Microsoft Outlook 2007 slow on a SSD drive

We had a user experiencing frequent pauses in Outlook 2007, he was running a Dell D630 with a 36GB SSD, one of the first ones offered by Dell.

This seems to be a known problem to both Dell and Microsoft. I have found a couple of interesting articles relating to this (it probably applies to Outlook 2003 as well).

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=55FD454EEE3ECF4BE040AE0AB7E14D54&doclang=en&cs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226

The new Dell E4200's seem to be less affected, however this could be down to the users having smaller .ost files.

Conficker Eye Chart

Got this through from Mark Minasi's news letter.

I've not seen a whole lot on the Conficker virus, almost seems like an April fools to me. Anyway, you can go to this site to make sure your machine is ok. If you don't see all six logo's you could be infected!

http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html

Edit in datasheet error in Sharepoint

If you get the below error message, when trying to edit a list in Datasheet view in Sharepoint:

The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons:

It could be because you aren't running a Pro version of office (i.e. Office 2003 Small Business Edition or Standard). I believe this is because the Edit in Datasheet feature is based on Microsoft Access, which is only included in the Professional version of office. However the feature can be made available to the other versions of office, by adding the following registry entry:

Be careful when editing the registry.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\ProductVersion]

New dword

"ProInfo"=dword:00000001

Office 2007 Help

Office 2007 has been out for a while now, but many corporations are only just making the move. The main reason for delaying has been the massive change in interface from all previous versions of Office.

This handy guide, as well as the built in help, should get you on your way to being productive again with the new suite.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/training/HA102295841033.aspx

However, this may become redundant fairly shortly, due to the imminent release of Office 2010.