Outlook 2003 and 2007 sharing E-Mail contacts

Outlook 2003 and 2007 sharing E-Mail contacts - requires an Exchange Server account -
Cannot be done if you have a POP or IMAP account.


To provide access to sub-folders of your contacts the person sharing the contacts
must grant "folder visible" permission to the root of the mailbox.
That would be where your name is by default.
Example "Mailbox - Your Name" - which would be your actual first name & last name.

Right Click on "Mailbox - Your Name", and choose "Properties".
Click on the permissions tab (or you can right click on the root "name" folder and
left click on "change sharing permissions" to go directly to the sharing permissions tab.

This is where you will need to click to make the folder visible, otherwise the
person or people you are sharing with will never see the shared contacts sub-folders but will be able to see your main contacts list - with the name of "contacts" and only that one.

You would then need permissions of at least Reviewer -- on the shared contact sub-folders, if you need the ones you are sharing with to edit the contacts you would need to choose publishing editor - on the permissions tab dialog box -
that will enable them to add contacts and remove contacts that you have created, or you can give them permissions of "editor" where you can add and remove all contacts and add / remove sub-folders as well.

The last step the users that the contacts are shared with must take
to be able to see your contacts in Outlook is - With Outlook open -
Click on Tools > E-mail Accounts > select the Advanced tab, add the mailbox name for the person sharing their account.

Viewing the shared contacts:

Now youi as the shared contacts 'viewer or editor' can now go to your contacts, click on
"Open Shared Contacts" below the folder list, enter the name of the person sharing their contacts and you should see their contact folders as well as your own contacts.

Cannot burn a CD or DVD in Windows XP.

Cannot burn a CD in Windows XP.
When you try to copy files to the CD drive on your computer (and you know the CD (or DVD is blank) you may receive:
D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.


Go to the Drive letter in Windows Explorer (or My Computer) "right click" on your CD (or CD/DVD drive)
Click on Properties > Click on Recording; Click (ad check mark) by
"Enable CD recording on this drive".

If it was already checked You can try right clicking on the drive listed in Device Manager and clicking "Update Driver" Let Windows check the Internet.

If that does not work and you have Norton Anti Virus or Symantec Anti Virus - try the following:

Go to Symantec.com and search for "drive is not accessible. Incorrect function.

Check out the link below:
Microsoft's support site - may be helpful - warning - does involve editing the registry - use caution - at your own risk.

If none of those work - Go to your favorite Search Engine -
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
etc.
Search for the drive not accessible burning CD (or DVD), enter the error if you receive any.

You may be able to remove (un-install) your CD device driver in Device Manager, then add it back. Do that at your own risk. Windows will find the device and re-add it.

Another CD issue that may arise but not related to burning:
If you are unable to play music on your computer especially from CD-RW's - you may receice error 39 - to possibly solve this follow the directions below:

Go to My computer > right click on your CD-ROM drive, click properties.

Click on the check by "Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM Device" if it is enabled, to uncheck it (so it is diabled).
Re-boot your computer - and you should be able to re-enable it and have it continue to play music.

Set up USB Headphones in Windows Vista

With your USB Headphones plugged into an available USB port.
Right click the speaker icon in the system tray - by default located on the bottom right of your display.
Choose Playback Devices. Right click the headset and then click the Set as Default button.

If you play games on your computer, the game or other program that uses sounds may reset your default sound device back to your speakers - so you may have to periodically go back in and re-set up the default sound device.

Headphones that plug into your sound card via the round connections are sometimes more user friendly, (depending on your situation) but if you are using the headphones for a phone, you will have to use your microphone input and your speaker output.

If your computer is on the floor and you don't want to crawl in the back, AND you have
USB connectors in the front of your computer, then in that case, the USB headphones may be more user friendly for you in the physical realm, but you will
have to deal with enabling and disabling them and re-enabling them through Windows, if you play a game or some other program changes the default device.
Like many computer issues, your experience may vary.

Microsoft Doomed - my answer to Lockergnome's question

I replied to this question
"Is Microsoft Doomed To Failure As Some Believe? I Seriously Doubt It"
on Lockergnome.
I want to see if my guess is good - time will tell.
Would also like feedback here to the question - what do you think?
Also want to see what others will post.

Link:
...Microsoft doomed to failure...?


I don’t think Microsoft is anywhere near doomed to failure!
There will always be room for improvement and Microsoft will have to continue working hard and smart to improve its products.
Windows and Office Rock.

I have my gripes - I would like to see the old start menu / explorer navigation as an option that we can choose - the new
Windows Explorer may be good for some - but would like to see user choice - yes more user choice - I believe that is important
and will let users, geeks and casual users alike know that they are being thought of and have a choice in things OS related.

Macs OS X may some day be a contender - it is not there yet but is growing in popularity - not sure about the iPad?
Does not hit a spot for me - no built in USB, multi tasking, or camera and microphone.
OS X still does not have the ease of use that Windows has.
I can get around in OS X, but not as easily as in Windows, even though I have used both OSes for years.
I love Windows ability to hit the home button in notepad, or any text editor, Word, Wordpad, etc. when you hit the home button the cursor goes to the first of the line, not first of document like Mac, you can hit ctr. + home for that, and end goes to the end of the line, not end of the document, ctrl + end will do that. I think Windows should cost less and Office.
And speaking of choice, I would like to see a way to switch off the Office Ribbon - not a fan of it.
I know you can download non MS supported programs to do away with the Ribbon, and get the Classic Start Menu / Explorer functions but - I would like a Microsoft supported method to turn these features on and off. Thanks for all you do Chris.
Ron
thevirusfighter.blogspot.com
tweeting as:
virusfighter

Delete Flash Player's Cookies on your Computer - for More Privacy

Delete Adobe Flash Player's Cache / Cookies.
This takes you to macromedia's site - which shows you the flash cookies on your computer - the site includes buttons that let you delete the files left behind by Flash Player.

Flash - as you may know - allows you to run the fancy moving parts of websites - and watch Videos online - like on YouTube.


macromedia.com - Delete Flash Cookies - cache on your computer

Thanks for coming by!

Ron
Virusfighter

:)

Excel 2007 Windows cannot find "file" but you know it is there

Found this information at Avain Waves Blog - had the issue - very glad for the good information and pictures (screen shots) that are included.
It is a big issue when you cannot access the files through Windows Explorer, you know they are there but Windows says it cannot find them!

Click on the link below to see the steps that Avian Waves shows you:

Avian Waves Blog article showing how to overcome this issue.

Thanks to Avian Waves for finding and posting this useful fix that helped me out as I experienced this issue.

Quoted: 'Click on the office "pearl" (the circle button in the upper-left corner of Excel), then click on "Excel Options." From there, click on "Advanced," scroll down to "General," and uncheck "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)."'

Back up your Outlook Contacts - or all of the data

OUTLOOK
PREVENTING A DATA LOSS - E-MAIL CONTACTS DATA DISASTER!

If you want to be sure and have a back up of your Outlook Contacts - as you do not want to lose the many contacts / friends / co-workers / Business Contacts - Here is a "How To" that walks you through backing them up > and how to open them.

You can open your .PST Files in another Outlook - by saving them anywhere on your computer and going to File > Open > Data File - from within Outlook.

ALSO: You can back up all of your Outlook items including E-Mail and subfolders for later use - the same way as you would back up your Contacts - more information about that at the bottom of this article.

*Note: Outlook 2003, 2007 - is different than Outlook Express, or Windows Mail - those programs do not use .PST files.


Go into your contacts Folder - then choose

File > Import / Export
Choose Export to a file
Choose type as "Personal Folder file" (.pst)

Choose what to Export "Contacts" - in this example.
Choose "include subfolders" if you have contacts files in subfolders of your main contacts folders.

By Default Outlook will create the file with a name of "Back.pst".
You can change that name - but you will have to do it twice - you will see what I mean when you save it - It will say Back - you change the name - then you will see "Back" or "Personal Folder" you can change the name twice and it will have the name of your choice.

When doing the export you can export to whatever location on your Hard Drive you want.
I would export to hard drive - then copy / paste to External Drive - will work better - less chance of corruption.



By Default Outlook 2003 and 2007 will direct your contacts to:
(XP)
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\

(Vista)
C:\Users\(your user account name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Once you export the contacts .pst file - you can open it in Outlook to see if everything is there, by going to:
FIle > Open > Outlook Data File - Browse to wherever you exported it.
Click on it and choose open.


*Warning:
If you are exporting the files to an external drive (Hard Drive, or Thumb Drive, Flash Drive - tread carefully opening .pst files located on an external drive - in Outlook.

If you are opening it from the External Drive (Flash Stick) be sure and choose from within Outlook -
Go to Folders View - then Choose to "Close" the Contacts file - that is on your External Drive - otherwise -
Outlook will look for information on that location - and the location is not there - it can cause problems with Outlook.
So - as a general rule - better to open .pst files (contacts, E-Mail or whatever) - from the local Hard Drive.


FOR your OUTLOOK E-MAIL (instead of just the contacts) - you would export the same way as above - but instead of choosing "Contacts" - You would choose your Outlook profile name - usually your First and last name - Once again be sure and choose "include subfolders" or you will not get all of your E-Mail / Data backed up.

You can open the E-Mails / Folder hierarchy - by using File > Open > Outlook Data file as above - to see what you have backed up.
You are ready to copy your .pst file to a flash drive or external hard drive and your data is backed up!


Hopefully that is enough information for you - here are a couple of links that may be helpful relating to .PST files.

http://ask-leo.com/where_is_my_outlo...e_located.html

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829971