Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Office 2007
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta – Run Multiple Copies of Outlook/Exchange via Unity
Posted by on April 30, 2008
I use a single laptop for my day-day use, it has all the stuff i need, I run Vista and Office 2007, for our corporate mail we use Exchange like everyone else and I use Outlook Cached Mode to work online/offline.. My own personal email is also an Exchange mailbox – provided by fasthosts [...]
Useful OneNote Information
Posted by on March 27, 2008
Eileen also has another post with some some useful linkage for getting more out of OneNote (my favourite MS application!) I really must set some time aside to review my working practices and try to get some more out of these types of useful applications (Groove, OneNote etc.)
How to Overlay Multiple Calendars in Outlook 2007
Posted by on March 25, 2008
This is a really useful feature; I didn’t realise you could do this (until I had a need to do so, thanks Google!); makes it much easier to look and manage multiple calendars (or people’s shared calendars). Linky here Shame the UI for this isn’t particularly obvious, or at least maybe I’m blind but [...]
Microsoft Offering Hosted Exchange & Sharepoint
Posted by on March 5, 2008
Interesting to note this post and register post here of a beta version of hosted Exchange and MOS (MS Office Sharepoint) offered by Microsoft itself. Would assume this is one of the reasons they are building out vast new datacentres as they try to keep pace with Google’s range of online applications. Working for [...]
Make Your own Offline Windows Update CD/DVD
Posted by on February 12, 2008
What a handy tool; if you download the app you can select which Microsoft OS/Applications you need patches for and it will download them all via the Windows online catalog to a source directory and then compile a script to auto install them all – it will even generate a .ISO file and handle dependencies [...]
Windows Vista SP1 RTM
Posted by on February 4, 2008
Windows team Blog post here says Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing so not long to go now until it’s generally available. I’ve been using Vista exclusively since it RTM’d and from Beta 2 before that. I got a new laptop with a core 2 Duo CPU and went up to 4Gb RAM [...]
Managing lots of RSS feeds
Posted by on October 31, 2007
I’ve been into reading people’s blogs and tracking websites like theregister for a good couple of years. I never really found an RSS reader app that worked for me; I wanted to build custom views of feeds, flag and prioritize them and mark things to read later – and I could find standalong apps to [...]
