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How to copy or archive files by year using the command line and robocopy

I got this question via e-mail and decided I would post the answer here in a blog. I want transfer all files created in Office Word 2003 by year (annual batchs - ex: 2005, 2006, etc.) to external HD. How can to do this? I will appreciate your answer. Edgar To do this via the command line you can use Robocopy which is present in Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you have Windows XP download the Server 2003 Resource Toolkit and install it. Robocopy will be part of the install and found in the install...

Published Wed, May 6 2009 11:26 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Microsoft, Windows Client, Windows XP, Office 2007, Word, Tips, Office 2003, Windows 7, Windows Vista and XP, Windows Vista
Office 2003 running on Windows Server 2008

I saw that someone searched against this and hit my blog, so I decided to quickly add a note on this. Office 2003 does run on Windows Server 2008, but there is a problem with the Rights Management System client. The Knowledge Base support article Release notes for the preliminary release of Windows Server 2008 has the following to say: Office 2003 is unable to detect the Windows Server 2008 Rights Management System (RMS) Client when you try to use the Windows Server 2008 RMS to protect Microsoft Office 2003...

Published Mon, Mar 17 2008 1:23 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Application Compatibility, Office 2003, Windows Server 2008
Office from the past, ODF and OOXML (Office of today and tomorrow) and why is organic growth nearly always bad for software and why re-writing is not good either

As I have said many times in the past I used to write document conversation tools. I believe this gives me a valid reason to be able to pass comment on the ODF/OOMXL debate that is raging at the moment. If these types of questions interest you, have a look at the book I talk about later ( In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters (UK) or here for US link ) Lets start with some history about the Office 97-2003 file formats. Joel was writing about this today ( Why are the Microsoft...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2008 7:06 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Developer, Community, Microsoft, Office 2007, Office 2003, Open XML, Open Standards
Business Contact Manager Team Blog - good information, including SQL and VBA tools, Smartphone and product information

I was hunting for an answer to a questions someone asked me and I came across this the BCM Team Blog. Below are some of the recent posts. It is worth adding to your RSS feed list. Troubleshooting BCM for Pocket PC/Smartphone Get Business Contact Manager with Outlook Standalone How to Change BCM Polling Interval? Happy Holidays Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 SP1 is Live Business Contact Manager Team Blog ttfn David Technorati Tags: Microsoft , BCM , Business Contact Manager , Office 2007 , Office System...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2008 6:59 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Developer, Community, Office 2007, Outlook, Small business, BCM, Business Contact Manager, Office 2003
Where to start to build products that integrate with Microsoft Office

I came across the OBA (Office Business Applications) web site www.OBACentral.com which has lots of information about nearly 200 OBA solutions. While there is a getting started and "on ramp" information on the site, I found the MSDN site ( Office Integration ) which I like almost as much. Given the prevalence of the Office Platform, assuming it is there and building on it can make life much easier!! Office Integration Need to integrate two or more Office products? Need to integrate Office products with...

Published Thu, Nov 1 2007 8:16 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Developer, SBSC, Office 2007, Office 2003
Finding out where something is in Office 2007 and where it was in Office 2003 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access)

I saw this recently and thought I had to blog it - if you know something was there in Office 2003 and now can't find it in Office 2007 then look at these spreadsheets to get some advice. The 1st set of links (ms-help:) will work on a machine with Office 2007 installed and the 2nd set pull the data from the Microsoft Office web site. From the installed help files Outlook ms-help://MS.RIBBON.12.1033/RIBBON/outlookmap.xls Word ms-help://MS.RIBBON.12.1033/RIBBON/wordmap.xls Excel ms-help://MS.RIBBON.12.1033...

Published Sat, Sep 8 2007 8:43 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Office 2007, Documentation, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
How do I take a public folder offline

I seem to have been asked this a number of times recently, so here is the answer. To take a public folder offline, simply add it to your favourites and then enable synching of public folders. Mark the public folder as a favourite (right click on the folder and select make favourite Go into your account settings and ensure that public folders are enabled for caching Tools / Account / Properties for the Exchange Account / More Settings / Advanced - then tick the box Now, when you sync the favourite public folders...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2007 12:23 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Exchange, Office 2007, Outlook, Tips, Office 2003
Questions from today's Webcast

I promised to load the questions from todays webcast. The blog on the webcast can be found at Slides from todays Webcast on Windows SharePoint Services on SBS (WSS v2 & WSS v3) . The Questions were: Do uploaded files take up space in the system partition or can they be stored in a different partition They can do - all files are stored in the SQL database, so moving the SQL database will move the files from the system partition. if the existing SharePoint 2 is almost empty - will you loose out anything if...

Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 4:15 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Windows SharePoint Services, Community, Event, Office 2007, Office 2003, SharePoint
Slides from todays Webcast on Windows SharePoint Services on SBS (WSS v2 & WSS v3)

Today I did my last Webcast on SBS. It was the 3rd of a 3 parter on SBS. Part 1 was about how to use the OPK, part 2 was on Configuring SBS. I will post links to part 1 & 2 later today, but thought I would get the last one out 1st. If you watched the Webcast you will know that explorer crashed on my machine stopping the demos with word and excel working, which was not desired, but I did load 2 beta patches onto my system yesterday, so now the diagnosis as to wether that was the problem begins. Anyway, if...

Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 10:40 AM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Office System, Support and Tools, Windows SharePoint Services, Office 2007, SBS 2003 R2, Demo, Partner, Office 2003, SharePoint
Simple overview of what is in Windows SharePoint Services 2007 & MOSS 2007 and how to develop on them

For those who wish to expand into SharePoint enhancements (remember that you can enhance the site without any dev tools using the browser features) I found this simple blog entry ( Know your options for developing with SharePoint 2007 - Program - .Net - Builder AU ) and it is quite nice. Read the whole blog, but here is a snippet. The editions of SharePoint One of the more confusing aspects of SharePoint is that there are two versions available: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Published Mon, Aug 6 2007 9:50 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Windows SharePoint Services, Developer, Windows Server 2003, Office 2007, Office 2003
Upgrading to Office 2007 using retail boxes - what can you upgrade from

[updated to change blog title to something meaningful] I was asked about this today - for those people with retail copies of Office, what can they upgrade from to Office 2007. Full details on Word, Excel, Access, Publisher and the suites can be found at 2007 Microsoft Office system pricing - Products - Microsoft Office Online . To see if you have a retail box of an earlier version of Office and if it will load without you needing to upgrade onto a new machine with Vista, have a look at http://uksbsguy.com/blogs...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2007 4:52 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Office 2007, Licensing, Office 2003
Business Contact Manager 2007 (BCM) is NOT supported on Windows Terminal Server, but a little hack will make it work

[updated on 28th July] Hi, I've pinged this around a bit internally and the answer I got back is that this is not supported and will not work. I have not tried it myself, but don't expect it to work. If you need this sort of functionality you need to look at MS-CRM I am afraid. History: You need a Volume License of Office 2007 to run in Terminal Services. You can get BCM with Volume Licensing of Office 2007 as noted at http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/suites/FX101635841033.aspx Outlook running in Terminal...

Published Sat, Jul 28 2007 3:54 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Windows Server 2003, Office 2007, Outlook, BCM, Business Contact Manager, Office 2003, Terminal Server
Show Classic Menus and Toolbars on Ribbon of Office 2007 - two product choices

I saw a blog entry at Susan Bradley's blog about her now deploying Office 2007 with a classic menu . It was worth of a blog link for all those who want to stick to the old, old ways where you search for items over multiple menus (especially if you turn on personalised menus which hide all the things you don't use regularly). The tool looks slick, but then I found a 2nd one are realised that some cunning ISVs had seen this as their great opportunity to fill a gap that is very unlikely to be filled by...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2007 11:35 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Microsoft, Office 2007, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
How to get the Office Assistant (Office 2003) to work in Windows Vista, i.e. remove the "Not enough memory" error messages

[updated 24th January 2009 with new download location for x64 systems] I have been asked this question several times and finally dug into the system to make it work. The solution The Office Assistant relies on some "agent" technologies. To fix this we need to install the agent technologies and then copy a DLL across. Since I was playing around it is possible that there is an extra step or two that is not actually needed, but since this is a small process and simple to do I don't think it will do...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2007 12:02 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Windows Client, Tips, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
How to get rid of the installer / configuration dialog when running Office 2007 and Office 2003 on the same system - for Vista and other versions of Windows

I have been asked this many times following up on the blog entry Installing Office 2003 and Office 2007 on the same system where once people have removed the problem with the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) appearing every time they start Office they then get the dialogs below every time they switch between Word 2007 and Word 2003. when starting Word 2003 when starting Word 2007 The fix to the problem is very simple as it turns out - simply run the following commands (by pressing the Windows Key+R or typing...

Published Sat, Jul 21 2007 4:47 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Support and Tools, Windows Client, Vista, Office 2007, Documentation, Word, Tips, Application Compatibility, Office 2003

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