It did not take long after the Office 2010 deployment to receive the first reported error. Although the deployment has been fine on 99% of the installs, during one of them the Windows Installer Service decided to take the day off. It gave this error: Error 1719: Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. Normally, this wouldn't be too terrible, you just start the … [Read more...]
Google Releases Google Cloud Print Beta To The Public
By connecting your printer with the Google Cloud you will be able to print to your printer from any computer or smart phone, regardless of where you are. Just activate the Google Cloud Print connector in Google Chrome and your printer will automatically be available to you from Google Cloud Print enabled web and mobile apps. Released to the public and … [Read more...]
Remove The Contaminating UTM_* Values In URLs In Google Chrome and Firefox
Perhaps it's just me but when I see something on the web that I want to share, I go through this little routine to clean up the URL before sending it out to friends and others. If you use Google Reader as your RSS feed reader, you might notice the URLs in your address bar turn into something like … [Read more...]
Adding the Quick Print Button to Outlook 2010
The Quick Print button for the Quick Access Toolbar in Outlook 2010 is a little more hidden than in the other products. In Microsoft Word 2010 or Excel 2010, you can select Quick Print from the drop down menu next to it in order to print your document or worksheet to your default printer without any further dialog options. In Outlook 2010, you can only select 'Print', which … [Read more...]
Office 2010 Deployment Options
In a fitting demonstration of organizational lethargy, one of my first projects of 2011 was to deploy Microsoft Office 2010. Trying to understand what my options were for deploying the update within my organization required reading through a number of Microsoft TechNet pages to figure out what would work best. With this article, hopefully I can save you some time by … [Read more...]