When I went to PC Expo in 99, it was all about the t-shirts. We actually had to give out t-shirts with each session we gave at our booth, otherwise no one would stick to the booth for more than a minute. But recently, someone told me that customers are...

These are four of the most common problems I've seen when setting up this configuration: #1: In the “Exchange server“ field in the first page of the wizard to add an Exchange account, enter the name of your exchange server which might be...

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...

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...

You might enjoy this one: http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/warthog_launch/ Level 28 is where the rate of return for me dipped :-)

I noticed this thread on Philip Greenspun's board where the discussion is about what to major in, EE vs CS. Philip suggests Mechanical Engineering instead, with this interesting comment: A more general statement of the preceding paragraph is "remember...

I'm tired of my son grabbing my glasses off my face and smudging them up with his little fingers! Sure, like most folks who've been wearing glasses 10+ years, I think about Lasik from time to time, and I always quiz folks who get it about the experience...

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...

Alton Brown's choice is cheese . If the name doesn't ring a bell, he's the new host of the Iron Chef America series and has been hosting Good Eats on the food channel for a while. It's a great show because he doesn't just show you how to make the food...

I got a big kick out of this thread on Joel Spolsky's forum , such as the part about how PMs manipulate developers. I have to admit, I've played the “Oh what a smart idea you just had, Mr./Ms. Developer!” card more than once, but that's usually...

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 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...

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...

1. Start Outlook 2. Tools | Macros | Security 3. Choose “Medium”, which will prompt you on whether or not you want to run macros (VBA). You may need to restart Outlook at this point in order for that setting to take effect. 4. Tools | Macros...

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...

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...

http://www.cafepress.com/ehlo The coworker who came up with the logo idea bought one of the “MAPI makes me HAPI“ t-shirts and wore it to an internal meeting today with the store team, and he told me about another coworker's reaction: “He...

I just went to www.fisherprice.com , and after waiting for the insanely annoying (not-obviously-skippable) flash animation with noise, it brings me to the front page... and then immediately routes me to another page where it tells me: It appears you have...

Admittedly, this one is only amusing for super big Exchange geeks such as myself: http://www.cafepress.com/ehlo

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 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...

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...

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.

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...

I read through this description of a great prank that I originally found via Scoble . It was an entertaining read, but my favorite part was this little snippit at the end: Williaml is a deaf developer in our group; before the group meeting, Meredyth...