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Posted: 18 May 2008 01:49 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

What Linux distribution do you use? Most probably you can find a guide
specific for your distro - or somebody here can tell you.

It's a lot easier if you use the tools specific to your distro, not some
generic, outdated guides.

E.g. for Ubuntu have a look at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu>.


Michael

DDS-4 tape drive compatiblity

Posted: 18 May 2008 07:06 AM PDT

Scott Hemphill wrote: 


I was guessing something like that. I think you are saying that the
format is as standardize as say ext3 or fat16.

 


Thanks, Scott, I'll try that. So we are expecting/hoping to be able to
interchange any non-compressed DDS-4 tapes among DDS-4 drives.

I found the following doc which gives a lot of technical detail on the
Compaq (rebadged Sony) drive.
 
 
 
 
 
 


I haven't found anything definite yet about DCLZ for the DAT40i. More
about that later.

CentOS 3.9 installation problem

Posted: 17 May 2008 02:11 AM PDT


"F8BOE" <ch> wrote in message
news:48306bff$0$19976$free.fr... 


I agree. Why use such an old distro???

Does rysnc works for this?

Posted: 17 May 2008 02:06 AM PDT

On 5$B7n(B18$BF|(B, $B2<8a(B4$B;~(B39$BJ,(B, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote: 

Great thanks guys.
Your help is highly appreciated. I will try all the suggestions.
Good luck to me. Thx. ^.^

Linux to be embedded in Asus motherboards, offering 3-second startup.

Posted: 16 May 2008 12:12 PM PDT

On May 16, 7:18 pm, Leonard The Committed <com>
wrote:
 

Keep in mind though that even if Asus provided some source
code for the built-in Linux, that doesn't mean the object files in
the motherboard's flash memory correspond. They could
potentially put spyware in there and you don't know that
it's truly safe until you inspect the code and more importantly
compile and install it yourself.

As an example, what if someone at DeviceVM, which makes
the distro, is highly pro-China and decides to prevent
the embedded Firefox from loading to a pro-Tibet website?

What's needed really is for Linux partisans to te
what DeviceVM has done.

Fedora 9 | changing login screen?

Posted: 15 May 2008 12:36 PM PDT

net wrote: 

Actually it's Gnome (i.e., the Gnome Project) that doesn't provide the
option/utility to change the greeter (aka login screen). Lots of other
folks have complained about its inflexibility, too.

If you get ambitious, there are some things you can change by editing
the GConf structures for the gdm user. Like you can hide the
reboot/shutdown buttons if you want (and a very few other useless
things). As of about a week ago, Gnome added an option to hide the user
list on the login screen, an excellent improvement that would be nice if
it came downstream to Fedora.

The best doentation on what you can and cannot do is at www.gnome.org.

32-bit library on 64-bit SUSE 10 system

Posted: 11 May 2008 04:26 AM PDT

Darren Salt wrote: 

Hi Darren, hi Andrew

Thank you both for your help. I checked your proposals and everythink was fine.
Meanwhile I browsed through some forums and found that I have a memory problem.
My (1und1) virtual server has very little memory. This makes yast fail. I succeeded in
using yast by killing unneeded processes. This minimum memory usage made yast
work. Now I have installed the 32-bit version of openssl and my program is
completely happy.

Thanks.
Andreas

Linux stopped reading my 2nd HDD - Help!!

Posted: 10 May 2008 03:05 AM PDT

DOES KUBUNTU / UBUNTU Linux take care of this problem.
It recognizes MTNL internet flawlessly with firefox----- where the
Debian distribution failed.
Why don't u run VirtualBox on your Windows XP system until Kubuntu
comes up.

Erach


On May 12, 10:34 am, sridhar <com> wrote: 

Where do I find a list of repositories?

Posted: 09 May 2008 05:00 PM PDT

Thank you!

"s. keeling" <com> wrote in message
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video driver / only low resolution possible?

Posted: 30 Apr 2008 08:59 AM PDT

On Fri, 02 May 2008 10:44:53 +0200, Eilko wrote:
 

You should probably have a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If it exists it can
be modified slightly to get your higher resolutions.

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection

If the file does not exist it can be created in a number of ways. You do
need to know a few data ahead of time such as the capabilities of your
monitor.
 

Install a more newcomer-friendly distribution such as Ubuntu.

GRUB or LILO on NTFS?

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 07:13 PM PDT


"Kertis Henderson" <com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 


First off, though I know of no way to install grub or lilo on an NTFS
partition...
that's *not* where you'd want it to reside.

If you really want to use such a boot loader...you'll need to install it on
your MBR


I never tried it as I'd see no possible use for doing so...
but you could probably boot from a Linux live cd such as Damn Small Linux
and install lilo or grub from there.

If you end up trashing your mbr in the process you can
use the fixmbr command from the repair console

md5sum

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 03:47 AM PDT

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:44:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Obviously, You did not read the lines: "It is important to note that the
hash value shared by the two different files is a result of the collision
construction process. We cannot target a given hash value, and produce a
(meaningful) input bit string hashing to that given value"

http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign/


--
Regards/mvh Joachim Mæland

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
-Mario Andretti

2 files, 2 sizes, identical md5sums

Posted: 22 Apr 2008 11:11 AM PDT

gamename writes: 
 

Which means that if you can test a million files a second you will need on
the order of 10000000000000000000000000 years to find a match.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

Strange mount

Posted: 22 Apr 2008 05:03 AM PDT

"Guillaume Dargaud" <gdargaud.net>
wrote: 

I've seen it but it seemed strange to me. Have not yet
had time to look up version differences and why a
"rootfs" type filesystem appears as an extra mount on
a few systems I support.
 
... 
... 
...

How to set ACPI governor?

Posted: 19 Apr 2008 02:43 PM PDT

John Hasler wrote: 

Wait. No. This is not what he stated. And the NSA has a long history of
casually monitoring civilian traffic, in direct violation of its charter, the
law, and the constitution. (Look at the warrant-free taps they put on the
backbones of AT&T, mentioned all over various media including this article:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70908. They can, and do,
monitor at any time and in any way they deem suitable.

Then look at their role in the creation of the Clipper Chip, an encryption
technology designed to rest the decryption keys in federal hands, and its
abandonment when it was discovered the chips could be used with unregistered keys.
 

That's a different story. I can easily believe that they, as its authors, are
aware of a few subtleties not widely published. A backdoor doesn't have to be
robust, merely buried in many thousands of line of complex code. And it
doesn't have to be permanent.

This does not mean SELinux is useless, but that it should be viewed with a
very cautious eye, considering its source.
 

Again, no. He didn't say this. Please don't extrapolate his thoughts into
complete nonsense: while SELinux has been widely used and reasonably reviewed,
it deserves careful and justified distrust of its source.
 

Now, you're just trolling.

beginning

Posted: 19 Apr 2008 04:08 AM PDT

Thank you all for the tips on linux and newsgroups!

The reason I've posted the same questions is that I wasn't sure where to get
the right answer, as I've just subscribed. I would not do the same thing
now.

"Allodoxaphobia" <com> wrote in message
news:config.com... 

Debian's Kernel 2.6.24 and future versions: Use amd64 or 686?

Posted: 18 Apr 2008 04:00 PM PDT

Meat Plow <net> writes:
 

Or you could not bother and compare the config files that ship with the
bespoke debian kernels. You will find little difference.

You would be far more interested in "standard" kernel stability and
performance than some optimised mish mash assuming you want to
use it on your desktop.

Clearly if you have very specialised needs then the above might not be
so valid. I know that whenever I have compiled my own there is very,
very little difference in performance and one of the only times I would
consider it would be for very specialised HW situations where I know I
can leave out 90% of the default drivers.

linux server setup - in the deep end

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 11:50 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Keith Keller <san-francisco.ca.us>: 
[..] 
 

Seconded! I'd also look into http://www.ltsp.org/ a halfway
reasonable server could easily serve +300 students with thin
clients and save tons of money + time for administrative
purposes.

You can run an extra citrix server for some software needing M$,
though most things can be done with Linux apps. You might want to
run the citrix client on the thin clients to save the server some
horse power and speed things up.

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 112: The monitor is plugged into the serial port

Network Printer in Ubuntu

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 02:59 AM PDT

On Apr 16, 9:06 pm, Maurice Batey <removethis.org.uk>
wrote: 

Maurice Thanks
- Ubuntu comes with a HPLIP toolbox which did the configuration for
me. Though I still have no clue as to what I did wrong back there:-))
Vivek

Fedora and I are not mixing

Posted: 15 Apr 2008 12:51 PM PDT

com wrote: 

It is not a good idea to log in as root. Log in as a user and go root. Be root
only when necessary. Anyway when you exit root you become the user again.

You should be at a run level where ctrl-alt F1-F6 give you separate terminals.
I think that is at least 3.

However it does not make sense that an exit does not simply give you a login
prompt instead of shutting down.

--
Palestinians have nothing to negotiate with Israel but the schedule for its
withdrawal to its 1948 borders.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3963
http://www.giwersworld.org/holo3/holo-survivors.phtml a3

Install Win XP over Linux

Posted: 15 Apr 2008 06:43 AM PDT

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:03:22 -0700 (PDT), "com"
<com> wrote:
 
XP Home running in Xen or VMWare or VirtualBox or Qemu is real XP
Home.
 
Since the first time I installed Redhat, I have always followed the
same procedure. Use partition magic to partition and format the
Windows partitions. Use it to partition but not format the linux
partitions. Install linux. Install windows. Use a liveCD or a linux
floppy to boot into linux Mount the linux partitions. add the Windows
partition to lilo.conf. run lilo.

The only time I have ever had *any* problems, was when I tried to make
a SCSI drive a boot drive. Then I had to figure out how to modify irq
mappings in the boot options.

I don't particularly use lilo over grub for any reason except: I know
lilo it has preformed well so i see no reason to change

Install Debian on a Machine with Windows XP

Posted: 12 Apr 2008 04:57 AM PDT

<com> wrote 

This is a lot easier than some replies seem to suggest. While I don't
disagree that doing lots of study and reading will be helpful, it's not
actually necessary to get Debian up and running on your machine. Try this:

1. Boot from the CD you burned, hit enter at the prompt for a 'normal'
install
2. When it gets to the partition manager stage, choose Manual partitioning
3. Select your Windows partition (it is probably the only one, unless you
have one of those wanky OEM recovery partitions or something).
4. Choose "resize the partition" - it will tell you the minimum size you can
make it - this of course depends on how full it is.
5. Reduce it by at least 10GB (this is plenty for messing around with Linux,
but more doesn't hurt if you can spare it).
6. Create TWO new Logical partitions: a small one (1 or 2GB, ideally 2x the
computer's RAM) and a large one (all the rest of the space)
7. Make sure the small one is set as "use as swap space" and the large one
is set to be mounted as / (the root partition).
8. Exit the partition manager and write the changes
9. Proceed with the rest of the install
10. Reboot into Debian and enjoy.

Good luck,

CC

PC / Mac / Linux benchmarks (programs) that compare performance to Cray and other supercomputers...

Posted: 07 Apr 2008 11:33 PM PDT

In article <net>,
James Wilson <info> wrote: 
More of historic interest. 
True. 
Historic. Current models are a bit more complex. 
Old Crays.

PCs will also tend to out perform the ENIAC as well.

--

problem with samsung S203D DVD writer on suse linux 10.2

Posted: 07 Apr 2008 04:10 PM PDT

Fernando Peral Pérez wrote: 
 
 
 
 
 

Not that I am aware of. I thought Toshiba and Samsung were different companies
in Japan and Korea respectively. I had never heard of TSSTCorp and found nothing
to indicate its connection to any other company when I googled it. When I came
into possession of one as part of a pre-built computer it was identified as
TSSTCorp not any other company.

Google that drive and see the web has nothing but complaints about it. So if it
is a subsidiary and to unload a known defective product by using the parent
company name that is sufficient reason to stop buying Samsung.

I am talking something that was known defective about two years ago. I forget
exactly how long ago I asked after my problems with it and lots of peopletold
me about it.

Over the years I have had a lot of CD and DVD burners and this is only one that
has been a disaster. Replacements are a max of $50 these days. No real effort to
find one for $30. It only takes a driver.

But until you have a new burner there is no way to eliminate it as the problem.

As long as you are going root to burn it should work. I have used k3b with no
problems the first time I tried it so I know it works if the burner works. I
have over 400 CDs and DVDs burned and no problems. Failures are uncommon and I
verify every burn.

With the TSST I was griping about the deteriorating quality of blank media
going the way of 3.5" floppies with maybe half or more failures.

--
Despite all the questions about the official version of 9/11 the fact
remaains the government has no official version of 9/11. That is immensely
convenient for all parties concerned.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3975
http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/bombings.phtml a5

Dual Booting

Posted: 04 Apr 2008 11:29 PM PDT

JAG CHAN wrote: 

Leave the small drive installed and put linux on the new drive. This will keep
linux safe from almost any stupid thing XP might do. Linux will detect the XP
formated drive and include it in /etc/fstab with the correct parameters so you
can access any data from linux.
 

If needs to partition it for some other reason it is sort of arbitrary mainly
dependent upon how much data he wants to access when running XP as it can only
MS type file formats.

--
Tell me what convinced you when you were skeptical about the Jewish gas
chambers. If you never questioned them, why not?
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3958
http://www.giwersworld.org a1

Microsoft Word - Issues opening MS word docs

Microsoft Word - Issues opening MS word docs

Issues opening MS word docs

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 02:08 PM PST

I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 a couple months ago. I am unable to open any MS word or powerpoint documents that I have generated on any other computer. I went to Geek Squad and they told me to uninstall and reinstall MS office but that did not work.  These documents are saved on flashdrives and open up on several other computers. Any suggestions?

Flip/Mirror/Reverse Page Formatting?

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 12:32 PM PST

I have a fairly long document that, for the most part, consists of three text boxes on each page. The text box on the far left is colored and serves as a side-panel for information that is an appendage to the main text and also makes the pages less bland. I am planning on printing this document, and realized that if i print it as it stands then the red text box on the left will be on the left for each page, instead of how i imagined it originally (with the red text box on the outer side of each page).

I could fix this manually, by going through every odd page and moving the red text box to the right side and the other two text boxes over as appropriate. This would make it so that when printed, the red border/text box would be opposite each other in the book. However, it would be much more convenient if I could somehow tell word to reverse a pages text boxes/formatting, as the formatting is all done except for the lack of mirroring.

Is this possible?

Thanks for your time, its a little long.

-TWS

P.S.

I have access to word 2007, 2010, and 2013, but usually use 2010. The document seems to play nice in every version though, so if one version can do this i will convert it over.

Word "Not responding" when clicking hyperlinks

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 11:47 AM PST

When I click some hyperlinks in a document someone sent to me word freezes saying "not responding" and at the bottom I have a message saying "trying to contact server".  This is so frustrating, anyone know why? 

office 365 word

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 11:23 AM PST

Why won,t word operate on windows 8.1 in my dektopp

Index feature, Latin Extended Additional Characters (in Georgia) - Word 2007

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 10:33 AM PST

I am trying to index a document in Georgia font in Word but I am finding that some of the characters from the Latin Extend Additional family of characters (S, s, D, d, T, t, H, h + italicized versions with dot below) are not visible in my version of Word (PC user running Word 2007 on Windows 7).  The document originated with a Mac user who has a special diacritics package running.

Upon opening the doc, these characters appear as boxes.  If I select the entire document and re-select Georgia, nothing changes.  I can however switch to fonts like Times or Arial and the characters are supported and I seem them.

Question #1: If I switched this document to Times and completed an index and at the end of it switched the document back to Georgia, would this be seamless?  Meaning, would the font change cascade throughout the index too?  I ask because usually one has to change index details in the dialogue boxes associated with that functionality.

Troubleshooting the problem I did find that if I moved the manuscript into fonts that support the needed characters, that if I then returned to Georgia I began to see characters in place of the boxes.  This came with format changes to the document in all the places where the characters were subbed in (for example: "Formatted: Complex Script Font: +Body CS").  The subbed in characters don't seem to be native to Georgia, they are sans serif. 

Question #2:  What is this functionality that subbed in the characters?  Is it a Unicode approximation that speaks across font?  Is there any way I can download these Latin Extended Additional characters for Georgia?

Thanks so much for your help!

Forms, content control, and footers.

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 09:41 AM PST

The objective: To create a five page form for a client profile at my company. The first page is a cover sheet with the client's name, ID, and a service summary (all text). The next four pages are identical service profile (though a different service is profiled on each page, so the content will be different). The client's name and ID is repopulated in the header (which I already know how to do). The body of the profile pages has three rich text content control forms, enabled via the developer tab. I also put a footer on each profile page which contains two tables, one of which needs to be filled out (all text) when doing the profile in the body. I put it in the footer so that the tables would be uniformly displayed on the bottom of the page, regardless of the length of text in the main profile section. I also want to restrict content control so that workers don't accidentally tweak page elements and then I have to resend the form or tell them how to fix it.

The problem: First, if I try using forms for the table cells, because it's a footer, it repopulates the same data on each page. This is bad, as each page is profiling a different service so the content needs to be different. The other problem is that, with restricted editing, other people can't even access to the tables in the footers to edit the content anyway. I've tried to use section breaks instead of footers, but they do not seem to be working properly. Instead of the tables being uniformly placed on the bottom of the page, their placement is affected by the previous section.

Can anyone help me solve this problem? Thanks.

Headers

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 08:29 AM PST

I am working on a Template and was wondering if I could format my header that it will pull information from the body of the template.  For example, in the header I want to include the job number and name of the customer in the header.  It is already listed in the body of the template.  Can this be done that it will automatically pull the information instead of having to type it again in the header?

Word 2010 Building Blocks

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 08:06 AM PST

I just created a new category and BB entries but now I can't go back to my General category.  How do you change categories?

Thanks for your help

Word. On screen my paper looks correct, after printing word erases words on the end of sentences. How to I fix?

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 08:02 AM PST

Word.  On screen my paper looks correct, after printing word erases words on the end of sentences.  How to I fix?

Merge Field Problem

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 07:04 AM PST

<Title changed for clarity>

I'm currently trying  to make a directory in Word 2007 using an access database. Why doesn't the following work?

«SALUTATION» {IF MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} = "" {MERGEFIELD SPOUSE} {MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} «LAST_NAME»

I get Salutation  {IF MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} = "" {MERGEFIELD SPOUSE} {MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} Last Name

Cannot pin folder in backstage

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 06:21 AM PST

I can not pin a folder in backstage of Word 2013.  I can not get a folder to show up in the "RECENTS" area.

Need word macro to export and import alt text.

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 05:37 AM PST

Hello Guys,

I need word macro to export and import alt text present in Microsoft word.  Motive is to export text for localization and after localization import the same.

Alt text could be found here-:
right click on picture-> go to size -> Alt Text

Word 2013 - Document disappears when deleting text

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 12:41 AM PST

I'm not really sure what's wrong, here's what's happening -

I will have a document open in word, when I go to delete a large amount of text (either by highlighting and deleting, or by holding down the delete button) the entire document will suddenly disappear and leave me with only the grey background.  This also occurs when I use the slider to navigate through the document

In some cases the document itself stays, but all of the text disappears.  

I tried saving after this had occurred, when I went to reopen the document that I had just saved I was greeted with an entirely blank word document.  

This is happening quite frequently and is seriously interfering with my ability to work.  Does anyone recognize what's wrong and know how to fix it?

Thanks,

Kat

Microsoft word won't open - registry error from upgrade to 8.1?

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 08:50 PM PST

Howdy,

When trying to open Microsoft word (or any other office application - I have office '13), I get the following message:

Winword.exe - Entry Point Not Found
"The procedure entry point _vsnprin4 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d2d1.dll."

I read a suggestion to use Event View to see the error details and this is what it reported (please note is error generated below pertains to excel):

Faulting application name: EXCEL.EXE, version: 15.0.4667.1000, time stamp: 0x543d3243
Faulting module name: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d2d1.dll!_vsnprin4, version: 6.3.9600.17278, time stamp: 0x53eeb4a3
Exception code: 0xc0000139
Fault offset: 0x00098f05
Faulting process id: 0x210
Faulting application start time: 0x01d018e83f5689e6
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d2d1.dll
Report Id: 82ef0769-84db-11e4-beb0-006b9e021b75
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Any ideas where to go from here? Is this a result to my upgrade to 8.1 from windows 8?

Thanks!

Space between two headings cant eliminate?

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 08:22 PM PST

Hi All,

There is space between two headings 

i cant eliminate.

Red Arrow indicate Space

Create macro that saves current doc in another folder or drive (in addition to current folder)

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 05:45 PM PST

I found a macro to do this in Word2000 (listed below) but it does not work in Word2007 (Enterprise) which I am trying to use:

Every single document I create is saved on the laptop but also must be saved on a desktop on my network. That is called drive U. I am able to do a  SAVE AS and append U:\ to the front of my filename and save it. But I would like a macro that does it for me since I do it for everything. If I create a keystroke macro, all I know how to do, it would include the current filename, such as U:\file1 but I want to also use the macro for file2 etc. My keystroke macro would save it as file1 again. Not good.

How do I change or replace the Word2000 macro below to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.

HERE IS THE WORD2000 MACRO AND THE ERROR:

I get run time error "bad file name" and it highlights  "Documents(ActiveWindow.Caption).Close" (If I delete that line the next line is highlighted instead)

Sub SentToDriveU()

    If ActiveDocument.Saved = False Then ActiveDocument.Save

    System.Cursor = wdCursorWait

    OrigLongFileName = ActiveDocument.Name

    OldPath = ActiveDocument.Path & Application.PathSeparator

    If ActiveDocument.Path = "" Then

        MsgBox "Please save this document before sending to drive U:", _

           vbOKOnly, "This Document Not Saved"

    Else

        Documents(ActiveWindow.Caption).Close

        FileCopy OldPath & OrigLongFileName, "U:\" & OrigLongFileName

        Documents.Open FileName:=OldPath & OrigLongFileName

        Application.GoBack

    End If

    System.Cursor = wdCursorNormal

End Sub

Font Color Makes Text Bold

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 04:59 PM PST

I have word 2010 installed on a Dell XPS 13 in Windows 8.1.

Whenever I apply a font color to text, the text becomes bold. It is impossible to remove the bolding and just have regular text that's in color.

I have used Word for decades and have never seen this before. I've checked editing options, keyboard options, style options... no luck.

Has anyone experienced this and do you know how to fix it?

Thanks for your help.

Safe to convert to Word 2010 XML format?

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 04:08 PM PST

Safe to convert to Word 2010 XML format?

Hi all, 

I like to confirm the answers to the question posted at the following link: 

http://superuser.com/questions/656031/safe-to-convert-to-word-2010-xml-format 

  1. Is all formatting kept when converting a Word 2010 document to XML format?

  2. Is there a difference in features I can use with a document in the XML format?

  3. Will my content and formatting be safe in the future and not break or disappear after 2 weeks of edits?

   4.   Also, is it safe to REVERT the XML format to docx? 

Also, I want to ask whether it is safe to save a file (*.xlsx) as an XML Spreadsheet 2003 file (*.xml) without any loss. 

I have the full Microsoft Product but it is refusing to work.

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 03:14 PM PST

Hello

I have the Microsoft Office 365 suite which is fully paid. I have had no issues with this until around three days ago when inexplicably it stopped working showing me the following screen:

Does anyone know how I can get past this screen as I do need Microsoft Word to work for me?

Many thanks

Jade

Microsoft CRM - Mass update to contact records

Microsoft CRM - Mass update to contact records

Mass update to contact records

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 08:06 AM PDT

Hi Ken,

There are several options - 1 is totally unsupported , the others are ok.

You could do this type of operation against the database directly with a
simple SQL statement, however, it is not recommended to touch the database
directly. I would only recommend this if you are 100% confortable with
T-SQL and the structure of the database. I have used this method as a quick
and last resort maintenance fix. I'm sure others will disagree with this
approach!.

You could, as you said create a workflow rule, however, you could only apply
this to a max of 100 contacts at a time - this is the upper limit of rows
that can be displayed on a grid. This may be time consuming.

The final option is to update the data through the API. This would involve
a little programming knowledge. Basically, select all the contacts using
fetch xml in the query class, for each contact perform the field copy and
update the contact record using the contact class.

Hope this helps

Regards

Mike

"Ken Schisler" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

How to prepart the three CRM exams?

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 02:52 AM PDT

Where are you based?


"CEO" <com> wrote in message
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Changing Entity Name

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 02:15 AM PDT

This is possible. Unsupported though. this was posted somewhere and it
works i have done it myself, if you need help, feel free to email me:
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Workflows NOT working on Create

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 12:13 AM PDT

Yeah Jefferson, the WaitFor is definitely the way to go. I would also
recommend that you make them manual workflow rules. You can then exec
the manual rules from the Create rule. (One reason: users can then
manually apply rule if the workflow rule didn't fire as expected - or,
if some condition causes you to want to re-fire those rules.)

If the value can be set to another value, and then back again (unlikely
in the example of "Death" that you specified ;-), then you may want to
look into recursive workflow rules. (Search this newsgroup for
recursive workflow for details.) But that will make sure you create
what you want every time that field is set to that value. HTH,

Dave
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CRM for SBS2003 on Windows Server 2003

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 09:25 AM PDT

Ditto Matt's comments.
I have installed MSCRM for Clients on SBS, starting with 1.0. on SBS 2000.

Often, admins do something to break CRM.
So after burning alot of their money to fix it, I have come to a conclusion.
Add a member server to the SBS forest and install CRM on that. Just use the
SQL server on the SBS box. It also uncomplicates the Sharepoint and Admin web
apps issues.


"MattNC" wrote:
 

TAP2 beta newsgroup

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 06:56 AM PDT

Thanks Peter, I will try him


"Pete C" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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MSCRM Deployment

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 04:58 AM PDT

Ditto with Henning.

MSCRM is an forest wide application. The Sales Outlook Client is installed
when the machines are members of the domain /Forest. Their subscriptions to
the ton metabase needs the user and machine objects to ID them to the
database.

I was just at a client today who tried to get around the "Machine and user
not in the domain with MSCRM" issue. Nothing but problems there. Even if
you add the user and machine latter, the damage is already done.

In our case tion has to be redone.


"Henning B. Treichl" wrote:
 

Calling javascript functions from isv.config button

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 04:19 AM PDT

Thanks, David.

Finally I used the first way blurring the focus of the 'dummy' window
on the load. A little ugly, but...

Nac.

crmextensions.com

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 08:06 PM PDT

we have not seen a need for this on the server as we typically use fast
servers however the client side would be useful.

--
John O'Donnell
Microsoft CRM MVP
http://www.mscrmfaq.us


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automatically update knowledge base from case files

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 01:37 PM PDT

Thanks John, but could be more specific on the "sdk" and "isv" ???? I'm a bit
new to this and have not caught on to the language ..... Thanks again.

"John O'Donnell" wrote:
 

Recovering CRM

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 11:48 AM PDT

Mauricio,

we had exactly the same scenario with our CRM install. I eventually managed
to get it back working by basically reinstalling a fresh copy of CRM with a
new db, recreating the users then, after exporting the old SQL db's to MS
Access, reimporting the data into the new db's and copying & pasting the
security details to each record.

A very long winded process (luckily we only had a few hundred entries) and
not 100% successful as we do get occassional security issues when new users
try to access old records, but it did get us back up working again.

I would recommend asking MS for their suggestions before resorting to this!

Ruth

"Mauricio Orrego" wrote:
 

How to add a lookup field to an entity

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 06:28 AM PDT

Until the release of Microsfot CRM v.3.0 you can only add new lookup-fields
by developing your own add-on for the entity you want to extend.
One possible way is to use httpModules - read more about it at
http://blogs.msdn.com/joris_kalz/archive/2005/01/17/354379.aspx

Kind regards,
Henning B. Treichl
(WM-data, Denmark)




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Check Condition when convert lead

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 04:32 AM PDT

Hi Carrie,



You cannot create multiple contacts in one step, when converting Leads. But
you can think of using the following workaround:



1. Create one Lead record per contact-person (state the same Company Name on
the Lead records associated) you want to keep track of in the lead phase of
your customer life cycle.

2. When converting your Leads, you start converting the Lead with the main
contact person information.

3. Then you convert the second Lead record holding the next contact person.
This time you only convert the Lead into a Contact, and selects to 'Open
newly created record(s)'.

4. When the new contact record is created, you link it to the account by
selecting the proper Parent Account.

5. Save and close...



It's not the most effective process, but it's manageable.



Kind regards,

Henning B. Treichl

(WM-data, Denmark)



"Carrie" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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UserName appears Incorrectly in Deployment Manager

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 03:31 AM PDT

The most likely reason for the Surname/Forename switch is that the
configuration option for this only applies when users (and contacts) are
saved - pre-existing users will be changed. Given Fred has the system admin
role, I wouldn't be surprised if his account was used to install CRM, then
the name order was changed, as this would give the naming behaviour
described. If you edit the user Fred and save him, the name order should
change.

Not sure how this impacts the reports issue, though

"Frank Lee" wrote:
 

Finding isv.config

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 02:49 AM PDT

There's no registry key indicating the physical location of the CRM
installation, as this information is only stored in the IIS Metabase.

I can think of 2 ways to get the physical path, both of which would require
code:

1. Query the IIS metabase programmatically, using the IIS SDK
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iissdk/html/6436aeaf-d4c3-4e1f-8cd3-96359ff427ce.asp
gets you started). The web site under which CRM is installed is identified by
the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSCRM\website

2. Create a simple web service within the CRM installation, with a piece of
code that returns the physical path, using the
HttpRequest.PhysicalApplicationPath property (assuming you're developing with
..Net). Doing this is arguably a security risk, though you can minimise this
by restricting access to the web service



"JB" wrote:
 

crm in mixed mode

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 12:04 AM PDT

If this is going to be a production installation, I would STRONGLY recommend
that you do NOT use a virtual environment. Virtual environments are great for
demos & testing, but the performance is not consistent enough to trust in a
production environment. also, MBS will not support an installation in a virtual
environment so you run a huge risk there for your client if you go that route.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:13:13 +0100, "Peter Lynch"
<com.SPAMFREE> wrote:

1. Exchange does not need to be in same domain as CRM

2. Yes, you can use virtual machines (but better to use Virtual Server as
platform, not Virtual PC)

Peter Pynch


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Organizational Units

Posted: 24 Jul 2005 09:32 PM PDT

Well , it's a big question. SBS 2003 is a good product for smaller firms and
some not so small. I worked on a project where we used GSX to put all the
servers on virtual servers. This included MSCRM server, the exchange server,
Intergration Server, Commerce Server, SQL Server, Great Plains.

We won a Microsoft Field award for it. I manage the virtual network now for
one of my clients.

Depending on what you need to support, you should think about what happens
when you out grow what you have. SBS may not allow your SQL databases or
your Exchange Database to be large enough for future needs.

If you use SBS, thing about putting MSCRM on a seperate server. The SQL
server can be on the SBS box, and the Exchange server can be on there too.
You have a 16GB limit on Exchange. That can go pretty fast in a busy shop.
Some clients have been able to add a full exchange server to the Exchange
organization of SBS and although not supported it provided for the volume of
mail the client was receiving.

So I think you are on track, but your plan should include scaling. Even
when you build the virtual machines, always plan for them to have to run on
another server.
Leave them a life raft to go to if you have to bring them up on another
server.


"Jonathan" wrote:
 

Interested in Microsoft CRM

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 04:20 PM PDT

Hi Beck,



I don't know of any specific guidelines for implementing Microsoft CRM in
the financial sector, but this year I was the main responsible consultant of
the ysis phase of an implementation at a big Nordic bank. The solution
was also covering their Investment Advisory business area.



I will share some of my experience from that project with you and other news
users:



1. No development was needed to manage relations with customers and other
business relations. The ability to manage the customer hierarchy through use
of the parent relation type, gave a better overview on the customer
activities in Microsoft CRM, compared with the company's existing situation.



2. The use of Outlook as the CRM client was expected to have huge impact on
the user's learning curve on how to use the solution. Planning the
implementation of the Sales For Outlook Client was not easy though, because
of some struggling with the IT-department. The main reason was no support of
roaming user profiles, complex deployment procedures and the risk of poor
performance when having +300 Sales For Outlook clients. This was dealt with
using some specific not public available hotfixes from Microsoft and
planning special deployment routines for the Microsoft CRM Sales For Outlook
client. I've seen the next version of Microsoft CRM (v.3.0) and it has been
improved a lot on this area, and therefore our struggles might not be an
issue to be concerned of after the release of Microsoft CRM v.3.0.Until
then - use the browser client for implementing solutions with a large number
of users or if terminal server environments or roaming user profiles must be
supported.



3. The main purpose was to implement a more effective contact relation
sharing and knowledge sharing in general between employees. One focus area
related to this was how to manage customer and deal team activities and
roles. For this the concept of sharing records with users and teams in
Microsoft CRM fits out of the box. Mainly because it also gives you control
of access levels when sharing. Depending on how your company works in teams,
you should expect some development to extend the customer specific
information you want to add to a team or a users - but this is very easy to
do in a supported way, to support upgradeability to coming versions of
Microsoft CRM..



4. A very important step when planning the implementation is to plan your
Business Units to support your security demands on restricting data access
to users. We designed a Business Unit hierarchy that supported Chinese Wall
and Given Consent principles. Chinese Wall is for isolating data for one
division or department. The reason for wanting to isolate data can be
related to law or stock exchange relations - I'm sure you might have many
other reasons for doing this. The given consent principle is for managing
accept from companies to share their information between departments across
country borders. You might have different but similar acceptance dependent
information sharing limitations you want to manage. Some minor development
may be needed to optimise the management of this feature.



5. Doent collaboration was designed to be handled in SharePoint -
supporting checking doents in and out, doent versioning, subscribing
on alerts (get an e-mail if doents are added or changed), adding metadata
for reporting on doents, enhanced search engine for doents etc.. An
integration between Microsoft CRM and SharePoint was designed for this
project. This gave a lot of possibilities for sharing doents related to a
project or customer. This way other departments, like legal departments, are
able to access, update or add doents without having a Microsoft CRM user
license. A more effective process for assuring that all customer and project
(e.g. deals) related doents are going to be archived the right place, no
matter if you are a CRM user or a non-CRM user.



6. Combining SharePoint and InfoPath doents added flexibility to extend
Microsoft CRM with 'entity-like' forms without development in Microsoft CRM.
To add forms using InfoPath, enabled flexibility on transporting form-based
data to persons delivering or needing input related to the form doents.
Examples on forms implemented using InfoPath could be: customer strategy,
enhanced wallet size calculation/estimation or detailed visiting reports.



7. Sales forecast, pipeline and sales related activity planning can be
implemented using the standard customisations features related to the
Opportunity supported by Workflow Manager.



8. Until Microsoft CRM v.3.0 is released the solution will come a bit short
when planning and executing campaigns and events. We decided to design an
add-on using Microsoft technology (.Net, IIS, Microsoft SQL database and
Microsoft SQL Notification Services). This turned out to give a vide area of
possibilities in regard to managing invitations, participant lists,
follow-up activities, response, accommodation planning, special activities
related to an event (dinner, sessions, tracks, party, trips, etc.), managing
flights for participants and some other features needed.



9. You should plan to use a lot of time for ysing and planning the
integration from Microsoft CRM to the company's legacy systems. The
difference between success and failure of the project, does in some way rely
on how you implement an effective integration with the legacy systems. In
integration that supports the business processes in the best way possible
and that convinces the users that the numbers an data they see in Microsoft
CRM are the most updated ones in the company. Using the Microsoft CRM SDK,
you will be able to develop strong web service oriented integration points
to all your platforms and systems. I suggest that you choose to use the
simplest design possible when designing your integration architecture.
Stress the differences between 'need to have' and 'nice to have' integration
points and flows.



9. At the end, one of the most important factors for deciding to use
Microsoft CRM compared to other alternatives (there are other alternatives
out there...), was based on strategically considerations. The customer and
my company are convinced that Microsoft CRM we will see an intense
development and enhancement of the product over the coming years. The
partner channel is huge and the platform (.Net) is well known all over the
world with a lot of resources for developing add-ons and industry solutions.
Therefore your investments are not only investing in a CRM application, but
in a platform for managing business relations and for delivering important
information to the management when sailing the company through the sea of
business.



That was my words - hopefully they are worth the time it takes to read them.



Kind regards,

Henning B. Treichl

(WM-data, Denmark)


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New user - how to attach info to a group of contacts

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 01:20 PM PDT

Pierre, thanks. Using the workflow manager sounds like my best bet - could
you possibly outline the steps for me? I've not used the workflow function
yet.

"Pierre Hulsebus" wrote:
 

Can't delete database in order to re-install.

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 12:01 PM PDT

Well , I have been in this positon before when I wanted to migrate the
Databases to another server.

You have to stop the tion first. But this is going to increase the
size of your database. If your LDF file is huge, shrink it. Stop the
tion.
In the Enterprise manager, Right-click on the tion folder and then
choose Disable Publishing.

When it's done, delete the database.

I would backup all of them and the master, just in case.

I would backup the crystal folder and save the password also.
I hope this helps.
/:>



"Mark Kula" wrote:
 

CRM Reports 1.2 / Failed to load Database information.

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 09:39 AM PDT

Hi John,

No my Crystal Report is not accessing other databases outside of CRM and yes
I can open up canned reports. It is just the connector in CR 9.2.2 to access
the SQL databases not being able to work in MSCRM. We did have to tweak our
server in order to be able to bring up canned reports without timing out.
Thanks again on any information that you can find on this issue with a VPN
connection to another server for CRM reports.

--
JDMcDonnell A+ MCP Certified


"John O'Donnell" wrote:
 

KB Articles

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 09:21 AM PDT

Matt is absolutely right on this - sorry, if I brought confusion to this
topic. I was thinking of forms for entities in genreal in Microsoft CRM.
With knowledge base articles it's another game...

Listen to Matt, he is the man... :o)

Henning B. Treichl
(WM-data, Denmark)



"MattNC" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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About MBS CRM Certified Exams.

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 08:07 AM PDT

Thanks Peter,

I can't remember that.
What I know is only the MCP ID. :(

How can I know that?

Cheers,
Jim

Columns Names are missing

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 07:04 AM PDT

It's the language code. An easy search and replace is enough.
You should export the customizations on both systems and check which code is
the one on the production server and replace the languagecodes in the export
of the dev server.

Kind regards,

Ronald Lemmen
Avanade Netherlands

"Peter Lynch" wrote:
 

Cannot abort workflow process

Posted: 22 Jul 2005 06:56 AM PDT

Your good and I am thick, thanks

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