April 2004 - Posts
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
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Yesterday, I stumbled across some great photographs in a building that I spend very little time in. And fortunately, the artist has the pictures up on his web site. It's a simple idea, writing messages in sand and taking pictures of them, but what I liked
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Rick Schaut blogged about vanity plates recently, which reminded me of a few fun ones I've seen: A friend from college had HTTP 80. He is actually the reason that David and I work at Microsoft and is currently a development manager in the Exchange team.
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One of my Exchange MVPs just pointed me at this great archive: http://www.ftponline.com/archives/magazines/exchange/ .
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In Exchange 5.5, when you emailed a MIME message to a public folder, it would be delivered to the public folder as an email message (message class IPM.Note). In Exchange 2000/2003, this behavior changed, a byproduct of the new support for native MIME
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Yeah, this annoys me too. I'm not sure why it's the case, although it might be related to this . Fortunately, Outlook MVP Robert has a workaround: http://www.sparnaaij.net/Howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm . It requires VBA but he walks you through it step
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http://www.seewhogotfired.com The babies in “Suite“ are great (but perhaps I'm biased there - maybe I've been hitting the bottle too much?). The “Feature Rich” one with Clippy is also fantastic. Do they make me want to try the
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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
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I've seen this idea pop up a few times, so here's my contribution to this meme: When I was in Outlook, I ran a bunch of mail servers for testing in our interoperability lab. At one point I needed access to an HP Openmail server for some testing, and I
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I've been watching with interest the various posts about why there are so few women in tech and what can/should be done about it. This is an area that I have a fair amount of interest in and (of course) some personal experience. So, here's my opinion
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You are a GRAMMAR GOD ! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla It's like a compulsion, really. I get a nervous twitch
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[ramble: on] I really enjoyed John Topley's blog entry this week about the company at which I happen to work. I enjoy getting insights into how other people perceive my group and my company, both positive and negative. Plus, it's always nice to read something
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Normally, it's pretty annoying. But what if that person is Chris Rock ?
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Everyone on the show seems to hate her, as do many of the people on the various Survivor community sites... why is it that I like her so much? I know she won't win, but for some reason I've always liked her. I think it started when she ate the heart in
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Several years ago, there was an episode of SNL that had one of the segments of “Nick Burns, your company's computer guy” with Jimmy Fallon as Nick, an annoying IT guy who would never let his users get a word in edgewise while he fixed their
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I just stumbled across http://www.dnsstuff.com , which is a handy site that gives you access to a bunch of functionality from one page: Any DNS record Reverse DNS lookup DNS timing Whois Ping Tracert Spam database lookup (150+ DBs searched) etc Nifty
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I'm very excited to announce that today we have done two things I've been wanting to do for a long time: #1: With Exchange 2000 SP3 and the latest post-SP3 hotfix rollup (as well as with Exchange 2003 SP1) and a custom tool that one of the Exchange developers
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9107473a-74ca-4113-9392-0dfb092dfa72 Microsoft® Office OneNote™ 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Preview provides an early look at bug fixes and feature enhancements that will be shipped as
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Reading Matt's post about his son reminded me of the process we went through last year when choosing our son's name (actually, multiply this by two, since we didn't know the gender[6]). It must have been a lot easier to choose the names of your children
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This link to bios of people on the VS team [2] was posted to Channel9 earlier today, and my first thought was: aw man, they did it before I got a chance to![1] And then my second thought was gee, I really need to get around to putting that together. And
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The Outlook team is investigating making some improvements to this scenario, and they would like to see real-world examples from any customer who has customized the templates. If you are willing, please send us the file as per the instructions below.
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I just stumbled across AllConsuming.net , which looks like a pretty innovative site... it scans weblogs and looks for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other book sites. I t then relates them all together - look up a favorite book to find
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I really like Outlook 2003, but one thing drives me nuts on new installs: the added step to change the active view for the currently selected folder. I used to be able to go to View | Current View | (name of view), and now I have to go to View | Arrange
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When you've been here for a while, you will eventually run across (or help create) a 'funny bug'. This many people all working together near the end of the ship cycle usually results in a variety of bugs to help let off steam in a creative way. The milk
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... He quotes OutKast .
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... is never a good sign. Especially not as in the dream I had last night. I dreamt that Scoble came to interview me for channel9 , but rather than a real interview he decided to turn it into an “Apprentice”-like challenge. My goal was to
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Jon's post today to the Exchange blog explains. We get complaints all the time about why does it take so long, it's just a one line change, surely there must be some conspiracy to explain why the fix isn't out yet, etc. Jon's a fantastic dev, but code
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UIUC 's a pretty good school. I didn't get around to finishing my degree, but I have always been proud of the school's legacy: HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey was born there. A three year old girl can become (in?)famous just by pushing a button . [2] It
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If you have data in Excel and you want to hide rows with duplicate entries, it's super easy: 1. Select the data you want to filter 2. Data | Filter | Advanced Filter 3. Click “Unique Records Only“ Excel will then hide rows that are duplicates
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You may have seen a link in your eventlog that, when you click on it, takes you to a microsoft web site where theoretically there is supposed to be useful information telling you what to do about that specific event, but often there is not. If this has
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So it took me a while , but thanks to the wiki on Channel9 and Scoble's mention of blog directories , there is now a place for IT bloggers to list themselves . I added the ones in the comments of my previous post to start it off. I sorted alphabetically
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This picture of Sam showing off the XML gang sign cracked me up. Can't wait to use it. ; -)
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Amanda's entry today reminded me of something... Years ago, I read about pilots using Flight Simulator for training, which I thought was a novel idea but not really applicable to me. Also years ago, I went to a morale event at Champ's Karting with the
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I'm “speaking“[1] at Tech-Ed, and while completing my registration today, I also signed up for Rio , which is a system that Tech-Ed attendees can use to find and set up meetings with people with similar interests or expertise in a certain
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Yesterday was day two of the MVP summit, and it's been a blast so far. Lots of great people and discussions packed into just a few days. Yesterday morning, Eric Rudder talked about a lot of the accomplishments of the MVPs and Microsoft in the community,
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I have been waiting for this paper to be live for a loooong time! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=847774d9-db4a-444b-a5c9-d0b01958f6b7&displaylang=en Exchange Server 2003 Client Access Guide This guide provides information
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Exchange is so great, even babies know the truth: http://saymail.sympatico.ca/card/2LrNLP_g2bgnDRJBtv.Cqq
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A Canadian who waited nearly a year to claim a C$30 million ($23 million) lottery prize because he didn't want to "do anything rash" was being described as the most patient man in the country on Friday. Couldn't he at least have claimed it and invested
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