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I just wanted to update everyone on my complaint that OWA does not include the month view.  Finally Microsoft has addressed this problem with Exchange 2007 SP1.  I received their Technet email and under the new features notes, they commented that the month view will be available but from the looks of it, it will only be available in the premium version of OWA which currently only runs with Internet Explorer.  So, if you’re looking to use the month view in OWA, you’ll have to fire up IE again….sigh…

The list of other new features in Exchange 2007 SP1 can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676323.aspx

Another Leopard third party software issue: Word 2004 crashes when a user tries to print a document. It even crashes for the File>Print dialog box. Check your mac Office update because Microsoft released an update for this on November 6th 2007 which solves the issue.

Sharing a computer with an XP machine as the host and the Guest being a vista machine does not work regularly! I ran across this problem last week when I had just setup a color laser printer on computer running Windows XP. I thought that this should be a piece of cake because Vista should easily find the computer and printer with its more advanced networking discovery. I was wrong! Vista found the computer that I had shared the printer from no problem but then when I tried to add the printer from the XP machine. After sitting there for a few seconds, vista said “Access Denied” in a popup window. First, I thought that I did something wrong so I checked the firewall settings on both computers and also checked their sharing settings and everything was fine.

So I did what every tech does…hit up Google. Turns out, using a printer from an XP host doesn’t work with the normal network printer discovery wizard. Instead, you have to go about setting up the printer a totally different way and then it finally works. What you have to do instead in Vista is when you add a printer from an XP host is select local port instead of network printer. Then a little dialog box will come up. Type in the name of the \\computername\printersharename and then you should be able to connect to it.

Example: \\MYCOMPUTERNAME\PRINTER1

I have no idea why Microsoft couldn’t make the standard print sharing system work but that’s how it is I guess.

Hopefully they fix this soon!