technomummy | May 4, 2010
OK, configured a user to have Send As permissions as per all the doco. Despite claims that if the user has both Send As and Send on Behalf Of that Send As should take precedence, my emails were still arriving Sent on Behalf Of. If I removed Send on Behalf Of, I got the error that [...]
technomummy | February 24, 2010
A few funny Outlook problems lately – both very frustrating, but easy to fix. Problem 1 – Outlook won’t start A user couldn’t start Outlook, he wasn’t clear about the error he was getting. Tried creating a new mail profile and that did fix it, but he had settings he wanted to keep in the [...]
technomummy | September 17, 2009
This error occurred when upgrading a virtual machine image that was about six months old, so I don’t know exactly which one of the many updates I applied to it caused the error. The error occurred when I tried to go to Central Administration, telling me that my web.config file had an error on line [...]
technomummy | August 14, 2009
OK, so first of all this was the extremely frustrating “an unexpected error has occurred”…. So, first to get a more useful error: This error was coming up in Sharepoint’s Central Administration page, so first locate the config file for this site: Right-click My computer, select Manage. Then go to Services and Applications, and select Internet Information [...]
admin | August 5, 2009
This has happened now with the last two iPhone updates – running the update from iTunes re-locks the phone! After an update, the symptoms are: The iPhone goes into Emergency mode – it shows the USB cable graphic on the home screen, and will only allow emergency calls. In iTunes, the iP{hone is recognised, but [...]
technomummy | June 20, 2009
Noticed this evening that for some reason my audio suddenly went kaput – volume icon in the system tray was showing with a red X though it, saying “no audio device detected”. A quick look around in Device Manager showed the audio driver not listed, and Scan for new hardware detected nothing. Tried many options [...]
technomummy | June 18, 2009
When running Office 2007 through a remote desktop connection to a terminal server, I found that the Enable Live Preview option was greyed out and unavailable (e.g. in Excel 2007: Office button, Excel Options). The tooltip shows Previews have been automatically disabled based on Terminal Server settings, connection speed or animation settings on this machine. Extensive [...]
technomummy | June 13, 2009
Using Excel to work on large spreadsheets can get confusing, when you scroll down to the bottom of the page – and lose your headings as they scroll off the top! Here’s the solution – it’s called “freeze panes”. In Excel 2007: Go to the View tab on the ribbon. Click on the Freeze Panes [...]
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