Background

A new feature in Office 2013 is the ability to only sync a limited amount of data to your computer. This setting comes in the form of an amount of time. Only sync the last month, 2 months, 3 months… A lot of readers will have seen this setting if they’ve ever setup their own smart phone and I love the ability to have this option. I often run and have clients that run 3-6GB mailboxes and don’t want to suffer the performance loss by have that size of OST (Offline Cache)

WARNING! ALERT!

I found out recently while upgrading an Office 365 Plan 1 Small Business Account to a Office 365 Plan 4 Enterprise account which requires a export to PST / import to PST that Outlook 2013 will only export the OFFLINE CACHED DATA ONLY! It will not download the entire mailbox and export it.

You must change the offline cached setting then allow Outlook to download the entire mailbox.

(This took me hours to do a 3GB mailbox only 256MB had been offline cached. Even though I have a 30MB/5MB connection Outlook will only use minimal bandwidth which is a problem, if you know of a solution to this please comment below)

Dangerous Scenario

A user needs to change Cloud Email accounts maybe changing Office 365 Plans which are different tiers or changing entire providers. If the user is using Outlook 2013 they export their email to a PST. Remove the old service and domain to setup the new service and domain. The user then uploads their PST data to the cloud and finds out they only exported the Offline cached data from Outlook 2013 and not the entire mailbox!

Best Solution

If you are moving to Office 365 I strongly suggest you use the Migration Tool which will have both exchange server old and new work together to transfer all your data and most your settings to the new service without the need for PST export/importing.

However, you can’t always doing this in the case above where you are changing Tiers within the Office 365 network.

Solution 2

Set Outlook 2013 to cache ALL DATA offline once this is done Outlook should say all folders are up to date… Then you can export the data to a PST file. The PST file size should be just smaller then the Mailbox size was in the Cloud. This information can be provided by your Systems Administrator or in the Exchange Control Panel/ECP.

Note

I suggest you never remove your old email service until you’ve fully verified the new one with all it’s data.

 

 

 

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It’s been an extreme week as a Combat Cyber Medic in this Worldwide Cyber War currently no one seems to understand is going on. If you get online you are involved yet you most likely don’t understand that or aren’t fighting at all. Currently the Army of Zeus has a 75% success even when you are fully updated and protected by both AV and Adware. So doing everything you can (Short of unplugging) only protects you 25% of the time. With valid Google search links being poisoned in the millions the war is going very poorly. All of this is only the artillery fire. These aren’t even direct attacks. We rarely even hear about the direct attacks because those that are tasked to protect us want to but don’t have the ability! It’s like having an army without Guns… what’s the point. If they would STOP focusing on Copyright and instead on the real treats and real war being waged something might be done. We stop everyone at the Airports and check them so they can’t hurt anyone in our Country yet we let every asshole surf up to EVERYONE’s Home, Business and Mobile phone and let them try and terrorize us.

IMO… If America’s Cyber Army was compared to a physical army we’d be Canada with unarmed Mounties “protecting us”.

So here my question… Do you feel safe online?

 

 http://www.informationweek.com/government/security/uncertain-state-of-cyber-war/240146543

Zeus records your bank login information then you find out your accounts are empty the next day.

It’s important that you setup your Bank account to NOT allow wire transfers without two forms of authentication (one being non-digital like voice or in person)

It’s also important to request an Encryption Key from your Bank if they have them. This key rotates the number given on it every few seconds so only you can EVER login to your account. They also have Phone Apps which allow you to get your key from there. But with phone being infected in the millions I’d suggest just getting the key.

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Servers can be a costly, but necessary, expense for businesses. As businesses find themselves in the position of shopping for a new server, there is another option: Server as a Service.

We have outlined the major differences between Server as a Service (renting a server) and purchasing a server.

If you would like to know about Server as Service as offered by Networks Unlimited, call us or comment!

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Rules to living life without a phone case. (Written from Lumia WM8 Phone)
1. Dedicate a pocket for your phone.
Left=phone, right=keys and change
2. Never put phone on lap or back pocket. (when getting out of the car is when I’ve found most phones break) this applies to locking keys in the car too.
3. Always put the phone in ur pocket with the screen facing your leg. (protects screen when hitting a desk corner or wall)
4. When setting the phone down always verify. Never set screen face down.
5. Have dedicated locations for the phone to charge.
6. Always take care of the cables. Tripping on a cable is the easiest way to break a phone or laptop.

If you have more Rules please add them in the comments.

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I’ve running into some Website problems with Internet Explorer 9 and 10. I wanted to blog these issues with the simple solutions I’ve found to get around the problems.

Issue 1:

Website doesn’t load at all, doesn’t come up at all just has a blank screen. Website fails to load.

Solution 1:

If you are using a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Windows 8 then please verify which version of IE you are using. You can do this my right clicking the shortcut Icon then properties. Look at the path used for program.

IE 32-bit = C:\program files(x86)\Internet Explorer

IE 64-bit = C:\program files\Internet Explorer

(Note if you are using a 32-bit version of Windows then you will not have a Program Files(x86) but instead one Program Files which will be 32-bit.) This solution only applies to 64-bit version of Windows.

Next:

Try loading the website with the other version of Internet Explorer then the one failing. In most causes this works around the problem and allows you to get back to work. The overall fix will come with updates from Microsoft or of the website.

If this works then change the pinned shortcut for Internet Explorer to the version that’s works and use it.

Solution 2:

It’s important to understand how flash works as an addon to IE9 and IE10 related to 64-bit versions of windows 7 and 8.

You must have both the 32-bit version and 64-bit of flash installed to use the 64-bit version of IE9 or IE10. It’s also important to have them on the same version. So install both versions of flash from Adobe.com then try the failing website once more.

If it works then this should stay fixed.

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Here is a link which is hard to find. There are a few links on MS website that should go here but instead go to an Add Features Page. Here is the Windows 8 Pro N Media Package Download Link http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30685

Media Center is still in question I’ll work on that once this installs.

 

This also fixed xbox smartglass and a few other small issues I was having!

Install the Media Pack!

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I keep hitting the same crash so I wanted to note it.

First off THANK YOU ARTISTEER for adding a recovery system!!! YOU HAVE SAVED ME DAYS of work when your software crashes, now I don’t really care and just work around it.

Crash: When working with Shapes in a Slideshow you can change the text orientation from the edit menu tool bar under paragraph but the software will crash. This only applies to text in a shape within a slide.

Work around: Change the text orientation from the Edit Shape options on the far right of the edit menu. Note there isn’t a drop down option you must select text then font options at the bottom then change the paragraph tab, then change alignment to center or whatever you want.

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How do you un-highlight text there isn’t a NO highlight option. I had to undo! Please add an option for NO TEXT Highlight under Edit!

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Artisteer v4 – Feedback Related to Site size and image vs background compression

Issues: Image compression settings only apply to backgrounds no images added to slides on header/footers. This causes the website performance to suffer. An image at 100k used as a background with 80% jpeg compression (this option is setup in the artisteer settings for global image compression and file type, PNG vs JPG) is great and works well.

However, this same process with a slideshow image, header image or footer image give a file size of 2mb for the same image.

 

Solution:

change single image slide shows or footers to background images and make sure to use JPG’s instead of PNG due to lack of PNG compression  in artisteer.

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