (while pretty boring overall) is an interesting approach to helping advertise and sell your product. As the IT manager, you are responsible for keeping the clients and servers running...

The “Waiting for your exchange server“ dialog in Outlook has evoked some of the most violently negative[1] responses I have ever seen from customers. Michael talks about this “ dreaded Outlook popup ” and offers the following tip...

I just stumbled across this one from Pam . Another one that I enjoy and play fairly often is TextTwist on the zone (I love word games, although I'm not particularly good at them).

Zoe posted today about a hiring event for SDETs for Exchange. See the jobsblog for more information .

When reading Zoe's post last night about the SDE career path at Microsoft , the part at the end about the management-vs-architect route of the developer caught my eye, since my recently former manager has played both of those roles. “Your manager...

Jeff blogs about some changes in IE in Win XP SP2. The parts that jumped out at me: On Pop-ups: Users almost never want to see pop-ups. So we started by saying all pop-ups will be blocked. There are exceptions-- brokerage sites use window.open...

In Greg Chappell's new testing blog , Jeremy asks: Well, according to the MS JobsBlog (blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog), developing yourself into an STE is hard. Even though courses are taught at Uni / College, generally they aren't adequate enough. Obviously...

Scoble recently pointed at an article about women seeking out “Microsoft men”. One of the comments on the entry is: I'm always amazed at how many softies are married to other softies though. I mean there's usually lots of dating in the workplace, but...

I'm sitting in a meeting where we're discussing consolidating KB articles, and one of the issues that's come up is that most times when we go to consolidate two or three or fifteen KB articles into one, we end up with a 20 page KB article that's really...

I recently received an email letting me know that Eric Rudder made some suggestions to the folks who own the community websites at Microsoft about how the most important parts of the pages should be more visible at the top of the page. In Exchange...

The last 10 locations you used are stored in a most recently used (MRU) list. To see the list, click the down arrow on the right side of the Location field in the meeting request form, or press the up/down arrows.

Looks like Larry's finally started his own blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/ . Welcome aboard! Larry's a wayyy old school exchange guy from back in the day, and he was at Microsoft before there even was an Exchange. I've got him roped into...

Exchange won, 3-2, in the Hockey game yesterday . Wahoo!

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/outlook/CliNetTraf.asp This document provides a detailed look at how Exchange 2003 consumes bandwidth under different configurations and analyzes the incoming and outgoing client traffic. The results of...

Then you should check out Plus! Dancer from Plus! Digital Media Edition . You can see a demo of the dancers here , they dance on your screen to any sound that's currently being played, and you can download additional dancers , from Arkantos from AOM to...

This is a problem that I'm guessing many of us have - how to keep track of miscellaneous comments you make on someone else's blog, to check for follow-ups? With Newsgator and Outlook 2003, one way to help with this scenario (I admit, it's not a perfect...

In a couple of weeks, I'll be celebrating my 6 month blogaversary. Sheesh, have I learned a lot in that time. I've talked to (and sometimes helped) a whole new bunch of customers, I've found several blogs from Exchange administrators that have provided...

1. View | Toolbars | Customize 2. On the Commands tab, click Macros on the left-hand side 3. Drag the appropriate macro to the standard toolbar (say, next to the “Send/Receive“ button) 4. Right click on the button and change the Name field...