A while ago, I did my civic duty and upgraded my XP box at home to SP3... and then immediately noticed that my beloved addressbar on the taskbar, by far one of my most favorite features of the OS for many years running, was missing. The bar itself wasn't there anymore, nor was the option available on...

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It is a testament to the intransigence of the human spirit that for the last 6 years of my life I have right clicked on that little icon on my taskbar and chosen to remove the "Language Bar" from the taskbar, only to have it pop back up at some later point for some unknown reason. Lather, rinse, repeat...

While reviewing some custom OWA themes we're developing, one of the designers pointed out this odd orange mark halfway through one of the numbers on the calendar view, wondering if it was a bug in the CSS in the custom theme: Actually, it's one of these tiny little details that I think is so slick...

On the windows mobile team's blog . I hope that whoever is quoted in this eweek article saying that public folder access to OWA "must be like just 20 lines of code" reads it.

Exchange 2007 has a feature called messaging records management that helps organizations apply special retention policies to folders in users' mailboxes. For example, you might have a folder for legal contracts with a policy on it that says the messages need to be retained for 8 years. MRM takes care...

As I stepped off the elevator this morning, a coworker shared those words with me. "When you're slaying dragons, start with the little ones." He tells his kids every morning that he's off to slay some dragons. He likes to start with the little ones, because they don't put up near the same fight...

I was pointed at this by the MSHelp MVP Lead, it's a sweet little freeware app, works great. Within about 90 seconds of starting it, I had compiled my first CHM: http://www.vizacc.com/ And they also have a blog , pretty nifty.

The picture in the last post is a still from our ultrasound at 20 weeks. We also got a video (on this kind of oblong thing, they called it "VHS" but it wouldn't fit into our DVD player), which a coworker graciously converted into a DVD for me. The DVD has a .VRO file on it, and I ran across this handy...

I set up a search box on the left, following David's instructions . I tried to use MSN, but MSN apparently doesn't support the 'inurl' keyword which I wanted to use in order to restrict the search results to my blog instead of including my comments on other people's blogs. If anyone knows how to force...

I swap back and forth between Windows Movie Maker & Pinnacle Studio 8 for video editing depending on my editing needs and mood. Movie Maker is nice because it's on every machine I use, so I will often capture the video on one machine but edit it on another. One problem with this is that Movie Maker...

When I worked on OWA, I used NetMon a lot to do sniffs of the traffic between client and server. Although NetMon is powerful, it's a bit overkill for quick & dirty checks. A coworker just pointed me at IEHttpHeaders , which is a nifty addin that adds a pane to IE that shows you the headers of the...

This is a common topic on the blogosphere for people pasting in content from other blogs, pieces of code, etc - how do you strip all the formatting? I've seen pointers to various tools to do this over the last few months, but I have a new favorite one I found out about today: PureText . It's quite handy...

I have been suffering with this problem on my Toshiba Tablet m200 for quite some time, and finally took the initiative to research the issue. At first I thought I was the only one dealing with this so I figured it was hardware specific, but when I asked around I found others with the same problem. ...

I decided tonight that I wanted to make a font out of my own handwriting. Surely it's possible to do this online with my tablet and get instant gratification, I thought. One quick google search later and 9 dollars later, I had my answer: Yes, via www.fontifier.com . 1. I imported their template GIF...

I just got a new desktop machine and was faced with this problem: How to transfer the ratings when I move my music collection from the old machine to the new? I have over two years of metadata stored up on which songs I like, and I'd hate to lose it. Here are a couple of ways, thanks to pointers from...

By default, IE makes a clickety sound when you follow a link. It can get annoying after a while. Here's how you turn it off: 1. Open the control panl 2. Open the “Sounds and audio devices properties” applet 3. On the Sounds tab, scroll down to Windows Explorer | Start Navigation 4. On...

Using the Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer .

Jeff Davis covers some valuable registry keys : PopupMgr - Whether the pop-up blocker feature is enabled or not. This is the checkbox on the privacy tab of the Internet Control Panel. ApplyToWebOC - Applications hosting the webbrowser control only get pop-up blocking if they opt in. This forces...

I've been suffering silently with this problem for a long time. It happens on all of my machines. Granted, they're all configured almost essentially the same. IE is my default browser. When I type a URL into the addressbar (which I have on my taskbar), my system sometimes takes an awfully long time to...

Greg did this over a year ago, but I just stumbled on it now. Pretty neat: You can specify in the URL how many entries to return, and which logs to use. For example, http://example.org/Rss.aspx?num=20&logs=Application,System would return the 20 most recent entries, looking in both the Application...

The Exchange team uses sharepoint portal server for a lot of things, such as storing & tracking documents & lists & whatnot. As the release manager, I own the site that has the master schedule on it. There are other teams that used to have a schedule listed separately on their own sites....

Ewan just clued me in to something nifty: you can get HTTP referrer data in your sharepoint site, just go to http://server/sites/nameofsite/ _layouts/1033/usagedetails.aspx . To get there in the UI: Click on Site Settings (by default at the top of the page) “ Go to Site Administration“...

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 that the Office team has driven across the...

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, you still have the tools at hand -- on a CD instead...