Sendkeys “{TAB}” can lockup the keyboard in Windows 2000. Here’s how toexecute a tab in the keydown event using the Win32 API to get around thisWindows 2000 bug: Private Sub

Question: How do I set up offline public folders that are synchronized on a laptop that runs Outlook 98 connecting to Exchange 5.5? Answer: Have the users who want to

Question: Can I run a program/process/rule to prune the sent items and/or deleted items folder for users? Answer: You could use either ExMerge or Mailbox Manager to do that. ExMerge

Question: Why do I get the error message “Could not create a new session because the file wasn’t found” when I try to start a new emulator session? Answer: Be

Question: How do I know (with ASP) if the browser is a phone or a personal digital assistant? Answer: HTTP_USER_AGENT is really the only way that we have to identify

Question: I’m using the Nokia WAP toolkit in conjunction with MS Interdev to write dynamically generated WML. I’ve configured the IIS server to handle the new MIME types, but each

Question: How do I totally remove Exchange 5.5 from Windows 2000 Advance Server? Answer: Go to Start | Settings | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft Exchange Server. Have

Question: Why do I get DNS failure every time I go to a workstation and try to send out email through Outlook 2000? Answer: You need to go into the

Question: I wrote: class Adjective { Sentence adjective_sentence; }; class Noun { Adjective a; }; class NounPhrase { Noun n; }; class Sentence { NounPhrase np; }; Of course it

Question: If I have created a view from two tables that happen to have a similar column name (e.g., name) : CREATE VIEW team AS SELECT p.name, p.age, t.name, t.city

Question: I have given the autoforward rule from Inbox Assistance to an internal ID (Say X) as well as two outside ID’s (Hotmail & usa.net). But the forwarding is not

Question: Does AutoAttachment work only with certain versions of Outlook?I have Outlook 97 and it doesn’t have Tools/Macro. :-( Answer: Yes, the VBA capabilities were added in Outlook 2000. Sorry.

Question: I have Outlook 2000 set up to talk to an Exchange Server, and have added my POP3 email account to Outlook’s profile. How can I compose a new message

Question: Can I automatically suspend the Exchange Server (i.e., programming it to shut down) so that I can take a backup? I am using ARCserver to back up the server.

Question: How can I delete calendar items that are a year old? Answer: I assume you’re looking to delete calendar items older than a year. The easiest way to do

Question: How do I pass text that was entered into a text box on a WAP page/card to an ASP page? Answer: Be sure that you are declaring and passing

Question: I am running an ISP. Many of our clients want Web hosting along with their own email addresses. When setting up Exchange on one server that is hosting multiple

Question: Our CEO has three Personal Assistants who access his Mail and Calendar Items. He does not anyone else to be able to book a meeting directly. How can he

Question: Do you know of any app or configuration within Outlook 2000 that can check a user`s Exchange mailbox without having Outlook itself open? Answer: Sorry, no. There are at

Question: How do I have deleted messages go into the bit bucket instead of the Deleted folder? Answer: You didn’t indicate what version of Outlook you’re running, but the Outlook

Question: How do I call an application made in VB from 4GL? Answer: I’m not a 4GL user, but I believe there is a “system” command that will allow you

Question: Is it normal for items to remain in my mailbox resource even after I retrieve all my messages from the server on Exchange 5.5? Answer: Your mailbox “items” include

Question: Once end users have created contacts, how do they export them to their home computers or laptops? Answer: I assume you’re looking for a simple—if inelegant—way to just “floppy

‘ Validate attributes of Phone data’ Returns True if valid, False if invalid” Also returns the phone in formatted fashion (USA format).’ Will convert alphabetics to numeric”Example:’ If IsValidPhoneField(Value:=”3034414444″, ReformattedPhone:=strNewPhone,’

‘ Validate a credit card numbers’ Returns True if valid, False if invalid” Example:’ If IsValidCreditCardNumber(Value:=”1234-123456-12345″, IsRequired:=True)Function IsValidCreditCardNumber(Value As Variant, Optional ByVal IsRequired As _ Boolean = True) As Boolean

‘***********************************************************’* Module Name: MSExcel’* Author: Steve Miller’* Date: 11/22/98’* Description: Encapsulates and eases the chore of writing to an Excel ‘ spreadsheet.’*’* IMPORTANT: requires that you have a reference to

For reporting, many times you need to figure out what date last week began and ended. Use the code below to figure that out: Dim vntBegin As variantDim vntEnd As

Ever wonder how to send email that looks like a web page? Here is how you do it. Note: You must have CDO for NT referenced for this to work.

Sending emails via code used to be cool, but now it is a necessity. Below is code to send email via CDO. If the CDO call fails, it will send