Archives: 2007 March

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 [...]

I had to prepare a table for a client showing the purchase dates of some of their older computers. I copied the dates out of my hardware inventory database and pasted them into Excel. They looked like this:
37210
37279
37432
37553
37553
37553
37729
37729
What that shows me is the number of days elapsed between the date of purchase and December 31, [...]

Microsoft has published a new document, dated March 21, 2007, with instructions for installing a database for Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a remote machine, such as a Small Business Server. The previous version had a typo in it that was bound to frustrate all who tried to follow it. The new version contains [...]

I found out last night after Googling myself (which I recommend to everyone with a reasonably distinctive name) that I was quoted in an IT trade journal back in January, right after the Vista / Office 2007 launch.
Unfortunately, the quote doesn’t really make much sense. The article is about a panel presentation at which Microsoft [...]

Take a look at the screen images I copied and pasted in my last two blog entries (this one and that one). Now take a look a screen image from an earlier post, like this). Or even better, just take a look at the difference between an image I just copied directly from IE7 and one [...]

Today I tried to edit a document using Word 2007 that I had created as a protected form in Word 2003. Forms are great if you’re creating document templates that have a lot of standard text and only a few items that change. The obvious example is a standard contract in which you just need [...]

I really thought I had been good about applying the Daylight Savings Time patch on all the PCs I manage for my clients. But there I was this morning, looking at reports from machines I was sure I had patched, and they were still 5 hours behind GMT rather than 4. What happened?
It turns out [...]