December 2003 - Posts
Of course, to the question in the subject, I'm sure you are saying: “ah-doyyy...“ And to that, I say that “ah-doyyy“ is an expression that isn't used nearly enough these days. Any way, if you are working with cookies, then you
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I am in charge of a program whereby I give out small gifts to folks on the Exchange team once a month as an incentive. I've been giving out Amazon.com gift certificates, but I haven't seen them actually act as much of an incentive. Sure, everyone likes
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Church of the Customer has an interesting post today about how Russell Simmons found that the hatred of rap/hip-hop really helped it grow an enthusiastic community. I definitely see microsoft playa-hatin' as a unifying force in certain linux communities
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If you're really bored, here's one way to amuse yourself in Outlook 2002 or earlier: 1. Start Outlook and turn off the preview pane (View | Preview Pane) 2 . Select a folder with a lot of unread messages in it 3. Go to Tools | Options | Other | Preview
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Outlook has a setting to control whether or not a comma can be used as an address separator (the default separator is a semi-colon). It's disabled by default in Outlook (Tools | Options | E-Mail Options | Advanced E-Mail Options), although the same setting
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Tonight, David and I played Halo with his parents. For the first 20 minutes we were playing, I thought his dad was moving around like quite a pro, strafing and backing around corners. Eventually we figured out that he didn't know how to turn. Oops. :-
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Here are some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Outlook, from a self-proclaimed keyboard junkie. Many of these are standard windows shortcuts, some are specific to Outlook: F6 : Switches between navigation pane/folder list, message list and preview
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I'm a huge fan of Amazon. Even though I live in Washington and have to pay sales tax on Amazon orders, I consistently use it over competing sites like barnes & noble or buy.com because I believe in The Amazon Dream and I want to continue supporting them.
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Franci pointed out an article about the future of software testing . The article has some good points, although as Franci mentions, Microsoft's testers already have accomplished some of the future goals he outlines (working in tandem with developers,
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I've heard this phrase used several times, and the first few times I was mystified. What is this magical 'executive summary' feature in Outlook? Is it some magical content-parser that extrapolates the key terms from a message? Can it slice, dice and put
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If you want to add the contents of an HTML file on your machine to an Outlook email inline (rather than as an attachment), you have a couple of options. You could browse to the file, open it in your browser, copy the contents and paste it into an email
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For the last few versions of Outlook, the setting to enable Word as the e-mail editor has been enabled by default. While some people like using Word as an email editor due to the advanced features available, others dislike it because of Word's tendency
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Here's some tips for finding out more about your Exchange server: Neil Hobson has a great tip on the MSExchange blog today about finding out the Exchange version of a server by checking a file. Neil also posted this tip last month about using Exchange
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If you've ever needed to reference a file or location with spaces in the URI, such as: \\fileserver\share\my doc.doc http://www.domain.com/virtualdirectory/neat stuff.htm You may have been annoyed by the complete URI not getting auto-linked due to the
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I manage my to-do list partly with tasks, and partly with mail. I am a "filer": as I receive email, I act on it immediately (read, respond, forward, file, etc) or I leave it in my inbox until I have time to address it. One thing I find myself doing
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Some upcoming chats of interest, from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/Default.asp . The Security Bulletin monthly chats should be on every IT pro's calendar: Improving Search on Microsoft.com December
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I really like this
example of a home page that one parent made for his son. When Jared's old enough
to do something with the keyboard other than drool on the keyboard, I'll have to create
him something similar.
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Ahh, yet another "web site/blog calculator ". This one: counts certain words on your site that are key indicators of whether your focus is on the customer or not . My costumer focus rate is 61.11%. That's good, right? :-) Via Seth
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I was in a meeting with Beth Goza today, and she demonstrated this bluetooth controlled toy car by driving it over the conference table with her phone. Brings a whole new meaning to the term bluejacking , can you steal someone else's car now?
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There are lots of openings in Exchange as well as a couple in Outlook .
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A Plan For The Improvement of English Spelling
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I had a note to describe this setting in a future blog entry, but since I saw this question I figured I'd put this ahead of the other items on my to-blog list: By default, when you send HTML mail and include pictures inline in the body, Outlook
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#1: Read about it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/deploy/depopt/scenep2.asp #2: Talk about it with Microsoft's Exchange IT gurus (Dec 3, 1-2PM Pacific Time): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/Default.asp
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In every Office application, there is an item on the Help menu - "Customer Feedback Options". http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/english/default.htm describes more about this program, but the gist is this: By turning this on, you tell the Office
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