KC Lemson
By KC Lemson [MS]
In search of stupidity
From Jeremy through Scoble, I saw https://www.itconversations.com/. The most interesting name on that...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/09/2004
Action item deliverable drive to resolution coordination asks disambiguation...
I blogged over the weekend about being a PM, and Adam links to today's dilbert which does a good job...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/08/2004
How to synch other folders with your Pocket PC
Brian points to a post of Greg's where he describes how to do this.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2004
Nice touch on the "admin from hell" prank...
I read through this description of a great prank that I originally found via Scoble. It was an...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2004
Common problems when enabling RPC/HTTP(s) in Outlook 2003
These are four of the most common problems I've seen when setting up this configuration: #1: In the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2004
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life...
Alton Brown's choice is cheese. If the name doesn't ring a bell, he's the new host of the Iron Chef...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2004
If you're addicted to silly flash games...
You might enjoy this one: https://nikon.bungie.org/misc/warthog_launch/ Level 28 is where the rate of...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2004
Of all the reasons to want LASIK...
I'm tired of my son grabbing my glasses off my face and smudging them up with his little fingers!...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2004
What it's like to be a Program Manager at Microsoft...
I got a big kick out of this thread on Joel Spolsky's forum, such as the part about how PMs...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2004
Nice try, but no thanks
I just went to www.fisherprice.com, and after waiting for the insanely annoying...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2004
New graphic for Exchange geek t-shirts is up...
https://www.cafepress.com/ehlo The coworker who came up with the logo idea bought one of the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/04/2004
Buy a sheet of bills...
A friend pointed this out to me. The cost is more than the price of the bills alone, but having a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2004
The Exchange community on Orkut is up to 57 members!
OK so we're still trailing Longhorn by a lot, but still, pretty nice to see =)
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/02/2004
What's good swag nowadays?
When I went to PC Expo in 99, it was all about the t-shirts. We actually had to give out t-shirts...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/01/2004
Create a signature with a picture in it
It's possible to create a custom signature in Outlook with a picture. Be careful, young Jedi... this...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2004
I've joined the Tablet cult
I just got one this week (Toshiba m200) and I am hooked. I've been debating it for months, but after...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2004
Meet the Exchange MVPs
We recently added a new page to the Exchange community website, that has pictures and bios of our...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/26/2004
Feature Packs versus Service Packs: Why isn't it an easy decision?
I blogged a while ago about features in service packs. A couple of the comments recommended doing...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2004
Exchange geeks, check this out...
https://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/02/24/79387.aspx Let us know what you think, either in...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2004
It almost went to 11...
I blogged a while back about an article I wrote for our website intended to help administrators who...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2004
Can you envision smelly email?
An Outlook MVP pointed out this article about a company that has developed technology to allow you...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/20/2004
Outside In
In 2000, every Microsoft employee received a copy of the seminal work, “Inside Out: Microsoft...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/20/2004
Harry Potter III trailer & photos
Watch a trailer for the Prisoner of Azkaban, and see some excellent high-res photos from the new...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
Windows Security Update CD available for free
https://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp Tell all your non-geek friends and family to...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
Outlook: Your quick 'n dirty WYSIWIG HTML editor
I often need to write short 'n sweet little HTML docs explaining things, that I then upload to a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
Pop or Soda?
I normally avoid these quizzes, but this one was actually interesting because it tells you the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
Attention Dr Gooey...
I took an MIS course in college where the purpose of the course was (or seemed to be) to teach MS...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/17/2004
The 8th wonder of the world
Baby laughter, by far. Today, I stumbled on a way to make my 8 month old son laugh.. and laugh, and...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/14/2004
What's new in Outlook 2003 for developers
John Durant points to a new article by Randy Byrne on MSDN:...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/12/2004
Blogging warm fuzzies
I just noticed in my referrer logs that someone got to this blog from this URL:...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/12/2004
Yes, Virginia, Microsoft is paying attention to blogging.
The link to the TechEd registration on the right of this blog used to link directly to the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/12/2004
What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing
On a couple of the machines I use, I find myself continually turning on the status bar in IE (View |...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2004
How to change the icons on custom toolbar buttons
I've blogged previously about how to create a new toolbar button that runs a macro you've written....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2004
Dismissing task reminders doesn't mark the task as complete
So if the reminder fires and you've actually completed the task, right click on it and choose Mark...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2004
Excellent Outlook 2003 white paper available
David points to a great new white paper about Outlook 2003, bandwidth consumption and related...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2004
The Exchange team blog launched today
I'm excited to announce that we finally got this off the ground, and a lot of great people are going...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/09/2004
Outlook.exe /cleanreminders versus /resetfolders
Outlook has a bunch of commandline switches that can be used to change certain behaviors, reset...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2004
My own little piece of Microsoft history
One of the first jobs I had at Microsoft in 1998 was helping run Outlook's interoperability lab...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2004
08:01 PM will you be my friend?
I just stumbled across this yahoogroup, to which Google sends a regular newsletter with fun tidbits...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2004
Warning: Don't make your photos look too good
As I mentioned a while back, we recently purchased a home studio setup. We've been using it to take...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2004
"I saw it on the web, it must be true!"
In college, I wrote an article for an April Fools edition of our ACM newsletter about how the Illiac...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2004
The most common types of blog entries
Of course the first most common is “Hi. Here's my blog. I will use this blog to talk about...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/03/2004
Is there any way to get at raw referrer logs via .Text?
When we were on blogs.gotdotnet.com, we used BlogX, which was simple but did most everything I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2004
Slight modification to make "create task from email" more useful for me
I made a tiny modification to the code in my previous Create Task from Email blog entry. For my...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2004
Create a task from an email
John Durant recently blogged about his macro to create a task from an e-mail. I thought that was a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/31/2004
Add toolbar buttons for your Office macros
I stumbled across a link to this article on slipstick earlier today while researching some VBA...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2004