Annoyances

Downloaded PowerPoint files need repairs?

I download a lot of PowerPoint presentations and recently I am seeing more and more are stating they need repairs when opened!

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Unfortunately repairing does not work and downloading them again doesn't help either! What is happening is that Windows is detecting that these files are from the Internet and enabling a block on them for your protection. To remove this block, you need to right click the file, select Properties, click the Unblock button and click OK.

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You will then be able to open them successfully.

Thanks Joseph for spotting the type-o in the original post.

Paying Nokia for convenience

Nokia5800 In the last few weeks I got a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone which has been brilliant, and as the geek I am I have been playing around and trying out many of the functions on it. One area which has been an absolute fail, has been the GPS software: Nokia Maps. The phone comes with a  6 month license to get directions or have the phone speak to you as you drive, but at the end of the 6 months you need to pay for these premium services :(

I have no problem paying for it, but the costing model is retarded. This is the pricing when you select it from within the phone:

  • 1 day costs R19.99
  • 30 days costs R20.00
  • 30 days with automatic renewal costs R66
  • 1 year costs R512.99

Now I cannot imagine what person would choose 1 day, when 30 days is 1c more expensive, however the part that confuses me is that it is over three times more expensive for the same 30 days with the exception that you are telling Nokia you want to keep up to date with it. The year part is also odd, since if you purchase each month separately it is R240 which is less than half of the year subscription!

Installing MSMQ in Domain Mode on Windows Server 2008

Yesterday I needed to install MSMQ on my laptop which runs Windows Server 2008, which wasn’t as logical as it first appeared.

Outlook 2007: POP3 and delayed email or how to avoid downloading RSS feeds too often.

I have been spoilt for a long time by living in an Exchange environment, so when I recently had to use a POP3 environment (even if it was just temporarily), I felt like I had gone back 15 years.

Team Foundation Server could not resolve the user or group

So one of my recent tasks was to setup a TFS 2008, migrate our VSS system across and setup the projects and users. Well since I have a good knowledge of the systems and I did a TFS 2005 deployment to test some stuff out, I felt confident that the install wouldn’t be an issue. I did the usual prep of reading blogs and learning from others and that did help me avoid some pit falls.

Help files (CHM) don't work

So in Vista and/or IE8 there seems to be an issue with CHM files which you have downloaded from the Internet, where they just do not load their content.

MSCRM 4.0 Developer Errors: My new pet hate

So if you follow all the posts on this site you'll know that I am involved with a hosted MSCRM system.  This is a great system as it allows multiple customers to share a single deployment, and while it has seperated most of the functions so that each customer is seperated nicely there are a few that are not.

Undocumented MSCRM 4.0 Requirement

Just what I love at 4pm on a Friday afternoon, finding a undocumented requirement for a product while sitting in front of the client. Anyway, it appears that the location of the MSCRM Monitoring (what ever that is, I found this by checking the install logs) is set in the installer to C:\Program Files regardless where you put MSCRM itself.
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