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Brian Alaway Consulting – Overdelivering Technology For Your Business

SyncToy for a quick sync and go

I like to carry a flash drive with me in the field that contains useful utilities, docs, etc. Because I often update my portable utils directory on my computer, I use Microsoft’s free SyncToy to quickly copy/sync my portable utils directory to my flash drive. There are a number of similar utilities – SyncBac, Allway [...]

Harness the Power of Outlook Search Folders

One of the aspects of Outlook that I like is the ability to customize it’s interface to suit my own tastes. And one way I do that is by using Search Folders extensively. You may or may not have noticed that Outlook creates a few search folders by default: For Follow up Large Mail Unread [...]

Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool

When using Microsoft Outlook without an Exchange server your data is stored in a local file on your computer. This file is called a personal folders file and the filename has the extension pst. Unfortunately pst files are subject to corruption so it’s always a good policy to have a backup, just in case. You [...]

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