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SOLVED: How To Add an Attachment to a Mail Merge in Word 2003, 2007 or 2010

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

By Ian Matthews, 13 years ago

SOLVED: How To Remove or Change the Password In Kaspersky Security Center, Policies, Interface, Enable Password Protection

When using Kaspersky Security Center you may set a policy in: Managed Computers Policies tab Advanced Settings Interface Enable Password Protection The problem is the damn thing requires you to enter the old password before you can change to a different password.  This makes no sense and after trying to Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsMarch 7, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to Add a Global Footer To Hosted Exchange on Office 365

This document explains how to add a non-repeating email footer to your Office 365 Exchange 2010. Step 10 below will exclude internal emails and step 11/12 will stop the footer from being added over and over again.   Sign into mail.office365.com with a user account that has admin rights Click OPTIONS in Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsJanuary 17, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to Setup Office 365 Email on a Windows Phone 7 Mobile – Cell Phone

The key thing you need is to set your WP7 phone to use is the server m.outlook.com.  Below is the full explaination from Microsoft:   If this is the first e-mail account you’ve set up on the phone, tap the E-mailtile on the phone’s home screen and skip to step 4. If Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsJanuary 16, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to Copy .SWF or Animated .GIFs, or any Content From a Web Site

Usually you can save content from a website by RIGHT CLICKING your mouse and selecting SAVE but some content like Flash Files (.SWF) and animated GIF’s just don’t work that way.  When you right click on an .SWF Flash element you will not see the SAVE option and if you right click and save an animated .GIF you will only Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsJanuary 7, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to Set the IP Address on a 3Com Switch

There are serveral ways but, if you have a serial console cable you can set the IP using the following process: Get a serial console cable.  Note that I went through several of them before I found one that would let me SEND characters to the device; I could see Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsDecember 29, 2011 ago

SOLVED: How to Flash Update a 3Com 4200G Series Switch Boot ROM and Application ROM

Well, this took some effort but the steps can be reproduced quite quickly. The biggest problem is that I can not figure out a way to flash the BOOT ROM without using the serial console cable, which is a big pain in the ass!  I was able to get the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsDecember 29, 2011 ago

SOLVED: How To Patch A Microsoft Windows HyperV Host & VM’s

The following the my approved process for patching VM’s: Wait at least one week after “Patch Tuesday”; this gives Microsoft time to have others beta test the patches and for Microsoft to pull / adjust problem patches Shut Down (VM equivalent of Power Off) any running Virtual Machines Copy the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 yearsNovember 25, 2011 ago

SOLVED: How to View Unread Messages in Outlook 2010

To avoid a major rant, let me just say that I can not think of a single good reason for Microsoft to remove the VIEW, UNREAD MESSAGES option that has existed in Outlook 2000 and 2003.  To the point, if you want to view your unread messages in Outlook 2010 simply: Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 years ago

SOLVED: How to Run a SECOND Domain Controller With SBS Small Business Server (2000, 2003, 2011, Essentials)

Well, it turns out the notion that you can not use a second DC is really just a slight, but VERY common miscommunication from Microsoft.  The nut of it is that since SBS 2000 you CAN add additional Domain Controllers with the following two caveats: The SBS server MUST have Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 13 years ago

SOLVED: How To Determine What Make and Model Your Motherboard Is WITHOUT Openning The Case

There are several ways to find out what model your motherboard is: Reboot and read the POST screens Reboot and enter the BIOS Look for a sticker or label on the ourside of the case.  Dell put “service tag” numbers on all their machines and you can references those on Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 years ago

How to Sync Windows Mobile 7 Phone

Under Mango, there are only two ways to get the pictures, videos or music off your Windows Mobile 7 phone: Install Zune Sync with SkyDrive (just click on the … options button on a picture and select UPLOAD TO SKYDRIVE) Currently Windows Mobile 7 phones do NOT show up as external Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsOctober 25, 2011 ago

Windows In Place Upgrade Problem: Windows needs to be restarted so necessary changes to system files can be made before continuing

When attempting an in-place upgrade or an upgrade from a previous version of Windows, you may see the COMPATABILITY REPORT error stating: Windows needs to be restarted so necessary changes to system files can be made before continuing. After restarting this alert flag may not be cleared.  Fortunately there are Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 years ago

How To Disassemble and Acer Veriton N or Revo and Install Memory

This video shows how to take the side panel bezel off a an Acer Veriton N282G or Revo and install an additional 2GB of RAM, bringing the total to 4GB.  It also shows detailed closedups of the Veriton N motherboard, hard drive, fan, wireless card and more. It looks like Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 13, 2011 ago

SOLVED: How to Add A Gantt Chart to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation

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…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 8, 2011 ago

How to Deploy The Current Version of Adobe Flash using Group Policy in Active Directory

This one is easy: Download the correct version of  flash from Adobes offline flash installer site http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html Copy the .MSI to a location on the network which all PC’s can see Start GROUP POLICY MANAGMENT CONSOLE and right click on the appropriate OU (or the domain root) and select CREATE A Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 30, 2011 ago

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