Just the Fax – Where did it go? Post Office 2003 SP3 Blues – **note** this former blog entry pertained to XP and its instructions are still relevant; however, Vista presents its own unique challenges
Just the Fax – Where did it go? Post Office 2003 SP3 Blues « Upwards with SBS – SBSisyphus’ Weblog
The above link is from XP and Office 2003 days gone bye. In the new era of Vista we have a new problem, .tif files are not opened by this same program and registering the .dll mentioned in the former blog article won’t set thing straight. Instead you will have to attempt to open a .tif and then choose the correct program file along with “always” to set this as the default program for .tif viewing going forward.
The default should be the Windows Photo Gallery. To choose this to open the single targeted file and not a whole gallery, rather than select the Windows Photo Gallery program instead choose to browse to %systemdrive%\Program Files\Windows Photo Gallery\PhotoViewer.dll.
You can also do this without invocation by instead opening Default Programs (Winkey – Default Programs) and then specifying by file type association the above path and file.
**note** Quicktime seems to like to set itself to open .tiff files so just change that one too why you are at it.
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(picture is linked to download)
If you find that there is missing information after the migration has completed (or someone in organization suspects this) then you need to access your NTBackup created media and potentially recover data. But Windows Server 2008 no longer has NTbackup; Vista omitted the same thing.
What to do? Download the above nifty utility or go to a Windows 2003 Server or XP workstation you still have access to. With the utility you can keep it all in house at the business network which keeps thing simple.
KISS is a DU-IT best practice.
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The premise here is that email blasts occur regularly and usually it involves a sales deal, an event of some kind, or around a cause. Chain letters are another notorious source for guilt-tripping the recipient to forward it out to all your friends or else be a real lousy individual; and these actually still work year in year out.
The blast can be done safely if people still feel compelled to send such multi-recipient messages out to people who are otherwise complete strangers of each other. How? Use the BCC field of course. Well that of course assumes you knew about BCC. If you didn’t this post isn’t for you though; rather, it is about you.
My dilemma as a responsible technology professional is to advocate for safe usage of the internet, for people to maintain privacy, and for their identity to remain secure from SPAM’rs or worse. Often I am doing this with people I’m often barely acquainted. The internet and email is not as intimate as a face to face heart to heart chat. It’s a touchy thing to only have email to have these ‘talks’. So what has been done is that after a blast offense occurs I’ll send an email back to the originator with a scripted reply message.
This blog is written because, I want to know what other people say. Do you say anything at all? How does my message stack up against what you are saying? Please comment away as I’d like to make it effective and brief. …so here goes:
Thank you for considering my interest and sharing this information with me.
I’ve got a small request that I hope you’ll honor. As a technology service provider and small business owner, information security and privacy are key issues that I must guard for my own sake and for my clients. Please understand that by including my name and email address in the ‘To’ or ‘CC’ field populated with many others that some of them may again forward the email much like you have. If they do then my email address and identity get circulated. This then exposes my email identity as well as any others in the To and CC fields to future SPAM and other undesirable unintended consequences.
The good news is this is an unnecessary risk; so I have an easy fix and request. In the future when and if you send an email to me along with an audience of others (a blast message) please add me to the ‘BCC’ (blind carbon copy) field and not to not to the “To” or “Cc” fields; in practice it would be a good neighborly thing to do this for everyone who’s a recipient. This on the net is called good “netiquette” and an overall appreciated best practice by anyone who’s ever received SPAM or who has had their identity stolen (I have). As for what address to put in the “To” field just insert your own email or any secondary email address. It is important though that the address be valid or else this is a criteria which SPAM filters will trigger and the email may not reach some of your BCC recipients.
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