Category: Office 2007

When I create my shared Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager database on my Small Business Server 2003, I did so while logged into my server as the domain administrator. That’s because the domain administrator is the only account that has permission to log on locally to the server, and a lot of the setup [...]

Here’s what the Outlook 2007 help says about sharing an RSS Feeds list (i.e., your blog subscriptions) between Windows Internet Explorer and Outlook: When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can view and maintain the same RSS Feeds subscriptions list in either program. You accomplish this by sharing one [...]

One of my clients, whose business is too small to have a server of its own, just signed up for a hosted Exchange service. That means they can use features of Exchange without buying their own Exchange server. It also means they are entitled to a license for Outlook 2007 for each of their users. [...]

When I installed Office 2007, I upgraded from Windows Desktop Search 2.6.6, which is the most recent version posted to the official Windows Desktop Search site, to Windows Desktop Search 3.0, which is used by Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007. Afterwards, I noticed that my searches weren’t as complete as they used to be. I [...]

I thought it was just me. I thought that in my haste to try out the new features of Outlook 2007, I must have made a bad decision during the installation. Or maybe there was a conflict with some other software I was trying out. Or maybe I was just imagining it. But no, it [...]

Upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007 has been pretty painless so far, but it just took me about five minutes to figure out how to create a new Word document using one of my custom templates. Since the old menu has been replaced by the ribbon, I didn’t know where to set the file location. [...]

I wrote earlier about problems I was having configuring Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to use a database on my server rather than on my own workstation. Even after dealing with the typo in the instructions, I couldn’t get Outlook to detect the presence of my database on the server. I was really confused, [...]

As you may have gathered from my recent post about installation glitches, I’m finally on the Office 2007 bandwagon. I’d checked it out in beta a bit, but didn’t want to put it on my production machines until the final code was released. Now comes the fun part: learning all the new features. As I find [...]

I’ve been through a few Office upgrades, and I’m used to simply running the new installation program and having my old Office versions replaced automatically. That didn’t work when I installed the trial version of Office 2007. Most components of the suite installed just fine, but not Outlook 2007. I ended up with two versions of [...]

If you are using the September 2006 version of this document to install your Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager database on a server, you need to watch out for a couple of critical typos in the sqlcmd statement on page 9. First, you need to understand that the way the document is formatted, it looks [...]