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Registry hack to enable Outlook 2016 to connect to Office 365
Issue: Outlook 2016 (which I am testing) cannot connect to Office 365 Exchange. It is no longer possible to manually enter Exchange Server details. A valid Autodiscovery record is required. Use this site to find out which autodiscovery mechanism you are using. https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/ Verifies that we do have a valid autodiscovery record and that we…
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VirtualBox on Microsoft Surface 3 (not pro)
I am testing a Microsoft Surface 3 (not Pro) this is obviously too underpowered for heavy VM use (i5, 8GB RAM is preferred) but it is worth trying out. My new Surface 3 now uses the Atom x7 processor but the Internet is unclear whether this device supports virtualisation because the processor specifications have changed over time. I…
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Microsoft Office 365 Excel is a mobile app platform
I help run an underwater hockey club. To smooth administration I wanted to create an mobile application to record attendance and the payment of weekly subs. My usual approach would be to create a WordPress application or perhaps a mobile app using Cordova to package an HTML and Javascript application. However I am trialling Microsoft…
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Cocaine, hippos, Bitcoin and blockchain, an explaination.
Bitcoin is quite topical at the moment so I have written this post in case you are interested. What is money? Before starting a discussion about a currency it is help first to understand what money is. To do this we need to go back three or four thousand years when most of our forebears…
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Charge annual not monthly subscriptions
A nice article on why charging annual subscriptions often makes sense. Should I charge annual Subscription Fees? Or monthly?
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A workaround for Outlook.com not supporting attachments in appointments
Outlook.com is a free email and calendar server provided by Microsoft. It supports Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a communications protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. EAS support is good because in practice it means that…
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How to be Productive (part 2): The Action Book revisited
If you have been capturing your actions in an Action Book for a week or more using the method described in Part 1 then you will discovered some fresh challenges. Older Actions Some earlier actions will be outstanding and getting difficult to review because they are a long way back in your book and sandwiched…
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Undocumented Yammer API Endpoints
Not all Yammer API Endpoints are documented but people do find them by trial and error. I will record them on this page. Please add more to the comments. Groups https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/groups.json https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/groups/{group id}/members.json Hypnotic Ocelot on StackOverflow
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How to be Productive (part 1): The Action Book
Productivity is not everything but in the long run it is almost everything Paul Kruger In the long run your success at work will be determined by your productivity. Productive people make more stuff, sell more things, impress more people and do better. So how do you become more productive? This series of articles, sponsored…
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IPN stopped! How to find your IPN settings and history on PayPal
I have been running a WordPress site for a couple of years and twice I have stopped receiving Instant Payment Notifications (IPN) from PayPal. The first time was because my server was off for a few days and PayPal got bored and stopped. But today PayPal simply changed my IPN settings to disabled for no…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 