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Friday, July 23, 2010

How To Pin a Network Shortcut to Taskbar in Windows 7

 

By default, Windows 7 will not allow you to pin a shortcut to a network program to the taskbar.

Follow these steps to get around the default.

  1. Copy the .exe to your local drive.
  2. Make a shortcut of the local .exe on your desktop.
  3. Pin the new local shortcut to your taskbar.
  4. Right-click the pinned item on the taskbar, then right-click the shortcut in the jump list.
  5. Click Properties, and edit the Target and Start-in fields so they point to the network location.
  6. Delete the .exe you copied locally and remove the shortcut you created on your desktop.

You should now have a pinned shortcut on the taskbar to a network location.

Friday, July 02, 2010

Microsoft Office Outlook cannot provide form scripting support This feature is not available

If you get the following error message in Outlook on a Terminal Server, do the following:
Run this from a command prompt: msiexec /i [GUID] ADDLOCAL=OutlookVBScript /qb

You need to find out what GUID your Office version have. The easiest way to do that is to open Regedit and start a search from this key:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Uninstall

All GUID’s start with a brace ({). Search for Office and you will find the right key. So, for example, if you run Office Outlook 2007 Proffessional Plus you would run this:
msiexec /i {90120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} ADDLOCAL=OutlookVBScript /qb