March 2004 - Posts
In powerpoint, I like how when I open up a PPT presentation in IE, it loads it inline and I can page through the presentation and see the exact url to individual slides. So if I want to show someone else just one slide, I can point directly at that slide.
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Bill sent out an e-mail today to a whole bunch of people, and I wanted to highlight some of the Exchange-related parts of it: Exchange Edge Services: This new technology addresses the evolving security problems associated with Internet email. Exchange
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I recently got a mail about this problem. After a little research, I ran across the following article: Problems Occur When You Open a Custom Form by Using the Favorites Folder http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=831586 As a temporary workaround,
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I was just pointed at these tips on Office's site. Most are well known to experienced Outlook users, but I was surprised that I didn't know some of them: Flag that message fast To quickly flag a message, select a message in the message list, and then
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A coworker pointed at the Graphical User Interface Gallery ... pretty neat. One of the coolest parts is the scan of ads from the way-back machine, including some publicity photos of a young Bill .
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Scott Oseychik, previously a PM on the Exchange team, recently left Microsoft to be a full-time comedian: http://www.oseychik.com/ If you'll be in any of the areas below on these dates, I highly recommend checking out his show. Not because I've ever actually
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Scott Mitchell has an interesting post today which analyzed the date/time of the comments on his blog to look for patterns. Quote: ...the later in the week a blog entry is made, the less likely it is to receive comments. However, the hour of the day the
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Kent pointed at Intel's IT Manager Game , which is a flash sim game that (while pretty boring overall) is an interesting approach to helping advertise and sell your product. As the IT manager, you are responsible for keeping the clients and servers running
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The “Waiting for your exchange server“ dialog in Outlook has evoked some of the most violently negative[1] responses I have ever seen from customers. Michael talks about this “ dreaded Outlook popup ” and offers the following tip:
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I just stumbled across this one from Pam . Another one that I enjoy and play fairly often is TextTwist on the zone (I love word games, although I'm not particularly good at them).
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Zoe posted today about a hiring event for SDETs for Exchange. See the jobsblog for more information .
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When reading Zoe's post last night about the SDE career path at Microsoft , the part at the end about the management-vs-architect route of the developer caught my eye, since my recently former manager has played both of those roles. “Your manager
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Jeff blogs about some changes in IE in Win XP SP2. The parts that jumped out at me: On Pop-ups: Users almost never want to see pop-ups. So we started by saying all pop-ups will be blocked. There are exceptions-- brokerage sites use window.open() to display
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In Greg Chappell's new testing blog , Jeremy asks: Well, according to the MS JobsBlog (blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog), developing yourself into an STE is hard. Even though courses are taught at Uni / College, generally they aren't adequate enough. Obviously
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Scoble recently pointed at an article about women seeking out “Microsoft men”. One of the comments on the entry is: I'm always amazed at how many softies are married to other softies though. I mean there's usually lots of dating in the workplace, but
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I'm sitting in a meeting where we're discussing consolidating KB articles, and one of the issues that's come up is that most times when we go to consolidate two or three or fifteen KB articles into one, we end up with a 20 page KB article that's really
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I recently received an email letting me know that Eric Rudder made some suggestions to the folks who own the community websites at Microsoft about how the most important parts of the pages should be more visible at the top of the page. In Exchange's community
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The last 10 locations you used are stored in a most recently used (MRU) list. To see the list, click the down arrow on the right side of the Location field in the meeting request form, or press the up/down arrows.
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Looks like Larry's finally started his own blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/ . Welcome aboard! Larry's a wayyy old school exchange guy from back in the day, and he was at Microsoft before there even was an Exchange. I've got him roped into posting
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Exchange won, 3-2, in the Hockey game yesterday . Wahoo!
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http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/outlook/CliNetTraf.asp This document provides a detailed look at how Exchange 2003 consumes bandwidth under different configurations and analyzes the incoming and outgoing client traffic. The results of 700 tests
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Then you should check out Plus! Dancer from Plus! Digital Media Edition . You can see a demo of the dancers here , they dance on your screen to any sound that's currently being played, and you can download additional dancers , from Arkantos from AOM to
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This is a problem that I'm guessing many of us have - how to keep track of miscellaneous comments you make on someone else's blog, to check for follow-ups? With Newsgator and Outlook 2003, one way to help with this scenario (I admit, it's not a perfect
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In a couple of weeks, I'll be celebrating my 6 month blogaversary. Sheesh, have I learned a lot in that time. I've talked to (and sometimes helped) a whole new bunch of customers, I've found several blogs from Exchange administrators that have provided
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Admittedly, this one is only amusing for super big Exchange geeks such as myself: http://www.cafepress.com/ehlo
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From Jeremy through Scoble , I saw http://www.itconversations.com/ . The most interesting name on that page to me is Rick Chapman , author of In Search Of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters . I blogged about this book before , but
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I blogged over the weekend about being a PM , and Adam links to today's dilbert which does a good job of summing up the job :-)
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Brian points to a post of Greg's where he describes how to do this.
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I read through this description of a great prank that I originally found via Scoble . It was an entertaining read, but my favorite part was this little snippit at the end: Williaml is a deaf developer in our group; before the group meeting, Meredyth let
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These are four of the most common problems I've seen when setting up this configuration: #1: In the “Exchange server“ field in the first page of the wizard to add an Exchange account, enter the name of your exchange server which might be something
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Alton Brown's choice is cheese . If the name doesn't ring a bell, he's the new host of the Iron Chef America series and has been hosting Good Eats on the food channel for a while. It's a great show because he doesn't just show you how to make the food,
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You might enjoy this one: http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/warthog_launch/ Level 28 is where the rate of return for me dipped :-)
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I'm tired of my son grabbing my glasses off my face and smudging them up with his little fingers! Sure, like most folks who've been wearing glasses 10+ years, I think about Lasik from time to time, and I always quiz folks who get it about the experience,
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I noticed this thread on Philip Greenspun's board where the discussion is about what to major in, EE vs CS. Philip suggests Mechanical Engineering instead, with this interesting comment: A more general statement of the preceding paragraph is "remember
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I got a big kick out of this thread on Joel Spolsky's forum , such as the part about how PMs manipulate developers. I have to admit, I've played the “Oh what a smart idea you just had, Mr./Ms. Developer!” card more than once, but that's usually
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I just went to www.fisherprice.com , and after waiting for the insanely annoying (not-obviously-skippable) flash animation with noise, it brings me to the front page... and then immediately routes me to another page where it tells me: It appears you have
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http://www.cafepress.com/ehlo The coworker who came up with the logo idea bought one of the “MAPI makes me HAPI“ t-shirts and wore it to an internal meeting today with the store team, and he told me about another coworker's reaction: “He
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A friend pointed this out to me. The cost is more than the price of the bills alone, but having a framed uncut sheet of $2 bills would be pretty neat. Not $85 neat, but neat nonetheless.
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OK so we're still trailing Longhorn by a lot, but still, pretty nice to see =)
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When I went to PC Expo in 99, it was all about the t-shirts. We actually had to give out t-shirts with each session we gave at our booth, otherwise no one would stick to the booth for more than a minute. But recently, someone told me that customers are
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