Outlook 2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup

Outlook 2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup

Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.

With Personal Folders Backup, you can choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back them up.

Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. You can have a single .PST file (usually called "Internet Folders" or "Personal Folders" in your Folder List), but you might also have an additional .PST file that you use for archiving ("Archiving Folders"). Personal Folders Backup lets you back up any or all of these .PST files.

Note: Personal Folders Backup only backs up .PST files. If you have a Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox, your server mailbox folders are likely backed up regularly by your server administrator.

See source link to download this useful add-in tool.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en

Office 2007 Customization Tool

Office 2007 Customization Tool


To perform an administrative installation use the "setup.exe /admin" switch, which opens the Office Customization tool. If you receive an error that components are missing, check that you have the admin folder at the root of your media. Some versions don't have this folder so administrative setup isn't possible.


You use the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to customize an installation of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The OCT is part of the Setup program and is the recommended tool for most customizations. You run the OCT by typing setup.exe /admin on the command line.


When you run the OCT, you choose to create a new Setup customization (MSP) file or to open an existing MSP file. If you are creating a new file, the OCT displays a list of the products available on the network installation point. You must select a single product that you want to customize.


Using the OCT, you customize Office and save your customizations in a Setup customization MSP file. You place the file in the Updates folder on the network installation point. When you install Office, Setup looks for a Setup customization file in the Updates folder and applies the customizations. The Updates folder can only be used for deploying software patches during an initial installation of 2007 Office system.


As an alternative to placing the customization MSP file in the Updates folder, you can use the Setup command-line option /adminfile to specify the fully-qualified path to the location of the MSP file. For example, type: setup.exe /adminfile \\server\share\mychanges\custom.msp.


Select Save on the File menu to save the Setup customization file before you exit the OCT.


The OCT includes four sections: Setup, Features, Additional Content, and Outlook. Each section contains several pages of options. When you change an option on a page, the page name in the left pane changes to bold. If you open an existing Setup customization file, the bold page names indicate where options are customized.


Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx

Stop Windows from autodisconnecting network shares

Stop Windows from autodisconnecting network shares

By default Windows autodisconnects network shares after 15 minutes.

1. Start Registry Editor
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\autodisconnect
3. On the Edit menu, click Modify, and then click Hexadecimal.
4. In the Value Data box, (default value of "f"), enter seven more "f"s, for a total of eight "f"s. "ffffffff"
5. Quit Registry Editor.
6. Reboot system.

How to change the port for Remote Desktop Connections

How to change the port for Remote Desktop Connections


1. Start Registry Editor.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber
3. On the Edit menu, click Modify, and then click Decimal.
4. Type the new port number, and then click OK.
5. Quit Registry Editor. You're all done!



Notes: After changing the registry key. Open your RDP application and type in the address and remember to add ":portnumber". Example: mywebsite:3389

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306759

Offline Defragmenting an Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 database

Offline Defragmenting an Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 database in 4 easy steps

1. Open Exchange System Manager, right-click the information store that you want to defragment, and then click Dismount Store.

2. Backup the database files in case the defragment fails. Make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive to allow the defrag process to run and create a temp database during the defragmentation process.
Note: look at the /t option to relocate the temp database to a specified location.

3. Open the command prompt, change to the Exchsrvr\Bin folder, and then type the eseutil /d command, a database switch (path to the database file priv1.edb), and any options that you want to use.

4. Open Exchange System Manager, right-click the information store that you just defragmented, and then click Remount Store.


Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192185

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