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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:35 PM

Technet magazine

I've just written an article for the Technet magazine which is now available on line.  My article will appear in the next edition.  However, Steve made it into the first edition.  Great job Steve. Do you want to write for TechNet
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:22 PM

Exchange Server support tools

I've been so busy out on the road at IT forum,  then out of the country on holiday and now out on the road with the Exchange Unplugged tour (here's the tour blog by the way) that i havent had any chance to keep up to date with anything at all, so
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:17 PM

Granting access to another mailbox

I noticed that this flash tip has been highlighted on TechNet recently, and how very appropriate and timely as i'[ve had 2 mails this week about this very topic.  Susan wanted to know how to grand acces to someone elses mailbox, and Claire wanted
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:07 PM

Office 12 XML schema documentation

Just noticed this... Download the Office '12' XML Schema Draft documentation of the Office "12" XML schema is now available for download. Use this information to help you understand the capabilities of Office "12" and develop applications for it. 
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Monday, November 28, 2005 2:25 PM

Encarta answers your questions via MSN Messenger

So many people have told me about this new feature, I just had to try it out for myself, and now I have, I've just got to share it with you! You can add Encarta to your MSN Messenger buddy list and ask it questions.  The answers are totally fascinating. 
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Friday, November 25, 2005 4:13 PM

Exchange 2003 migration resources

So, as promised yesterday, here are a collection of the resources and documents I talked about during the Exchange Unplugged tour gig in London yesterday BlogCast: Populating Active Directory using the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) Blogcast
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Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:42 PM

Exchange Unplugged - we're now officially on tour...

So our Exchange Unplugged tour has finally started and we're on the road.  Totally packed venues, and an absolute deluge of questions from people attending Q: "What about migrating delegates?" A: "Migrate both accounts at the same
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:14 PM

Management solutions available to download

Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM)This solution enables   IT professionals to easily define desired configuration settings across multiple hardware and software configuration sources and detect
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:34 PM

Blogcast: How to create yourown blogcast

****Edited broken links :-) **** Well I've had quite a few mails asking me how to create blogcasts since the Exchange team published my blogcast series on how to upgrade from Exchnge 5.5 to Exchange 2003. So here's some infomation covering the various
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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:13 PM

Office Webcasts for December

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Making Meetings More Effective (Level 100)Thursday, December 01, 2005 – 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Pacific TimeEvan Archilla, Senior Training Specialist, Projectline ServicesIs your definition of a team meeting
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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:11 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: Dialing for Desktops: Microsoft Communicator and PBX Integration Calling (Level 200)Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific TimeAdam Marlin, Director of Sales & Strategic Alliances, SiemensWould you like to simplify
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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:08 PM

Portals Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: An Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 100)Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimeDavid Smith, Senior Consultant, EntirenetMicrosoft SharePoint Portal Server helps teams to work together, follow
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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:04 PM

Messaging & collaboration Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2003 In Depth (Part 11 of 14): Exchange Best Practice Analyzer (Level 200)Friday, December 2, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific TimeHarold Wong, Technology Specialist, Microsoft CorporationThe Microsoft Exchange Server
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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:58 PM

MOM & SMS Webcasts for December

Microsoft Webcast: Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup with Data Protection Manager and CommVault Thursday, December 08, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific TimeRandy De Meno, Director of Advanced Applications & Microsoft Partnership, CommVaultMicrosoft System
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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:43 PM

Mobility Webcasts for December

Microsoft Webcast: Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Windows MobileTuesday, December 13, 2005 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeJason Langridge, Enterprise Mobility Solution Specialist, Microsoft CorporationThe term “myth” can be defined as “a widely held
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Friday, November 18, 2005 3:02 PM

Deploying Sharepoint in the Enterprise

I noticed some resources on the web about deploying Sharepoint throughout the enterprise... The web page is aimed at helping support enterprise level deployments and is now available to provide access to resources helping large-scale Windows
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Friday, November 18, 2005 9:44 AM

64bit Exchange - a correction to my blog entry...

Well I've been a bit busy dealing with questions and comments from my blog entry about 64bit Exchange  the other day, and responding to (generally positive) mails and articles.  There certainly seems to be lots of interest about this decision. 
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:51 PM

Code Sharing Community for MOM Management Packs

The MOM product team has launched a code sharing site that can be used for our community to share MPs, Connectors, Reports and Scripts on GotDotNet.  This is designed to complement – not compete with – other community forums such as myITforum.com
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 9:55 AM

Sign Up for MOMv3 Focus Groups

Last Chance..On November 17th at ITForum in Barcelona, the MOM’s product marketing team will conduct focus groups to gather feedback on the MOMv3 licensing model.  It is critical to incorporate customer feedback about current MOM 2005 licensing to
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:36 PM

Exchange 12 - 64 bit only!

So I'm sitting in the keynote at ITForum listening to Bob Muglia's keynote talk on our Windows Server roadmap, and noticed  a couple of interesting things.  Firstly, our 64 bit plans.  We're going to support 32bit Windows until 2017 and
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:21 PM

Exchange Standby Clusters are now supported

I've just read this on one of our internal newsletters  - really good news... The long-awaited ability to use “standby” Exchange clusters is finally completed testing and documentation with its addition to the Disaster Recovery Operations Guide This
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Monday, November 14, 2005 12:42 PM

Exchange - from the Inside

Nino has been producing Technical bulletins on a weekly basis for internal consumption for quite some time now - they're now available on the web for you to have a look at.  I've been using them to expand my knowledge for quite some time now, and
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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:22 PM

Adding Additional mailboxes to the Outlook PRF file

Well I had a mail the other day which really had me stumped for an answer - I really didn't think that this could be done.  Here's the mail... I've used the custom installation and custom maintenance wizards to ensure that when a user logs onto
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:02 PM

Which account has been locked out?

Chris had a problem with SMS last week.  He was using SMS 2003 in standard security and found that the the SMS service account was being locked out intermittently. He was using one account to do most things.  It was driving him mad and he was
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:21 PM

Viewing Exchange 5.5 GAL from Exchange 2000

Romain mailed me with his exchange problem.  We'd been chatting at one of my technet evenings - I'd been talking about blogging - not Exchange incidentally, and I'd mentioned that Exchange was my favourite Microsoft product (in conjunction with Outlook
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:09 PM

Tools to analyse Exchange

I've noticed that these tools have recently been made available for download.  I've been using the ExBPA for over a year now, and I'm really impressed with the wealth of information that it provides, so these new tools complement the ExBPA
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Monday, November 07, 2005 12:51 PM

Blogcast: Switching to Native mode

So this is the last in the blogcast series showing how to upgrade your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast talks about switching your organisation to Native mode from the properties of the organisation and warning
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Friday, November 04, 2005 5:38 PM

Share point Portal Server 2003 SP2 Available

I missed this download when it was announced last week, fortunately Mart's blog alerted me to both SP2 and the SDK. SPS SP2 is available for download here and don't forget to read the list of what's contained in SP2 SP2 introduces support for the
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Friday, November 04, 2005 12:44 PM

Blogcast: Removing the last Exchange 5.5 Server

Well, we're up to part 15 of this blogcast series in upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast steps through how to remove the last Exchange 5.5 server in the organisation.  There is a recap of steps
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:00 PM

MOM 2005 Summary Reporting Pack

Stefan  and Blake both watch whats going on in the MOM world and have both blogged about the availability of this reporting pack.   Here's the info from the download site: The MOM 2005 Summary Reporting Pack extends the MOM data warehouse
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:38 PM

Blogcast: Confirming mailbox moves

Part 14 of this blogcast series which runs through how to upgrade your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003 confirms that the move mailboxes operation has been sucessful.  This blogcast only runs for 37 seconds so be warned!.  
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:46 PM

MOM 2005 Management pack for Citrix

I've had a bit of a focus on management products this week, and found this on one of the email distribution lists.  Really useful if you manage a large Citrix estate.. Citrix Management Pack for MOM 2005Citrix Presentation Server 4—running in both
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:37 AM

Oracle on Windows? Wow! can you do that?

So I'm sitting on the stand with Steve at the UK's Oracle user group 3 day event, handing out chocolate bars (you may get the lucky bar with the sticker inside telling you that you've won a creative mp3 player, and answering the same question
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