When I buy tech books, I receive CD with the book with extra materials and whole book as EBook format. It turn out to be I like to read e-books in my Laptop than the real book. Now why would everyone gives E-Book in PDF format? I hate reading books using Adobe Reader. It's just … Continue reading Is Adobe PDF format is really good for Ebooks? Certainly NOT. →

Recently users were complained they can't see a free/busy availability of an Executive. When I looked the Executive user's availability in my Outlook (in Meeting Request window), it shows hashed row of no information. I resolved it 3 troubleshooting steps. 1. I quickly contacted the Executive and told him to run "Outlook /CleanFreeBusy". It seems … Continue reading Update: Outlook is not publishing Free/Busy (hashed free/busy info in Outlook) →

How many times did you helped users to cleanup their mailbox? The usual way of cleaning up the mailbox is to archive the old mail, cleaning up the Sent Items, moving mails to PST folders, etc., Do you know there is Mailbox Cleanup utility comes with Outlook 2007? If you don't know check it out. … Continue reading Mailbox Cleanup from Outlook 2007 →

When a new mail arrives, Outlook shows cool Desktop Alert window with the subject text and little drop down menu with few mail options. You quickly see the sender and subject text, and you can also delete or flag the mail for future review.The alert window look like this. Now the issue is some times … Continue reading How do I move “Outlook Mail Desktop Alert Window” to my own location? →

You are trying to send a mail with huge attachment and mails seems to be stuck in Outbox with the message "Outlook is transmitting the message". You try to delete the mail and you can't. There is a simple way to to clear your Outbox. 1. Make your Outlook offline (click File --> Work Offline) … Continue reading Mail stuck in “Outbox” in Outlook (“Outlook is transmitting the message”) →

When mails are stuck in Exchange Queue, you should check it's not causing by your Anti-virus tool. The latest generation Anti-Virus tools hook themselves at SMTP service, so they can scan every mails passing through at SMTP level at Exchange. When mails are processed by the Exchange SMTP service, it places in SMTP Table first … Continue reading Disabling Exchange Anti-Virus SMTP hook (CDO Event Registration) →

When Exchange is misbehaving, we usually check the Application/System Logs in Event Viewer. You better enable highest level of Exchange diagnostic logging to get more details of your problem. Follow the steps below to increase or decrease the diagnostic logging and analyzing the Event logs. 1. Increase Application Event Log size to 75 MB on … Continue reading Increase Exchange Diagnostic Logging (by Registry setting) →

Suddenly Images don't show up in your Outlook. If you forward your mail to others, they are able to see the images in emails. Attachments and images will show up in Outlook Web Access. Or you get the following error message when you try to open a attachment in the mail. "Can’t create file: someattachment.doc.  … Continue reading “Can’t create file:”, Images, screen shots are not able to view in Outlook →

There are 3 steps to mount the Windows share in VMWare ESX server. 1. On a freshly installed ESX 3.x servers, SMB (Server Message Block) client is blocked by the firewall. smbClient is used to connect to Windows Shares in ESX (Linux) servers. To open the firewall for smbClient, type the following on the ESX … Continue reading How to use a Windows Share in VMWare ESX server? →

The other day I am trying to go to http://support.microsoft.com (Great Job Microsoft! great improvement and nice pleasing design) from my office network, I get the following page. It looks like networking problem. Well, it turn out to be it's not networking issue. When I try from my Home machine, web page appears with no … Continue reading Blank Page or Error appears in Internet Explorer instead of the web page →