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How to extend your LRC class booking to the entire term by adding weekly recurrence

2013/01/09 1 comment
  1. The single screenshot booking FAQ mentions recurrence briefly. If you failed to add recurrence when you booked the LRC for your class, you can likely still add it:
  2. Go to your NINERMAIL calendar, open your “meeting”, like so: adding-recurrence1
    1. if the (1) recurrence indicator is missing or if, when browsing your NINERMAIL calendar for the term, your class booking shows up not every week, only during the first?
    2. Then (2) open your class booking by double-clicking on it.
  3. In the window of your class booking, do these steps (use your own class times, not the ones in the example)
    1. note how the (1) tooltip for the “repetition” dialogue says “repeat”;
    2. classes meet (2) “weekly”, but more complex schedules can also be set up (“repeat every x week”)
    3. don’t forget to (4) “end by” the last day of classes.
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  5. You will receive an immediate response from the LRC classroom in your NINERMAIL inbox. Check it for and report any problems that you cannot resolve to the LRC reception desk.adding-recurrence2
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MS-SkyDrive-related blog posts

2013/01/08 Leave a comment

https://thomasplagwitz.com/tag/ms-skydrive or:

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Export options in Tivoli Endpoint Manager

2013/01/03 Leave a comment
  1. You can batch export Baseline task sets by right-clicking the baseline and chooosing export from the context menu: image
  2. Choose a download location: image
  3. Open the BES file (which is an XML file) with MS-Excel for better human readability: image
  4. Especially interesting information (highlighted in red here) for your documentation (tracking, potentially troubleshooting…) includes the task “name3” and the underlying Actionscript.
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How you can share MS-Office files via MS-OneNote instead of directly through MS-SkyDrive

2013/01/02 Leave a comment
  1. Simple steps:
    1. Drag and drop your MS-Office File to your MS-OneNote page.
    2. When prompted, choose to “insert a copy” (rather than merely linking the original file). image
    3. This puts a copy of the file in the MS-OneNote folder on your local drive,
    4. which (file and folder) gets synched with your online (MS-SkyDrive) version,
    5. which, if you shared it, gets synched with the MS-OneNote folder on the local drive of the PC of the person you are sharing with,
    6. who, by double-clicking, can open and edit his synched local version of MS-Office file in the corresponding MS-Office application.
  2. Stepping back:
      1. Benefit: If you have a working MS-OneNote-based workflow, embedding MS-Office file can quickly extend this workflow.
      2. Risk: If you do not share the MS-OneNote with other editors, you should have no problem. Be aware, though, that concurrency is limited. Unlike accessing the MS-Office file in MS-Office through Office Web apps from MS-SkyDrive directly, editing the MS-Office file from MS-OneNote does not block updating the MS-Office file on remote computers – so expect synching conflicts later if you do not manage concurrency (e.g. by limiting editing sessions). 
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SkyDrive Embedding

2012/12/18 Leave a comment

Excel: tab:File/ image

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Remote Desktop Users group?

2012/12/13 Leave a comment

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Does the Sanako Study 1200 tutor set the input language to Chinese (traditional)?

2012/12/12 Leave a comment
  1. Or why is my input language set to Chinese after the Sanako tutor install:image
  2. Unclear whether the tutor install has an effect on the default language, but we observed this problem earlier on an XP computer that also had the Sanako study 1200 tutor.
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How to redirect Windows Live Writer “My Weblog Posts” to SkyDrive using Symbolic Links

2012/12/12 Leave a comment
  1. UPDATE: Using Junctions and Symbolic Links has limitations, e.g. I have not found a way to point a network share location of to my Skydrive folder. A solution using a secret windows live writer supported key in the registry is explained here  seems simpler and better (assuming support for this key will not vanish in a new release of windows live writer).
  2. Benefits:
    1. Recently, the documentation and training materials I do with windows Live Writer have become somewhat more evolved, and my Live writer posts both big and live documents.
    2. With this method, I can access and edit your posts and drafts from different computers. Possibly also save drive space on the drive where the “My weblog Posts”points to be default.
  3. Prerequisites:
    1. MS-SkyDrive account and app.
    2. Here we are using the Link Shell Extension, but you can use the mklink command built-into Windows.
    3. To create Symlinks, you need to have admin rights.
  4. Steps:
    1. After closing Live Writer, go to “My Weblog Posts” in your “My Documents” folder, move it to your SkyDrive folder.
    2. In the new location, right-click on the folder “My Weblog Posts”, choose “Pick link source”.
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    4. Right-click on the “My documents”folder in the original location and choose Drop link / Symbolic Link. image
    5. The original location is now only a link (see folder icon), but Live Writer still opens. image
    6. Final step: Blog this from Live Writer, then check the location of your weblog post. Smile
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