TIP: Outlook Closes and disappears when you minimize or does it?

Hi All,
Here is one of those in the trenches tips that you would NEVER think of. We had a user who when they clicked on the minus symbol in the top tool bar of Outlook it disappeared completely as if it was closed. No other user was experiencing this problem. We just thought this users PC was possesed, cllick the minus the app is gone! Poof! How bizarre.

But here is what happened. At some point the user must of RIGHT CLICKED on the Outlook icon in the System Tray and chose the selection and I kid you not it is there.... that reads "Hide When Minimized" Left clicking and unchecking that choice solved her issue.

Now the real mystery to me is why in the heck would a setting like that even exist especially for an app installed in Citrix? How do you get the program back without running it again? As the ladies man from SNL would say... "Thats just crazy." Another mystery solved.

New Microsoft Beta Download Center

Microsoft is testing a new beta of its Silverlight download center. It is pretty slick and searches seem to be pretty good. Have a look at it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/beta/downloads/Default.aspx

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Download Pick: IT Showcase: Windows Terminal Services 2008 and TS Gateway

The MSIT pilot project of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services was so successful that Microsoft IT went on to test the scalability and performance into the production environment. The environment acts as a SSL-based remote access solution and MSIT was able to create a scalable remote access solution that is accessible by using HTTPS connections from any location worldwide. Here is a document recently posted on MS that gives the results:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=F7AF4775-2755-4F73-9275-975EC815A78E&displaylang=en

Download Pick: Windows Server 2008 GPO Accelerator

Hi all
For those of you with Vista workstations or testing Windows server 2008 due to be released officially next month in March (the bits are now available on Technet Plus as is SP1 for Vista) Microsoft has released a tool called GPO Accelerator that creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy recommended security settings for your environment to save you hours of work that you would otherwise need to configure these settings. This Solution Accelerator includes guidance to assist you with this tool.
Get it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a46f1dbe-760c-4807-a82f-4f02ae3c97b0&displaylang=en

There is also a 2008 Server Security guide now available in Technet at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc264463.aspx

This one is definitely worth checking out!

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