Fix it for me blog on Microsoft TechNet

will.craddock — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:58:45 GMT

I just happened to find this new blog posting in the TechNet Blogs feed:

Have you ever come across a Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article or been presented with a Windows Error Reporting (WER) solution and asked yourself, why can't Microsoft just fix this for me? Today KB articles and WER solutions provide you with a list of steps that can be followed to resolve your issue. However, tomorrow looks much different and we hope it helps you resolve any issues you have with our products faster and easier.

Our team's purpose is to automate the steps in Microsoft KB articles and Windows Error Reporting (WER) solutions so you can click a button and have the issue resolved.

I was hoping that maybe they came out with some cool new technology that let you run a script to fix these issues, but alas, it’s just a standard Windows Installer MSI file that modifies the registry or runs a script or whatever. But it’s still incredibly useful for non-techies who don’t need to know or care about the Registry.

Check out the the FixIt4Me blog to see what solutions for common problems are listed and hopefully the feed provide you help whenever a new article is published.

-W

OneNote and Live Mesh

will.craddock — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:06:00 GMT

I am a very big user of OneNote. I first became aware of this product when I bought my first Tablet PC back in 2004 and have been a big supporter since the day I installed it. I love the ability to manage my notes for all meetings, conversations and thoughts in a single place. This gives me the ability to have at my finger tips every meeting note for every meeting I have ever (with OneNote) attended. That is pretty powerful stuff and has come in handy on more than one occasion as I am able to reference back while in a phone conversation or meeting. As a big Tablet user, I also love the handwriting ability built into the application.

I have also been participating in the Live Mesh Beta program for sometime now but it just dawned on me today how the 2 products could work together when using more than one device. OneNote has the ability to share documents via a network share, but I am able to share my OneNote's from work and home computers in one common file store via Live Mesh.

I setup a OneNote Notebooks folder in Live Mesh and uploaded all of my OneNote note book file and folders. I then made a local sync copy of the folder in my users\name\documents folder on all my computers, to replace the old one installed by the product. It was as easy as that and I now have a single repository for all notes

just sharing how to link all of these great technologies together

Will

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OneNote and Live Mesh