OneNote is easily my most favorite productivity application ever - and most definitely the one application I can't live without! I've been using it since Office 2007, and I continue to love it all the way through to 2013 - even when I was using a Mac exclusively for a while, I couldn't find anything … Continue reading OneNote: Better than ever, and now even more free
The new Microsoft Azure portal was announced today at Build 2014, and I immediately headed over to check it out at https://portal.azure.com. I love it! The home page is clean and nicely laid out, very similar to the Windows Start page with live tiles that dynamically update, and give you different options when you click … Continue reading New Microsoft Azure portal
Microsoft announced a few days ago that my beloved OneNote has finally, finally been released on the Mac platform! On top of that, it’s now freely available to everyone, regardless of whether or not they have Office installed on their computer! To me, this news is the equivalent of seeing a double rainbow – OneNote has always … Continue reading OneNote Double Rainbow
Great discussion with Mark Russinovich about how Windows Azure heals itself when it's sick - this is the magic of Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): it all happens behind the scenes, and you usually don't even know that it's happened! (click on the image to be redirected to the WindowsAzure.com for the video)
Keeping sent items in the correct mailbox is a common problem for Exchange users who have delegated access to a shared mailbox, or even Send As permissions on another user's mailbox. Thankfully, there is a solution to this problem, and it works the same whether your Exchange is on premise, or in Office 365. The … Continue reading Delegated Access & Sent items
Something I run into all the time is trying to figure out who is holding a specific email address or alias - it can get pretty easy to lose track of aliases, as they don't show up in your list of users either in the admin center, or in the Exchange Control Panel. I found … Continue reading Use PowerShell to find email aliases
Found this excellent post by Benoit Hamet - Microsoft has provided a complete Test Drive environment allowing you to set up a Lync 2013 Lab for testing and evaluation purposes: This download comes as a pre-configured set of VHD's. This download enables you to fully evaluate the Microsoft Lync 2013, Microsoft Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, … Continue reading Lync 2013 Test Drive
Now, I know that Google isn't reading my blog posts… but low and behold, several days after blogging about why I've left Google for Microsoft's tender embrace, Google pushed out an update to Chrome (still my favorite browser, mind you) that streamlines the interface - somewhat. Ok, got it… One big clean homepage - recent … Continue reading Google slims down, Chrome gets toned
File this under a new feature I didn't know existed… you can now edit PDFs in Word 2013! The converted document might not look exactly the same (formatting might be off by a little bit, or a lot) depending on how much image elements are in the document, and it obviously works a great deal … Continue reading Edit PDF content in Word
I was editing a template today and trying to get some Quick Parts in Word 2013 to automatically update and populate data from the document properties - this ensures that certain fields would automatically be filled in when creating a new document based on this template, which works really well for fields that need to … Continue reading The one where I break Word
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