Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Vista, Sharepoints, OneNote & Outlook

I read this article below and it pretty much says what I would have said.
However I now have a tablet - will write about that shortly and I find it very useful.

Windows Vista improves productivity, power management for mobile PC users

When I travel, it isn't always convenient to have both my laptop and my Smartphone with me at all times. That's why I like the capabilities of Sync Center in Windows Vista. I can work on whatever device is most convenient for me at the time, and Windows Vista ensures that the same information appears on both devices.

Windows SideShow is another feature getting attention from mobile PC users. It's a new technology that allows you to view important information from your computer on a secondary display, such as a small screen on the outside of a laptop's case.

Windows Vista improves the wireless networking experience by consolidating key information in the Network and Sharing Center. From there, I can check my connection status, signal strength, and other properties.

When I'm on the go, I'm always worried about how much battery life my laptop has left. How quickly your battery drains depends, in part, on which power plan you select. When I'm home, I use the Balanced power plan, with a few extra settings tweaked. One of the power management settings I've tweaked is what happens when I close my laptop's lid. I've changed the setting so that nothing happens when I close the lid. That way, my e‑mail continues to download and is instantly available when I reopen the lid.

One of the major purchases I plan to make within the next year is a Tablet PC—a mobile PC that allows interaction via a tablet pen or, if the computer has a touch-enabled screen, a fingertip. In Windows Vista you can perform specific actions with pen flicks or touch flicks on supported hardware. You can flick your pen in a certain direction and the selection is copied to the Clipboard. What's more, you can customize the pen flicks to perform the actions you choose.

I have to make a presentation in front of an audience several times a year. I turn on presentation settings from Windows Mobility Center, a dashboard of sorts for common mobile PC settings. Windows turns off the screen saver, turns off system notifications, and prevents the computer from going to sleep. I can also customize the presentation settings to change the desktop background and adjust the volume level.

Jerri Ledford


View and update a SharePoint calendar

You can view and update a SharePoint calendar, just as you do your Outlook calendar.

You can view a calendar from a SharePoint site side-by-side with an Outlook calendar, view an overlay of the calendars as if they were one single calendar, and even copy events among the calendars.

When you connect a SharePoint calendar to Outlook 2007, it appears under Other Calendars with your calendar folders. You can connect multiple calendars at the same time, such as a team vacation calendar and a project schedule. Depending on your needs, you can choose which calendars you want to work with: a single calendar from a SharePoint site, multiple SharePoint calendars (if you have them), or Outlook calendars.

If your team stores its project schedules, conferences, or vacations on a SharePoint calendar, you can view the team calendar simultaneously with your personal calendar and check for conflicts. Additionally, you can copy items back and forth, without leaving Outlook.


OneNote Table of Contents powertoy!

Nani Courten is another tester on the OneNote team and created an incredibly useful addin for OneNote. There is a group of people sharing a notebook. Each person edits a few pages here and there every so often. Now when I open the notebook, I want to quickly find the most recent changes. If a page was changed last night, I want to see it, and if a page has been unchanged for some amount of time, I'm not as interested in viewing it. Essentially, I want a list of most recently changed pages. Nani created an addin which creates a Table of Contents for the section I'm looking at with the most recently changed pages at the top of the list. Each page in the list is a link to the page: I can see what changed last night, click the link and go straight to that page.

You can also delete the column which shows the time the pages were changed and make a table of contents which lists only the page titles. This way the user who posted to the newsgroups about wanting a summary of the pages in a section can get his information as well.

Links:
The setup files (and remember to exit OneNote, run setup.exe as admin and select to install for all users):

http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/TableOfContentsSetup.zip

The source (includes setup):

http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/OneNote%20Table%20of%20Content.zip

John


Sharing a calendar via email

Did you know that you can easily create and share calendars with others in Outlook 2007? with Outlook 2007 this is an absolute joy!
I have created a “Bike Races” calendar which I can now use to store all these events. Updating my friends is as simple as clicking on ”Send a Calendar via E-mail…”, selecting the level on detail and choosing my recipients. Outlook is even smart enough to attach a “human friendly” text version of the calendar in the mail body (if I choose).
For my friends running Outlook 2007 it’s as simple as choosing to open the calendar when they receive my message. For those who aren’t running Outlook (and yes, there are a few out there), they can still see all the dates and times in the body of the email, and if they have an application that supports iCalender files (RFC 2445) they can also import them.
Create the calendar

1. Open Outlook

2. Select Calendar

3. Click File + New + Calendar...
4. Enter the calendar name (Bike Races)

5. Click on OK

One of my favorite features is overlaying calendars in Outlook. To view a calendar in Overlay mode, you can either click the left-arrow icon in the calendar’s tab at the top, or right-click on the calendar in the list and choose “View in overlay mode”.
Share the calendar.

1. Click on “Send a Calendar via E-Mail…”

A new message window will open and the “Send a Calendar via E-Mail” dialogue will be shown.
2. Select the “Bike Races” calendar in the Calendar drop down and select the visibility and detail that you want to send.
3. Click OK
4. Enter recipients
5. Click send

6. You’re done!

Benjamin Gay

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Posted by: Lena | 7:39 PM |

Friday, June 15, 2007

Sharepoint IE Browser crash

We have been experiencing a weird problem with a client where they had a mixture of Office 2007 and Office 2003 installed.

Scenario is this.
Full Office 2003 install, One Note 2007 (rocking product) installed.
Open sharepoint 2003, or MOSS2007 in IE and try and open files - word, powerpoint, excel, PDF etc.
Browser crashes with Memory Exception Error

We found the solution from a mixture of websites, primarily LOST

The solution we foud to work was
Go to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12” and Delete “OWSSUPP.DLL”
Go to start>control panel>add/remove programs and find the Office 2007 product that you have installed.
Highlight the product and select the "Change" button that becomes available. From the next screen that appears, choose "Repair" and hit OK. This might take longer than you expect - be patient.
Reboot your machine

Delicious Tags MOSS2007 Sharepoint2007 Office2007

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:19 AM |

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Windows Sharepoint Services 2 and Office 2007

I have an SBS server running Windows Sharepoint Services 2 and I have Office 2007 installed across my network.
Straight away I discovered that my Office 2007 documents were not supported by WSS2.

However there is a fix for the icon and file association issues.

David Overton has the how to and the images
The only correction to his post I found was that I needed to copy the images from the gif-dark folder to the IMAGES folder.

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:33 PM |

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Sharepoint - 2003-2007 upgrade

A friend of mine attended a session on Sharepoint Services upgrade to MOSS 2007 at Tech.Ed a couple of weeks ago. The general consensus was that if your site is a "standard" site (i.e. no special Web Parts) then these will upgrade easily.

There's plenty of information on the Microsoft MSDN Site

Also, the attached doc covers the upgrade process and the three main upgrade paths in some detail.MOSSUpgrade.doc

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:53 AM |

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Link dump

Ok I want to close some of the 60 odd tabs I have open in Firefox.

Heres what most of them are - the ones I wanted to keep the link to anyway.

Australia's Digitial TV Forum good place to find reviews on hardware, electronic program guides and all other aspects of digital TV in Australia.

OzForex Foreign Exchanmge website - great for tracking rates and more. I use this seeing as I have international clients and contractors working for me.


Ross and Jan Grant - my mates Ross and Jan are currently in Kenya doing church planting training work. Awesome news and stories to read from their time over there.


HotDockets - free discount vouchers for use in Australian businesses - great way to save money - simply find what you are looking for and print them out! Everything from pizzas to dry-cleaning, movies to travel.

The biggest web page ever! Check it out - it really is BIG!

NineMSN Slideshow website - slideshows from one of our local news networks.

Real Live Preacher kicks off his career in video blogging and follows up rapidly with his second attempt!
Meanwhile his wife launches her own site selling handmade soaps

I recently upgraded my SBS server to an ASUS server with Dual 3Ghz Xeon CPUS and 4Gb RAM. In the process of the migration from the old server I came across several websites that were helpful with a number of problems.
Microsoft Exchange Server Tech Center
Calendar Connector Architecture
Exchange Server Interoperability and Migration Guide
Completing Setup for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server Premium Technologies
Updating Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 Computers
Chad - on Swinging Your Companyweb

And i'f you've made it this far, heres a link to Zodee Lingerie - where I bought lingerie for my wife this week - a great Aussie site!

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Posted by: Jethro | 12:04 AM |