• Using Outlook Search folders to sift large volumes of email

    [This is a re-heat and update of an older blog post on You Had me at EHLO! ] Search Folders in Outlook 2003 and 2007 can be a useful tool to manage large volumes of mail in your mailbox; one tip is to create a folder for "all mail since this morning"...
  • Travel's a curse

    We all know that travelling on business can be a pain, and the glamour of travelling on holiday has long since worn off... ... so I thought I'd share some useful travel websites to help ease the pain (if you feel that way, and haven't seen them before...
  • Using Outlook Search Folders to filter only external mail

    Following on from my recent post about search folders, I got a few questions and comments via mail. One, from Christian, asked if it was possible to use a search folder to filter out only mail which came from "outside" - eg Only show me the last day's...
  • Use NewSID on cloned virtualised machines

    I came across a problem recently when a colleague was building a virtual Windows Server environment, and was reminded of it the other night when on a webcast with Exchange MVPs, when one of the attendees said he was hitting issues with Exchange 2007 servers...
  • Sideshow Media Center remote - want one!

    I've been a long-time user of the Philips Pronto programmable remote - it's an LCD touch screen based affair, which can be programmed to the 9th degree to create your own UI of macros which correspond to lots of different activities on different remotes...