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So been automating some global configuration in Exchange 2007 today and wanted to share this.  I need to enable web distribution of the oab and couldn't find the Powershell ''check box''.  But cracked it.  You need to just populate the VirtualDirectories entry and it ''checks'' the Enable Web-bases distribution. The cheat was ...

Interesting Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/19/449621.aspx Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now supports ...

If you try and access OWA 2007 you may see this error   440 Login Timeout   It would appear that this error happens if the IUSR_<Servername> and / or IWAM_<Servername> accounts are disabled on the server.   Using Computer Mangement on the server, navigate to Local Users and Groups and select the disabled acount and ...

Theses are the mutts nuts.  Good old Ross Smith IV up's the bar again. Check them out here http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/07/449497.aspx and here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc533547(EXCHG.80).aspx ...The following Exchange Server installation guides can be used as a starting point for formalizing your server build ...

So after the races we had a couple of hours to kill before Silent Disco.  Now for those trendy festival loving people, you will know what Silent Disco is all about (Silent Disco are due to attend the Reading Festival this year). Any way this is the most bizarre disco I have ever been to,  but was awesome.  Basically it has two DJ's ...

So Tuesday night we headed over to Musselburgh Racecourse for the Fringe Racenight.  It was a shame it was raining.  It was a 6 race event and was quite good fun, despite the rain. The Fringe Racenight  is billed as  an evening at the races with a difference. Alongside all the fun and excitement of horseracing, you can enjoy a ...

Boys and Girls, old and young, I wanted to share with you that the "Toy Shop" is back up and running now! They stock a good range of educational books, have a new craft section for A4 paper/card and A1 paper/card for school projects etc. A new party section with balloons, banners and a helium balloon filling service. For the Kids they ...

Rui does it again, this is a sweet article, read it and weep! Source: http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2007/planning-architecture/exchange-2007-sizing-cheat-sheet.html Implementing a complete Exchange 2007 solution requires not only good planning, but also a good understanding of all the technical requirements and a ...

Just found this up on the Forefront blog http://blogs.technet.com/fss/archive/2008/08/11/forefront-for-exchange-sp1-rollup-3-has-been-released.aspx   Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 has been released.  The fixes that are included with in Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 are as follows. Prior to full publication of Forefront for ...

Well, well, well.  We have been trying like mad to get tickets for this, so rang the venue and got two ticket. For £37 you get a three course dinner and the comedy, which leaves your sides aching with laughter. Basically, you dine with snobbish, manic Basil; his domineering wife, Sybil; and hopelessly confused waiter, Manuel. It last ...

So while at the Pleasance Courtyard we booked some tickets for Alba Flamenca at the Lot in Grassmarket. Now a few years ago we ate in the restaurant below the Lot and it was not a pleasant experience and we walked out after our starter. BUT the Lot is what looks like a small church hall about the restaurant and offers a very intimate venue So ...

So Sunday afternoon we headed out to the Meadows and Fringe Sunday.  The buzz in Edinburgh this time of year is just awesome.  The sheer amount of extra people is just amazing. So the Meadows attracted and extra 100,000 people to see the free events.  The Meadows is a large park next to what used to be the Edinburgh ...

I know I am a bit late, but on Saturday we took the 0830 train from Kings Cross up to Edinburgh to spend a few days at the festival. The journey didn't start too well.  It usually take about 4 and half hours to get up to Edinburgh, but this time it took an exta hour and a half! Why, well some enterprising soles stole cabling from the East ...

So every day is a school day and today I learnt two thing, which means that is enough for one week ;-) So first off is BES.  If you use Exchange 2007, you MUST have public folders for BES to work?! Yeah! BlackBerry Enterprise Server obtains free/busy data from the Schedule+Free/Busy Public Folder on the Microsoft Exchange Server. When ...

Update to this script too, basically a change from using Get-ExchangeServer in places to Get-TransportServer.  Also add a size column to the message tab. It will also log data to c:\ps\logs\<datefolder> Let me know what you think ;-)  

So another script .. This is actually a one liner but this is an easy wrapper.  The one liner is: Get-TransportServer | Get-Queue

Recreation of an old script.  Basically this will run get-help for all commands and output it to c:\ps\help .. I like it ;-) ######################################################################################### $AppName = ''Dump-Help.ps1'' $AppVer  = ''v1.0 [7 August 2008]'' #v1.0 6 August 2008 : A script is Born # #This script ...

The Future of Exchange? Well this is an interesting article check it out! http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Microsoft-Exchange-Online-Beta-Performs-Well/?kc=rss Microsoft's hosted Exchange offering is easy to configure, maintain and use, but it's tied too tightly into Windows. In one of the most substantial incarnations ...

So just got this in an email and wanted to share with you: Thank you for registering for and/or attending our Microsoft Certified Master Live Meeting on July 30, 2008. You'll find a link to the session recording and a few other resources below. To those of you who had trouble logging in to the morning meeting due to the incorrect link we sent ...

Damm is that a month already :-| It's all downhill now .. only 146 days until Christmas! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in July 2008 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help [July2008] The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 ...

I Dunno if you remember this and my little picture: BUT, you have spec'ed ur server, you have enough disk, proc and memory.  Any idea on how you know when ur are running out of memory?

Sean pointed this one out to me, and I can't see I had noticed this before.  Check out in perfmon, on an Exchange 2007 Mailbox Role server: MSExchangeIS Mailbox\Messages Queued for Submission and then select _Total or a mailbox database. perfmon says "Messages Queued For Submission is the current number of submitted messages which are ...

Damm, has this script grown up recently. In a nut shell, this is the daddy of all scripts and gathers chunks of information from the Exchange Organisation and each Exchange Server by using a mixture of WMI, .Net and Exchange 2007 Powershell commands. The script can be run for just one server, by appending an server name to the command or with no ...

So I just stumbled upon this blog ... very interesting and one for adding to your favourites for when you need it.

Just discovered this blog and found a freebie ... Can't be bad.  All you need to do is provide an email address you can download the 379 pdf doc that is made up from thses books: Mastering Exchange Server 2007Chapter 2: Exchange Server ArchitectureChapter 6: Scaling Upward and Outward Exchange Server 2007 Infrastructure Design: A ...

niiicccee ... Just found this up on Bink.  Not too sure if the current messaging policy on a BES server will control this, but check it out! Windows Live™ Messenger for BlackBerry® smartphones allows you to chat in virtual real time with your instant messaging (IM) contacts when and where you want to – not just when you’re in front of ...

Heard a rumour today, that RIM are taking the european datacentre down for 7 hours on Friday (25th July 2008) night! Yeah, you read right, that it they are taking EUROPE out! .. All BES devices that use the European NOC will not be working! Oh my GAWD! time to get those Windows Mobile devices out!  Couldn't find anything on Google about it ...

So Anderson posted this, and my initial thought was huh?  The KB didn't really explain either, so it was time for a test.  So the KB will allow you to remove the circled text below: And it's a nice simple PowerShell Command: Set-TransportConfig WritingBrandingInDSNEnabled $false But you do need to have Exchange 2007 SP1 with RU3

This is a handy little KB from RIM, it enables you to determine the software version of your BlackBerry Enterprise Server ;-)  Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/dynamickc.do?externalId=KB05131&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=KB05131

Not sure how I found this, but have a read.  It is not a very good comparison, as it shuold be Exchange 2007 vs Gmail or actually Windows Live vs Gmail http://lifehacker.com/398778/outlook-vs-gmail++the-definitive-comparision  

I saw this on Jason's Blog .. AstraSync is scheduled to be released in July 2008 at $49 for a one mailbox 12 month subscription. You can register your interest by filling in the form below. Once you have submitted your details our sales team will contact you to provide further information on the product and release date. Could be an interesting ...

Been having a dig around for some SCOM stuff and came across these: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/opsmgr/bb498237.aspx

Just in case you missed this, Brett posted yesterday. So for the Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) on HP Active Answers go here:http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/cache/561453-0-0-0-121.html Found the Exchange link too ;-) The Microsoft Exchange Server link on HP Active Answers is ...

So in the UK press there has a been a few column inches over people not wanting Google to take pictures of streets so they can provide a kind of fly by to map. Well out and about over the weekend, look what I found parked up by the side of the road Interesting !!

Ohh, could THIS be my new mobile?  I found a mini review in stuff magazine last night Check out Samsung's site here: http://omnia.samsungmobile.com/ So iPhone 2.0 or the Omnia .. a lot of reviews around comparing the two, and putting the users in two camp ... either with Apple/Jobs or Microsoft/Gates.  The thing that puts me off an ...

They seem to have been in the press a lot this week.  Well I say a lot, I have seen 3 seperate articles, Computing, Computerweekly and this.  They seem to be ''bleeding'' edge by moving email and application sharing out to the ''Cloud'' I wonder what the users think of it? Source: ...

FYI Event Name: TechNet Webcast: High Availability in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (Part 2 of 2): Disaster Recovery and SCR Deep Dive (Level 300) Event ID: 1032381322 We have rescheduled this event for the following date: Date: 08/15/2008Start Time: 09:30 AM PacificOriginally scheduled for 31st July 2008

So Ari isn't too bitter that o2 messed things up big style and he wont get his until next week, but the news on the web is quite amusing. This is funny (in a strange kinda way) iPhone 3G: UK gets long wait as O2 systems fail Check this guy our: One-man queue for iPhone 3G in the UK love the sleeping bag  But was it worth it, ''Sadly, ...

small service outage lastnight / this morning .. .My server Blue Screened, rebooted and was waiting at the good olde Windows Shutdown Event Tracker screen. So cleared that and then my blog vm has the same so sorted that two.  Found this blog, so the damm screen doesn't come back any more :-| How to: Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in ...

Check it and register Source: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032380996&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Something new in Microsoft Certification: the Microsoft Certified Master program is opening its doors to highly ...

Did anyone have any issues last night with your Exchange 2007 Edge Servers rejecting all messages by marking them as SCL9?Look like it might have happened after this update?  Product: Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise Block List Updates - Update 'Update to 3.3.6710.001' installed successfully. Let me know

Interesting article up on the computer weekly website about moving towards webmail.! <SNIP>Businesses with less than 1000 staff should consider replacing in-house e-mail servers with webmail to reduce the cost of providing e-mail for end users, analyst firm Gartner has advised. Matthew Cain, research vice-president at Gartner, said ...

Okay so Tuesday and a bunch of us headed to Microsoft's office in Victoria to hear from Gordon McKenna talk about Managing and Monitoring Exchange using SCOM 2007.  Here are my notes from the event ... hopefully its not to disjoined ;-) So eight of us joined Gordon who is actually a Windows Management MVP. Check out the Windows ...

Okay that was a smoother installation than I expected.  So Ari recommended using this from the command prompt Exchange2007-KB949870-x64-EN.msp /quiet /lxv* KB949870.log I Did bit found it a bit scarey that you get no feedback on what is happening so I tried /passive instead.  But what I did find was this in the Application event ...

I found this up on BlankMan's Blog and it's damm cool. ... One of the frustrating realities about OST files is that they become progressively slower as they become older. One of the factors influencing this is fragmentation.  As the Exchange Team blog says: ''We usually recommend no more than about 2500 - 5000 messages in any ...

This makes an interesting read .. Found it up on the Security Vulnerability Research & Defense Blog Today we released MS08-039 which addressed several XSS vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange’s Outlook Web Access component.  While this is an update to be applied to the Exchange server, the clients who use OWA are the computers ...

So we have a KB, Download and a Security Bulletin ;-)  NOTE: This also affects Exchange 2007, but is included in RU3 for Exchange 2007 SP1 and RU7 for Exchange 2007 RTM Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e099c1d1-5af6-4d6c-b735-9599412b3131&DisplayLang=en This update addresses the Microsoft Exchange ...

ohh .. Rollup, rollup (sorry couldn't resist!) HOT off the press! Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB949870)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=63E7F26C-92A8-4264-882D-F96B348C96AB&displaylang=en Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in ...

Okay so just for everyone (and for me to blow the dust off a few brain cells .. and what I understand the issue to be) .. This is a problem introduced with Exchange 2007, and affects any BES or Outlook 2003 user that is on Exchange 2007. Essentially, a users Exchange 2007 OoO is actually stored at the top of the information for a users mailbox, ...

Ari to the rescue! .. ''RIM hopes to release 5.0 by year-end, but that will depend on the quality of the code'' .. Which Year? Source: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/05/14/RIM-details-features-in-BlackBerry-Enterprise-Server-5_1.html BES is a critical piece in RIM's effort to make its software ...

So at last RIM confirm they have a problem! .. Rumour control has the fix scheduled for BES 5.0 ... god knows when that will hit the streets!. So esentially you when you migrate a Blackberry user to Exchange 2007 they shouldn't set an OoO from the BES device!? Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/article/458/KB15155_f.SAL_Public.html ...

So I have had a look and play with a HTC Touch Diamond and its ... okay, was a bit sluggish, but I seem some firmware updates have emerged so maybe its got better. But what about the iPhone2? with 3g, its a sweet bit of kit, but has one very BIG issue for me ... and that is o2.  I dont want to change from t-mobile, so why has apple take the ...

Boyz & Girlz gentle remind if your interested in spending an evening with Gordon McKenna discussing SCOM 2007 and Exchange 2007. This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions. The ...

Interesting .. wonder if it will make it over the ''pond''? and to the rest of the world.  Looks like a ''budget'' way of getting office to people .. still not ''cloud'' computing is it? Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-02EquiptPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — July 2, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. ...

I just have to share this with you, as I was quite impressed by how quick I knocked this script up.  Basically I wanted to see how much email was queued up on my Exchange 2003 servers.  I had a feeling that a WMI object existed so I ran scriptomatic on a server a behold under root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 was Exchange_SMTPQueue. So the rest ...

This arrived in my inbox Event Name: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Storage Deep Dive (Level 300) Event ID: 1032379718 We have rescheduled this event for the following date: Date: 07/18/2008Start Time: 08:00 AM PacificEnd Time: 09:30 AM Pacific You are still registered for this event and will continue receiving ...

Just found this on the EV blog (https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=EV_team_blog&message.id=65#M65) Shame I can't get to the FTP link and give you more info.  Once I do i will be back There are also Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Symantec Compliance Accelerator 6.0  and Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Symantec Discovery ...

Thanks to Ari for this nugget ;-) The following events are visible:Event Source: Service Control ManagerEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 7000Description:The Microsoft Exchange Monitoring service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.  Event ...

Damm is that a month already :-| It's all downhill now .. only 176 days until Christmas!#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in June 2008 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release Notes (June2008)The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release ...

So we had this issue today on an Exchange 2000 SP3 Public Folder Server When we tried to mount a database it logged this in the Application Eventlog Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: ESEEvent Category: Logging/Recovery Event ID: 454Description:Information Store (2892) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error ...

Sweet .. this is basically ExMap but built in to Visio 2007.  but I found it doesnt work :-|  It baiscally says that is it no a ''valid Office Add-in'' Anyone else get it working? Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0140bc6d-1c51-41f6-a473-d0e04690ee5e&DisplayLang=en Although Exchange Management are ...

Noticed some updates to this site (thanks Ari) that have happened so far in 2008. Looks what I just found too: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc655656(EXCHG.80).aspx and http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/category/11153.aspx Planning for a Simple Exchange OrganizationTopic Last Modified: 2008-03-13 ...

Looks like an update over the weekend, but no details on what has been updated! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1A83E112-8677-4E03-83C3-F1B7EBFC3A4B&displaylang=en The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 management pack is designed to be used for monitoring Exchange 2007 events, collecting Exchange ...

oh, oh, oh, oh get ur web browsers at the ready ... just seen this on Henriks Blog. Start here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/default.mspx The new Microsoft Certified Master series offers advanced technical training and certifications on Microsoft technologies that go beyond any product training offered outside of Microsoft today. ...

Interesting Mr Bond .. via Scott & Rui, basically the Windows Server Backup utility that ships with Windows 2008 will support Exchange 2007 backups.  ..Although streaming backups have been deprecated for Exchange Server 2007, it is still possible (and supported) to use this kind of data protection with the NTBackup utility from Windows ...

Humm so maybe an iPhone 2.0 is going to be my new phone? Source: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/messaging_collaboration/applemicrosoft_friendly_exchange.html ... In March, Apple announced that iPhone 2.0 software would support Microsoft's ActiveSync, offering full synchronization fidelity with Exchange Server. The update is coming soon, ...

Roll up, roll up .. put this date in your diary and come along The next event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. This month we have a great session led by top speaker Gordon McKenna! Gordon will be going into depth about how we should be managing and monitoring Exchange using the System Center Operations ...

Got an email last night about this: The TechNet Webcast: Going Big! Deploying Large Mailboxes with Exchange Server 2007 Without Breaking the Bank (Level 300) has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. *Please Note: If you used the ''Add to Outlook'' feature when you registered for the webcast, please make sure you ...

This is quite a good KB from the boys at Blackberry, it details the sequence of events that occurs in each component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server during wireless enterprise activation is outlined below. The details include the lines that are written to the respective debug logs of each ...

Bit late this month .. so here we go#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in May 2008 Title Release Date Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up Tool Determine error values from decimal and hexadecimal error codes in Microsoft Windows® operating systems. 5/29/2008 Swett ...

I know you already know about this, but this is for my reference, so I remember to look here in the morning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687789(TechNet.10).aspx Find here Microsoft IT's early adopter experiences, best experiences, and lessons learned from our own deployments of Messaging solutions within our global enterprise. ...

Do you know how sometimes you write a script and the output looks lovely, but for some stupid reason a yellow warning message ruins it. Well my school day learning from today is that you can turn them off! So lets say I run this [PS] C:\PS>get-mailboxdatabase -server ...

Just stumbled across this: https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=EV_team_blog&message.id=58#M58 Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)Build Number: 7.5.3.2138Documentation link -  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/304302Installation link -  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/304217 Symantec ...

Check this out .. it's the mutts nuts! ... Erik has just posted this excellent post .. basically you can toggle the Office Ribbon by double clicking on the label name. http://msmvps.com/blogs/erikr/archive/2008/05/31/playing-with-office-ribbons.aspx

The king of exchange powershell scripting .. so here is v5 of the awesome mailbox size gui script by Glen.  This time he has added mailbox growth history.  Check it out and download it! http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/version-5-of-mailbox-size-gui-script.html

ooh ooh ooh a new version update as of 29th May 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be596899-7bb8-4208-b7fc-09e02a13696c&displaylang=en&tm  

As they say, every day is a school day ... todays lesson was learnt while trawling Exchange 2003 Servers and finding a while load of .ifs file in the database folder. So a bit of googling and I discovered this!?! Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260532 Files ending in .ifs may appear in folder containing database log filesDuring the ...

Nice cut and paste .. does the guy know who they work for? http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/05/23/att-fast-tracking-hspa-in-preparation-for-iphone-video-calling/  

I wrote this a while back, and just blew the dust off it. Meet get-PerfCounters.ps1  Basically you feed the script a csv file that has ''ServerName'' on the first line the first. The script will then loop the servers and get the following perf counters System\System Up TimeMemory\% Committed Bytes In UseMemory\Committed BytesMemory\Commit ...

So I posted this but missed the golden nugget near the end Original Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080519/tc_nm/summit_microsoft_dc_2;_ylt=AsKL2pjELwGF53bquJszSVIE1vAI Microsoft has already signed up large customers to its online services. The company said Coca Cola Enterprises Inc (CCE.N) signed up 70,000 seats for Exchange Online, ...

Off the back of Eileen's post, I just couldn't resist a new ebook. So Exchange Management Shell: TFM is a 386 page secured! PDF document, with the last 8 being adverts for Sapien Press!.  The secured bit is a a major pain in the butt as you can't copy from the PDF doc.  So a PDF ebook, that has code snippets becomes kind like a paper ...

Okay here is a second attempt at getting TechNet Webcasts up with the video  Source: ...

ooh ooh ooh ... nice Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d87daf50-e487-4b0b-995c-f36a2855016e&displaylang=en   A new utility that writes Windows PowerShell scripts that harness the power of WMI (Windows Instrumentation Management) for use in system management and administration. This tool was created by ...

Interesting! Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080519/tc_nm/summit_microsoft_dc_2;_ylt=AsKL2pjELwGF53bquJszSVIE1vAI SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) sees tens of millions of corporate e-mail accounts moving to its data centers over the next five years, shifting to a business model that may thin profit margins but generate more ...

How kewl is this ..  not! .. looks like it all down to Free/Busy lookups Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/dynamickc.do?externalId=KB15582&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=KB15582 Microsoft Exchange 2007 can be installed without public folders for environments with Microsoft® Outlook® 2007 ...

Check this out, Sembee just posted an awesome blog Source: http://www.sembee.co.uk/archive/2008/05/12/77.aspx ...A new tool from the Microsoft Exchange team, currently in prototype/development may well be something to help you. https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ can currently test Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere (which should work for ...

Good olde Doug has done it again.  Check the docs out they are great Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/05/12/448867.aspx Download: http://msexchangeteam.com/files/448862/download.aspx The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly ...

Crikey! Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7397370.stm Hewlett-Packard (HP) has confirmed that it is in talks to buy the information technology provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS). It followed a report in the Wall Street Journal, which said that HP was close to a deal to buy EDS for between $12bn (£6.1bn) and $13bn. EDS is a ...

Steve blogged this (http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/09/a-field-guide-to-geek-types.aspx) from Wired (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/16-04/st_geekster) So which one are you? 1. The Fanboy2. The Music Geek3. The Gamer4. The Gadget Guy5. The Hacker6. The Otaku Me thinks I am ...  :-|4. The Gadget ...

Cor blimey look at these fixes .. This is an interesting statement: ''Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers. This update rollup does not apply to ...

Oh my gwad, looks like my nokia phone may have an unexpected accident! Source: http://www.htc.com/uk/product.aspx?id=46038 Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use. With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive ...

So here we are again: #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in April 2008 Title Release Date Microsoft Antigen 9.0 with SP1 Readme The Messaging Security Suite includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, ...

This made me smile  My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE'If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.' My mother taught me RELIGION'You better pray that this will come out of the carpet.' My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL'If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle ...

I also got asked this ... What is https! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) is a URI scheme used to indicate a secure HTTP connection. It is syntactically identical to the http:// scheme normally used for accessing resources using HTTP. Using an https: URL indicates that HTTP ...

I got asked this today and just to confirm I was kinda right I thought I would share it! ;-) Transaction Log File Replay: Soft Recovery and Hard Recovery in Exchange Server 2003http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997761(EXCHG.65).aspx As used in Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003, the word recovery must be distinguished from the word ...

Interesting, this was kept quite :-| but indeed it is available for download from https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do Service Pack 5 File name: besx_upgrader_4.1.5.exe File size: 308 MB Date posted: 18-April-2008 And supporting docs are here: ...

Hummm this was news to me. Source: http://www.platespin.com/novell/ On March 31, 2008, Novell announced that it has acquired PlateSpin Ltd. The combination of Novell’s platform and automation management with PlateSpin's leading solutions for workload relocation, protection and provisioning will give customers the agility to cross physical and ...

So I might have mentioned this before, but when I hibernate I loose the SD card.  I have just got off the tube and put vista in to sleep. No when it woke up, the SD card was found!!!! Strange but true!

So that is it, 3 days of life on a Prince2 training course, and I passed with 63 out of 75, which is really cool, so its time to update my CV and upload it jobserve ASAP. What I found interesting is that the objective of the course is to get you to pass the exam, and not really get a fill grasp of project management ... but I would recommended ...