A little over a month ago (Feb 2008), Microsoft started offering free web hosting service and custom domain name (1st year free) that in my opinion rivals other free web hosting providers who usually focus on personal websites and not businesses or organization. With OLSB you get a lot for FREE not offered any where such as event calendars, wikis, forums, survey builder, form builder, and more...
Office Live Small Business (OLSB) and Workspaces are built on the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) engine. Although a very customized version of WSS, nonetheless OLSB has a very powerful set of tools for collaborating and managing your content online. Essentially, giving your business a front-end public website and password protected extranet site for employees, vendors, and/or partners.
I often run into small businesses who talk about the cost of running their website and find it very costly to pay for web hosting especially when they don't have the tools nor the knowledge to update their website. Often resorting to paying a person like me to update the content. My recommendation to them is to 1) look into a web hosting provider that will support web content management for a reasonable cost. This will one alleviate the costs associated with paying a web professional to update the content on your site. 2) find a web hosting provider or associate that will provide good support and training to help you enhance your website.
Office Live is very promising and you can't beat FREE! The only issue now is the training factor. OLSB is a very robust and great tool overall but I must admit the concept of workspaces, lists, wikis, and libraries are foreign to many. Therefore, I hope to fill the gap by providing free on-demand tutorials as well as real-time training on these topics in the near future via my Tutorials Live site.
If you're like me, you've accidentally deleted or corrupted a file and did not have a good version of that particular document. In Windows Vista, you can now restore a previous version of a file.
To accomplish the steps neccessary to restore a file to an earlier state:
- Open the folder that contains the file you want to restore
- Right-click your mouse button on the file.
- Click Restore previous versions.
Windows Vista displays the file's Properties dialog box and the Previous Versions tab. The versions list displays the previous versions of that file.
- Click a previous version
- Click Restore.
The items in the start menu provide a easy way to launch programs you frequently use without having to click All Programs and then negotiate one more submenus. A neat alternative to cluttering your desktop area is to pin an item to the start menu.
To pin an item in Windows Vista:
- Click Start
- Click All Programs
- Find the program you want to pin
- Right-click your mouse button on the program icon.
- Click Pin to Start menu
Windows Vista adds the program to the main Start menu.
Welcome to the Vista and Office 2007 Tips and Tricks Blog.
This blog is for new and old existing users of Windows Vista and Office 2007. The purpose of this blog is to provide practical tips and insight on how to accomplish tasks in Windows Vista and Office 2007. For many of you this will be your first time using Windows Vista and Office 2007 so, a lot of material in this blog will be geared toward basic users in the beginning. As we progress, my blog entries will deal with more complex tips and tricks.
If you're in need of assistance or special one on one training, please feel free to contact me.
Enjoy!
Advisor-Norris