February 2009 - Posts

Mini Series - Improve User Experience II
26 February 09 09:08 AM | danielke | 0 Comments   

Initiate a Chat Session from Within Groove by Using Office Communicator When you are running Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 or 2005, you can view the awareness states (such as online, busy, or away) of your Communicator Read More...

Filed under: Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 , Groove 2007

Mini Series - Improve User Experience
17 February 09 09:09 AM | danielke | 0 Comments   

Whilst hard at work I've been finding a few little tips and tricks using word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 to help improve my user experience! So I thought why not create a mini series and blog about the features that are helping me on a daily basis. I'll Read More...

Filed under: Word 2007, Office 2007

Single Label Domain (SLD)
13 February 09 06:39 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

I have recently spoken with customers who have a single label domain and have asked the question whether the next version of Exchange will be supported. It's still a recommendation to move from a SLD, but we do support it, see for more details - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/27/450514.aspx Read More...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Windows 2008

Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
13 February 09 04:09 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

Take a look at the new planning tool for R2 - https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fdf32585-c131-4832-8e27-67e70636c1e8&DisplayLang=en Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith Read More...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007

7 demos in 7 minutes on Windows 7
07 February 09 07:36 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

If you're evaluating Windows 7 and need show off some of it's great new features to management, here is a short and sweet set of WOW factors you can demo in 7 minutes so you get the biggest impact in a short space of time:- Pin your apps to start menu, Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7

Windows 7 Shortcut Keys...tell all your friends
07 February 09 07:26 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

Here is a list of some shortcut keys in Windows 7:- Shortcut Key Action Win+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow Dock / Undock Win+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow Maximizes and restores / minimizes Win+Shift+Up Arrow and Win+Shift+Down Arrow Maximizes and restores Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7

PowerShell installation Windows 2008
06 February 09 06:47 PM | danielke | 2 Comments   

Before you install Exchange 2007 SP1 onto a Windows 2008 server you'll need ensure that prerequisites are installed, by default .NET Framework 2.0 and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) will be installed but you'll need to install Windows PowerShell. Read More...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Windows 2008, PowerShell

Time is running out!
06 February 09 06:08 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

Quick time is running out before we close the customer preview program for new registrations, so if you want to try windows 7 Beta you better get going Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7

Outlook Click to Call
06 February 09 02:21 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

This cool little tool is an Internet Explorer add-on that allows for clickable links for OCS Outlook Click to Call Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith Read More...

Filed under: Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007

Windows 7 and IE 8 browsing session
06 February 09 01:04 PM | danielke | 0 Comments   

Having just started to use windows 7, which comes with IE 8 pre-installed, I like to use the tab feature.  With windows 7 you need to select IE 8 will then open the tabs you had in your last session   Written Daniel Kenyon-Smith Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7