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MS-Exchange 2010 and OWA: Set Resource Calendar Response messages for Automateprocessing
2011/09/21
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- You do not need your Exchange Admin to manage and change the ResponseMessages that your Resources Mailbox Assistants sent out by your Calendar Assistants.
- In OWA, impersonating the mailbox, in the upper right corner, go to “Options” / menu item: “see all options”, and then:
Exchange 2010 Internet Calendars Publishing: 404 and Access level restricted
2011/09/21
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- to access a calendar by its friendly URL (with mailbox name) and get error “404 – File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable”, like here:
- Check your calendar publishing settings: They are likely set to “restricted”, as opposed to “public” which results in an obscure instead of memorable URL, like here:
- Change the settings to “publish”and “save”, this will update the URLS, like here:
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, Glitches&Errors
2010, ms-exchange
LRC Outlook/Exchange 2010 Resource Calendaring: How students can view resource "Calendars from the Internet" in web browser and OWA
2011/09/20
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- Want a shorter version?
- Students, unless specifically TBA:invited, will encounter a permission problem when trying to view calendars like staff.
- Instead, students can use the scheduling assistant to view a basic version of the resource’s calendar. This works “out of the box”.
- Students can also view an advanced version of the resource’s calendars (one-time, or bookmark this link in your web browser – hope you know how to synch your bookmarks between all the devices you use…). This requires little work: click on the “view” link in the “student calendar” column of our list of LRC resources that you can book or check out, to see the current calendar in your web browser:
- For students who check the calendar of a resource regularly (e.g. to see when the LRC main classroom is available for your self-access/the tutor in your language, for help), it is better to “bookmark” the resources’ calendars in NINERMAIL. Here is how:
- Copy the URL for the calendar you just opened, from the web browser address bar:
- Go to NINERMAIL, click on the lower left “Calendar-icon”
to unfold the “My Calendars” list 
in the left pane, then right-click on “My Calendars”, choose “Add Calendar”
. - In the “Calendar URL” field, paste URL of the calendar you just opened, but replace “html” at the end with “ics”:
, click “OK”. - For on-premise users in OWA (seems OWA stirs on-premise users to the superior intranet calendars, which would be good. But what if the intranet calendar has not been shared with this user, but internet sharing is intended?), This may not work as advertised (neither with protocol http and webcal) OR just need a lot of time (~12hours?) to synchronize,
while it works (both with protocol http and webcal) when subscribing from Windows Live? 
. Most importantly for us (as we have now tested), it works for students with accounts in the cloud from NINERMAI. - OWA remembers your internet calendar subscriptions, and you can easily display or hide them, using the checkboxes it provides. To keep an overview over your calendars added from the internet, you need to rename them, by right-clicking on them, like so:
How to use the LRC Lists
2011/09/20
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- The LRC lists are built with MS-Excel Web app, one of the new features which came with NINERMAIL (live@edu, try logging into http://skydrive.com .
- Important benefits of MS-Excel Web app include
- sorting: click on column header / down arrow, and choose menu item: “Sort Ascending/Descending”
- filtering: click on column header / down arrow, and choose menu item:
- either “filter”,
, to choose from a condensed overview of all unique items that occur in the column, and e.g. filter out “Blanks” by removing the checkmark in front of it: 
- or the advanced “number filter” (in columns with numbers) or “textfilter”,
, to do more advanced searches, like for all items that contain “camera”: 
- sharing beyond viewing: Authorized users can click on an “edit link” below the list display to update the information from their web browser.
- either “filter”,
LRC Facilities: Coed037 (Film studies lab)
2011/09/20
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- The classroom
- old layout (wall-facing, 1 row along wall):
- new layout Fall 2011 (front-facing, 2 columns along both side walls):
- The teacher computer (an upgrade is in the works):
Categories: COED037, documentation
Our Office 2010 natural language features upgrade: A running log
2011/09/15
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- Just logging some notes, observations, issues, step-by-step instructions… – other than non-natural-language, most collaboration features, which are being logged here.
- Office 2010 proofing tools (proofing-tools2010-install.wmv),:
- again, we select custom install, “run all from Computers”
- install is extensive, but uneventful
- Office 2010 proofing tools (proofing-tools2010-first-run-German-set-language.wmv), first run:
- German is not autodetected. You have to set the language of the selected text manually, and first find the button on the ribbon:reviewing
- While choosing the language, you can see from the checkmark which languages now have proofing tools installed
- Foreign Language Support
- One of the strongest benefits of upgrading to MS-Office 2010 in the language center is the improved foreign language support licensing for so called “Language Packs”, and that we have a complete set of licenses to the MS-Proofing Tools.
- In addition MS-Office supports free download of so called “Language interface packs” which seem essentially downscaled language packs for LCTL (usually come only with (see feature list) a spell checker and help in the language). Compare: “If a language is available in a language pack or as a fully localized version, it is not available as a language interface pack”.
- Unfortunately multi-user (= learner of different language) support is not the primary usage scenario of these tools. It is, however, possible, to set the language to a default (e.g. Spanish, Arabic or Chinese, depending on your environment). Switching to another language is relatively easy for a user
- changing the screen-tip language: http://skydrive.live.com/embedicon.aspx/screencasts/office-2010-switch-screentip-language.wmv?cid=4fa3329905d7e1ce&sc=photos
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