Archive for March, 2008
TIP: Fixing IE so it doesn’t go mental with lots of tabs open
This one has bugged me for ages – you open up stacks of tabs in IE and after a while weird things start happening. Perhaps its the menu not appearing on some tabs, another tab has missing toolbars, etc.
And it affects other programs as well including File Explorer, shortcuts, and in my case SharePoint Designer [...]
CLARITY: CRM Live becomes CRM Online
The main interest in this article from Mary Jo is not about CRM (who cares about a name change after all) but rather how Microsoft are clarifying their terms:
Live: Consumer focus
Online: Business & Enterprise focus, hosted by Microsoft
Hosted services: hosted by Microsoft partners
And don’t miss the revenue sharing snippet at the bottom – Microsoft will [...]
TIP: Repairing Outlook .ost and .pst files
I’ve had issues recently with Outlook crashing when I shut it down. Initially I thought this was due to a rogue Outlook Addin (eg I’ve got Xobni, ClearContext, OutTwit and others installed). So I went through systematically getting rid of them. Put the problem persisted.
Finally I found the issue was to do with the actual [...]
SBTUG: Unified Communications – this Wed 26 March
This Wednesday we’ve got another great Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) lined up.
This month: Unified Communications: What is it, and why does it matter? Presented by Craig Pringle.
When: This Wed 26 March 2008
Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm)
Where: Microsoft, North Ryde
Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388
Cost: Free (Pizza all provided)
Sessions
Craig Pringle (Unified Communications [...]
TIP: How to uninstall IE8
If, like me, you rushed out and installed Internet Explorer 8 last week, then you may, like me again, be regretting it.
IE8 has been slow, unstable and ugly. By ugly I mean that most of the sites I viewed looked really bad (or didn’t render at all). The price of progress you may say? [...]
TIP: How to create a Microsoft LiveID with your own domain name
This one crops up from time to time. You need a Microsoft LiveID for use with say Windows Messenger. But when you go through the sign up process, you only have options for a .hotmail.com or .live.com domain on your alias.
If you have registered your own domain name, then ideally you want your LiveID profile [...]
TIP: The Top Mistake of public speaking
I mentioned in a previous post that I was really nervous when I presented at the Microsoft Launch last week.
This actually caught me by surprise, because I am usually pretty comfortable presenting in front of groups.
At home that night I was wondering why I had suddenly tensed up. Was it the large crowd (the room [...]
TIP: Fixing the annoying Vista Windows Explorer View quirk
Like many people I was hoping that Vista SP1 would fix the issue with Views in Windows Explorer changing randomly. But alas, it didn’t. Gee, must be a big bug.
Anyway, there is a registry hack that fixes it – sort of. It doesn’t actually fix it, rather it just sets all the folders undefined, [...]
MEDIA: Speaking at a Microsoft Media event
Last week I spoke at my first media event. Which was kinda fun.
Here’s what happened.
As part of the Microsoft Heroes Happen Launch event last week, Microsoft put on a media event. It was all organised by their PR company (in this case Howorth Communications) and involved getting a few key Microsoft executives (Martin Gregory and [...]
MICROSOFT: Heroes Happen {Here} presentation
I had the pleasure of speaking as part of Dave Glover’s session in the Visual Studio track at last Thursday’s Microsoft Wave launch in Sydney.
Dave’s session was on some of the new productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. In my spot I covered off the experiences we’ve had with the 2008 stack at Elcom.
In particular [...]
TIP: How to access SQL Server Developer edition over a network
This one has caught out people for ages, so I thought I’d clarify that it IS possible to connect to SQL Server 2005 Developer edition over a network.
The problem is that the Express and Developer versions of SQL Server 2005 turn OFF remote access by default (Standard and Enterprise have it ON by default). [...]
