Archive for the Microsoft Office Category

Configuring Outlook 2010 to Sync with Your Microsoft Exchange Mailbox

Creating an Exchange Account Using RPC over HTTPs
       Click Start->Control Panel in your Windows start menu.

If you are using Category View (it says “Pick a Category…” on a blue background) then click User Accounts and then Mail.
If you are using Classic View (a bunch of icons appear on a white background) then double-click Mail.

       Click [...]

Hosted SharePoint Remote File Sharing and Collaboration Nirvana

 

For years we have had customers of ours asking about remote file sharing services.Remote file sharing is a hot item – as it should be! 
 

Many companies have their staff geographically dispersed making the traditional file server solution a cumbersome solution for remote workers. Who wants to deal with and support VPN connections from your main office to [...]

Find it Fast In Outlook with Windows Desktop Search

I can remember the days of searching for emails in Outlook when the story went something like this:

Enter what you are searching for into Outlook Search
Go get a cup of coffee while Outlook piles through your 1,000’s of emails
Come back and wait some more for it to finish
Get control of your blood pressure because you [...]

Before You Delete that Exchange Mailbox – Back it Up!

With the new year upon us many of us are cleaning house for the new year and getting the business loose ends tied up to launch ahead into 2009 with a vengeance!
With this in mind many companies experience adds moves and changes of employees. If you are the person in charge of managing your companies [...]

Speeding up Outlook with Exchange Cache Mode

Microsoft has done an incredible job over the past 4 years increasing performance of Outlook on an Exchange server. In older versions of Outlook and Exchange every time you changed folders or opened an item in Outlook it would have to request that item or list of items from the server directly. This made Outlook very [...]

Why Do I Get These Undeliverable Messages?

We must get 5 customers a day asking us about all these undeliverable messages they are getting that aren’t messages they even sent to people. It looks like someone has used your email account to spam someone else and you are getting the undeliverables from it.. scarey! Well it seems scarey but let me shed [...]

Recovering Email that has been Deleted from “Deleted Items” Folder

Many people believe that once they delete an email from their “Deleted Items” folder in Outlook or empty their “Deleted Items” folder that those emails are gone forever. Well if you used Outlook on a POP account that statement would be true. Since most of us used Outlook on POP accounts for so long many of [...]

View Multiple Time Zones in Outlook Calendar

Do you have a need to view multiple times zones at once in your Outlook Calendar?
Here is a little tip on how to make Outlook show you the times on your calendar for two time zones in the same view – it’s quite handy and reduces confusion especially if one time zone uses daylight savings and [...]

Moving Offices with Hosted Exchange

I recently had a few of our hosted exchange customers call up asking about what they needed to do when they moved offices. This is a valid and legitimate question. The thought of an office move makes people’s heads spin.. new Internet connections, moving companies, phone lines and build-outs equal headaches, time and money that [...]

Exchange Verses POP Email

First and foremost I think it is important for people to understand what POP email really is. These are the email accounts you get for free with your internet provider or included in your website hosting plan. POP email accounts only handle your email and are not a graceful solution for business people or mobile [...]