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A client of ours, around 15 users, wants to enable roaming profiles for 3 of their accounts. No problem there. The problem is that the users who want to roam are email hoarders. I have seen 48GB and 28GB .pst's for these users. Obviously roaming isn't going to work while maintaining the same Outlook functionality, and in my experience putting a .pst on a share only works if the file size is small. An Exchange server is out of the question. Any suggestions?
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Gorson posted:A client of ours, around 15 users, wants to enable roaming profiles for 3 of their accounts. No problem there. The problem is that the users who want to roam are email hoarders. I have seen 48GB and 28GB .pst's for these users. Obviously roaming isn't going to work while maintaining the same Outlook functionality, and in my experience putting a .pst on a share only works if the file size is small. An Exchange server is out of the question. Any suggestions? I suggest you don't do this.
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Feb 24, 2015 17:26
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Gorson posted:..... putting a .pst on a share only works if the file size is small....... Any suggestions? Never ever do this, no matter what the file size. I did and regretted it. PSTs are already fickle enough beasts when running from a local hardrive. Throwing a network share into the mix guarantees even more problems. I don't think I had a single week go by without someone's PST getting corrupted. So many hours of running ScanPST.....
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Feb 24, 2015 17:57
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stevewm posted:Never ever do this, no matter what the file size. I did and regretted it. PSTs are already fickle enough beasts when running from a local hardrive. Throwing a network share into the mix guarantees even more problems. I don't think I had a single week go by without someone's PST getting corrupted. So many hours of running ScanPST..... Yeah believe me, I've been there with the .pst issues. By the time I am dead I will have spent half my life cleaning up email and fixing Outlook. Normally I would just tell them it won't work and will cause problems, but one of the clients is the owner (28GB .pst) and is not pleasant to work with. My suggestion is going to be that they either switch to web-based mail (HAH), or do not implement roaming. Thanks for the advice guys.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:06
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I think you can avoid the worst .pst problems on a network by making it read-only. Filter everything that's from the previous year or earlier into one mega-pst, make it read only and then have a "Live" pst that they can make changes to. Worst case scenario, you'll only have to mess around with the smaller pst without worrying about the big one.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:35
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think you can avoid the worst .pst problems on a network by making it read-only. Filter everything that's from the previous year or earlier into one mega-pst, make it read only and then have a "Live" pst that they can make changes to. Worst case scenario, you'll only have to mess around with the smaller pst without worrying about the big one. But I need that email from six years ago. Anyway, why the hell are they allowed to have 30-50 gigs of email?
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Feb 24, 2015 19:56
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Gorson posted:A client of ours, around 15 users, wants to enable roaming profiles for 3 of their accounts. No problem there. The problem is that the users who want to roam are email hoarders. I have seen 48GB and 28GB .pst's for these users. Obviously roaming isn't going to work while maintaining the same Outlook functionality, and in my experience putting a .pst on a share only works if the file size is small. An Exchange server is out of the question. Any suggestions? Is removing outlook, and forcing them to OWA an option if you are forced into this?
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Feb 24, 2015 22:06
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Cojawfee posted:But I need that email from six years ago.
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Feb 24, 2015 22:26
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think you can avoid the worst .pst problems on a network by making it read-only. Filter everything that's from the previous year or earlier into one mega-pst, make it read only and then have a "Live" pst that they can make changes to. Worst case scenario, you'll only have to mess around with the smaller pst without worrying about the big one. I had considered this, but wouldn't everything go to poo poo the second they access their MASSIVE archive across the network? The size of the .psts tend to make Outlook time out, local or not. Cojawfee posted:But I need that email from six years ago. They are clients, one is the owner, and another her right-hand-woman. The last time the owners .pst blew up and corrupted she looked at me and said "what are you going to do about this", seconds after I had just gone through a long and detailed explanation of Outlook, pst files, and hoarding of email. In my politest, roundabout way I told her that she needed auto-archive set up, but mostly she needed to delete old email and purge junk and sent folders. None of this happened. Think of your most entitled clients, coworkers, or users, and you get the idea. They also rake in money but are very cheap when it comes to IT, even though nearly all of their business revolves around it. FatUglyUseless posted:Is removing outlook, and forcing them to OWA an option if you are forced into this? They are so set in their ways I would probably have better luck converting them to Islam. They live through Outlook. Dr. Arbitrary posted:They still keep access to their giant liability pit of email, they just can't move poo poo around in folders anymore. Actually you may have hit on something there. If I can convince them it represents a liability issue I might be able to make some headway. The "e" in email stands for evidence!
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Feb 24, 2015 23:44
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You can point desktop Outook at an OWA endpoint, though. That's how my work email is set up.
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Feb 25, 2015 02:15
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Gorson posted:I had considered this, but wouldn't everything go to poo poo the second they access their MASSIVE archive across the network? The size of the .psts tend to make Outlook time out, local or not. Oh, I think I missed a step. So you've got the .pst backed up on the network. Put a copy of the .pst on their local computer and link to that. Since they're all read-only they'll always be identical.
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Feb 25, 2015 02:48
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Is there any place where I can still get a Win 7 Pro 64-bit iso? I know Microsoft removed all their downloads, but I reallllllly need one.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:49
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Duccy posted:Is there any place where I can still get a Win 7 Pro 64-bit iso? I know Microsoft removed all their downloads, but I reallllllly need one. Does http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery work for you?
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Feb 25, 2015 05:54
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No, I put in my key and it says that the software is unavailable for the language I selected (English).
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Feb 25, 2015 06:28
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If this is the wrong place to ask this, please let me know. Windows 7 Professional machine; I printed something on November 8th 2014 that I cannot find the physical copy of. Is there somewhere that Windows stores everything I printed? I know this is a longshot, but if I can look in some sort of folder and find it, that would be amazing. It definitely is not something I saved to my hard drive. Just printed on that date and then placed somewhere and I am almost certain someone threw it out.  Any advice would be appreciated. I thought maybe going to the "spooler" from that date might yield something? I know this is a longshot. But any tip would be appreciated.
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Feb 25, 2015 13:52
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Melmac posted:If this is the wrong place to ask this, please let me know. Is this something you downloaded off the web? If you haven't cleared your temporary files it might still be there. You'd have to look up exactly how your browser handles saving temp files when it prints off the web, but they're probably on a folder somewhere that only gets cleared when your drive runs out of space.
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Feb 25, 2015 15:48
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50 gigs of email is loving retarded. I can't even fathom the amount of poo poo that must be stored in that PST.
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Feb 25, 2015 16:16
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Gyshall posted:50 gigs of email is loving retarded. I can't even fathom the amount of poo poo that must be stored in that PST. Every third email has a ten meg pdf.
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Feb 25, 2015 16:44
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Duccy posted:No, I put in my key and it says that the software is unavailable for the language I selected (English). Try the microsoftsoftwareswap reddit? They have download links for the os software they are selling at very dubious prices. I don/t suggest buying anything from them, as the prices are to good to be legit. The download links do go back to MS though.
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Feb 25, 2015 16:47
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Can anyone recommend software that would let me view USB device protocol stuff, similar to the examples on this page: http://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/ums_5.htm I'm on win 7 pro 64
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Feb 25, 2015 21:36
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I just bought a used laptop off of Ebay, a Thinkpad T440s. The laptop has a Windows 8 sticker on the bottom but has 7 installed. Is there a way to upgrade to 8 without paying because it originally was built with it? Edit: Or, what's the best way to wipe this thing because it booted straight to Windows instead of running any sort of setup.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:17
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Lblitzer posted:I just bought a used laptop off of Ebay, a Thinkpad T440s. The laptop has a Windows 8 sticker on the bottom but has 7 installed. Is there a way to upgrade to 8 without paying because it originally was built with it? The Windows 8 key should be embedded in the BIOS, and you should be able to install without having to manually enter the key.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:25
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peepsalot posted:Can anyone recommend software that would let me view USB device protocol stuff, similar to the examples on this page: http://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/ums_5.htm Someone told me to try this https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj672840 But when I run 'USB3HWVerifierAnalyzer.exe' from cmd, as administrator, it just says its "not a valid Win32 application".
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Feb 25, 2015 22:48
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Lblitzer posted:I just bought a used laptop off of Ebay, a Thinkpad T440s. The laptop has a Windows 8 sticker on the bottom but has 7 installed. Is there a way to upgrade to 8 without paying because it originally was built with it? If you have the key then you're good to go, it may or may not be in the BIOS and you can look under the battery case as well or look online to see where they keep it. You might also consider going into the BIOS and turning back on EFI or whatever the new BIOS type is so that you can leverage the faster boot times of Win8, etc (assuming whoever put 7 on put it back into legacy mode). This guys seems to want a similar thing: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/t440s-windows-8-uefi-installation.756942/
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Feb 25, 2015 23:11
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OldPueblo posted:If you have the key then you're good to go, it may or may not be in the BIOS and you can look under the battery case as well or look online to see where they keep it. You might also consider going into the BIOS and turning back on EFI or whatever the new BIOS type is so that you can leverage the faster boot times of Win8, etc (assuming whoever put 7 on put it back into legacy mode). This guys seems to want a similar thing: Windows 8 does not use product keys for OEM machines. The number is built into the BIOS but I'm not able to figure out where to get a copy of Windows 8 Pro but also not sure if it would work because it didn't come preloaded.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:25
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Lblitzer posted:Windows 8 does not use product keys for OEM machines. The number is built into the BIOS but I'm not able to figure out where to get a copy of Windows 8 Pro but also not sure if it would work because it didn't come preloaded. You can also just wait til Windows 10 is out this fall, you'll be able to get a free upgrade for it whether you have Windows 7 or Windows 8 as long as you register by fall 2016.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:28
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Lblitzer posted:Windows 8 does not use product keys for OEM machines. The number is built into the BIOS but I'm not able to figure out where to get a copy of Windows 8 Pro but also not sure if it would work because it didn't come preloaded. You should be able to retrieve your key using the steps in this link: http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-retrieve-windows-8-oem-product-key-from-bios/ And then use this link to download Windows 8.0: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only Once you've upgraded with that key, you should be able to install 8.1 with no problems. I did exactly this with a Lenovo laptop a couple months ago and it worked like a champ.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:44
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^^^^ Don't know if that stuff still works, but that's the old procedure; the media from my link lets you do a clean install of 8.1 directly with a Windows 8 key. edit: and Belarc also gets you the key without hassle, I might add.Lblitzer posted:Windows 8 does not use product keys for OEM machines. The number is built into the BIOS but I'm not able to figure out where to get a copy of Windows 8 Pro but also not sure if it would work because it didn't come preloaded. It might have been sold as a business laptop with "Win8 Pro with downgrade rights" and have had Win 7 Pro preloaded, like mine. In which case the machine has a license valid for either. Installing 8.1 fresh from media created through the link above worked without a hitch for me, with the key in the bios automatically detected and all. In case of doubt, get Belarc Adviser and write down the Windows key it finds (the key that doesn't have OEM in it). You probably won't need it, but at least you'll probably be able to do a clean Win 7 install with it in the worst case. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Feb 26, 2015 00:46
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Nintendo Kid posted:You can also just wait til Windows 10 is out this fall, you'll be able to get a free upgrade for it whether you have Windows 7 or Windows 8 as long as you register by fall 2016. Is the Win10 Free or Free* /rampant speculation More than a few people have suggested that it might be Free* in that XBox Silver is Free but you have to cough up $70/year for XBox Gold which allows you access to all the features. I'm not sure how that would work but I'm willing to be they'll figure out how to work Azure, cloud storage and device sync to sweeten the deal. /rampant speculation
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Feb 26, 2015 02:05
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All reports I've seen (granted, not nearly all of them) indicate a full upgrade to Windows 10 for free for the first year it's out. No idea about different versions (pro/home/whatever).
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Feb 26, 2015 02:17
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Hadlock posted:Is the Win10 Free or Free* It's basically the same as the free upgrade to Windows 8 for late release Windows 7 computer or free upgrade to Windows 7 for late Vista computers just before the respective OSes came out, only instead of having to have bought your computer within 3 months ahead of general release of the OS, it's simply any computer with a valid 7 or 8 license. If you wait til Fall 2016 or later to get the upgrade you have to pay full price, just like how computers with the fre eupgrade available were no longer eligible after a while. You won't have to pay any sort of subscription fee, but you would need to keep your old Windows 7 or 8 full install media on hand to then upgrade from to Windows 10 if you ever need to do a clean install.
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Feb 26, 2015 02:32
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Please help. At my work we have a transcription department that transcribes audio from DSS files from certain digital voice recorders. The transcription software they use gives them all sorts of nice tools for control of playback to aid them in their job of transcribing these DSS files. The problem is that some people wish to use 3rd party digital voice recorders which record files in an MP3 format. The MP3 format isn't supported by the transcription software the transcription department uses. I've been looking everywhere to see if I can find a converter to allow us to easily convert MP3 files to DSS files. I've found the opposite - DSS to MP3 - quite easily. But nothing I've found so far converts MP3 to DSS. Does anyone know if there is such a program available? It does not matter if it's not freeware, so long as I can demonstrate that it works I can get authorization to purchase it.
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Feb 26, 2015 17:28
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khy posted:The problem is that some people wish to use 3rd party digital voice recorders which record files in an MP3 format. The MP3 format isn't supported by the transcription software the transcription department uses. Tell them no. DSS has special sauce in it for dictation purposes, that's why you use it.
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Feb 26, 2015 21:01
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Melmac posted:Windows 7 Professional machine; I printed something on November 8th 2014 that I cannot find the physical copy of. Is there somewhere that Windows stores everything I printed? I know this is a longshot, but if I can look in some sort of folder and find it, that would be amazing. You could use a data recovery program and search for any EMF files (is that what they still are in 7? It's been a long time since I cared) that may still be on your system. The fact that it was several months ago is not good, as the data is probably long overwritten. %SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Printers Obviously that folder will be empty - you're looking for deleted files in there.
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Feb 27, 2015 04:27
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I got a great deal on one of those travel scanners (an Epson Workforce DS-30) and now that I have one I want to start digitizing and archiving paper documents. What's a good workflow for this? Should I just scan this stuff straight into OneNote (I'm not a fan of Evernote)? I've started scanning to PDF and sorting files into folders, but something tells me there's probably a better way to go about this that won't suck when the time comes for me to actually retrieve info from the stuff I've scanned.
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Feb 27, 2015 04:32
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Microsoft is now offering up legit Windows ISOs for recovery https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery
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Feb 28, 2015 10:20
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HalloKitty posted:Microsoft is now offering up legit Windows ISOs for recovery Though it says the key could be in the box the dvd came in or in the confirmation e-mail. So I guess I'll have to see if it works with OEM keys too.
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Feb 28, 2015 10:42
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Flipperwaldt posted:poo poo, here I'm thinking this is not news, but it's Windows 7. Great! The good Windows 8 recovery media link is linked from that page too. It doesn't.
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Feb 28, 2015 10:55
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c0burn posted:It doesn't. 
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c0burn posted:It doesn't. Ah, sorry. I just saw a news article about it and thought it would finally bring some closure to the constant questions. Why don't Microsoft just give you the drat thing? It's the key that has the value..
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