Work better anywhere and access your office
Microsoft Outlook 2007
Great hints and tips that you can actually use for home, office or small business.
Stake out network connections
When I am home or at my home office, I take a notebook computer wherever I am. With a wireless network I can access all of the files I store on my Office Live Workspace from whatever room I am in. If I am waiting for a delivery, for example, I can work from the den by our front door quite easily. If I need to access other files, I simply bring an Ethernet cable with me and plug into the nearest Ethernet port so that I can access my file server or one of the NAS devices.
When away from home or my home office, I look for Wi-Fi signs that tell me that I can get a connection from my laptop computer to the Internet. You will see these signs at most coffee shops, airports, and libraries. From these locations I can access my Microsoft Office Live Workspace files and work comfortably, often with a tall single mocha within easy reach.
Surround yourself with computers
When your files are centralized and you have a network connection, you can work from just about any computer. That’s why I have my super cool Windows Vista desktop as my primary computer in my office, but also have 2 inexpensive laptop computers I take with me – one for the house that goes wherever I want to work, and one for the car in a discreet case with all of the power supplies and cables and connectors I might need. With computers where I need them I can sneak in a half hour of work here and there while I am taking the kids from activity to activity after school.
Tip If you use Outlook Personal Folders (PST files) to save e-mail messages to, if you close Outlook on every computer before you leave it you can open those same PST files on other computers. So when I am home or in the home office I store the PST files on the server and then open them from whatever computer I happen to be working on at that time.
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