COVID-19 is a contagious coronavirus that is now classified as an pandemic. We will need to put bread on the table, so some changes are required.
MS Projects: “The calendar name does not exist. Click a calendar in the list, and then press enter.”
I got this weird pop message from Microsoft Projects 2016 about calendar does not exist. Multiple projects hanging off a resource pool file. There is only one calendar and it is the standard one with a few holidays. Use the…
How to print a wide email on A4 paper?
You want to print a wide email on your home printer with A4 paper.
Sometimes you have to push through
Sometimes you just have to push through the mountain of problems. Another Subcon requested for a joint testing and commissioning session. They have arranged for the appropriate people to be present for this 1 am activity. I turned up, but…
How to use Outlook better!
This is a collection of tricks that I have found to use Outlook better
Failover your cluster regularly
Once upon a time, on my first day of work, the Exchange cluster died. A two-node Exchange server for some 2000 mailboxes just keeled over and died.
Testing E1 links with BERT
Testing E1 links with BERT, instead of installing a loopback and furiously refreshing to check on the counters.
Going to the cloud
I was using an Excel spreadsheet to track my projects. Sometimes I forget to save and my changes are lost. Or the file got corrupted because I did not close Excel properly. Then I will get version problems. The most…
Sometimes you end up referencing yourself
I was trying to configure the Cisco LMS Topology Services to use SSH. I quick search on Topology Services and SSH returns “campusmgr” Drilling down returns a link on how to do this. Written by yours truly. I have read…
Microsoft Word tips
Here are some Microsoft Word tips that I found to be useful