Friday, October 19, 2012

Using the Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook

The Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook is a program that provides an easy way to print and customize Outlook calendar information. It puts you in control of the tools you need and helps you plan and create designer-quality output.
Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16645
With this download you can:
  • Add Shared Calendars and print them!
  • Print dynamic calendar views
  • Customize and personalize your calendars
  • Adjust information to changing views
There is one big limitation where you will not be able to run this program on a 64bit version of Outlook.
In the below calendar, I have added my Exchange Calendar, My Tasks, Ron's shared Exchange calendar and my Office365 Calendar.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Detect the installed SharePoint edition

get-spfarm | select Products





See the article How To: Detect the Installed SKU of SharePoint 2010 on MSDN. It has a list of GUIDs for each SKU:
  • BEED1F75-C398-4447-AEF1-E66E1F0DF91E: SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • 1328E89E-7EC8-4F7E-809E-7E945796E511: Search Server Express 2010
  • B2C0B444-3914-4ACB-A0B8-7CF50A8F7AA0: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Trial
  • 3FDFBCC8-B3E4-4482-91FA-122C6432805C: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
  • 88BED06D-8C6B-4E62-AB01-546D6005FE97: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Trial
  • D5595F62-449B-4061-B0B2-0CBAD410BB51: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
  • BC4C1C97-9013-4033-A0DD-9DC9E6D6C887: Search Server 2010 Trial
  • 08460AA2-A176-442C-BDCA-26928704D80B: Search Server 2010
  • 84902853-59F6-4B20-BC7C-DE4F419FEFAD: Project Server 2010 Trial
  • ED21638F-97FF-4A65-AD9B-6889B93065E2: Project Server 2010
  • 926E4E17-087B-47D1-8BD7-91A394BC6196: Office Web Companions 2010
You can look for these within the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\InstalledProducts.

You can also use the PowerShell command get-spfarm | select Products to output GUIDs for the installed SKUs.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Adobe Reader 10.1.4 Checkout and Open

Today I installed Adobe PDF Viewer version X (10.1.4) and when you open a document in SharePoint you are Defaulted with Check Out & Open.
That seems to be a BAD implementation by Adobe, perhaps intentionally done?