September 2006 - Posts

RSS & AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 – part 2
27 September 06 10:19 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   

A few days ago I posted on how to use AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 to help manage the size impact of your RSS Feeds on your Exchange mailbox. One of the downsides to using AutoArchive is that there is no easy way to apply a defined set of parameters to Read More...

Filed under: RSS Aggregation

RSS & AutoArchive in Outlook 2007
22 September 06 08:53 AM | michaelaffronti | 9 Comments   

The volume of content on some RSS Feeds can be very high. When you add more RSS Feeds to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you might discover that the size of your Microsoft Exchange mailbox (mailbox: Location on a Microsoft Exchange server where your e-mail Read More...

Filed under: RSS Aggregation

new blog from the Vista Shell team
20 September 06 12:27 PM | michaelaffronti | 7 Comments   

The Windows Shell Team has a new blog entitled " Shell Revealed ". From the site… Welcome to shell:revealed, the home of the Windows Client team. We're the folks that build the core user interface for Windows and we love every minute of it! shell:revealed Read More...

Filed under: General, Technology News

Beta 2 TR requires a new version of WDS
19 September 06 04:07 PM | michaelaffronti | 8 Comments   

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 is a native component of Vista, and is being shipped separately as a system component for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users. WDS is a system service that indexes file, email and other content in order to provide Read More...

RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR
18 September 06 10:01 AM | michaelaffronti | 8 Comments   

With the Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh now live on the web , I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about the best way to get your RSS feeds up and running after you upgrade. The B2TR installation is actually a patch that installs on top of the original Read More...

Filed under: RSS Aggregation, General

new Office Word team blog!
17 September 06 10:57 PM | michaelaffronti | 5 Comments   

Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/default.aspx . It's being written by Jonathan Bailor, a Program Manager on the Office Word team focusing on compatability of the new Word document format with previous releases. Jonathan will Read More...

IWCenter podast
17 September 06 10:37 PM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   

About two weeks I did a great interview with Shawn Murrary for his podcast on the IWCenter . Shawn's site is a fantastic source of information on Office 2007 and how many of the new features across all of the products will change the way information worker Read More...

Filed under: General, Technology News

Paul Thurrott review of Office B2TR
14 September 06 01:40 PM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   

Another great review by Paul Thurrott over on the Windows SuperSite: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/office2007_beta2_tr.asp . He's got some great information on Outlook and talks specifically about the new Instant Search functionality. Read More...

Filed under: RSS Aggregation, Search, General