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Rate the content on office.microsoft.com, and see how your voice is heard
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over 9 years ago
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The crabby[1] office lady wrote another great article this month showing how the ratings customers give to articles on office.microsoft.com result in change. A s a Microsoft employee and a fan of content in general, I am extremely excited by the innovations...
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A gem in the Microsoft art collection, and a gem of my own
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over 9 years ago
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Yesterday, I stumbled across some great photographs in a building that I spend very little time in. And fortunately, the artist has the pictures up on his web site. It's a simple idea, writing messages in sand and taking pictures of them, but what I liked...
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Geeky vanity license plates
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over 9 years ago
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Rick Schaut blogged about vanity plates recently, which reminded me of a few fun ones I've seen: A friend from college had HTTP 80. He is actually the reason that David and I work at Microsoft and is currently a development manager in the Exchange...
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Archives from Exchange & Outlook Magazine available online
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over 9 years ago
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One of my Exchange MVPs just pointed me at this great archive: http://www.ftponline.com/archives/magazines/exchange/ .
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MIME messages delivered to public folders show up as post items
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over 9 years ago
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In Exchange 5.5, when you emailed a MIME message to a public folder, it would be delivered to the public folder as an email message (message class IPM.Note). In Exchange 2000/2003, this behavior changed, a byproduct of the new support for native MIME...
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How to save images in HTML mail in Outlook in formats other than BMP
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over 9 years ago
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Yeah, this annoys me too. I'm not sure why it's the case, although it might be related to this . Fortunately, Outlook MVP Robert has a workaround: http://www.sparnaaij.net/Howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm . It requires VBA but he walks you through it...
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Corel's subservient chicken
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over 9 years ago
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http://www.seewhogotfired.com The babies in “Suite“ are great (but perhaps I'm biased there - maybe I've been hitting the bottle too much?). The “Feature Rich” one with Clippy is also fantastic. Do they make me want to try...
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The ultimate boot CD
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over 9 years ago
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From Scot's newsletter , I found this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ The idea is that you burn these utilities to a CD to have ready in the event you run into trouble with your computer. So when your drive tanks and you can't access your data...
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Being open about your mistakes
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over 9 years ago
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I've seen this idea pop up a few times, so here's my contribution to this meme: When I was in Outlook, I ran a bunch of mail servers for testing in our interoperability lab. At one point I needed access to an HP Openmail server for some testing, and...
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On women in high tech
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over 9 years ago
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I've been watching with interest the various posts about why there are so few women in tech and what can/should be done about it. This is an area that I have a fair amount of interest in and (of course) some personal experience. So, here's my opinion...
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I would have used the term 'dork', but this is acceptable as well
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over 9 years ago
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You are a GRAMMAR GOD ! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla It's like a compulsion, really. I get a nervous...
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An even-handed approach...
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over 9 years ago
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[ramble: on] I really enjoyed John Topley's blog entry this week about the company at which I happen to work. I enjoy getting insights into how other people perceive my group and my company, both positive and negative. Plus, it's always nice to read...
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Don't you just hate getting phone calls for the person who had your number before you...
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over 9 years ago
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Normally, it's pretty annoying. But what if that person is Chris Rock ?
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SNL actually got it right
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over 9 years ago
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Several years ago, there was an episode of SNL that had one of the segments of “Nick Burns, your company's computer guy” with Jimmy Fallon as Nick, an annoying IT guy who would never let his users get a word in edgewise while he fixed their...
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Handy DNS lookup site
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over 9 years ago
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I just stumbled across http://www.dnsstuff.com , which is a handy site that gives you access to a bunch of functionality from one page: Any DNS record Reverse DNS lookup DNS timing Whois Ping Tracert Spam database lookup (150+...
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I'll have a side helping of shared source with my long-standing feature request
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over 9 years ago
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I'm very excited to announce that today we have done two things I've been wanting to do for a long time: #1: With Exchange 2000 SP3 and the latest post-SP3 hotfix rollup (as well as with Exchange 2003 SP1) and a custom tool that one of the Exchange...
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Take a peek at SP1 of OneNote
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over 9 years ago
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9107473a-74ca-4113-9392-0dfb092dfa72 Microsoft® Office OneNote™ 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Preview provides an early look at bug fixes and feature enhancements that will be shipped...
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Choosing your children's names is not a simple task
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over 9 years ago
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Reading Matt's post about his son reminded me of the process we went through last year when choosing our son's name (actually, multiply this by two, since we didn't know the gender[6]). It must have been a lot easier to choose the names of your children...
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Visual Studio team bios
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over 9 years ago
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This link to bios of people on the VS team [2] was posted to Channel9 earlier today, and my first thought was: aw man, they did it before I got a chance to![1] And then my second thought was gee, I really need to get around to putting that together. And...
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Now them's some smart web services
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over 9 years ago
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I just stumbled across AllConsuming.net , which looks like a pretty innovative site... it scans weblogs and looks for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other book sites. I t then relates them all together - look up a favorite book to find...
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Get rid of one hierarchy of menus in Office
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over 9 years ago
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I really like Outlook 2003, but one thing drives me nuts on new installs: the added step to change the active view for the currently selected folder. I used to be able to go to View | Current View | (name of view), and now I have to go to View | Arrange...
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And you thought clippy was controversial...
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over 9 years ago
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When you've been here for a while, you will eventually run across (or help create) a 'funny bug'. This many people all working together near the end of the ship cycle usually results in a variety of bugs to help let off steam in a creative way. The milk...
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How to tell if your great-great-great-great-grand-manager is cool
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over 9 years ago
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... He quotes OutKast .
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Dreaming about work
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over 9 years ago
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... is never a good sign. Especially not as in the dream I had last night. I dreamt that Scoble came to interview me for channel9 , but rather than a real interview he decided to turn it into an “Apprentice”-like challenge. My goal was...
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Why do you take so *@#$( long to release fixes?
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over 9 years ago
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Jon's post today to the Exchange blog explains. We get complaints all the time about why does it take so long, it's just a one line change, surely there must be some conspiracy to explain why the fix isn't out yet, etc. Jon's a fantastic dev, but code...
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