Aug26
Since Google now offers the ability to have IM/Presence/Voice/Video within a web browser, I thought I would compare the bandwidth usage of a video call against Microsoft Office Communicator. Test 1 – Google Video Chat I immediately noticed the contrast was off and yet there is no way to correct it using Google’s settings menu. I could hardly see the person I was chatting with! Strike 1. ...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 26 Aug 2010 03:13.
Aug26
One of the most anticipated features in SharePoint 2010 is co-authoring. This is the ability for multiple users to simultaneously edit a document without the burden of having to check out a copy. This can speed up workflow cycle times because users no longer have to wait for someone else to check in their copy before they make changes. Instead, users can collaborate together on a document and fin...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 26 Aug 2010 01:46.
Aug24
Have you ever printed a document to a printer at work, when you’re actually at home and happened to be connected on the VPN? You hope that you make it to work early the next day to get your tax return from the printer before someone else picks it up. Or perhaps you’re not connected to the VPN and the job just queues up, only to be printed to that network printer the next time you’re in the o...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 02:42.
Aug19
It has been a busy August for us in the IT Department at Catapult. We have been heads down with a breakthrough network technology from Microsoft called DirectAccess. This blog post describes what we encountered and some considerations for enterprise deployments. What is DirectAccess? The vision of DirectAccess is to keep clients continuously connected to the intranet. DirectAccess is a feature ...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 19 Aug 2010 02:55.
Aug17
So today I had my IT Director send me a mock yet secure email using Microsoft's Rights Management security. There is a lot of companies out there that send a great deal of email back and forth believing what they send can not be copied printed or forwarded. Well I hate to say it but it took me about 5 seconds to to copy a secure email… the first third party screen capture tool ...
Posted by Matt Helfer on
Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010 02:42.
Aug16
So i came across a 0x7a print error today and here's the fix...
-Reboot into Safe-Mode (usually done by pressing the F8 key during boot-up) error 0x0000007a
-Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers and drive into any folders in there and rename any folders named 3 to anything else. I had it in two different folders.
-Remove printer drivers for affected device
-Reboot W...
Posted by Matt Helfer on
Monday, 16 Aug 2010 05:03.
Aug3
Office Communications Server supports federation between the Microsoft Office Communicator Client and 3rd party public Instant Messaging networks. The two easiest ones to get working right out of the box are MSN and AOL because they do not require any additional licenses. Google Talk is free too, but it requires an XMPP gateway. The gateway is free but can be tricky to get working. Federation wit...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Tuesday, 3 Aug 2010 03:33.
Jul20
Historically, there have been two ways to have photos appear in Outlook: each end user can manually add them on the client side or a server administrator can upload them on the server side. There is now a third method that compliments the other two. Outlook 2010 has a feature called the Outlook Social Connector (OSC) that can show photos in Outlook from LinkedIN, Facebook, etc.. This appears at t...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010 11:38.
Jul19
Recently, I had to go back and edit a post I made back in December titled “10 things I love about Outlook 2010” to include Text Messaging integration for Outlook 2010 (aka SMS Sync). The ability to send and receive text messages from Outlook has long been available through 3rd party providers. There are two drawbacks to using 3rd party SMS gateways: cost and lack of synchronization. For examp...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Monday, 19 Jul 2010 11:21.
Jun6
Microsoft will soon be integrating features of Windows Live Mesh into Windows Live Sync and Windows Live SkyDrive. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these terms, all of them relate to Microsoft’s free, consumer-based, cloud-driven applications for PC synchronization and online storage. These applications constitute part of Live Services, which are one of the building blocks of Microsoft’...
Posted by Greg Tate on
Sunday, 6 Jun 2010 01:00.