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Windows Vista Support WebCast: Windows Vista with the 2007 Microsoft Office System - better togetherView products that this article applies to.Article ID:927550Last Review:August 27, 2007Revision:8.1Session SummaryThursday, November 30, 2006 Windows Vista helps business users significantly increase productivity by helping them find and use information, empower mobility and collaboration, improve security, and increase overall efficiency while keeping IT costs low.This session will discuss and demonstrate how 2007 Microsoft Office System users can leverage Windows Vista features to achieve an even ... Read more..

After you merge or split table cells in a Word 2007 document while Track Changes is enabled, the row that contains the cells is not marked as a revisionView products that this article applies to.Article ID:943733Last Review:April 1, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageSYMPTOMSConsider the following scenario: •In a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document, you enable Track Changes.•You insert a table into the document, and then you merge or split some cells in the table.In this scenario, you expect the row that contains the ... Read more..

Error message when you use a rule to move messages to a folder in Outlook 2007 after you set the value of the PreferANSI registry entry: Cannot move to the <folder_name> folderView products that this article applies to.Article ID:949878Last Review:March 14, 2008Revision:1.1SYMPTOMSYou set the value of the PreferANSI registry entry to 00000001 under the following registry subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 11.0 Outlook EMSP When you use a rule to move messages from someone to a folder in Microsoft ... Read more..

Article ID: 958578 - Last Review: November 7, 2008 - Revision: 1.0The Check Names button does not work as expected after you set a Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter LDAP filter in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 siteView products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSConsider the following scenario: You set a Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter LDAP filter in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site. For example, you set the following LDAP filter.stsadm -o setproperty -pn Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter -pv (!(samaccountname=<Myalias>)) -url http://<servername> You restart Internet ... Read more..

Article ID: 958447 - Last Review: November 10, 2008 - Revision: 1.0An Outlook 2003 user cannot open a network share from a hyperlink in an RTF e-mail message if the e-mail message is sent from an Outlook 2007 userView products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSIn a Rich Text Format (RTF) e-mail message, a user creates a hyperlink to a folder or to a file that is located on a network drive. If a ... Read more..

Article ID: 959641 - Last Review: December 17, 2008 - Revision: 1.1Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel.msp, Xlconv.msp, Xlview.msp): December 16, 2008Hotfix Download AvailableView and request hotfix downloadsView products that this article applies to.On This PageExpand all | Collapse allSUMMARYThis article describes the Microsoft Office Excel 2007 issues that are fixed in the hotfix package that is dated December 16, 2008.Back to the topINTRODUCTIONThis hotfix fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge ... Read more..

Article ID: 960247 - Last Review: February 10, 2009 - Revision: 1.0The Choose a digital certificate dialog box appears behind the Internet Explorer window in Windows Vista when you try to open an Office file from a site that requires digital certificationView products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSYou use Internet Explorer on a Windows Vista-based computer to open a Microsoft Office file from a site that requires digital certification. When you do this, the Choose a ... Read more..

After you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a declarative workflow does not start automatically in the following products: • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 • Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 For example, if you configure a declarative workflow to start when a new item is created or when a new item is changed, the declarative workflow does not start as expected. The Unified Logging Service (ULS) log files contain no information about why this behavior occurs.   CAUSE This ... Read more..

Saving Background Sounds It is possible to save background sounds embedded into email onto your hard disk. Open Tools > Options > Send. Change both Mail sending formats to plain text. Open the message you want to grab the sound from and click on Forward. The sound files will appear attached to the forwarded message. Save the files from here and close the message. you can now reset any HTML settings that you changed. Import messages ... Read more..

Description of the support for Suite B cryptographic algorithms that was added in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and in Windows Server 2008View products that this article applies to.Article ID:949856Last Review:March 19, 2008Revision:1.1On This PageINTRODUCTIONThis article describes the support for Suite B cryptographic algorithms that was added in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and in Windows Server 2008. Suite B is a group of cryptographic algorithms that are approved by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Suite ... Read more..

Error message when you try to access an RSS feed that points to a resource that requires authentication in SharePoint Server 2007: The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feedsView products that this article applies to.Article ID:953128Last Review:June 17, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageSYMPTOMSYou try to access an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed that points to a resource that requires authentication. (The RSS feed is located on the same Web site as the resource.) After you do this, you receive ... Read more..

When you run Microsoft Office Project Server in a hardware virtualization software environment, you may experience a decrease in performance. This decrease may occur when you perform any one of the following actions: You open a project in Project Server by using Microsoft Office Project Professional. You save a project to Project Server by using Project Professional. You publish project information to Project Server by using Project Professional. You build an online analytical processing (OLAP) cube by ... Read more..

MS08-027: Vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher could allow remote code executionView products that this article applies to.Article ID:951208Last Review:May 13, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageINTRODUCTIONMicrosoft has released security bulletin MS08-027. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites: •Home users: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200805.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200805.mspx)Skip the details: Download the updates for your home computer or laptop from the Microsoft ... Read more..

Detection and deployment guidance for the March 11, 2008 security releaseView products that this article applies to.Article ID:950137Last Review:March 11, 2008Revision:1.3On This PageINTRODUCTIONAs part of an ongoing commitment to provide detection tools and deployment recommendations for security updates, Microsoft is delivering this detection and deployment guidance for all updates that are released during a Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) release cycle. This guidance contains recommendations that are based on the types of scenarios that may exist in various Microsoft operating ... Read more..

Article ID: 957245 - Last Review: November 12, 2008 - Revision: 1.0Description of the update for OneNote 2007 Help: November 11, 2008View products that this article applies to.On This PageExpand all | Collapse allINTRODUCTIONMicrosoft has released updated Help (HxS) files for Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. This update contains the latest revisions and additions to OneNote Help and to OneNote Developer Help. Back to the topMORE INFORMATIONUpdate informationThe update for OneNote 2007 Help is available for download ... Read more..

Article ID: 960404 - Last Review: January 20, 2009 - Revision: 2.0Description of the 2007 Office system hotfix package (OCT): December 16, 2008Hotfix Download AvailableView and request hotfix downloadsView products that this article applies to.On This PageExpand all | Collapse allSUMMARYThis article describes the 2007 Microsoft Office system issue that is fixed in the hotfix package that is dated December 16, 2008.Back to the topINTRODUCTIONIssue that this hotfix package fixes958651  ... Read more..

An Excel 2007 workbook is not saved as expected to a document library on a Windows SharePoint Services siteView products that this article applies to.Article ID:928985Last Review:October 15, 2007Revision:1.2SYMPTOMSConsider the following scenario. You try to save a Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook to a document library on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site. The workbook is not saved as expected. If you make a change in the workbook and then try the save it again, the workbook appears to ... Read more..

This article describes how to use the Workgroup Administrator utility in Microsoft Office Access 2007. Note User-level security does not exist in an .accdb file, even though you can run the Workgroup Administrator utility from an .accdb file in Access 2007. MORE INFORMATION loadTOCNode(1, \'moreinformation\'); To use the Workgroup Administrator in earlier versions of Access, you could click Workgroup Administrator in Security on the Tools menu. To use the Workgroup Administrator utility in Access 2007, use one of the following methods. Method 1: ... Read more..

The IF_TYPE_PPP interface type is incorrectly returned by the remote access service when the remote access service establishes a VPN tunnel interface in Windows VistaView products that this article applies to.Article ID:928906Last Review:March 15, 2007Revision:1.2SYMPTOMSWhen you create an application to establish a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel in Windows Vista, the value that is returned by an API function is not what you expect. The remote access service incorrectly registers the VPN tunnel as an IF_TYPE_PPP Network Driver Interface Specification ... Read more..

This article describes why you cannot install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or earlier versions of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server in some cluster scenarios. MORE INFORMATION SharePoint Server 2007 cannot be installed when you are running Microsoft SQL Server in a geographically dispersed cluster environment. The SharePoint database cannot be located on a server that is running SQL Server in a geographically dispersed cluster environment. SQL Server is not designed to support SharePoint Server 2007 or earlier versions of SharePoint Portal Server in ... Read more..