February 2004 - Posts
It's possible to create a custom signature in Outlook with a picture. Be careful, young Jedi... this can be abused (I have seen several signatures with dynamic graphics that move around as you read the mail. Horribly distracting.) But sometimes it's appropriate.
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I just got one this week (Toshiba m200) and I am hooked. I've been debating it for months, but after I realized that I'd stopped taking my laptop to meetings and was taking a notebook or pad of paper instead (and then would spend additional time outside
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We recently added a new page to the Exchange community website, that has pictures and bios of our MVPs: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/community/mvp/default.mspx Several of the Exchange MVPs also run Exchange blogs, see the details on the above page
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I blogged a while ago about features in service packs . A couple of the comments recommended doing feature packs instead, and since then I've been meaning to blog about the complexities involved in that process, so here it is. Please note: this post should
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http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/02/24/79387.aspx Let us know what you think, either in the comments on this entry or the above one. :-)
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I blogged a while back about an article I wrote for our website intended to help administrators who are not new to messaging systems but are new to Exchange get on their feet with the basic tasks of Exchange administration. We got a comment from the website
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When my son was 2 months old, we went to family event in Houston. Also there was his great-great-grand-aunt, who is in her 90s. We had a very entertaining conversation with her about teething: Mabel: When he starts teething, what you do is get a string
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I learned something new in Woody's Email Essentials today. In Outlook, when you're in a place with a folder list (such as the “Go To Folder” dialog, or the folder list in the main view), you can use * and - on the number pad to expand and
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An Outlook MVP pointed out this article about a company that has developed technology to allow you to send codes in email that cause a device attached to the recipient's computer to output certain smells. A couple of great applications of this technology
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In 2000, every Microsoft employee received a copy of the seminal work, “ Inside Out: Microsoft - In Our Own Words “. It's actually a pretty interesting book (well... for a certain audience), with some fantastic photos and stories from the
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Watch a trailer for the Prisoner of Azkaban , and see some excellent high-res photos from the new film. I particularly enjoyed this one and that one , for their artistic merit. [Source: censored ]
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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp Tell all your non-geek friends and family to order it: The Windows Security Update CD will be shipped to you free of charge. This CD includes Microsoft critical updates released through October 2003
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I often need to write short 'n sweet little HTML docs explaining things, that I then upload to a sharepoint server for sharing with my team. I like using HTML because the documents are small, should load quickly in the browser and shouldn't require loading
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I normally avoid these quizzes, but this one was actually interesting because it tells you the regions that use certain phrases/pronunciation, and I've long found linguistics interesting: http://www.moline1968.com/dixie.htm (I grew up mostly in the Chicago
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I took an MIS course in college where the purpose of the course was (or seemed to be) to teach MS Access to business majors. We had this wonderful book, I wish I still had it around... in addition to a full page dedicated to how to use a mouse (including
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I had a lot of random things floating around on my mind this week, so I decided to consolidate them into a single post, a la Kent Tegels' digital doggie bags . I threw myself on the sword and excluded it from the main feed too. ;-) #1: Amazon glitch exposes
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Baby laughter, by far. Today, I stumbled on a way to make my 8 month old son laugh.. and laugh, and laugh, and laugh. I just have to share this .
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John Durant points to a new article by Randy Byrne on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/odc_ol2003_ta/html/odc_OLWhatsNew2k3.asp
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I just noticed in my referrer logs that someone got to this blog from this URL: http://www.google.com/search?q= macro+to+create+a+task+from+an+email &hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&start=10&sa=n Which of course links to my post that
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The link to the TechEd registration on the right of this blog used to link directly to the registration site, but I just changed it to point at http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkID=404299 . The TechEd folks want to track the clickthrough rate via that link,
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On a couple of the machines I use, I find myself continually turning on the status bar in IE (View | Status Bar). But then seemingly at random, if I later start iexplore.exe or launch a shortcut, the status bar would be missing. I finally stumbled across
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I've blogged previously about how to create a new toolbar button that runs a macro you've written. Another neat trick about this is to change the icon on this custom toolbar button to be more relevant. I have custom macros to do things such as: Create
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So if the reminder fires and you've actually completed the task, right click on it and choose Mark Complete, which will mark it as complete as well as dismiss the reminder. I learned this trick a few months ago from Sue Mosher , an Outlook MVP.
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David points to a great new white paper about Outlook 2003, bandwidth consumption and related issues.
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I'm excited to announce that we finally got this off the ground, and a lot of great people are going to be participating in it: http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/
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Outlook has a bunch of commandline switches that can be used to change certain behaviors, reset settings, or do things such as create messages. There are two switches that are sometimes confused with each other: /cleanreminders and /resetfolders. I got
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One of the first jobs I had at Microsoft in 1998 was helping run Outlook's interoperability lab where we tested against a variety of different servers - POP, IMAP, LDAP, cert servers, etc. One of the certificate servers we had running IIS 4.0 was named
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I just stumbled across this yahoogroup , to which Google sends a regular newsletter with fun tidbits and new features. Something new I picked up in last month's issue is the “Define:” command , which lets you look up the meaning of a word.
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As I mentioned a while back , we recently purchased a home studio setup. We've been using it to take pictures for a while, and I recently uploaded a bunch of them to Ofoto for printing. The day after submitting my order, I got an email telling me that
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In college, I wrote an article for an April Fools edition of our ACM newsletter about how the Illiac was to become the newest mail server for students. The best part of the article (in my humble opinion) was the image that was “enhanced using Adobe
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Of course the first most common is “Hi. Here's my blog. I will use this blog to talk about stuff and junk.” I am guilty of this myself. Lately, I've been inundated with the next most common type of blog entry: “Dude! So-and-so has a
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When we were on blogs.gotdotnet.com, we used BlogX, which was simple but did most everything I wanted. One of the features I liked was the ability to download the raw referrer logs. Is there any way to do something similar in .Text? Paging through the
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I made a tiny modification to the code in my previous Create Task from Email blog entry . For my purposes, if the item(s) I'm creating a task from are in the Sent Items folder, then I don't want to delete the original mails. But if they are in any other
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