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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Outlook 2013 Folder Pane empty blue gone no folders after September Office Update caused by KB2817630 patch

Recently, opening my Outlook 2013, the folder pane was empty. Indeed, it looked not really to be empty. It was filled with blue color and the was some mouseover effect happening moving the pointer over it.

How-i-fixed-it:
It turned out, that the September update of Office Software can cause this issue in case a certain combination of Outook.exe and mso.dll happens. Its the KB2817630 patch causing the problem in case the August Cumulative update is NOT installed on the Computer.

Heres what the TechNet blog says:
"Due to a version incompatibility between outlook.exe and mso.dll, a mismatched reference to a data structure causes the “Minimize” button in the navigation
pane to render incorrectly, typically extremely large to the point that the navigation pane is "invisible" to the user. The issue only manifests when incompatible versions of outlook.exe and mso.dll exist on the system."

It only happes to:

Office 2013 Standard

Office 2013 Professional Plus

Heres a good description, how to fix it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2013/09/11/outlook-folder-pane-disappears-after-installing-september-2013-public-update.aspx

Where can you find the Outlook.exe and mso.dll Version Information?
Go to File -> Office Account -> Info about Outlook

How To Give Password To Folder and protect your folder

How to Give Password to Folder and protect your folders can be done easily, either using software or not. A folder containing documents in word or pdf files of important data in the form it needs to be secured from the hands of ignorant office friends, classmates, or even your own family members. Surely not want dong suppose weve created office tasks or coursework then suddenly the data is copied by your friend? Maybe your friends grounded just borrow your laptop and it will not open up important files, but who knows if it is misused? This would be very annoying. Therefore we need to secure our data in order not to arbitrarily open by someone else by limiting access to the folder that contains important data. Then how do I give the password folder on your computer? There are two ways this can be achieved, namely:

Give the folder password without software

This step can be taken if you want to give the password without the help of software, so that you only utilize the existing facilities on the computer. This can be done for computers that operate on the Windows operating system yes. Here are the steps.

1. Open notepad, for the uninitiated notepad located in the Start -> All Programs -> accesorries -> notepad

2. Copy the code below and paste it into notepad

cls

ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

: CONFIRMED

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder (Y / N)

set / p "cho =>"

if% cho% == Y goto LOCK

if% cho% == y goto LOCK

if% cho% == n goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

: LOCK

ren Locker "Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib + h + s "Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

: UNLOCK

echo Enter password to unlock the folder

set / p "pass =>"

if NOT% pass% == TYPEPASSWORD goto FAIL

attrib -s -h "Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

: FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

: MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

: End

3. In the code TYPEPASSWORD replace the text with the password that you wish

4. Keep a notepad by clicking File and then Save As, and save it with the name lock.bat save as type to All Files.

5. Open the file that we just open, wait a minute it will appear a new folder named Locker.

6. Move the files you want to secure into the Locker folder

7. Double-click again on the file lock.bat it will display a dialog if you want to lock the folder, type Y and then Enter

8. Folder Locker will be lost, but do not worry because this folder is hidden only by the system

9. To bring it back, double-click on lock.bat then be asked for a password to open it, type in your password and press Enter

10. Folder Locker has resurfaced and you can already see the file again.

Outlook 2013 does note sync contact birthday to outlook com for contacts copied from contact folder

I wanted to switch my contact management from OpenXChange/Outlook to Outlook.com/Outlook. Im using Outlook 2013 (15.0.4615.1000) on Windows 8.

I followed the steps described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2844991/en-us and copied all contacts from local Outlook folder to the contact folder of my outlook.com account.

I turned out, that the contacts were synced, but the birthday date for all of them was gone. Even manually entering the date in Outlook did not fix it.

How-I-fixed-it:
- Export all contacts to a csv-file from Outlook
- Manually import the contacts from the csv-file in outlook.com

How can i change move re locate the local temp folder of Microsoft OneDrive Skydrive to a different location

I wanted to move the local temp folder of OneDrive to a different harddrive on my computer.

How-I-fixed-it:

I found the right hints here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/wiki/sdoptions-sdfileset/change-the-onedrive-folder-location/147dade2-830b-46ee-bf7e-36a8eab9446a

Change the OneDrive Folder Location

Technical Level : Basic

Summary

Learn how to change the OneDrive folder location. This is useful if you have a limited storage capacity main drive but a separate storage drive and you want your OneDrive content synced to the separate drive. This is not for OneDrive for Business.

Details

Many people use two separate drives on their computers: a main drive like an SSD to run the operating system and other programs, and a regular hard drive to store the bulk of their content. OneDrive defaults to the C:UserOneDrive location, however you can change it wherever you want.

Change the OneDrive Location in Windows 8 and Previous

To change the OneDrive folder location in Windows 8 and previous versions, you have unlink OneDrive from your account and then repeat the setup process:

Right-click on the OneDrive icon in the notification area and then select Settings
Select "Settings" and then select "Unlink OneDrive"
Follow the setup process again and ensure to select the new drive or location to have OneDrive sync to; you must wait for your files to download again to the new location

Please note: if youve connected your Windows 8 user account with your Microsoft account, OneDrive wont let you unlink the application. Youll have to unlink your Microsoft account from your Windows account first.

Change the OneDrive Location in Windows 8.1

To change the OneDrive folder location in Windows 8.1, you can simply change the location directly through the Properties menu of the OneDrive folder:

Open File Explorer, right-click on the OneDrive folder in the navigation pane (left-hand side), and then select Properties
Click the "Location" tab and then select "Move"
Select the location where you want OneDrive to sync to and then click OK

OneDrive will move all of your OneDrive files from the default location to the new location; you dont have to wait for files to download again.

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Outlook 2013 Folder Pane empty blue gone no folders after September Office Update caused by KB2817630 patch

How To Give Password To Folder and protect your folder

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Outlook 2013 does note sync contact birthday to outlook com for contacts copied from contact folder

How can i change move re locate the local temp folder of Microsoft OneDrive Skydrive to a different location

Change the OneDrive Folder Location

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