This question was asked in the Microsoft Forums and my reply was marked as an Answer. User was unable to open Microsoft Outlook 2007.

The remedy suggested was to:

Start->run..then type the following -> “Outlook.exe /resetnavpane”

Its a common issue and MS has already documented it, check the link below for full details:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2022778/en-us

Link to Microsoft Forums thread:- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeitpro/thread/f55b49ae-29cb-428e-a085-2f1e655bfdce/#be64a97c-6577-4e05-8da0-194e2b85d6e8

My reply to this question was marked as an Answer on MSDN Forums, that can one still purchase Performance Point 2007 as the newer 2010 version is available freely with SharePoint 2010. Check out the link below:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/thread/024e6841-faae-41da-acdb-a70c4d4e8cfc/#a93c3ffd-7b5b-43d1-aca0-5607b10b78f0

My reply was marked as the answer on the MSDN forums, kindly check out the link below if you are facing such an issue.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/visiogeneral/thread/bfb94f8e-d6e5-4078-a404-61bcd9b5d1b3/#135ab0d1-0fb1-4448-976c-c76b73b4cf3c 

Excel provides a change tracking tool that makes it easier for groups of people to work together. Change tracking makes sure that the changes made by different people are carefully logged, giving you the power to inspect each person’s changes individually and reverse them if you choose. It’s a little like keeping several versions of the same worksheet in a single spreadsheet file.

Switching On Change Tracking
To turn on change tracking, follow these steps:

1. Select Review➝Track Changes➝Highlight Changes.
The Highlight Changes dialog box appears.

2. Turn on the “Track changes while editing” checkbox.
When you turn on change tracking, you also automatically switch on workbook sharing a separate feature, which will be discussed in some other post. As there’s no way to turn on change tracking without also turning on workbook sharing.

3. Ignore the Who, When, and Where checkboxes for now, and click OK to return to your worksheet.

To see how change tracking works, just enter text in a new cell or edit an existing cell. Excel uses several visual indicators to show that a cell has been changed. Most obviously, it draws a blue outline around the cell and adds a small blue triangle to the cell’s top-right corner. Additionally, Excel changes the column headers at the top of your sheet to use red text if that column or row contains changed data. To get the specifics about the change, you can hover over the cell with your mouse. When you do, a yellow box appears that looks just like a comment box.

Excel doesn’t track every possible change. In fact, it ignores the following changes:
• Formatting changes (like when you change the font or background color of a cell)
• Hiding or unhiding rows or columns.
• Adding, changing, or deleting comments.
• Inserting or deleting worksheets.

Changes don’t remain in the change history log forever. In fact, once 30 days have
passed since a change was made, Excel discards it from the log.

You can also clear changes from the change history log —by turning off change
tracking altogether. Just choose Review➝Track Changes➝Highlight
Changes to show the Highlight Changes dialog box, and turn off the checkmark in
the “Track changes while editing” checkbox. You can turn change tracking back on
later, but you can’t recover the information about the changes you made earlier.

To highlight the changes made to a document, go to Review➝Track
Changes➝Highlight Changes.

What you do next depends on the types of changes you want to see. Here are some
of your choices:

Show all changes

Show recent changes

Show changes in a specific date

Show changes that haven’t been reviewed

Show changes made by a specific person

Show changes made in specific cells

This article showed you on how to enable change tracking and view changes, in the upcoming articles i will be talking about accepting rejecting these changes and merging the changes made by many authors on a workbook while it was shared with them.

Just a small security tip for applying Passwords to the Excel 2010 workbooks in just one step and making them secure.

The security can be applied in 2 layers:

1) Password required to open the workbook, so if the user doesn’t have a password they can’t even view the workbook.

2) Password required to edit the workbook, in which you will be asked to enter a password incase you want to edit the spreadsheet.

It is up to your discretion whether you want to apply both of the above mentioned security levels or just one of them. So both type of security can be implemented with separate passwords to open and to modify the workbook.

To apply this just click save as and a dialogue box will appear, click on tools and select General Options and it will show you the General Options screen in which you can enter the password(s) to open and/or modify. Once done save the workbook, now it is password protected and the security level is far improved as compared to previous versions.

The following read is taken from the book “Software Project Management in Practice” and explains the two dimensions through which the software project deals..

A software project has two main activity dimensions: engineering and project management. The engineering dimension deals with building the system and focuses on issues such as how to design, test, code, and so on. The project management dimension deals with properly planning and controlling the engineering activities to meet project goals for cost, schedule, and quality.

If a project is small (say, a team of one or two working for a few weeks), it can be executed somewhat informally. The project plan may be an e-mail specifying the delivery date and perhaps a few intermediate milestones. Requirements might be communicated in a note or even verbally, and intermediate work products, such as design documents, might be scribbles on personal note pads.

These informal techniques, however, do not scale up for larger projects in which many people may work for many months—the situation for most commercial software projects. In such projects, each engineering task must be done carefully by following well-tried methodologies, and the work products must be properly documented so that others can review them. The tasks in the project must be carefully planned and allocated to project personnel and then tracked as the project executes. In other words, to successfully execute larger projects, formality and rigor along these two dimensions must increase.

Formality requires that well-defined processes be used for performing the various tasks so that the outcome becomes more dependent on the capability of the processes. Formality is further enhanced if quantitative approaches are employed in the processes through the use of suitable metrics.

What is a process? Technically, a process for a task comprises a sequence of steps that should be followed to execute the task. For an organization, however, the processes it recommends for use by its engineers and project managers are much more than a sequence of steps; they encapsulate what the engineers and project managers have learned about successfully executing projects. Through the processes, the benefits of experience are conferred to everyone, including newcomers in the organization. These processes help managers and engineers emulate past successes and avoid the pitfalls that lead to failures.

For a project, the engineering processes generally specify how to perform engineering activities such as requirement specification, design, testing, and so on. The project management processes, on the other hand, specify how to set milestones, organize personnel, manage risks, monitor progress, and so on.

Firstly you need to understand how to export data of a deleted site to .cmp file from the following article:

http://geekdeck.com/sharepoint-2010-recover-data-of-deleted-site-from-content-database/

Now once you have data in the .cmp file format you just need to import it to a new site so that your old content gets back to life.

Create a new site collection with blank template to restore the data of your deleted site collection

Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by clicking Start > All Programs > Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products > SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. Type in the following and press enter (change the paths with their actual values).

Import-SPWeb -identity http://yournewlysitecollection -path \\sharepoint\yourexportedbackupfile.cmp

Switch back to yout site and check the contents have been restored …

Visual Studio Team System 2010 comes along Client and Server components:

Server Component:

Team Foundation Server 2010 is the Server component which manages the source control, assets, communication between VSTS client tools and integration of VSTS with other Microsoft family products like Project, Exchange, BizTalk, SharePoint etc.

Client Component:

Architecture Edition:

Helps Architects to visually model the applications, automatically generates code, logically verifies deployments etc.

Development Edition:

In the 2010 release Microsoft has merged the Database and Development editions. The combined editions now facilitate you with profiling tools, database design and development tools and .NET code analysis.

Test Edition:

Tool for testers for load testing, quality testing, test modeling, multi-user testing and stress testing etc. The tool generates logs, images and videos of the test executions and steps performed.

Team Suite:

Includes the features present in all of these client tools.

For more reading:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/03-01-09VSTS2010TA001626ADT.PDF

1) Open the Central Administration

2) Click the Backup and Restore link in the Quick Launch

3) Under the Granular Backup heading, click Recover data from an unattached content database

4) On the Unattached Content Database Data Recovery page, specify:

Database Server Name

Database Name

Choose Browse Content in Choose Operation section

5) On the browse content page change the site collection and choose the collection whose data you want to recover. Then specify the specific site and which data parts (lists) you want to recover.

6) Once you’re done with that you need to specify the path for share folder and click the start export.

7) This will create the .cmp extension file in your target folder which holds the data of the particular site which was deleted by you.

This image will be helpful in explaining you the above steps:

In my upcoming article I will show how to restore the .cmp file to any new site…