I had MOC 2005 re-installed on my office PC recently, and found to my chagrine that it had lost all of my contacts. I've searched for ways to export/import the contacts list, but have not found any useful answers. Some suggest looking in the registry at key tree HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Communicator, but all I find are the titles of the contact groups I used to have (as binary Unicode values), but which MOC no longer recognizes.
My plan is to export the registry (or data file) values and then write a script to re-instate them, I just need to know where to find those values.
Any suggestions?
Update
I think I may have found the answer myself. I located an XML file in:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\
Microsoft\Communicator\presence_User_Name_Company_Com.xml
which appears to contain all my contact info.
I plan to examine it a little further soon.
open this file in excel from the following location C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\
Microsoft\Communicator\presence_User_Name_Company_Com.xml . all the contacts will be arranged in a single column. you can save it....:) easy way to take a bakup....
It's not possible to export directly the contents of the whole OCS map. But you can manually proceed to a separate export.
Select the content of each group you have in your OCS, cut and paste in a notepad window.
You get there a liste of mail addresses separated by semicolumns.
create the complete list step by step, group by group.
Once the list is created, you can send it to your friends, and they just have to create the groups in their own OCS, and group by group, cut and paste the rows of addresses in the group.
The group is automatically updated.
If you use the Office Communicator client for Mac, you can save your contacts list and then import them. The only thing it doesn't do is retain the groups, if you have organized contact groups.
For MS Communicator 2005 running on Windows 7, you can find the file here:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Communicator\presence_User_Name_Company_Com.xml
We don't have Communicator 2010 at our site, perhaps some could confirm if this path/file is correct for more recent versions.
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I have "Reviewer" access to a shared (Exchange) calendar, but when I go through the process to manually export to CSV I am only able to view/select my personal calendar to download.
Do I have the appropriate permissions? Is there a solution I'm missing or some manual step I can take that would make one of the following solutions work?
What I've tried:
The obvious: File > Open & Export > etc. etc. Instructions here: http://www.everydayanalytics.ca/2013/11/how-to-export-your-outlook-inbox-to-csv.html
Changing to list view then copying and pasting into Excel. This is the closest solution I can find, but tedious and doesn't include all of the fields I would've expected.
Trying to import calendar directly from Access. Same problem occurs--I can only select my personal calendar, not the shared one.
Parameters & Additional Info:
Most of the events I need are all-day events, rather than time-specific. Some are repeating.
The solution must not involve downloading a new program. It needs to work from various computers, and the person who will be completing the task won't have permissions to download new programs.
My preference is for a manual solution rather than VBA, as I'll be passing this task on to a beginner. But if VB is the only option,
I'll take it.
At minimum I need the following fields: Subject, Date
Created, Start, End, and Category.
I'm using Office 2013 on a Windows environment.
I also have Reviewer access to a shared calendar, so I just tested this with mine, and it appears to work. The only issue is my shared calendar has no events, but it should work.
What I did:
Go to my calendars in Outlook and change the view to list view, as you have done before.
I right clicked on my shared calendar and clicked "Copy Calendar"
From there, I had created a folder to copy the shared calendar to, that was under my personal account. (You should be able to paste it anywhere under your exchange account.)
Once the shared calendar was under my personal account, I could go into File > Open & Export > etc. as you already did, and I could select the shared calendar that was copied into my personal account to export as a csv.
I am working out of Office 2016, but I think it should follow mostly the same. Edit: I had a coworker who is still on Office 2013 try this and it worked for him.
Per a response I received on Microsoft's community forum, "It's nothing you are doing. Owner permissions aren't enough - you can't share or export calendars that are not in an account in your profile. You'd need to add the mailbox to your profile using the username and password. Or use an external utility.
Or use a list view, then select all, copy and paste into Excel- this will work fine with the fields you need (the body field doesn't copy and paste well.)"
How do I search in MS Access (ver 2010) for data in files attached to records? If I do a "Find" and specify text I KNOW is in an attached txt file to a particular record, there are no hits. While if I have the same data in a Text Field or Memo field, Access finds it. I understood from one of the Access help screens I found that it is possible to search attachments from within Access, but I have not been able to do this yet.
BTW, I did try using the query tool and searching for text I knew was in the attachment, but it was not successful, although it did find the same text within a memo field in another record.
Thx,
jmb
I'm fairly certain that there is no mechanism in Access to find records based on text within a file attachment. A bit of web searching found an earlier question here and the responses seem to agree that there isn't.
One reference from Microsoft here says
By using attachments, you open documents and other non-image files in their parent programs, so from within Access, you can search and edit those files.
but I think that statement could be misinterpreted. I believe what they meant to say was that
"...from within Access you can open an attachment in its parent program and then work on it as usual (e.g., edit it, search it, print it, and so on)."
You can use file system object, open the file as string and search sequentially. That's as close as you'll get
I need to migrate Work Items from one TFS server to another TFS server. I tried migrating them using the TFSMigration tool available in CodePlex.
The problem I am encountering is the schema for the work item on the source TFS is different from the schema of the work item type on destination. I don't want the destination TFS server schema for the work item to be modified. The change in schema is one new column only, but still don't want to take that change.
In one blog it was said that we can do that using Excel but not much details were available. I am not sure we can even use Excel to migrate the entire history related to Excel.
Have a look at the TFS Integration Tools on VS gallery. This supports custom field mappings as part of a migration, documentation here (direct download).
I did this a while back and, not finding an appropriate tool, resorted to copying the title and description etc across manually, as we only had a few active work items at the time, so it only took about an hour.
however, if I need to do it again, I'll use the TFS API to read fields of interest and write them to the new database. that way any schema differences don't matter, and the process is automated but under your control. Search for studying work items with the TFS API for details - it's really very easy.
Of course with both of these approaches (and all the migration tools AFAIK) you will only get a snapshot of the data - all history will be lost (or at best you can query using AsOf to get historical data, but all the entries you make will be timestamped at the moment you write them, not with the historical time that the event originally occurred.)
You can use the Excel editor to edit the source query All Items "Open Query in Microsoft Excel". Then open the destination query All Items "Open Query in Microsoft Excel". Copy and paste the contents from one excel window to the other. Certain fields like attachments will not transfer.
I've got this one thing I'm not really sure where to begin with. In our SharePoint 2007 solution, we've got this project room where each employee has their own folders with their resumé etc. And we want this information to be distributed to their MySite.
I've noticed that I can basically copy the files from one are to the other. But the files in MySite are connected to the corresponding user based on properties of some sort. But they are not regular file properties is seems. When I open all of the files in the MySite files collection, I can see categories such as Title and Name. If I copy a file in there, these properties are blank. And if I manually assign a username to the Name property, the file automatically appears in the correct user's MySite.
Probably horribly explained.. But, is it possible to program this somehow? I would like a nightly or weekly schedule that basically copies the content and assigns the username and title to the correct fields. I can pick up both the title and the username based on the folder names. This I can probably solve later. It's just where to begin that's bothering me. Do I use SharePoint designer? Can I user VB code? Do I have to code at all? I've never developed a thing for SharePoint before. And no, I do not want to be redirected to a basic "Getting started with developing for Sharepoint" site.. Just a simple answer really, on where to begin.
Simple answer: Yes you can use VB. Create Timerjobs.
TimerJobs you can set to start on specific weekdays, specific hours etc. and they do exactly whatever you program them to do.
I've got a list of Tasks in Excel. Now I want to import them in TFS but they all have a requirement as parent. So when I use the Tree I could import them one after another by using cut and paste under the requirement in Excel.
I would like to have the possibility to name the parent in a flat list and having a column for the parent name. Is there any possibility to do this?
Kind Regards
Flat lists don't support the setting of parents via a column in the excel sheet. You'll need to use the tree view. Feel free to raise an issue on the Visual Studio user voice site for this if you wish at http://visualstudio.uservoice.com however this is unlikely to change because the tree is a viable option for most people