How to Turn Off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration in Windows Server 2008
December 22, 2009
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security config is in not in your standard spot as in Server 2003.
1) Go to Server Manager
2) Select the root folder of the navigation pane for Service Manager
3) Click Configure IE ESC
4) When the dialog box shows up, enable / disable for users and admins.
5) The end 
Issue Printing an email from Outlook 2003
January 22, 2009
Outlook 2003
I had an issue lately where a user was unable to print from an email in her Inbox. She would open up the email she wanted to print, select file, then print. The print option would not open. It was if she did not hit the print button at all. All the other applications would print ok. It was just inside an open email that would not print.
Below are steps I used to attempt to resolve the issue. I will state right now that she had other OS issues going on so her problem was not resolved. However I did find some good articles and steps to take which may prove more fortunate to others.
First and foremost, I found that I was unable to select different printers in the print option of the email. All the printers were greyed out. It was only after I selected ‘Table mode’ that I was able to switch between other printers. I did not want to print the email in table mode though. I needed the memo mode.
Next I attempted simple techniques. I attempted reinstalling the printer, I tried right clicking the email in the list and selecting print. It was if the memo option for printing did not exist. I did find an obscure Microsoft KB [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821297] indicating that there was a known bug for the issue.
I was not about to give up there. I found an Experts-Exchange post which included steps in repairing what seemed to be the exact issue I was having.
Try starting Outlook once with the /cleanviews command line switch.
It could be a problem with your outlprnt file, which you can rebuild:
1. Close Outlook.
2. Click Start > Search.
3. Select All files and folders.
4. In the All or part of the file name box type “Outlprnt” (without the quotes) and then click Search.
5. When the search process is complete, right-click Outlprnt, and then click Rename.
6. Type Outlprnt.old, and then press ENTER.
7. Close the Search window.
8. Restart Outlook 2003.
9. On the File menu, point to Page Setup, and then click Print Styles.
10. Click the Memo style, and then click Close.If those don’t work, I’d have to suggest a repair/reinstall.
The suggestion from Experts Exchange seemed like it was going to work, however when I attempted a search, I found that the search function on this user’s PC was corrupt and missing. That’s when I decided to reinstall the PC all together.
Although I did not resolve my issue, I hope the steps above will help others with the same problem. I think the ‘Outlprnt’ may have been the issue, however I was unable to verify that problem on my end.
Format a Word Without Typing A Document
November 21, 2007
Have you ever wanted to format your Word Document before you start writing up the document itself? There’s a quick and easy way to have Microsoft Word type up a ‘dummy’ document for you so you can get the formatting done correctly.
First, Open up Word.
(This works in any MS Office 97 and above program).
In Word, have it open a blank document if it hasn’t done so already.
Type in ‘=rand(8,10)’ (without the quotes), then hit enter.
Word will type up random sentences according to the input.
The first number (‘8′), indicates how many paragraphs you want to make.
The second number (‘10′) indicates how many sentences you want in each paragraph.
So… for example, if you want to make a document with 9 paragraphs and 4 sentences in each paragraph, you would use this command…
=rand(9,4)
Whether you are writing a newspaper style document or just writing a report, it’s sometimes easier document formatted before you begin. It may not be Word’s most powerful feature. However it can be a useful one if you don’t want to spend all that time formatting a document after it’s completed trying to make a deadline.
Click the link below to see an example of the process.
Outlook crashes with an ntdll.dll
August 10, 2007
Thanks to Dan for posting a fix to the Outlook crashes that many people have been experiencing. It all turned out to be Cloudmark ..here’s the fix.
In Vista, go to C:\Users\[Profile Name]\AppData\Local\ and rename the Cloudmark folder to Cloudmark.bad.
In XP, go to C:\Documents and Settings\[Profile Name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Cloudmark and rename the Cloudmark folder to Cloudmark.bad.
Then start up Outlook and you’re good to go. You do not need to uninstall or reinstall Cloudmark.
UPDATE:
In order to preserve your whitelist settings, you’ll want to copy 2 files over from the old directory to the new directory.
1. Close Outlook.
2. Copy the files cdol_firstunblock.dat and cdol_whitelist.dat from your old \Cloudmark.bad\SpamNet directory to your new \Cloudmark\SpamNet directory.
3. Restart Outlook.
