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Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) and the “The file is not available.” error.
After I applied the Technical Refresh updates to my Office 2007 Beta 2 installs, I started getting this error whenever I tried to open a file with an Office 2007 application (either by double-clicking within the Windows Explorer file list, or by opening the file from within the application): The file Testing.docx is not available.…
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Office 2007 Beta 2 Reinstall Troubles
Somehow, while uninstalling and reinstalling various bits of Office 2003 and Office 2007 (license/product key management – I am now entirely converted over to my workplace’s Office 2003 Enterprise licenses – this enables me to run my workplace’s Infopath), I have managed to screw up my ability to install Office 2007 Beta 2 and Office…
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What is wrong with you Microsoft Only people? – Checksum utilities for verifying large files
So today I am downloading the 2007 Office Beta 2 installs (and whoever heard of paying $1.50 for 5 download tries? I sort of understand, but if it were really just covering bandwidth fees, I should think it would be a lot lower). I note that the download listings/product key e-mails do not come with…
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Server Accounts, Changing them, Permissions Issues – Followup
In my previous post (opens in new window), I said I’d let you know how it went. Turns out for various reasons we didn’t get around to testing my assertions until this morning. It went fine. I was right about what was broken and what needed fixing. The implementation of the fix and the continued…
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Robocopy
Copying large files or large collections of files across a balky network or VPN connection? Robocopy is your friend.
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Product Testimony – Acronis TrueImage 9.x
I don’t do Product plugs/testimonies for kickback, but only because/when products seem to truly deserve accolades. Anyway, the version of Acronis TrueImage that I own is the Home version, but based on that, I’d definitely consider it for enterprise use too. TrueImage is a disk imaging tool, and item-by-item recovery tool as well. You can…
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Database Migration breaks WSS/SQL Server Full Text Search
So here’s a little-known issue with SharePoint and Full Text Search: On Joel Oleson’s blog (if you don’t know who this guy is and you’re in SharePoint Operations, find out quickly. Aside from Bill English [the man, his blog], he’s the other Man in SharePoint Managment/Operations – both of these guys regularly present at TechEd…
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Old Security Articles
It’s on my professional site (where my resume would be if I were looking hard for another job), but I wrote a bunch of articles (Security notes, Best Practices, etc.) for Adobe, back before it was Adobe, and before even it was Macromedia, but when it was Allaire, and I was Product Security Manager/Security Response…
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Making Office document open in Office App instead of in an Office ActiveX Control in IE
I just wrote up this little Frequently Asked Question at work: Assumptions: You have Microsoft Office 2003 installed. You are working with Windows XP Professional as your Operating System. This is a setting that needs to be made/verified in your Windows settings. To set the documents to open in their appropriate application: Open My Computer…