A simple one. Sorry if you all know this already – but I keep coming across people who’ve missed it – so please read on. You can easily hide the ribbon in any of the Office 2007 programs simply by double clicking on the tabs. Thus becomes with just a double-click on the Home tab (or any tab). Oh, and I assume you know you can customise the Quick Access toolbar easily enough: As...
I don’t know if you read the Outlook Team Blog, but if not I recommend it – there’s stacks of goodies over there. Take this one for example, on entering dates in Outlook. I didn’t realise you could enter a date as easily as ‘next tue’ and Outlook would work it out for you automatically: Gets converted to As Kristel explains, there’s a bunch of terms that...
These days it seems the best indication of when a particular social media source has reached it’s used by date is when recruiters are using it more than your ‘real’ connections :-) Take LinkedIn for example. A year ago, this was a valuable tool, allowing us all to connect to business associates. These days, all I seem to get is requests to connect with recruiters, and poorly...
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 (and even Live Writer – with which I am currently writing this post). Well...
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 share 10% of the CRM Live...
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 .ost file being corrupted. The way I discovered this was by...
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...
Thanks to Brad Abrams, here’s the Silverlight 2 Developer poster (JPEG).
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Yes, it's officially supported. But I don't think it is installed by default – your installer still has to do that – however I may be wrong…
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Not only does the download (a whopping 687 KB :-) include all the source code for the S2B1 controls, but also all the unit tests. Check out Brad’s post for other useful links as well. Like this one from Shawn Burke which gives a nice overview.
(via Brad Abrams)
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