The title of this theme says it all. This is a smooth Vista theme. I like the clean transparent taskbar, menus and windows. The black really adds to the overall sleek look of the theme. All those features really go great with the green background. This package will make your desktop stand out.
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From time to time you will find that there are employees that receive time sensitive emails. This means if they are gone for a few days, and no one is around to answer...customers start to get testy.

I know the easy answer to this problem is to setup a distribution group. Have this group send to everyone in that department. This is not a convenient, or good answer in all cases. It may be only temporary, and you don't want a whole group of people seeing confidential email.

The other way (And this is what I am going to show you today) is to temporarily forward all inbound mail to another user.

To do this you will need to be on the Exchange server. Open the user's properties under Active Directory Users and Computers.

Click on the "Exchange General" tab.


Now that you are on that page, click on delivery options



Now, the options are shown. You can change the email to forward (1), and select the user you want to receive the email from active directory.

Second, you can also allow the user receive the email in addition to the user receiving the forwarded email. This can be accomplished by checking the "Deliver messages to both..." (2).



Click OK, and email is immediately forwarding to the new user.

Thats all there is to it.

When the user returns, you can simply switch it back to "None", and the email is no longer forwarded.

When you export items with exmerge to an pst file and you try to limit the mail items by setting the date, items from dumpster will always be exported.
Thats my rant of today.

Hello IT Pros!

February 27 is a big day.  Windows Server 2008 will be officially launching in Los Angeles with Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, kicking off in just a few hours. 

In support of this very important technology milestone as well as the Windows Vista SP1 release, the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team has just released the third-generation of the agent-less infrastructure assessment platform called Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 3.0 (or simply MAP).  Through the use of remote WMI calls and secure inventory engines, the MAP tool enables you to quickly inventory a wide variety of networks (AD-managed, IP ranges, and workgroups), securely assess IT environments of servers, desktops, applications and devices, and auto-generate specific and actionable reports and proposal documents in a matter of hours.

 

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Thank you,

Baldwin Ng (Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft Assessment and Planning)

Firstly, let me thank everyone who submitted an article for inclusion on this carnival. I received forty-eight submissions and I am sorry that I could not include them all.

Getting us started this month, Ashutosh Mishra presents an article containing fourteen tips for making Windows run faster in Speed Up Your Computer at PC TON!C. In a similar vein Jose DeJesus MD gives advice for Tuning up Windows on his Physician Entrepreneur blog. Jose also identifies a common problem and a software solution for it in his article, Renaming All those Files Your Camera Makes.

While we are on the subject of software, “Here’s a very useful free pdf download for you” says Andrew Edgington of Learn Photoshop Now with reference to Getting Started With Photoshop - Volume 1 and Volume 2. Nesher at Freeware Reviews wrote two excellent freeware round-up articles: the first a list of 18 Free Password Managers, the second 17 Free Utilities for PDF Files Reading. For the network analysts out there, Nim at dixlinx presents a review article of Wireshark - network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) , which includes a useful video tutorial of the software in action. In the last software based article for this carnival, Steven Stoddard of Steve’s Tech Guide tells you how to Secure Your Computer and Network With Free Software.

Steve’s guide may be of use for those who answer ‘yes’ to jsanderz‘ question, Could Your Computer be Infected With a Virus? that was posed at Information Addicts. Similarly Aa’ed Alqarta offers the first part of an article advising on how to Analyze Malware-infections on your own – Part I at Extreme Security — Do It Securely or Not at all!. The Emperor at The Tech Empire presents a way of getting past a problem that can result from a viral infection in his article Can’t get to the Control Panel, Task Manager, or Registry Editor?.

Even without viral infections and malware wreaking havoc we can cause problems on our own computers. Accidentally deleting files is one such mistake, thankfully andyar85 at PC issues - DIY offers help in his article Retrieve deleted information from hard-drives. In his article HDD cloning/image backup, Andy also offers advice on (in his own words) “the best way to reinstall/install an operating system is to use the old one you are still running. Try these methods, you won’t regret it.” Prash also looks at operating systems in an article on his blog in an article in which he pits ubuntu vs windows.

Two ‘look and feel’ tips to round off this edition of the carnival, Shaswata Mukherjee shows us what to do if we Want to change windows to your name at Cool Computers Tricks and Tips, and James Lewitzke presents 5 Ways to Enhance Your Web Browsing Experience at Lightning Shock. James tells us “these tips are what I use to have a great online experience.”

On that note, I hope this issue of the Carnival of Computer Help and Advice was also a great online experience. More next month.

p.s. If you would like to host the next carnival leave a comment on this post or use the contact form over at our Blog Carnival page. Cheers, K.

Vista SP1 is officially only available for enterprise customers, but the reports about problems caused by this service pack are piling up. This post contains a list of all SP1 issues I am aware of.

I have discussed some of them before, but I thought it might be a good idea to create a list of all known Vista SP1 issues to keep track of them. I will update this post whenever I encounter new ones.

Device driver problems

This issue was the reason why Microsoft postponed the general release of SP1 to mid-march. It seems not to be a big problem for tech savvy Vista users. This article (KB 948187) has more.

Programs that have problems with Vista SP1

I mentioned before that Vista SP1 doesn’t solve compatibility problems, but it causes new ones. This article (KB935796) lists all known programs that don’t work properly with Vista SP1. I suggest you check them out before you install this service pack. Please, let us know if you experienced troubles with other apps that are not in this list.

The endless reboot issue

This problem of Vista SP1 is causing a lot of stir. A pre-requisite update (KB937287) triggers endless reboots on some machines. Microsoft suspended the automatic distribution of this update. I installed this update before, but I didn’t experience this problem. I just checked Windows Update and it was available again. Before that, I was able to install Vista SP1 without this patch anyway. So it seems like this issue is not as bad as it seemed at first. KB949358 has details on how to solve this problem if you are affected.

The sleep mode problem

Milo reports that some systems with SP1 crash when attempting to wake up their PC from sleep mode. I have experienced the same problem on some Vista machine without SP1. A BIOS update might be of help in such cases. However, I don’t know if the problem described by Milo is a new one. He thinks that it might be related to the reboot issue. However, I think it must be something different because the reboot problem isn’t about sleep mode.

The Windows Mobile Device Center issue

There are reports that Vista x64 SP1 has been released accidentally to Windows Update. ITWire received emails from users who experienced problems after installing SP1. One is that the memory and performance rating is not displayed anymore, and the other one is about the Windows Mobile Device Center. Based on the screenshot they published, the latter one looks familiar to me. I got the same meaningless error message sometimes when I connected my Windows Mobile 6 device to different desktops running the Windows Mobile Device Center. The only solution I found was to reset Windows Mobile. I don’t know if this is really the same problem, but it could be that SP1 causes an authentication problem which probably was the reason for the error message in my case.

GPMC (Group Policy Management Console) will be uninstalled

If you manage Group Polices for Vista machines in your PC, then I wouldn’t install SP1 because GPMC will be removed after the installation. Microsoft plans to release a new version, but as far as I know, this is not yet the case.

The sound problem

The German Windows Vista blog and Aaron discovered a problem with the sound system. It seems that this is related to the driver problem discussed above. However, Microsoft dedicated a particular article (KB948481) to it.

Even though some media are making a big deal out of this SP1 issues, I don’t think that they are really serious so far. Of course, those who are affected might have a different view about it. But do you remember about the troubles that service pack 2 for Windows XP caused? Well, XP is everybody’s darling now.

Source : 4sysops

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