What are commands and switches? Each time you start the program, you run the outlook.exe command, although you do not usually type the command or even see it. You can change certain aspects of how the program starts by adding subcommands called switches to the outlook.exe command.
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Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts: Alt+UP – Go up a folder Alt+Left- Go back (previous folder) Alt+Right – Go forward (from go back) Alt+d – Select Address Bar path F4 – Address Bar drop down, history, selection Alt+Enter – Properties of the selected file Ctrl+Mousewheel – change the icons size F11 – Fullscreen mode (does not seem very useful) Other Windows keyboard shortcuts: Win+e – Open Windows Explorer Win+f – Find files Ctrl+Win+f – Find computers Win+Tab – Cycle forward through open Taskbar items Shift+Win+Tab – Cycle backwards through open Taskbar items Win+m – Minimize all windows (may not minimize some…
Exchange 2007 PowerShell DistributionGroup commands
Here aresome PowerShell cmdlets for working with distribution group in exchange 2007 Get-DistributionGroup – Retrieves properties of a distribution group New-DistributionGroup – Creates a new distribution group Remove-DistributionGroup – Deletes a distribution group Set-DistributionGroup – Set Properties on a distribution group
How To Create New Exchange 2007 Contacts
You can create (aka import) email contacts in Exchange 2007 from the command line using PowerShell (the Exchange Console). The PS script will read the contact information from a CSV file. Here is the powershell (Exchange Console) script/command: Import-Csv contacts.csv | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.Emailaddress -OrganizationalUnit “domain.com/company/email/contacts” } NOTE: be sure to adjust the -OrganizationalUnit parameter in the command above. CSV file: (contacts.csv) displayName,Emailaddress Mike Wood,michael@example.com John Q. Customer,johnc@example.org etc,etc@example.net
DOS variables: %date% and %time%
Need to do some date and/or time manipulation in a DOS batch/command file? Here is a good example: set filedatetime=%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%time:~9,2% echo %filedatetime% 2009-01-28_15120393 Hope this helps you with your batch files.
Error Starting Outlook 2007
Error: “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” Fix: Orb/Start -> run… -> Outlook.exe /resetnavpane
VBS to Validate Signed Code
MSDN article The following sample VBScript code will verify a Signed file: Dim Signer, File, ShowUI, FileOK Set Signer = CreateObject(“Scripting.Signer”) File = “c:\newfile.wsf” ShowUI = True FileOK = Signer.VerifyFile(File, ShowUI) If FileOK Then WScript.Echo File & ” is trusted.” Else WScript.Echo File & ” is NOT trusted.” End If
VBScript to Verify Digitally Signed File
MSDN article The following sample VBScript code will verify a Signed file: Dim Signer, File, ShowUI, FileOK Set Signer = CreateObject(“Scripting.Signer”) File = “c:\newfile.wsf” ShowUI = True FileOK = Signer.VerifyFile(File, ShowUI) If FileOK Then WScript.Echo File & ” is trusted.” Else WScript.Echo File & ” is NOT trusted.” End If
Copy iPhone's iTunes Library to Windows
Use Winamp Media Player and the ml_ipod plugin to copy music, video and audio books from an iPod or iPhone to a Windows computer. Use these two free programs to regain access to the music saved on an Apple multimedia device. In short: copy your iPod/iPhone iTunes stuff to your hard drive! The processes and programs discussed in this article do NOT remove any Digital Rights Management (DRM) or copy protection from the media files. This is simply for copying the files as is from the device to a computer hard drive. The protected and unprotected files are copied without modification.
