How To Make MS Outlook My Default Mail Client

Microsoft Outlook, the email client application from the software giant Microsoft allows its users to send and receive email messages, manage contacts and tasks with ease. As of 2010 March, Microsoft Outlook is available only for Windows powered PCs. When you drop into a website and click on the email address link, the default mail client opens, followed by a new message, preaddressed and ready for you to compose and send. If you have not set Microsoft Outlook as your default email client, another email client will open. Setting up Microsoft Outlook as your default client for email takes only a few clicks, and it can save you a lot of time in the future. This article will help you in setting up Microsoft Outlook as your default email client. 

Outlook settings instructions

• Turn ON the device. Click on the icon labeled Admin. When prompted, enter your Admin password to sign as the main user. If you have no access to your admin account, click on the guest user. This will make you sign-in as the guest user. 
• Wait for the Windows to sign-in. Open Microsoft Outlook application on your device. Either you may launch the application by clicking the desktop shortcut label or the taskbar plug-in. Locate the desktop shortcut on your screen or on the Quick Launch bar. 
• Alternatively, you may launch the application from the Start menu. To launch the application from the Start menu, first open the Start menu. Click on the Start orb placed on the bottom left corner of the Windows home screen to open the Start menu. Instead, you may also launch the application using the keyboard shortcut Windows key. If you want, you may also use the Ctrl + Esc keys to launch the Start menu. 
• Place the mouse pointer on the search space and type Microsoft Outlook. From the menu bar placed on top of the application window, select the label that reads Tools. From the Tools dropdown, select the label that reads Options.
• From the Options window, select the tab labeled Other.
• Place a tick mark in the box next to the label that reads Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and Calendar in the General section.
• Close the Options dialog box. This will set Microsoft Outlook as your default email client.

For more assistance and support on Microsoft Outlook settings, visit our Microsoft Outlook support settings page. Follow the steps above to fix the issues with Microsoft Outlook and its settings. 

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Performance Analysis Of Windows Data Transfer

Windows Easy Transfer is a tool that allows the user to transfer files and programs between computer and operating systems. Windows Easy Transfer can be used:

• To transfer data between operating systems installed on the same computer.
• To transfer data between two or more computers

The tool can only transfer data between Windows machines and operating systems. This tutorial on types of data backed up by Windows Easy Transferby our Microsoft chat and support team will help you know more about the Windows Data Transfertool and the tasks that Windows Data Transfertool performs.

Types of Data Backed up by Windows Easy Transfer tool

• The Windows Easy Transfer is a tool designed and developed by the Microsoft for helping the users transfer their important files and folders. The Windows Easy Transfer allows the user to create a back up or transfer the default Windows libraries: Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos and Downloads.
• Program settings for most of your programs: the Windows transfer tool is designed to transfer almost all of your program file settings. Most of the system files will make into the program transfer or back up and this is dependent on the way these programs store their settings. The older program files, which are stored in their installation directory with the ini extension, will not probably make into the settings backed up or migrated. Almost all the Windows folder will make into settings backed up & migrated. Try updating the older folder files to the newer versions so that they will be able to make into the Windows transfer folder.
• The Windows Easy Transfer will back up all user files and folders, for each user account defined on your computer. This will include saved games, Internet Explorer favorites, virtual machines, the files found on your desktop, the contents of the user’s shared folders, etc.
• Windows easy transfer will not transfer the third party programs installed in your computer. Jot down the programs that you are transferring via the Windows transfer tool on a paper. This will help you manually select these programs with ease and then update them to the latest versions on your new computer or operating system.  

The instructions briefed above will help you know more about the Windows Data Transfer tool and the tasks associated with the same. For more assistance and help on the same, feel free to mail us your queries on our mailing address or try reaching us on our Microsoft chat and support toll free 24/7 help line number. 

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Interact-Intranet: Using Google Analytics to Capture More Data

Widget tracking isn't accounted for in the v5 Interact-Intranet Analytics module. If you don't have that module you can implement your own custom code file logging or if you have the module and want to track custom widget (or free text widget iframes) you might want to consider going the Google Analytics route.  In addition to tracking your custom widgets you can also use Google Analytics to track your site as a whole and see just how many people are using features and functions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to track.

This is a guide of my efforts to track our entire site and our custom widgets.

Update: Recently found there are a lot of additional 3rd party analytics tools!
Checkout this great list http://www.onextrapixel.com/2013/07/16/ten-best-alternatives-to-google-analytics

Step 1: Login to Google Analytics

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Step 2: Create an Account

From the home window start by clicking the "New Account" button. You can have multiple accounts and I would recommend creating one for your entire intranet. The only important piece of information when doing this step is correctly entering your Web Site URL. Intranets can be tracked assuming they meet the following requirements:

• your corporate network must be able to reach the ga.js JavaScript file at http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js or https://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
• your intranet must be accessible through a fully qualified domain name such as http://intranet.example.com. The ga.js JavaScript will not work if your intranet can only be accessed using a domain name that is not fully qualified, such as http://intranet.

Step 3: Create a Profile

The profile for an Analytics Account is the gateway to the website reports: it determines which data from your site appears in the reports. more info on accounts, users properties, and profiles

Step 4: Add Tracking Info

Copy the tracking code snippet to your clipboard.  Next go to your intranet's analytics: Administration: Third Party Analytics area and paste the code  into the text-box.  Click the save button and your tracking will begin immediately.

Step 5: Verify Your Tracking

Click the Reporting tab at the top of the page, then on the side navigation select the Real-Time Standard Report: Overview.  You should immediately begin seeing your site's usage metrics come through.  Only the Real-Time reports are live, all other reports will populate around midnight PST with the previous day's data.

Step 6: Track Custom Widgets

In the previous steps we implemented tracking on your entire site.  To track non-intranet or widget views you'll need to additionally add the same tracking code to those specific files.  While JavaScript isn't allowed in free text widgets, if you embed an iframe within that widget you can add the JavaScript to a custom page that is called within the iframe.

Notes

We haven't noticed any performance issues as a result of using Google Analytics.

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Interact-Intranet: Content Administration Guide

Below is a brief guide to the permissions required for various levels of content administration in Interact-Intranet v5.  This is a work in progress so please comment or email me with any additions or changes that I can make to this guide.

	Author	Approved Author	Admin
Can add documents	Yes, but submission requires approval	Yes	Yes
Can edit other peoples documents	Yes, but submission requires approval	Yes	Yes
Can add calendar entries	Yes	Yes	Yes
Can delete and set other peoples documents to inactive	No	Yes	Yes
Can approve content submitted by others	No	Yes	Yes
Can add images to a gallery	No	No?	Yes
Can modify area homepage widgets	No	No	Yes
Can modify content area structure	No	No	Yes

When an author begins the process of creating a document the file immediately becomes locked to them and can only be submitted for approval by themselves - not even an admin. Often times authors change their mind after beginning the process and will abandon these files which leaves many orphaned documents in the system. These files can be identified by their orange status within the Manage Documents section.

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