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  • How to get delivery problems examined by Microsoft for Windows Live Hotmail

    This is a really quick post, but sometimes people talk about delivery problems with Windows Live Hotmail and want to know if the problem is with Hotmail or some other part of the system. There is a team who can help with deliverability issues and will investigate these issues after a small amount of...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Mon, Jul 16 2007
    Filed under: Support and Tools, Live, Documentation
  • How to connect to and import data from an XML Web Service into Excel 2007

    I have been wondering how to do this recently for one of my own projects and then the subject came up internally. A very unassuming Hovsep then wrote up the answer, so as a tip here it is - if you follow the link at the bottom you will see a step by step process with screen shots to help you along the...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Fri, Jul 13 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Software as a Service, Office 2007, Documentation, Software plus Service
  • How to add a trade-in line item (i.e. give cash back to discount a deal) to BCM 2007

    Someone asked me how to do this and I discovered that you can't have a negative discount percentage, negative quantity or negative price. So this makes it impossible to do... well, no, but it is not quite as easy as we would like. To make it work you need to create a Product and Service csv file...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Thu, Jul 12 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Business, Office 2007, Documentation, Tips, Small business, Partner, BCM, Business Contact Manager
  • SBS 2003 R2 Premium Edition, Downgrade options, including SQL 2005 to SQL 2000 - for a limited time only

    In a recent announcement we now offer the ability to downgrade the Premium technologies in R2. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/downgrade/default.mspx with a FAQ at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/bizsolutions.mspx . Please...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Tue, Jul 10 2007
    Filed under: Support and Tools, System Builder Information, SQL Server, Community, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, Licensing, SQL Server 2005
  • IIS7 - the next generation of Web Servers from Microsoft in Windows Server 2008

    IIS7 is the web server in Windows Server 2008 and is not only already getting great press, but is already running Microsoft.com for us !! Once again, pinched from Technet. Administering IIS7 on Server Core Installations of Windows Server 2008 Posted 6/26/2007 3:34:00 PM As you may have seen from TechEd...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Mon, Jul 9 2007
    Filed under: Developer, beta, Documentation, Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Security products - Forefront and the next version codename Stirling

    I have grabbed these security tit-bits from Technet this month and thought I would share them with you. Expect to be playing with Forefront in one form or another with a year, so might as well see what it does now :-) Microsoft Unveils Next-Generation Forefront Business Security Solution Codename "Stirling"...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Sun, Jul 8 2007
    Filed under: Support and Tools, Security, beta, Documentation, Malware
  • Adding SBS to an existing domain

    There was a short burst on e-mail the other day about this, but I thought I would share. The situation was that someone was adding SBS to an existing domain, not a problem, but the existing domain had some trusts set up. Since SBS does not support trusts things did not go well. So, to follow up we need...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Fri, Jul 6 2007
    Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Windows Server 2003, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, Partner
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