Nexus: News

Mostly for my own reference, here are the numbers you’ll see in ‘Add/Remove programs’ and which version of the BES software they correspond to: The bundle number is important when you need to find out which version you are running. … Continue reading →

Outlook Anywhere has been around for a very long time now. Back when it was young nobody was really thinking seriously about the future routes from which a desktop client might access Exchange, such as from a cellular phone network … Continue reading →

We’ve had problems reported with some SharePoint sites recently where folks have been invited to view documents in a library and provide feedback.  The complaint is that lots of people simply get “Access Denied” messages. A quick check of the … Continue reading →

Earlier today my needed to reset a long list of items in a SharePoint list. This task is best achieved in ‘data-sheet view’, since the alternative is to manually edit each entry. Not my idea of fun. Now I had … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing with Microsoft’s new OFFCAT tool, which analyses your Office configuration and recommends improvements or corrections. The results were mostly what you’d expect – there were a couple of newly-released Office-specific patches I was missing which don’t appear … Continue reading →

Some recent comments on my posts which, sadly, will defeat their advertising purposes by not being attributed: “I wish to voice my gratitude for your generosity for those individuals that have the need for help on your topic. Your special … Continue reading →

It was July 2012 when I last reported on the University’s mobile users so it seems like a good time to see what’s changed. So, last summer we had 11,461 ActiveSync devices which connected to the Nexus service. Today that … Continue reading →

  This isn’t something I’ve had to do for quite a while so, mostly for my own reference, here are some of the more common pitfalls after you’ve done the mail-merging legwork. MAPI32.DLL If you have the Exchange admin tools … Continue reading →

We were recently contacted by one of the university’s departments to discuss their concerns about client-side data security. Their worry was that confidential material from their users’ mailboxes would be cached in Outlook’s offline store. This represented a possible data … Continue reading →

  I recently opened up Samsung’s Kies software, to synchronise some of the content that doesn’t get updated over the air, and was given a popup notification of a new firmware version. Having done similar upgrades through Kies before I … Continue reading →