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Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:43 PM

Customising tabs with Office Communicator 2005

I've been asked about this a couple of times before, there's obviously quite a bit of interest in this topic so it's worth another mention. If you want to customise the tabs down the side of Office communicator 2005, haqve a look at the customising
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:21 PM

IMF and POP3 connections

Kerry was at the compliance event last week and asked me about the IMF. I recently (last week) attended the Exchange Compliance and Disaster Recover presentation.I have setup the IMF recently and have been collecting email via POP3 under SBS 2K3.I have
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:56 PM

Blogcast: Enabling Roaming boundaries in SMS 2003

Here's a blogcast showing how to enable local or remote roaming boundaries in SMS 2003.  The blogcast talks about how to enable BITS to ensure bandwidth throttling and the benefits of assigning local or remote roaming boundaries depending on link
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:01 PM

Disabling mobility services for Active Directory users

I was talking to James the other day about using mobility features with users  He wanted to be able to disable certain individual user accounts access to all Mobile Services provided by Exchange 2003 without going to the Exchange Features tab in
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 5:49 PM

Scripting for MOM

Now this is a great idea. Mike blogged about how there's a TechNet site with sample scripts and walkthroughs for creating scripts for MOM with a great article about the basics of scripting.  But here's the great thing.  There's a link asking
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 5:10 PM

Exchange 2003 SP2

After Steve announced SP2 at TechEd Orlando and Terry blogged about it (and so did I), I've had quite a few questions about when SP2 would be released (2nd half of 2005 by the way), and some of the features in it.  Well here's the link to the page
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:29 PM

What's your favourite blog?

So today is an admin day.  I'm trying to get through my backlog of emails, run through next years events planning stuff with Louise, catch up on my technical knowledge, reading all of the blog feeds that I subscribe to, and answering as many
posted by Eileen_Brown | 8 Comments
Monday, June 27, 2005 12:37 PM

Blogcast: Configuring the Advertised Programs Client Agent in SMS 2003

Here's a blogcast from the TechNet team on how to configure the Advertised Programs client Agent in SMS 2003.  the APCA forms an important part of software distribution in SMS 2003. The blogcast runs for 1min 25 seconds and talks about the various
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Friday, June 24, 2005 1:03 PM

Automatically forwarding mails to external mailboxes

Allister called me from his event yesterday with a query from one of the attendeed who asked if it’s possible to block rules in the Outlook client to prevent users from having emails forwarded to an external mailbox. In this instance, the rule blocking
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Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:15 PM

Exchange compliance and archiving

I co-presented with Veritas at an event this morning about the features of Exchange 2003, Exchange consolidation best practices from MSIT, the IMF and the ExBPA.  I had several questions about PST files and Public folders and their management
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 5:09 PM

There's a really huge moon out there tonight...

Completely off topic I know, but I do occasionally blog about non technical things - just because they've caught my eye.  If you're in the Northern hemisphere (sorry Antipodes!), and look out at about 10pm tonight (June 22nd), you'll see
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:37 PM

Sharing SMTP address spaces in Exchange 2003

Mike mailed me with the question of the day...   If the "This Exchange organization is responsible for all mail delivery to this address" option is not selected on an Exchange recipient policy then will Exchange forward mails to a smart
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:47 PM

Blogcast: Configuring Hardware and Software Inventory in SMS 2003

This is a 3 part blogcast as part of a series from the Technet team in the US showing how to configure and enable hardware and Software Inventory in SMS 2003.  Part 1 is here, and runs for 3minutes 42 seconds and shows how to
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:23 PM

Microsoft and Sybari - products

Well, Microsoft announced that the acquisition of Sybari has been completed today and talked about all the products that would be offered: "Microsoft will offer Sybari products for the Microsoft Windows platform, including Antigen for Microsoft Exchange,
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Monday, June 20, 2005 1:18 PM

Office Webcasts for July

Microsoft Office System: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Legal Assistants: Better Legal Word Documents in Less Time (Level 200)Tuesday, July 12, 2005 – 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific TimeStephanie Krieger, Document Production ExpertAs a legal professional, you
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Monday, June 20, 2005 1:17 PM

Portals Webcasts for July

TechNet Webcast: Methods for Integrating Lotus Notes and SharePoint (Level 200)Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 9:30 AM-10:30 AM Pacific TimeGary Devendorf, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft CorporationLeverage your Notes Domino environment using the collaborative
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Monday, June 20, 2005 1:15 PM

MOM and SMS Webcasts for July

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft System Management Server 2003 Technical Overview (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)Friday, July 22, 2005 - 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Pacific TimeJohn Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft CorporationThis series highlights the new features of Microsoft
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Monday, June 20, 2005 1:12 PM

Small Business Server webcasts for July

TechNet Webcast: Small Business Server 2003 Technical Overview (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)Friday, July 8, 2005 - 9:30 AM-11:00 AM Pacific TimeKeith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft CorporationYou are aware of Small Business Server 2003, but is it right
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Monday, June 20, 2005 1:09 PM

Messaging and collaboration Webcasts for July

TechNet Webcast: Accessing Exchange Server from Your Mobile Device (Level 300)Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Pacific TimePaul Limont, Program Manager, MicrosoftDoes your organization have all the mobile access it could in the areas of security,
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Monday, June 20, 2005 1:05 PM

Mobility Webcasts for July

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Windows Mobile Enterprise FeaturesTuesday, July 12, 2005 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeJason Langridge, Business Manager, Microsoft CorporationGet a jump on the competition with an early view of the future of the
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Monday, June 20, 2005 12:57 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for July

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Introducing Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the New Office Communicator 2005 SolutionTuesday, July 12, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific TimePaul Haverstock, Architect, MicrosoftWalk through the architecture
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Friday, June 17, 2005 10:39 AM

Blogcast: Deploying the SMS 2003 Advanced client

This is the second blogcast in the series of SMS 2003 and the advanced client produced by the TechNet team. This blogcasts shows the actual deployment of the advanced client (we prepared SMS 2003 for the advanced client in the previous blogcast). 
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:07 PM

Windows R2 sharepoint services documentation

I've been looking through the huge amount of documentation about windows 2003 R2 when i came to this list of links about Sharepoint Services, and as this falls in my technology area, not John's, I'm including it here for reference.  The links all
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:51 PM

Data Protection Manager Webcast

I've blogged about DPM a couple of times recently and it's been talked about a lot at TechEd Orlando the other week, so I thought I'd mention this webcast that's coming up.. System Center Data Protection Manager WebcastTechNet Webcast: How Microsoft
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:54 PM

LCS with SP1 management pack for MOM 2005

I blogged about the availability of the management pack for Live Communications Server 2005 back in December.  Well now there is an MP for LCS with SP1 The management pack monitors and provides alerts for:• Automatic notification of events
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:09 AM

Approaches to fighting spam in an Exchange environment

Greg presented this Technet evening for me last night.  The topic was all about fighting spam - the bane of the messaging administrator and Gred did a sterling job.  here are some of the references that he referred to during the presentation. 
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:31 AM

Blogcast: SMS 2003 Integration with Active Directory

The TechNet team have been blogcasting on a variety of topics.  In my team, I'll cover all of the SMS topics, and leave the security, SQL and Virtual Server blogcasts to Steve, John and Mat.  The blogcasts use the semo virtual machines that
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Monday, June 13, 2005 5:30 PM

LCS integration with Sametime - no it doesn't!

Well I've really stepped out of my area now and been corrected.  I suspected that I was out of my specilist area, but my blog entry was incorrect the other day, and both Paul and Jevon have put me straight. I was correct in that Live Communications
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Friday, June 10, 2005 5:54 PM

Running LCS 2005 in a Virtual machine

Lena sent me a mail the other day about Virtualisation. Hello Eileen, I ran into a series of notes between you and several others about running SMS2003 on VMs.  Have you had any experience with running LCS 2005 on VMWare?  I would imagine
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:45 PM

Adding disclaimers to outbound SMTP messages

Jim sent me a question about adding disclaimers to outbound SMTP messages.  "So with the steps as described in 317680 complete I fail to see the code operate in response to outbound public email.  My question is how to get in and debug/discover
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:36 PM

Exchange SP2 IMF blocks phishing attempts

Now this is interesting (and I missed this when reading all of the Exchange SP2 announcements) Gerod's blog alerted me to the fact that SP2 IMF includes a blocking mechanism for phishing.  "Updated and integrated Exchange Intelligent Message
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:15 PM

Stopping notifications when contacts are added to the buddy list

This question had me puzzled for a while.  How to turn off notifications, so that you're not alerted everytime a user adds me to their buddy list... Easy.  Go to options - permissions and change the "all other contacts" to Allow. But how would
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:26 PM

LCS integration with Sametime

I've just finished my final presentation of the TechNet roadshow and the final one for this tour.  So I'm writing this in truly wind down mode.  I was demoing Office communicator (when the venue wireless network went down - typical luck eh?)
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:05 PM

Exchange database limit increase

Damn... I was going to post about the massive increase to the Exchange database today after my roadshow presentation, but the Exchange team and KC beat me to it.  Then Ewan beat me to it with a comment on my blog entry too. Appears to be good news
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Monday, June 06, 2005 1:52 PM

Maximum number of mail attachments

The blog entry that Ewan wrote the other day has got me thinking.  I'm still staggered at the maximum size of the attachments that you can send via an email.  2.4Gb!  What the heck were they sending?  The whole of the starwars DVD? 
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Friday, June 03, 2005 5:45 PM

How big is your mailbox?

Ewan has written a thought provoking post on the Exchange team blog.  He talks about organisations with huge mailboxes.  I mean really huge.  We have a reasonable quota allocated here at Microsoft which suits me, but it wouldn't suit some
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Friday, June 03, 2005 5:37 PM

Windows messenger group policy files

If you haven’t made the switch to Office Communicator yet, and are still running Windows Messenger in your organisation, then you may be interested in this .ADM file to manage messenger with group policy.  This download updates the Microsoft Windows
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Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:42 PM

Office Communicator Launches

John reminded me about Office Communicator RTM.  Here's the press release... You can get the  trial version of the software here...
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Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:35 PM

System Center Capacity Manager 2006, Express Edition

Have a look at this new tool that helps successfully architect application deployments and identify how changes to the infrastructure will affect hardware utilisation and user experience.  
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 7:15 PM

Exchange Active sync - Server issues solved.

I've been trying to catch up with the backlog of mails I've had whilst I've been out of the office (scuba diving, then at the TechNet roadshow in Harrogate) and I came across this gem of a mail from Daniel.  Daniel has a blog of his own, but
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:28 PM

Live meeting addins

Live Meeting 2005 Add-in: Live Meeting Add-in Pack Beta 2 With the Live Meeting Add-in Pack, you can perform conferencing tasks directly from Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, as well as from Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger,
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