Category: Office 2007

As you’ve probably realized, Windows SharePoint Services is the official SCHRAG Technology of the Week. If you’re a SharePoint wannabe too, here’s something you must add to your RSS list: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx. If you don’t, how will you find out about things like this?

This is a pretty good example of what IT consultants do all day and why people are willing to pay us to do it for them.
Goal: create a Windows SharePoint Services application via the Internet based on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Simple enough, right?
Process: Start with basic procedure described here. From WSS home page, click [...]

One of my clients cannot upgrade to Office 2007 because they use some software that tightly integrates with Office 2003, and this software is not Office 2007-ready (at least not yet). Sometime later this summer, they will no longer be able to get Office 2003 preinstalled on the computers they buy from Dell. Instead, they’ll [...]

One complaint IT consultants hate to hear is “my computer is slow.” This phrase can be used to describe a virtually unlimited number of specific symptoms, and those symptoms may be caused by a virtually unlimited number of problems.
Here’s one that I’d never heard before tonight. A client told me that as he typed messages [...]

FYI, I’ve officially given up on using Outlook 2007’s native RSS reader, at least until / unless there is a service pack for it. I got too many synchronization errors, slow load times, and who know what other problems that I didn’t even realize I should blame on the RSS feature.
I do this reluctantly, because [...]

Things had been looking up for my Exchange mailbox rebuild, but they got really bad again the first time my Pocket PC tried a wireless sync. All of my contacts, which had just been imported back into Exchange from the .pst file I’d created, were seen as new entries by my phone. So it synched for [...]

I owe John Klimcak a beer. After reading my question about the temporary mailbox, John asked the simplest question: “Have you tried recreating your [Outlook] profile?”
I hadn’t. But I did. And it worked. Thanks, John.
Now my RSS feed folder is full of duplicates again, but at least this time I have some idea about how [...]

Last night I described a rather pathetic attempt to improve my Outlook 2007 performance by deleting and rebuilding my Exchange mailbox. I thought I was back in business but it turns out there was one more significant hurdle.
When I opened Outlook, I got the following message: “Your mailbox has been temporarily moved on Microsoft Exchange [...]

Executive summary: I stupidly deleted my Exchange mailbox before noting or backing up some things that you can’t export to a .pst file. Skip to Part Five if you want to go directly to “lessons learned.”
Part One: The problem
I’d been having the strangest problem with my e-mail — OK, probably not THE strangest problem, but [...]

All you Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager folks, get thee to the BCM blog. Two big postings in the past week. First, a link to a new version of the shared database whitepaper that fixes that darn typo, among other things. Second, a link to a new tool that should make the process described [...]