Devang Gandhi

We all have had to archive our old emails as we run out of email server space. You can set up autoarchive but sometimes you might need to archive that one folder manually. Here’s how to do just that.

1. Select the folder that you want to archive from the side panel.
2. On the File menu click Archive.
3. Select the option Archive this folder and all the subfolders.
4. Enter an appropriate date in the Archive items older than field.
5. Click OK.

The folder contents are moved to a folder with the same name under Archive Folders which you can browse from the side panel.

While working on WCF, I came across this error. It occurs due to Http namespace reservations and I believe it only affects Vista and later OS. This article elaborates steps to resolve this issue.

[Update] This issues does affect older versions of windows and not just Vista. The problem occurs when a service with less privileges is trying to start. It tries to register the URL but since it does not have admin privileges, the OS denies the request. This is called namespace reservation and because of it only a particular group of users have rights to HTTP URL namespace.

A couple of days ago, I needed to create a bootable windows XP setup disk from an iso image. I came across this nice article which did the trick. Note that this article primarily deals with creating a bootable setup disk from a preinstalled system. You can however follow the instructions to create a bootable disk from the iso image as well once you extract all the setup files from it. The main trick is to include the boot sector on the windows setup cd.

I was trying to install virtual server 2005 R2 on windows vista and it did not work. After digging the depths of the internet, I came across this nice article that solved my problem. Additionally, you may also need to download this update from msdn that updates virtual server to support vista.