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I ran into an issue the other day after upgrading some hardware components of our Exchange 2007 server. I was running through the usual connectivity tests after restarting the server and found that Outlook was prompting for authentication before syncing my mail with the server.

Searching through the logs pointed me in the direction of the Exchange services and sure enough one of the services had not started automatically as it should have. The service in question was the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant. Starting this service resolved the issue straight away. I have since restarted the server and the service continues to not start automatically. One to watch…

• Start -> Administrative Tools -> Services
• Right-Click Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service
• Select Start from displayed context menu

Microsoft Office 2007 allows you to publish a .docx document to a blog and WordPress is one of the supported blogging systems. However, while attempting to register my blog for publishing with Word 2007, I received the following error:

To resolve this error the XML-RPC option needs to be enabled on your blog. The setting can be found by browsing to Settings -> Writing and ticking the “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.” check box.

The following are flash based reference guides for Office 2007. The guides allow you to perform a task interactively in Office 2003, then guides you through performing the same task in Office 2007.

• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Microsoft Office Access
  

If you are struggling to find anything and everything in the new Ribbon style Microsoft Office menu then the following FREE add-in might be just the thing for you…

(http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/menuaddins)

The add-in adds a new section to the add-in ribbon of the application that mimics the Office 2003 menu (Word example):

Installation:

1. Download the add-in for each application from the links above.
2. Unzip the macro-enable template files to a location on your PC.
3. To install the add-in: Windows XP:
   
   • Copy the appropriate macro-enabled file to the applications startup folder.
     Word example (Word Menu 2003.dotm):
     (C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup)

   Windows Vista:

   • Copy the appropriate macro-enabled file to the applications startup folder.
     Word example (Word Menu 2003.dotm):
     (C:\Users\<username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP)

   To run the add-in once off:

   • Double-click the appropriate unzipped macro-enabled file.

Now bring back the memories of a simpler time…