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Friday, April 29, 2005 8:25 AM

BlogCast: Collaborating with a Team Sharepoint site

So when does a demo, stop being a demo, and become a blogcast?  When it's linked to from a blog...... I came across this demo on the Office site today, and thought it was worth blogging about. There are also links to other Office demos
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Friday, April 29, 2005 7:27 AM

LCS 2005 Service Pack 1 released.

Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 is now available so you can now use features like federation, Public IM Connectivity (PIC), and support for the new Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 client.  In addition, there is increased security offered
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:23 PM

LCS 2005 Documents and resources

I've been working with some customers recently who are migrating to LCS 2005 and, in the process, I've had to do quite a bit of research to answer their various challenges about migration, provisioning, connecting to the client, and deploying the SIP
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:49 AM

I'm a security Expert

Hee hee.  I got all of the test questions correct on the Gatekeeper Test. Do I get a prize for being the Ultimate security Expert then?   I'd like to win a Tablet PC... My team mates won't play against me in a mini league (apart from
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 9:11 AM

Putting the MOM agent into maintenance mode

Tony asked me if there was an easy and quick way to put the MOM agent into maintenance mode for troubleshooting.  Well, Tony, you can use the MOM information utility (MOMInfo) which is in the Resource kit which runs from the command line and puts
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 11:04 AM

Ratio of Exchange 2003 Admins to number of Exchange servers

I noticed a question from a customer who was curious to know how many mailboxes we had at Microsoft, and how many sites, servers and admins we used.  Mark answered the question with a set of links that tells all... Deploying a Worldwide Site Consolidation
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:10 AM

Mulberry Jam

I had an email overnight from Bob which was so different from the normal questions and comments I usually get about Exchange, SMS and MOM that I thought I'd answer it on my blog... Here's his mail: Hi Eileen, I followed a few links through your
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Monday, April 25, 2005 11:41 AM

Systems Management Server 2003 Scripting Guide

The SMS 2003 Scripting Guide provides over 40 scripts, ranging from tasks such as creating advertisements to running queries. It explains the basics of SMS objects, WMI, and VBScript through a series of 'How To' examples. Each example has extensive and
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Monday, April 25, 2005 11:31 AM

Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates Beta

The Systems Management Server and Windows Update Services teams have combined their technologies to provide SMS customers with a new SMS security update scan tool for enterprise patch management: the Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft
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Monday, April 25, 2005 9:59 AM

System Center Reporting Manager 2005

After Jonathans gentle reminder that I've been speculating too much on the short forms of Indy's new name (CapMan)  and correcting me appropriately (Thanks Jonathan), So System Center Reporting Manager 2006 has been announced at MMS.  I'm actually
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Friday, April 22, 2005 11:40 AM

Configuring LCS 2005 to use SIP/PSTN Gateway

I did an interesting demo at the TechNet roadshow last week.  I was talking about Live Communications Server 2005 and Voice integration and a bit of VOIP.  I demoed the new Office Communicator 2005 client (using SIP/HTTP on a dodgy
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:27 AM

Live Communications Server 2005 and your mobile device

Microsoft has announced it is extending Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 capabilities to mobile devices, enabling companies to deploy trusted instant messaging (IM) and presence-enabled solutions that provide a consistent experience
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:42 AM

Google Search on my Smartphone

I was reading Nino's blog and noticed there's a funky little Google search for my Smartphone.  Fantastic...  
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:12 AM

Software and Patch management with Windows Update services

Here are the list of links I mentioned in my talk about patch management at the TechNet event last night.  If I've missed any links off, please add a comment to the blog entry. and I'll update things.. How to configure automatic updates using
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:47 AM

System Center Capacity Manager 2006 - Indy's new name

My colleague Bruce over in Canada picked up this scoop from MMS.  So Indy now has a name. System Center Capacity Manager 2006. Thats a heck of an acronym though.  SCCM 2006.  Hmmm.  wonder what else is coming up?  You may want
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:38 AM

Messaging and collaboration Webcasts for May

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Optimize and Enhance Your Lotus Notes Collaboration Environment Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time Harry Wong, CEO, Casahl Technology, Inc. Collaboration platforms are mission-critical and
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:33 AM

MOM and SMS Webcasts for May

TechNet Webcast: Applying SMS Updates to an Advanced Client (Level 300) Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Pacific Time Wally Mead, Program Manager, SMS, Microsoft Need to apply a Systems Management Server (SMS) update (hotfix) to an Advanced
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:27 AM

Portals Webcasts for May

5 May, 2pm: TechNet Webcast Collaborating across the Integrated Portal This session begins with an overview of Portal technologies and an introduction to the Microsoft Portal framework. We will give an overview of the capabilities you have when using
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:25 AM

Mobility Webcasts for May

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Driving Field Force Productivity with Line of Business Solutions on the Windows Mobile Platform Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time Jason Warren, Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Organizations
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:20 AM

SBS Webcasts for May

NEW: Small Business Server: Do more with lessLive webcasts available nowSessions in this series show you how to plan, install, and migrate your company onto the Small Business Server. Learn about server administration with topics such as creating user
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:14 AM

Office Webcasts for May

Microsoft Project: Align people, work and priorities Live and on-demand webcasts available now Manage and coordinate people, projects, and processes more effectively with the Microsoft Office Project 2003 family of products, including Project Standard,
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:57 AM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for May

Real-Time Collaboration: Enable next-generation productivity Live and on-demand webcasts available now Learn how Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2005 provide an extensible, real-time collaboration solution that
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:07 AM

Exchange 2003 backups

Bryan came to my Technet evening on the 22nd and  mailed me with quick question regarding backing up Exchange 2003. He uses Veritas for backup on all of his client sites and has the option to back up the mailboxes individually or the Information
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:00 AM

Scripting Office Applications

I noticed that this has popped up ot the TechNet website - simple tips and tricks for scripting Office Applications.  Useful - but a bit scary for a non developer like me...  
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:55 AM

Error Code: - 2147467259 The agent could not connect to the MOM Server

This is a real pig of an error message, and has had me chasing my tail today about it.  My MOM agent just couldn't contact to the MOM server.  I found some information about how to work arond the problem in the kb article, and played around
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Monday, April 18, 2005 12:34 PM

Exchange 2003 - Restricting message sizes

I've been clearing out my mailbox as I've had a copule of warning messages that I'm up to my size limit in Exchange, and if I ignore these messages then I can't send any mails - just when I need to send that urgent mail of course. 
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Monday, April 18, 2005 11:58 AM

Exchange 2003 Databases and the Exchange store

I'm playing around, trying to tweak Exchange 2003 to get the best possible performance in my Virtual machine demo environment so that my demos look good, and I've been reading the Optimising Storage document on TechNet.   There's a table
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Monday, April 18, 2005 11:44 AM

New Smartphone SPV C550 shipping

The Register had something that caught my eye this monring after blogging about it the other day.  Apparantly we'll be able to get hold of the next version of the Smartphone in the UK from next month.  Yippeee... The funky matt black look
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Friday, April 15, 2005 11:49 AM

Blogcast: MOM 2005 Rule Override

Gordon has been really busy recently.  In the last few weeks he's become an MVP in his favourite subject MOM, written a fantastic article for our Industry Insiders blog which impressed Rod, Delivered a fantastic TechNet evening session on using MOM
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Friday, April 15, 2005 8:29 AM

Free busy in Exchange 2003

Jeremy has been browsing my blog and asked a few questions about Exchange free busy after reading my blog entry.  But the link I gave him didn't give him enough information.  Well  did some digging around and came up with a couple
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:26 AM

Clustering and Disaster recovery

I don't tend to blog much about Clustering as Rodney, Paul and Evan do such a storming job on their blogs, but I was going through the swathes of messages that I havent had time to look at whilst I've been at the Technet Roadshow this week, and I came
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 8:23 AM

Exchange integration with Active Directory

After my session at the TechNet roadshow yesterday, I  promised I'd make available all the links to the documents I'd been talking about during my presentation to save everyone scribbling down URLs's like crazy (URL's are getting so complex now -
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:48 AM

Software Asset Management - and a free tool

I've been playing with the Software Inventory analyser (MSIA)  after downloading it recently and playing around scanning my home network for Microsoft products.  It's easy (wizard driven), I've now got a consolidated report of all my stuff
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:10 AM

Do you want to be a Case study?

Allister Frost, the Microsoft’s UK Product Manager for Exchange Server asked if I would do him a favour and post this on my blog. He’s such a nice bloke, I couldn’t refuse. He's been amusing me with his blog for a while, and providing me with a blogcast
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Monday, April 11, 2005 11:43 AM

Outlook 2003 junk email filter update

We've released an update to the Outlook 2003 junk email filter last month, that has an updated definition about which messages should be considered as junk mail.  I hardly get any messages through to my inbox, so few that I'm actually convinced they're
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Friday, April 08, 2005 1:12 PM

MSN 7.0 - much better than the beta!

I've downloaded the full version of MSN 7.0 after playing with the beta for a couple of months and its fab... I can now put a comment under my name instead of having to modify my display options each time I log in and I'm in a different location. 
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:49 AM

Back up your PST's with Outlook 2003 Addin

Noooo! I hear you yell.  She shouldn't be telling anyone how easy it is to back up PST's automatically when we're trying to implement a centralised e-mail archiving solution and educate the users.  But I'm as bad, or maybe worse than you. 
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:51 AM

UK TechNet Roadshow - to demo or not?

I'm putting the finishing touches to my presentations at next week's TechNet roadshow in Edinburgh, and having a fun time with the Live Communications Server 2005 demo.  The problem with LCS and Office communicator is that the demos work really well
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:07 AM

SMS 2003 scripting guide

I noticed that the SMS 2003 scripting guide was released last week.  It's quite useful if you're not too good at scripting (like me) and need a head start.  If you're a script guru, then there are links to the SDK's and the Windows 2000
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:50 AM

Lots more management packs released for MOM 2005

There has been 10 more management packs released for MOM 2005 Management Packs.  This release almost doubles the number of MOM 2005 enhanced Management Packs available for Microsoft products and enhances MOM’s capability to manage these crucial applications
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:28 AM

Windows mobile 2005

I noticed that Engadget had a screenshot of Windows Mobile 2005 Magneto the other day.  Heck I'm not running it yet, and covet the fact that Ewan is. He was giving me a tour of the new features over coffee this morning.   Grrr!   I'm
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Monday, April 04, 2005 11:38 AM

Conneting MSN, AOL and Yahoo with Live Communications Server 2005

I've been so busy recently, I completely forgot to mention this when I was blogging about Office Communicator 2005 the other week after the Live Communications Server launch.  We now support connectivity to LCS using federated services. 
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Friday, April 01, 2005 12:07 PM

Tracking messages in Exchange 2003

I've been playing around with mesage tracking today, and I've lost a couple of mails.  I've been getting 1021 errors which have been driving me crazy.  Well I've finally found out what's been happening.  There's this great kb article that
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Friday, April 01, 2005 8:27 AM

Deploy Windows 2003 SP1 using SMS

So Windows Server 2003 SP1 shipped yesterday (my colleague John was on line most of the night so he could download the new SP1 bits whilst they were still warm).  But the great thing about this is that we also shipped the SMS Package definition files,
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