Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Outlook
Exchange Outlook Feature Request: Where’s Waldo?
Posted by on August 18, 2011
There was recently some discussion at a customer about the use of Outlook/Exchange’s calendaring functionality, this is a commonly deployed solution in businesses yet few people seem to “get” how useful the calendaring functionality can be or how to use it properly. I almost see it as a democratic process for keeping control of [...]
Using Outlook 2010 with More than One Exchange Account Crashes Regularly
Posted by on February 24, 2011
I quite liked the idea of a new feature in Outlook 2010, the ability to use more than one Exchange account at a time. People have been asking for this for years and it looked promising, in the past there was a work-around using virtualization but it was very resource intensive for most people’s machines. [...]
Importing a PST file into Outlook 2011 for Mac
Posted by on October 4, 2010
I have been a long-term Outlook user and I’m a serial information hoarder so I have a calendar and contact set that goes back a LONG way in time, in a previous life I was also an Exchange/AD consultant so I see the benefits of a server-side mailbox store (centrally held data with local [...]
SpinVox: The Future of Voicemail
Posted by on May 20, 2008
SpinVox is changing the game for busy people.. I don’t know about you but I tend to treat my mobile (USA:cellphone) phone as my personal contact device, in that I use it to manage both my inbound and outbound communications and plug that into my daily work/life workflow. Because I travel about a lot [...]
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 [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta Open Now
Posted by on April 2, 2008
As of 1st April (not an April fools joke!) you can register for, and download the VM Worksation 6.5 beta programme here.. Main new features are; Use Unity to integrate your guest apps with your host More Powerful VM Record and Replay Support for Smart Cards & Smart Card Readers Enhanced ACE Authoring Link [...]
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 [...]
Running Exchange 2007 on VMWare ESX Server
Posted by on February 26, 2008
Interesting article here on some stress testing VMWare have done running Exchange 2007 under virtualization on VI3.5. It’s working.. .and working well, now – official support?
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 [...]
