Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Missing tray icon for Windows Live Messenger on Windows Server 2008 (R2) and Windows 7

You may miss the tray icon for Windows Live Messenger on machines running Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. The process is running, you get – depending on configuration – bubble notifications, but see no tray icon to open messenger window.

Refer to article

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3794-windows-live-messenger-taskbar-notification-icon.html,

set the compatibility for msnmsgr.exe to Vista (on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7) or Windows XP (for Windows Server 2008), restart Messenger (just kill the process and restart) and enjoy!

Problem: cannot open PDF attachments using Outlook 2007 / 2010

Using Outlook 2007 or 2010 you may encounter strange problem:  PDF mail attachment won’t be opened with Acrobat Reader X (we monitored the problem with Outlook 2007 and 2010 using Acrobat Reader X 10.1.1).

While the attachment can be previewed in Outlook mail reader pane:
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a double click on the same attachment in the same mail brings the Acrobat Reader X Window with error dialog box above saying: “There was an error opening this document. Access denied.”

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The side effect is: if at least one Acrobat Reader X instance (program window on desktop) is already running, the attachment will be opened properly. Only if there’s no Acrobat Reader X window opened before you try to open a PDF mail attachment from Outlook – the error message appears.

The solution is:

  • open Acrobat Reader X
  • navigate menu Edit->Preferences:
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  • uncheck “Enable protected mode at startup”:
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  • confirm appearing dialog with “Yes”:
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  • close Preferences Dialog with “OK”
  • close Acrobat Reader X
  • retry to open PDF mail attachment
  • …enjoy!

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Microsoft Windows Azure is the best in the cloud speed test

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Details here:
https://www.cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/global-provider-view

The test Azure account can be obtained here:
https://windows.azure.com/default.aspx

(Windows Live account required).

Build your Azure service and enjoy!

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Relax 1

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