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Friday, July 29, 2005 7:29 PM

Deploying Office Communicator at Microsoft

Microsoft IT showcase has released this white paper... Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Office Communicator 2005 at MicrosoftDetailed discussion of how Microsoft IT deployed Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Office
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Friday, July 29, 2005 4:22 PM

Exchange mobility articles

I've found a collection of Exchange and mobility related things that I want to share with you - things that will ease the adoption of windows based smartphones and pocket PC's for you.. How to Configure Always Up-To-Date Notifications Exchange Server
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:11 PM

How to start services using a script

OK, so I'm not a scripting person - but even this isn't beyond me... Here's a script that allows you to start "auto start" services that have stopped... so if your server gets a bit busy sometimes with all thats going on at startup and a service
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:48 PM

Giving product feedback on MOM

(Or other products by the way) I just found this on the MSDN site.  You get the opportunity to submit feedback to the MOM product team, and can see what other feedback has been submitted. The MOM team actively welcome feedback and bug
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:49 PM

AUTD for Windows mobile

I was in Jasons mobility session last week at our conference listening to the ehancements for Windows Mobile provided by Exchange SP2, talking about scalability, remote wipe, push emails and all of the other features that are coming out of the box with
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:53 PM

Putting your PST's on the LAN or WAN link,

I get asked about this a lot, and even though I've blogged about this in the past, people still think it's OK to put your PST's on the network somewhere.  Well don't!  I've dug out the kb article that explains why we don't support them. 
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Monday, July 25, 2005 2:51 PM

Microsoft to acquire FrontBridge

I saw this on the newswires the other day, and didn't get around to blogging about it as I was in transit to Atlanta, then Steve Ballmer talked about it during our internal global briefing, so I went back and had another look at the news
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Friday, July 22, 2005 7:59 PM

Exchange 2003 - Deleting Badmail items

Jasons Exchange server is causing him major issues.  I'd called in to see him for lunch before I flew out to our conference the other day and  I caught him at just the wrong moment.  He was in despair.. He had just noticed that his
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Friday, July 22, 2005 1:59 PM

New name for Longhorn - Windows Vista

So the name for Longhorn has finally been announced - Windows Vista.  I like it... Have a look at this link for more information.  Brian Valentine (he's the one on the right in the still shot on the web page) announced it at our internal conference
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:46 PM

The mobile opportunity

We had to change the date of the Mobile Opportunity event after the terrible events in London, and we've rescheduled it to the 2nd September.  It's an all day event in London (register here) and Ewan and Jason will be talking about mobility, Exchange
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:13 PM

LCS and PIC connectivity

I've been involved in email ping pong with Chris for a week or so, I think he'd read my blog entry on PIC and wanted some further information  He wanted to know if it was possible to communicate with an MSN user who's passport is something other
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:32 AM

What demos do you want to see

Clives post has got me thinking.  What demos do you really like?  Simple or complex? Short or long?  Wxisting how to stuff, or new unseen things?  We're starting to plan our TechNet sessions for next year and would like some input
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:31 PM

Exchange Server cookbook

John has been nagging me to blog about this as he's from an Exchange developer background and gets excited about whizzy things that you can do with scripts and the like.  He can't stop himself scripting (like an addict) and blogged about backing
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:05 PM

18 hours to go - 48 hours needed

And I'm still not ready.  I'm flying off to our global conference tomorrow morning and rushing around like a loon trying to get everything sorted out before I leave.  Asking myself where the heck I put my passport after returning from TechEd,
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Monday, July 18, 2005 12:12 PM

MOM and SMS Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: Modifying the SMS_DEF.MOF for Advanced Clients (Level 300)Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 11:30:00 AM - 1:00:00 PM Pacific TimeWally Mead, Program Manager, SMS, Microsoft CorporationDo you already have your Microsoft Systems Management Server
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Monday, July 18, 2005 12:04 PM

Messaging & collaboration Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: Mastering Exchange Server Scripting (Level 300) Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 9:30:00 AM - 10:30:00 AM Pacific Time Don Jones, Microsoft MVP, Book Author, and Founder of ScriptingAnswers.com Jeffery Hicks, Contributing editor to ScriptingAnswers.com,
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Monday, July 18, 2005 12:00 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: A Technical Overview of Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 200)Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 1:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM Pacific TimePaul Duffy, Product Manager, Microsoft CorporationMicrosoft Office Communicator 2005 is the next generation
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Monday, July 18, 2005 11:49 AM

Office Webcasts for August

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: How Enterprise Project Management Can Help Improve Your Project Office Processes Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time James Robb, Principal Consultant – EPM, BORN Is your organization's project
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Monday, July 18, 2005 11:34 AM

Mobility Webcasts for August

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Windows Mobile Enterprise Case Studies Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Marvin Chartoff, CTO Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services, Unisys
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Friday, July 15, 2005 11:54 AM

Scripting for MOM - Part 2

I noticed that scripting for MOM part 2 has been placed onto the Technet site.  I blogged about part one the other week and understood most of the concepts in the topic.  Lets see how I fare with part two...  
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Friday, July 15, 2005 11:48 AM

Outlook 2003 junk mail filter update: July

I noticed there's an update for the junk mail filter which has been published on Technet.  have a look at the KB article and download it here...  
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Friday, July 15, 2005 11:26 AM

RTC Presence toolkit

I noticed that Graham and Mary Jo Foley have been talking about the RTC presence tooklit which was announced last week at rhw World wide partner conference in Minneapolis <...>RTC Toolkit. Microsoft is introducing the RTC Presence Toolkit,
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:26 PM

.mobi domain approved

I saw this article which says that the Internet domain .mobi has been approved.  So should I register http://www.obi-wan-kenobi.mobi ?  hee hee...
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:31 PM

Email authentication and Sender ID in messaging

I was scanning the Technet newly published articles today looking for something on how our new anti phishing feature is going to work when SP2 comes out and I found this article which explains really clearly how sender ID works.  Unfortunately I
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:10 PM

LCS 2005 Bandwidth

I've been involved in and email exchange with a consultant from one of our Systems Integrators who was asking about bandwidth use in LCS  In the Architecture and Deployment document it states that LCS consumes 1.6Kbps of network bandwidth per user
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 5:35 PM

0xC3F7580B - LCS 2005 and pools

I was chasing up an issue with moving users from one server to another in LCS for a migration to LCS 2005.  The server was throwing errors about each user and warning me about the pool.  I'd created an enterprise pool, and the servers were talking
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Monday, July 11, 2005 1:29 PM

Deleting the First Storage Group on a Front End Exchange server

One of the more interesting conversations at the Ask the Experts area at TechEd last week was about Front Ends and Back Ends.  Exchange Servers that is... Peter and I got into quite an in depth discussion about deleting the Storage groups on a front
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Friday, July 08, 2005 11:30 AM

Steve Ballmer and blogging

Oooh this is interesting.  The channel 9 team managed to grab 10 minutes with Steve Ballmer, for a video interview.  It was interesting to hear his thoughts on blogging at Microsoft Q: Microsoft has been a leader in transparency, blogging,
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Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:43 PM

Bandwidth use in RTC applications

I've been answering questions at the Information desk at the Ask the Experts area and meeting up with lots of people.  Thank goodness most of the questions have been about where someone is as opposed to how do I do this, and there have been several
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:45 PM

Blogcast: Global Contact Access for windows mobile

Here's something that's *really* hot off the press. You can now download Global Contact Access for windows mobile here,  but even better than this - Ewan has already done a blogcast showing how it works. It's really useful if you need to find someone's
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:07 PM

Scripting in SMS 2003

I blogged about scripting in MOM the other week - so here's the information for you if you want to use scripts in SMS... You can download the SMS 2003 scripting guide to have a look at some "how to" examples for creating advertisements, running queries
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:44 PM

BLogcast: Enabling software distribution in SMS 2003

Here's a really short blogcast - 39 seconds (the shortest I've seen so far!).  It's about enabling software distribution in SMS 2003 and refreshing the app in control panel. Thanks to the TechNet team in the US for these.  You can watch the
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:56 PM

Disappearing Outlook meeting requests

This has always baffled me and I've only just found out the answer to this issue.  I run 2 laptops, one as my daily workhorse, and one, more powerful demo machine that I use when I'm travelling.  I'm using it today at TechEd as John wanted me
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:39 PM

Viewing hidden mailboxes in Exchange 2003

Michael mailed me with another question: I did the e2k3 course last week and we couldn't find the box that shows hidden mailboxes/distribution list. How do you do this? Do you have to write your own ldap query? Well it's not as easy as it used to be
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Monday, July 04, 2005 4:19 PM

LCS 2005 Public IM Connectivity (PIC)

Well, as I'm going to be helping out at the LCS Ask the Experts stand (when I'm not presenting with Betsy) I thought it was appropriate that one of the first questions I had - that wasn't about blogging - was about LCS and the ability to connect to AOL,
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Friday, July 01, 2005 1:50 PM

TechEd Amsterdam - the tall guys

Well, I'm sorting everything out and getting ready to fly over to TechEd in Amsterdam on Sunday with Betsy.  I've bullied her in to delivering a session on how the blogging engiines are constructed at Microsoft.  Betsy looks after http://blogs.msdn.com,
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