Formatting Characters in Outlook 2007

I had a user today who asked me about the formatting shapes (the paragraph, tab, etc.) that showed up "mysteriously" in his Outlook.

I think he must've pressed some funky key combination...but here's what I found:

1. Click the Office button in the top right corner



2. Go to "Editor Options"


3. Go to "Display" and then uncheck everything.

Dynamics CRM Upgrade to SQL 2005

We are upgrading our CRM 3.0 from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. I found a great article here that will probably help, but I'll have to update later on how it goes.

It seems straightforward enough that you'd be able to back up the databases and then restore them on SQL 2005, but we'll have to see.

Back later with more...

Vista SP1 and Server 2008 RTM

I have already installed Windows Server 2008 on an x64 desktop just to mess with it and already love it.

I also attended a Microsoft Event yesterday which talked about Bitlocker and Network Access Protection.

Pretty cool stuff!

Update Rollup 2 for CRM 3.0

Woohoo! Tons of hotfixes and updates in the "Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0".

Click here to download the client and server updates.

Vista Deployment Using System Image Manager

Today I began setting up a Vista image with an Autounattend.xml file.

I was having some difficulties getting the disk in my "technician desktop" to be recognized but I've fixed that issue using this blog entry.

More updates later...

More updates...
I found this amazing link on a quick walk through of how to use the SIM.