Comments for Luke Darby http://www.lukedarby.co.uk Technology Infrastructure | Media | Communication Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:18:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Outlook 2011 mac pst import and export by Luke http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/outlook-2011-mac-pst-import-and-export/comment-page-1/#comment-863 Luke Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:18:14 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=244#comment-863 Hi Charlie, apologies for the delay, I've effectively had a sabatical and have been on hols. You pose an interesting quesiton, in short I don't know off the top of my head, I'll do my best to check it out. Macs are pretty simple in how they put everything in a file structure, and especially for the Microsoft products, they even build a psuedo registry in a file to cludge the lack of a Windows registry!. I'll come back to you... Hi Charlie, apologies for the delay, I’ve effectively had a sabatical and have been on hols. You pose an interesting quesiton, in short I don’t know off the top of my head, I’ll do my best to check it out. Macs are pretty simple in how they put everything in a file structure, and especially for the Microsoft products, they even build a psuedo registry in a file to cludge the lack of a Windows registry!. I’ll come back to you…

]]> Comment on Outlook 2011 mac pst import and export by Luke http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/outlook-2011-mac-pst-import-and-export/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Luke Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:15:37 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=244#comment-862 Hmm, interesting. We've imported 10-15Gb pst's without issues. Where were the files held when you did it? On the local disk? What version did you export from under Windows? (Outlook version) Not all psts are created equal! pst's have a limit of 2gb, after which they corrupt, however, that is really only practically true for older version of Outlook, 2007 and up should be able to produce a stable multi gig pst. Techrepublic have a great article about the ins and outs of corrupt psts, well worth a read. Hmm, interesting. We’ve imported 10-15Gb pst’s without issues. Where were the files held when you did it? On the local disk? What version did you export from under Windows? (Outlook version) Not all psts are created equal! pst’s have a limit of 2gb, after which they corrupt, however, that is really only practically true for older version of Outlook, 2007 and up should be able to produce a stable multi gig pst. Techrepublic have a great article about the ins and outs of corrupt psts, well worth a read.

]]> Comment on Outlook 2011 mac pst import and export by Luke http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/outlook-2011-mac-pst-import-and-export/comment-page-1/#comment-861 Luke Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:09:18 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=244#comment-861 Microsoft have many articles on how to backup Windows based Outlook. This also looks like a good resource: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm Microsoft have many articles on how to backup Windows based Outlook. This also looks like a good resource: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

]]> Comment on Communicator 2011 Mac connect via Edge? Yes! by Luke http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/communicator-2011-mac-connect-via-edge-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-860 Luke Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:07:25 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=268#comment-860 You could try using DNS from elsewhere, even try OpenDNS. Sounds like Comcast have got some kind of limits on what DNS lookups they allow, or they've not got a full table, who knows. To my mind it's their DNS you get given, if it works elsewhere, then it's working correctly! Try using the 2 opendns addresses and see how you get on? 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 You could try using DNS from elsewhere, even try OpenDNS. Sounds like Comcast have got some kind of limits on what DNS lookups they allow, or they’ve not got a full table, who knows. To my mind it’s their DNS you get given, if it works elsewhere, then it’s working correctly! Try using the 2 opendns addresses and see how you get on?
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]]> Comment on Compellent Licencing by Luke http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/05/compellent-licencing/comment-page-1/#comment-859 Luke Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:03:27 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=151#comment-859 :) Hi, I'm not American, and never will be. :) Hi, I’m not American, and never will be.

]]> Comment on Compellent Licencing by JP http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/05/compellent-licencing/comment-page-1/#comment-858 JP Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:51:18 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=151#comment-858 Great info! You may want to change the title as "Licensing" is misspelled. Great info! You may want to change the title as “Licensing” is misspelled.

]]> Comment on Communicator 2011 Mac connect via Edge? Yes! by Michael http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/communicator-2011-mac-connect-via-edge-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-846 Michael Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=268#comment-846 I have Microsoft Communicator 2011 for Mac (13.1.2 (110722)). When I am traveling it works fine in airports, hotels, etc. It also works fine with my Sprint wifi card. When I am in my home office using Comcast cable internet service, it doesn't work. If I log in to my company's VPN it starts working. So I seem to have isolated the problem to being something to do with the Comcast internet service. Comcast, however, has NO clue whatsoever about any of this. They are useless and I have spent hours holding and calling and holding and calling to no avail. I have Microsoft Communicator 2011 for Mac (13.1.2 (110722)). When I am traveling it works fine in airports, hotels, etc. It also works fine with my Sprint wifi card. When I am in my home office using Comcast cable internet service, it doesn’t work. If I log in to my company’s VPN it starts working.

So I seem to have isolated the problem to being something to do with the Comcast internet service. Comcast, however, has NO clue whatsoever about any of this. They are useless and I have spent hours holding and calling and holding and calling to no avail.

]]> Comment on Outlook 2011 mac pst import and export by Jon http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/outlook-2011-mac-pst-import-and-export/comment-page-1/#comment-806 Jon Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:47:07 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=244#comment-806 How do you export the Outlook contents from Windows? How do you export the Outlook contents from Windows?

]]> Comment on Outlook 2011 mac pst import and export by Richard http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/outlook-2011-mac-pst-import-and-export/comment-page-1/#comment-766 Richard Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:15:48 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=244#comment-766 I have the same import problem reported by Tom (thread on 14/05/2011). I have 26k+ emails from Windows Outlook 2007. After using the import function, i can only find 17k+ emails in Mac Outlook 2011. I have tried to split the 3.6GB pst file into smaller chunks and re-import again. Still no luck. Any advice is appreciated! I have the same import problem reported by Tom (thread on 14/05/2011). I have 26k+ emails from Windows Outlook 2007. After using the import function, i can only find 17k+ emails in Mac Outlook 2011. I have tried to split the 3.6GB pst file into smaller chunks and re-import again. Still no luck.

Any advice is appreciated!

]]> Comment on Outlook 2011 mac pst import and export by Luke http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2010/12/outlook-2011-mac-pst-import-and-export/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Luke Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:02:52 +0000 http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/?p=244#comment-760 Hi olm files are pretty much for exporting and importing, you cannot attach them to Outlook 2011 like you could attach a pst to Outlook 2010. You've exported your mail TO an .olm, the only way to see this mail now is to re-import it. It's not exactly tidy, but it's meant for migration type stuff. What you should have done was archived to olm, but not chosen to delete mail afterwards, and then created a local repository on you hard disk and moved all that mail into it. That way you would have had it backed up in case you lost your hard disk and also had it locally within Outlook to read. Id' suggest asking your sys admins to raise your quota for a few days while you reverse engineer what you did. Most sys admins are amenable to that much! To see the 'On My Computer' in Outlook, go to the Outlook menu, preferences, general, then untick 'Group similar folders...' and untick 'Hide On My Computer folders' Hope that helps in some way, Cheers, Luke Hi

olm files are pretty much for exporting and importing, you cannot attach them to Outlook 2011 like you could attach a pst to Outlook 2010. You’ve exported your mail TO an .olm, the only way to see this mail now is to re-import it. It’s not exactly tidy, but it’s meant for migration type stuff. What you should have done was archived to olm, but not chosen to delete mail afterwards, and then created a local repository on you hard disk and moved all that mail into it. That way you would have had it backed up in case you lost your hard disk and also had it locally within Outlook to read.
Id’ suggest asking your sys admins to raise your quota for a few days while you reverse engineer what you did. Most sys admins are amenable to that much!
To see the ‘On My Computer’ in Outlook, go to the Outlook menu, preferences, general, then untick ‘Group similar folders…’ and untick ‘Hide On My Computer folders’

Hope that helps in some way,
Cheers,
Luke

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