I recently needed to add 50 new contacts into my Exchange 2007 server and had no intention of completing this task by manually. I am not the greatest PowerShell guy but I knew this would be easy… and it was. Create a file named C:\CONTACTS.CSV file like following Name,DisplayName,EmailAddress,Alias,Title,Company,Department Tom Read more…
I am an old FoxPro guy and gave up development about 10 years ago (best decision I have ever made) but I needed to write a very basic app to track visitors in Access. When I was writing my Visitor Management software I needed to lookup a number of items Read more…
If you can’t get your Symantec Backup Exec Server Services to start and you see errors like: The Backup Exec Server service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs. and in the Windows Event Log Read more…
The short answer is you can’t. The long answer is you can if you don’t mind a pile of scripting. See this page for full details word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm
After your have download and run the “Office Desktop Apps” update from portal.microsoftonline.com/download/default.aspx and Obtain the required info from OWA: Log into OWA, in the upper-right corner, click the question mark (Help) icon and the click About. Locate and note the Exchange Client Access Server Name, Mailbox Server Name, and Host name. Read more…
How to Setup an Unauthenticated Relay in Exchange 2007 or 2010 You likely have a server or application which needs to send email but cannot authenticate (sign in as a user) against your Exchange mail server for one reason or another. It is actually quite a painless process to configure Read more…
If you see the following error in your Exchange 2003, 2007, or 2010 queue, there are three things you should do to troubleshoot the problem: 451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: “421 4.2.1 Unable to connect.” Attempted failover to alternate host, but that did not succeed. Either there Read more…
I figured out How to Add A Gantt Chart to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation last year, but I forgot and it took me over an hour to figure it out again, so this time I am writing the process down. There are two ready ways to create a Gantt chart via Read more…
MICROSOFT PROJECT DOES NOT CALCULATE DURATION PROPERLY If you have ever had the pleasure of working with Microsoft Project you will likely be quite happy with it until you start changing the RESOURCE UNITS percentages (in the TASK INFORMATION pane). If you make changes you will find that it often Read more…
Blackberry OS6 Can Do it? Nope, it can’t. I read that OS6 was supposed to support 2 BES accounts (and possibly more) on a single OS6 device but that was apparently incorrect. Fortunately it is quite easy to add more than one BES accounts to your blackberry running OS5 Read more…
When attempting to add users to a Sharepoint 2010 site I found I could not find domain users, only local ones. After 3 hours of goofing around, this is what I found. I was getting the following: Requested Registry access is not allowed. Correlation ID: 39aea029-6545-417d-9534-8b8bcbc892aa Date and Time: 12/6/2010 Read more…
Background: I am a Sharepoint 2010 novice but I have spent considerable time banging through 2010 in recent days and below is information I will need in the future to perform installs at other client sites. Perhaps you will be interested in some of this. If you want more of my Read more…
I am a Sharepoint 2010 novice but I have spent considerable time banging through 2010 in recent days and below is information I will need in the future to perform installs at other client sites. Perhaps you will be interested in some of this. If you want more of my tips Read more…
Ok… this is what I blew my morning on and man that is not cool! (scroll immediately to the bottom if you just want the easy fix!) I created a new Webapp and Site Collection in a fresh Sharepoint Foundation 2010 server running Server 2008 R2 Standard 64 bit and found Read more…