Office 2007, Vista

Living with Vista

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Well, after six months of experimentation, and three Vista installs, I’ve decided to leave Windows XP behind (safely on a different bootable hard drive) and run with Windows Vista for my day-to-day work. I’m not short of people telling me that I’ll be reverting back to Windows XP within a short period of time. Nor am I short of “setup” and drive image tools. To boost the setup, I have 4GB of RAM and a 4GB USB drive taking the ReadyBoost strain. Acronis TrueImage 10 provides the partition imaging that I’m told I’ll need once I start to install things. For virus protection, I’m using NOD32. I’m hoping that I won’t need to roll back to an earlier point in time, and I do hope that a roll back to Windows XP isn’t required. Watch this space.

One problem that I did encounter was an error from Outlook 2007 during the send process. The error number was: 0x800CCC80 – “None of the authentication methods supported by this client are supported by your server.” Naturally I checked the mail hosts and passwords, they all seemed to be fine. Now, because I chose to use my ISP’s outgoing mail service, in Outlook 2003 I would normally authenticate with their servers, via the Outgoing Servers tab. However, in Outlook 2007, it seems that this requirement is removed, certainly for me at least. I’ve since discovered that this was reported during the Outlook 2007 beta programme: unchecking “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” worked for some folks, but not all.

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16 thoughts on “Living with Vista”

  1. Zen don’t require outgoing authentication if you are sending from an ADSL connection that belongs to them. You’ll probably need it when you’re using a non-Zen connection, although I’m not sure of that one – they might block outgoing emails that don’t originate on one of their ADSL connections!

    If you think this is a bug in Outlook 2007, which wouldn’t be suprising, then feel free to add a comment to my Outlook 2007 posts on the RSL blog. I’ll get the bugs reported to the Office team, unless you’ve already done it.

  3. Hi Craig,

    I was trying to “work” with Vista 32Bit for my day to day work and since I am a homeworker I even used it for private stuff.

    I have to admit. There are nice things in Vista especially the eye candy with Aero 😀

    But at the end I finally switched back to Windows XP two weeks ago. I have had problems with my Graphic cards driver (latest NVidia Driver crashed several times a day), programs that won’t run or work correctly (like Visual Studio 2003 which I need for my daily work hangs when you try to search in your Projectmap), a.s.o.

    Since I need several versions of Windows for my development I still have Vista installed (Vista32Bit/64Bit Ultimate) beside my XPSP2 32Bit and a 64Bit XP ^.^

    However my experiences with Windows Vista are telling me that Vista is not finished and at least for the regular users I recommend to wait at least till the 1st service pack for vista before switching.

    The current issues are too hard for the regular user.

    We as developers have to be state of the art to provide everything needed for all our customers and need to ensure running applications.

    Since I am developer for a security company and we’re developing a well-known anti-spyware application I just can say porting the application to Vista was a major pain in the ass -_-. We find every day glitches we never have thought about :S

    Ok now this is already worth an own blog entry on my blog lol. More than a regular comment.

    Regards,

    Vinzenz 🙂

  4. Thanks for the tip about Outlook 2007’s error regarding authentication. I spent all morning fiddling with an ever-increasing number of un-sent email, was offered the opportunity to pay the Geek Squad $159 to “come out and fix it” and so forth. Sigh.

  5. Using Vista 64. MS Office 2007. Had the same outgoing issue. Even though I had this setup differenlty in VIsta 32. Checking the box “Log onto incoming server before sending mail” in More settings worked for me in this situation. I have my own domain, but I do not know the technical difference of why it worked. It just worked and is now working.

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