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When you attach a picture to an email in Outlook 2007, Outlook can resize the photos for you. Here's how to control this useful feature.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102349021033.aspx?mode=print

If you turn on Audit Object Access, which is useful to find when and who access and deleted files, you may see thousands of Event 562 in the Windows Security event log. Here's how I fixed it.

ISSUE
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After turning on Success auditing for Object
Access on the SBS 2003 Server,
the security event is fills up with:

My iPhone battery was very weak. It would go dead before the end of a day of moderate usage. Apple would replace my iPhone for about 200 bucks. AT&T suggested restoring my iPhone 3G from scratch, and then reloading my Apps one-by-one. I found a solution that made my iPhone 3G last all day, and then some.

Event ID 1017 "The license store for the client access licenses was corrupt and had to be deleted." Other messages on the server console indicating that license usage has been exceeded, and users' inability to access network resources may be symptoms of a full C: volume.

Treesize can help with this problem by finding the largest directories on your hard drive.

###############################################
# Sample OpenVPN 2.0 uci config for             #
# multi-client server.                          #
#################################################

config openvpn sample_server

        # Set to 1 to enable this instance:
        option enable 1

        # Which local IP address should OpenVPN
        # listen on? (optional)
#       option local 0.0.0.0

If you use OpenWRT and have a server on your LAN, you probably want to setup loopback forwarding. Here's how to do it.

These instructions came from this page. I simply want to explain them a bit more, and confirm that these instructions for loopback forwarding work on OpenWRT Kamikaze.

If you use Group Policy, this is easy. Here's how:

1. Create an Outlook PRF file. Use the Office 2003 Resource Kit.
2. Then add this .reg file to your users' startup script. Adjust the name and location of the PRF file to your needs.

This will affect Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Setup]
"ImportPRF"="\\\\server\\scripts\\outlook_settings.prf"
"First-Run"=-
"FirstRun"=-

I tried to combine a simple two page Word 2007 document with a two page PDF. The word document had page numbers in the footer, like "Page 1 of 2". I combined these documents into a PDF through the Windows Explorer right-click menu -- "Combine supported files in Acrobat".

In my new PDF, the page numbers were displaying incorrectly. These are the page numbers from the Word document. The page numbers said "Page 1 of 1" on the first page, and "Page 2 of 2" on the second page.