Monthly Archives: July 2011

Outlook folders

Posted on Sunday 31 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

The functions we’ve seen so far have involved iterating through the whole set of Outlook folders. That’s a lot of folders (I have 4 email accounts with lost of folders). The trick is to do this just once and then … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

Posted on Sunday 31 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

This may be useful for people starting PowerShell. If you can’t remember what punctuation sign does what in PowerShell get a copy of this cheat sheet http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DBAdmin/a-cheat-sheet-for-all

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Emptying the Deleted Items Folder

Posted on Sunday 31 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

Continuing our look at scripting against Outlook & the hotmail connector Many of the emails I get end up being read once and deleted. This leaves a ton of stuff in the deleted items folders. Periodically I’ll clean these up. … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh Update

Posted on Sunday 31 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

Couple of points worth noting if you are going to use Live Mesh (1) File paths longer than 269 characters (folder paths > 248) won’t sync  – shorten the path to fix (2) PST files won’t sync – even if … Continue reading →

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Outlook Connector & mail folder item count

Posted on Saturday 30 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

On my home laptop I use Live Mail to aggregate my hotmail accounts. On my travelling netbook I decided to try the Outlook Connector http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/microsoft-office-outlook-hotmail-connector-overview-HA010222518.aspx This add in enables you to access hotmail accounts from Outlook & because I’m using … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh

Posted on Saturday 30 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

One problem I’ve had for a while is how to keep my script library synchronised across a number of machines.  I have a laptop I use for my development work at home and I have two netbooks – at least … Continue reading →

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Network Adapter speed and duplex

Posted on Friday 29 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

One thing that can cause problems on the network is the duplex setting on the network adapter.  If this doesn’t match the switch port then at best you will get performance issues and at worst no connectivity. The speed of … Continue reading →

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The New IT?

Posted on Thursday 28 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

A recent headline asked “How will you fit into the New IT?” My answer is what new IT? I have been working in IT for well over 20 years and in that time I can’t remember a period when there … Continue reading →

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Kindle for PC fix?

Posted on Thursday 28 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

I appear to have fixed my problem. In the hope that this may help others in similar position this is what I did: uninstall Kindle for PC clean out all folders and content including the My Kindle Content folder. Make sure … Continue reading →

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Kindle for PC Update

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

Just checked my other two machines and they are running v1.5 with NO problem.  The latest version is 1.6.1 and that is the one showing a problem. After removing all of the Kindle stuff including a registry I did get … Continue reading →

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