Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2016

Moving autocomplete files between profiles on Outlook 2010/2013/2016

This is the process I use for moving autocomplete data from one profile to another profile when you don't have an Exchange server.  This is applicable for Outlook 2010/2013/2016.

First, send an email from the new mail profile and note the time/date when you sent the email.  This time/date will be important shortly.

Now, go to:
c:\users\%username%\appdata\local\microsoft\outlook\roamcache

You're looking for two autocomplete files.  Both files start with stream_autocomplete . . .

You're looking for one stream_autocomplete file with the time/date when you sent the email just now.
You're also looking for the stream_autocomplete that is much larger and represents the autocomplete for the old profile (this will be a file between 10 KB and 5000 KB) with a time/date that corresponds to the last time you sent an email from the old profile.

We'll call the new file "new_autocomplete" and the old file "old_autocomplete" going forward.

Open Outlook.  Put Outlook offline.

in c:\users\%username%\appdata\local\microsoft\outlook\roamcache . . .

Copy and paste old_autocomplete so you have old_autocomplete and old_autocomplete_copy.

Highlight new_autocomplete and choose rename.  Hit control C so you have the name of new_autocomplete in your clipboard.  Add a single letter to the end of new_autocomplete so new_autocomplete now has a new name.

Highlight old_autocomplete_copy and choose rename.  Paste the name you have on your clipboard.  Now, your copy of old_autocomplete will have new_autocomplete's name.

Close Outlook.
Wait 30 seconds
Reopen Outlook.
Put Outlook onlne.

Test autocomplete.

That's it.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Excel files in use by 'another user' (user on Excel 2010)

I had a scenario where I had a remote user on a Wind 7 Pro SP 1 64 bit machine connecting to my SBS 2011 box and getting an error about Excel files being in use by 'another user.'  I turned off the auto-preview in Windows Explorer to no avail.  I looked through this page also to no avail:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/05/14/the-definitive-locked-file-post.aspx

The eventual solution was the registry entry change from the client machine described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942146

Friday, March 15, 2013

uninstalling GP Dynamics 2010

I had some trouble uninstalled a broken GP Dynamics 2010 install - so I thought I'd document what resources I used to do the uninstall:

http://www.kuntzconsulting.ca/index.php/blog/article/issues_with_gp2010_and_uninstalling

and

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581260


Thursday, October 4, 2012

PowerPoint 2010 will not play mp4 files - need to install Quicktime

Out of the box, PowerPoint 2010 will not play mp4 files or even files that have been converted to AVI that may still contain MP4 codecs.  The relatively simple solution is to install Apple Quicktime.  Even though you're able to play MP4 videos through Windows Media Player (without Quicktime installed), PowerPoint still won't play the videos.  After installing Quicktime (which no longer installs with iTunes), the videos played normally.

As per Microsoft, the best format for inserting videos into PowerpPoint 2010 is WMV.