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Just quick follow-up to an annoyance I found 3 1/2 years ago in Office 2007 – It appears the “feature” is still present in Office/Outlook 2010!

You’d think after over 3.5 years of development/testing someone would have noticed this…

Over the past couple of days I’ve been battling away trying to get the Win32 Bacula agent to back up my Windows Server 2008 System State  and Exchange Server 2007 Information Store Databases.

Bacula currently doesn’t support VSS backups of a 64-Bit version of Windows Server 2008, so there’s a number of hoops you have to jump through to get even a semi-reliable System State & Exchange backup.  For an Exchange backup we use the NTBACKUP binaries from Windows Server 2003 64-bit and for the System State we use the Windows Server 2008 wbadmin tools.

For both jobs we’ll use a couple of “Client Run Before Job” commands to trigger client-side scripts to run the client-side backup jobs…

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The following was filmed yesterday at Apples WWDC conference.

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuTtrkVtns

At last! iD is producing a game engine than can handle outdoor areas and is actually LIT for a change!

This is just a quick test post written using the new Windows Live Writer beta.

As I’m writing this, I’m looking at a WYSIWYG view of pretty much what my post will look like on the site – Complete with CSS styles etc applied.

Seems pretty funky and so far is much nicer to use than the WordPress built-in editor.

This morning I realised my Outlook PST files had not been backed up since I upgraded to Outlook/Office 2007.  It seems that the backup addin stops working after an upgrade.

A quick Google search led me to this information:

Here’s how to get the free Personal Folders Backup tool from Microsoft installed and working in Outlook 2007:

1. Download the pfbackup.exe file.
2. Use WinZip or a similar file extraction tool to extract the files in pfbackup.exe, launcher.exe and pfbackup.msi.
3. Double-click pfbackup.msi and follow the prompts to install it.
4. In Outlook 2007, choose Tools | Trust Center and choose Add-ins from the navigation list on the left. At the bottom of the Add-ins screen, under Manage, select COM Add-ins and click Go.
5. On the COM Add-ins dialog, click Add and navigate to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE12\ADDINS folder. Select outbak.dll and click OK. When you return to the COM Add-ins dialog, you should see a new entry, Outlook Backup Addin, with its check box checked.
6. Click OK to close the COM Add-ins dialog.

Once you have the add-in installed, you should be able to choose File | Backup on Outlook 2007’s main menu and set your backup options.

It’s worth adding that if you’ve already got the addin installed, at step 3 you should run pfbackup.msi to uninstall the addin first and then re-run the installer to install it again.