a blog or 2
Technical Support from the Inside
Visual Basic 6 on Windows 8
For those interested and supporting legacy visual basic applications and need to install VB6 onto...
Date: 07/16/2013
Interesting o365 postings for April
Customers have often asked how to create custom menus in the lync client - So here is a supported...
Date: 04/15/2013
Unable to view presence in Outlook web access
In several cases that have been reported to the Microsoft Lync Online services, we are seeing...
Date: 02/26/2013
Lync Desktop sharing fails when one user is internal and one is external in your network
Had a customer recently report that they weren't able to perform desktop sharing with their clients...
Date: 12/04/2012
Conversation History not being saved in Lync...?
We're seeing a lot of reported cases where customers conversation history is not being saved. The...
Date: 12/03/2012
Lync resources - October 2012
Recently published official lync material for October: Powershell command to find the version of...
Date: 10/30/2012
Support troubleshooting tools available in Windows Server 2012...
Here is a general introduction to some of the tools available in Server 2012, worth knowing...
Date: 10/19/2012
Windows PowerShell Self-Training Resources
The list below is provided for those who wish to become familiar with Microsoft PowerShell 2.0....
Date: 05/31/2012
Lync Error: "Cannot Sign into Lync" or "The sign-in address was not found"
One possible solution which is to refresh Lync cached endpoints. When Lync 2010 connects to a...
Date: 04/02/2012
LYNC Tools, Whitepapers, Documentation and SDK’s – December 2011
Below are the latest downloadable tools and whitepapers that were collected from December. Microsoft...
Date: 01/12/2012
Collection of great support resources from Microsoft
To let you know that Microsoft offers a wealth of resources through TechNet and MSDN to help you...
Date: 12/19/2011
Process incoming mail using an outlook Addin
A customer raised an incident to Microsoft wanting to know how they can create an addin in Outlook...
Date: 12/06/2011
Exchange web services fail using impersonation to access mailboxes
A customer recently reported a problem to Microsoft where they were dicovering that their exchange...
Date: 11/29/2011
Draw the background of static control with gradient fill when theme is enabled
Recently a customer raised a service incident with Microsoft who reported an issue with their addin...
Date: 11/03/2011
Develop for Lync...
Here are some resources on Microsoft Lync, the objective of this post is to help: •Ramp up on...
Date: 11/02/2011
July 11-Interesting KB Articles
How to Verify Windows Debug Symbols - https://support.microsoft.com/kb/148660 Known issues in Outlook...
Date: 07/14/2011
Great Lync resources and interesting downloads...
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit Brief Description The Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit is the...
Date: 05/12/2011
Useful troubleshooting KB's
To help any support professional.... Troubleshooting: Windows feature lets you generate a...
Date: 05/11/2011
Setting rights permissions on folders
Customer Scenario:Customer called and required the ability to set rights permissions on folders and...
Date: 04/18/2011
Bulk outlook contact edit
A common scenario: I had a request from customer who’s company has just changed names, and...
Date: 04/13/2011
Outlook logging...
We're always seeing customers call in developer support on problems related to their addins often...
Date: 04/13/2011
The mailbox that was requested doesn't support the specified RequestServerVersion
There’s not much information on this error around so I figured I’d blog about it in the...
Date: 04/11/2011
Exchange Performance Counters with System Center Operations Manager
A customer reported some issues with obtaining performance counters from Exchange. in particular...
Date: 09/08/2010
Exchange 2010 SP1 released...
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)Brief DescriptionMicrosoft Exchange Server 2010...
Date: 08/26/2010
Aug.2010 - self help Microsoft support articles
Here are some latest and great articles and self help resources that’s recently been added to...
Date: 08/16/2010
Customising context menus in Outlook
I had a customer call Microsoft asking how it would be possible to disable the COMMUNICATOR call...
Date: 08/06/2010
Error msg: “No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 2.”
A customer reported the “No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version...
Date: 07/30/2010
mapi not installed - using SAP layout designer on Windows 7
Had a customer having problems with running using a product called SAP Business One and Advanced...
Date: 07/29/2010
Session Exhaustion: Error "The maximum number of sessions for the current user has been reached."
Had a customer who reported “The maximum number of sessions for the current user has been...
Date: 07/29/2010
Obtain SMTP Address using CDO in an un-managed environment
You can use the AddressEntry.Fields(PR_SMTP_ADDRESS) method where PR_SMTP_ADDRESS is 0x39FE001E....
Date: 07/29/2010
Obtain SMTP Address using CDO/Outlook in managed environments
If you were targeting office 2003 clients, you can download the Office 2003 primary interop...
Date: 07/27/2010
Failed exchange event sink - methods to troubleshoot
I had a customer that reported failures with an event sink working on one machine but failing on...
Date: 07/15/2009
Spotlight On: Microsoft .NET Framework
Please find below some of the important links which have been collated on Microsoft Core .NET...
Date: 06/25/2009
Useful Sharepoint Links
Useful Links · MOSS Video Demos (Total 14 Modules) · Before You Begin with SharePoint Server 2007 ·...
Date: 06/16/2009
Exchange 2007 online resources
Exchange 2007 introduces many new concepts and capabilities, so Microsoft offers many free online...
Date: 06/02/2009
Information and Resources on VSTO 3.0 and outlook development
I had a customer who required information and advice on creating an addin for their environment....
Date: 03/18/2009
invalid chars after migrating from exchange 2003 to exchange 2007
Problems with migrating users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007? Well quite likely you might see...
Date: 01/15/2009
oh outlook, oh outlook , wherefore art thou development
Developing for Outlook can sometimes be overwhelming and simply customers could often get lost in...
Date: 01/13/2009
tracing and troubleshooting your applications
So you're poised with a problem that you just don't know where to turn for help? Here are a few ways...
Date: 01/06/2009
'sending failed' when using code to send mail
A customer contacted messaging dev and told us about their problems in their asp.net applications....
Date: 12/30/2008
The Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 SDK is out!
You can get it from here -...
Date: 06/28/2006
Whats new for Developers in Office 2007
Check it out here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/office/program/outlook/2007/default.aspx
Date: 06/02/2006
Exchange API - a brief history of what's around and what won't be....
So in all my years at Microsoft, as email has become more and more important in peoples live, the...
Date: 05/16/2006
"Kicking off Powershell (PS)" for techs
So things are getting pretty hot around here and lots of devs and admins are needing more control...
Date: 05/10/2006
Sniff, Sniff here and a fiddle there
I came across another cool tool the other day, we all love Regmon, Filemon as well as Netmon in...
Date: 12/06/2005
Needles in a Haystack
In my day to day job as a support engineer. One of the frustrating elements is dllhell scenarios and...
Date: 11/29/2005
Xbox 360: Controllers R us
Boy getting an XBOX 360 is a going to be a difficult task. I'm really looking forward to finding one...
Date: 11/28/2005
Search Engines Trials and Tribulations
A colleque asked me a question today. "How can I get my site listed high up on the pages of MSN...
Date: 11/28/2005
oooer, I have a Blog
Hello all, My name is Paresh Joshi but everyone calls me Josh. My mum uses Paresh when I'm about to...
Date: 11/28/2005