About Removing Old Computer Equipment

By Greg Thomas, Southeast Regional IT Computer Specialist Unused computers are a liability to your office. Keeping them around is asking for more work and possible trouble.  With very little effort you can remove them from your office and your inventory. There are four methods of disposing Agrilife computers: 1)      County office donates PC to …

Securely erasing a Hard Drive

by Greg Thomas,  Southeast Texas Regional Extension Specialist When we decommission a computer it is a good practice to securely erase all programs and data.  We want to get rid of the computer hardware but we do not want to give away any data or software.  In fact we are required by AgriLife procedures to …

Don’t Get Labeled as Spam!

By Jay Carper, AgriLife Exchange Admnistrator If your email recipients mark your message as spam or if it looks like spam to an email server your message won’t get through. Even worse, our entire organization could get a bad reputation and we might be blacklisted by other organizations. Following these rules will help you avoid …

How To Create a PDF file of your Outlook 2010 e-mail, using Adobe Professional 10

by Pete Flores, Regional Information Technology Specialist – South Texas –  With Adobe Professional 10 and MS office 2010, you can create pdf files of the e-mail you would like to retain. The attachments are included in the pdf file in the original format. Select the e-mail you want to send to pdf format, right …

WordPress and the County Web Page

By Greg Thomas – Agrilife Regional IT Specialist — This series teaches the processes of updating your county web page from the old TECO format to a newer version available with WordPress. Eight individual lessons take the student through deleting old content and creating a more contemporary public web presence. Some lessons include video illustrations …

Create Forms Using the Developer Tab in MS Word 2010

by Pete Flores, Regional Information Technology Specialist – South Texas     Many times we send out MS Word 2010 documents and ask folks to complete the form and e-mail it back to the sender. With MS Word 2010 under the developer tab, the user can create easy to complete forms by using Pull down selections.

How to Repair your Outlook Database

by Pete Flores, Regional Information Technology Specialist – South Texas Outlook stores our mail, contact folders, calendars and to do list in a data base. If you interested the database is called an OST file (Outlook STore). There are many reasons your Outlook Database can get corrupted or just generally disorganized.  The result can be …

Protecting your Data Resources – Stop 3 Lesson 3 – Restoring a Windows Backup

By Jim Segers, IT Coordinator – Extension AgriLife Information Technology In the last Protecting you Data Resources blog we made a first backup using the built-in Windows Backup utility. But making the Backup is only the beginning – What do we do if we need to get a file or folder back? That process is …

Outlook Archives & Personal Stores

By Jim Segers, IT Coordinator Texas AgriLife Information Technology How do I archive my Outlook email?  Is there a way for me to save email and not fill up my mailbox? These are common questions we are getting more and more.  In the AgriLife Outlook/Exchange system we have Online Archiving set.  It is a great …

Protecting your Data Resources – Stop 3 Lesson 2 Windows backup!

By Jim Segers, IT Coordinator – Extension AgriLife Information Technology In last article I opened the discussion on protecting your data with backups. In that lesson I wrote about making a simple copy of your files using Windows Explorer.   Making a simple copy this way is easy to do and is BIG step in …