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July 2006 - Posts

Monday, July 31, 2006 6:12 PM

BlogHer

...I want to go to BlogHer ...But it's a long way for me for a 2 day conference... There were some fabulous speakers and sessions this year.  So my question is... Can we have one in Europe?  There are women bloggers over here too you
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Monday, July 31, 2006 4:50 PM

Office System videos

If you're keen to get the best out of Office 2007, Sorry, the 2007 Office System(!), here are some videos showing you how the office "back-end" products can help you to become more productive at the "front end".  They're developer focused, and
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Monday, July 31, 2006 4:15 PM

Exchange Security resources

We get some fantastic emails internally,  We've got such a lot of smart people here who want to share their knowledge out to the broader internal community.  A set of these mails come from our support team, with lists and lists of updated KB
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Friday, July 28, 2006 4:36 PM

LCS 2005 and SQL 2005 - yes: together at last..

I get hassled about this quite a lot.  Steven has been beating me up about it recently, and the other day I mailed to Lee explaining the reasons why we don't support SQL 2005 running on LCS 2005. Oops.. Well we do now! James has all of
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Friday, July 28, 2006 4:18 PM

Microsoft music player: Tunes with Zune

I've been following all of the commentary about Zune since we announced the other day that we had plans to create a portable music player... I use my phone for music anyway, so I didn't get too excited.  In fact, I wasn't going to mention this
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:44 PM

Running POP and IMAP on Exchange 2007

Steve asked me a question the other day about Exchange 2007 server roles and where he could install POP and IMAP services.  He'd previously installed these services on a cluster and wondered where he could install them.  So I checked around
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:05 PM

TechNet Search Supremo

...I'm ashamed of myself. I played the TechNet search supremo game today and only scored 821 points. Why am I ashamed?  I spend 4 hours creating over 30 of the questions (and multiple choice answers in the game).  And I still couldnt' get
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:07 PM

Finally: Exchange 2007 Beta 2 is here...

And about time too! I get so many questions asking when Beta 2 will be available that now I can finally say: It's available now.  Get it from here... And with the public Beta, don't forget to download the release notes and the SDK
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Monday, July 24, 2006 3:18 PM

Transparancy - and a phone number

I was having a chat in the pub after the UC User group on Thursday night and the conversation got around to blogging and why so many Microsoftie's blogged.  Everyone I chatted to was really positive about the access to the "inside view" of Microsoft
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Friday, July 21, 2006 5:15 PM

Messaging and mobility User group created

... So our advertising actually works some times.  We hosted the second meeting of the Unified Communications user group last night.  Jorge came after reading about it in the TechNet Newsletter which only came out yesterday.  Very
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:06 PM

Unified: A strategy but no communications?

I was interested to read the blog post from Microsoft Monitor the other day talking about our recent announcements on our Unified Communications Strategy.  I was at the UC user group meeting on Tuesday (there's another one tonight too,) and it was
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:36 PM

Starting all over again - with Vista

It's amazing how much stuff you tend to accumulate over a lifetime.  Memories from when you were a child, mementoes from your youth, things that you've purchased and used extensively, things you've bought and now wonder what the heck you bought them
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:31 PM

Moving on to Exchange 2007 Beta 2

I received a mail last night telling me that all of the product documentation for Exchange Beta 1 was closing down and would no longer be available.  Yikes.  All of my current demos are on Beta 1 code... The good news is, that I registered
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Monday, July 17, 2006 5:31 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts for August

MSDN Webcast: Building Collaborative Applications Without Code Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Level 300)Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeRob Mauceri, Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft CorporationLearn how to
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Monday, July 17, 2006 5:29 PM

Office Webcasts for August

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Level 200)Tuesday, August 08, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeEric Carter, Development Manager, Microsoft CorporationIn this webcast, we introduce the Community
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Monday, July 17, 2006 5:28 PM

MOM & SMS Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Labs Efficiently Through Consolidation (Level 300)Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimeErik Dybwad, Microsoft IT Group Manager, Microsoft CorporationAttend this webcast to discover how Microsoft
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Monday, July 17, 2006 4:50 PM

Messaging Webcasts for August

Microsoft Webcast: Optimize Your Exchange Server Availability Through Service Level Management (SLM) for Messaging (Level 200)Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific TimeTom Bondi, Engagement Manager, Microsoft CorporationMaintaining
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Friday, July 14, 2006 5:49 PM

Software virtualisation - your road to a 'very' easy life

Sometimes I just can't see the wood for the trees... We announced our intention to buy Softricity a couple of months ago, but I didn't take much notice.  I'm one of those people who needs to actually get my hands on a product, or see a compelling
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:42 PM

MSN Messenger and Yahoo talk to each other.

We've had this a while in our Live Communications Server product.  The ability for corporate users to have contacts that are external to their company.  We call it PIC (Public Internet Connectivity), and here's some information on it if you'd
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:07 PM

Setting up Windows mobile 5.0 devices with policies

I noticed this on one of our internal aliases the other day - it's a question that seems to come up quite regularly so it's something worth repeating to get the word out a bit.  The question was around personalisation. well specifically preventing
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:15 PM

Gordon Frazer: The new boss at Microsoft UK

Well the new boss at Microsoft UK has finally been announced.  Gordon Frazer will be taking over the helm on 31st July.  He seems like a really great regular guy.  He's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, which I've always wanted to do but never
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Monday, July 10, 2006 4:29 PM

Unified Communications. Come to a User group meeting

The Unified Communications User group is having 2 meetings in the UK in July.  Register for the event in Reading on the 18th July here and the event in London on 20th July here..The pub (after the Meeting  - not during!) will
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Friday, July 07, 2006 10:13 AM

SYstem Center Essentials

Gordon has been badgering me to take a look at System Center Essentials for some time now, and especially since we announced that we're releasing a public beta the other week at TechEd in Boston.  I'd ignored it, not really understanding where it
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:59 PM

Outlook Web Access - right from the Start..

Steve asked a question at our last Technet roadshow concerning OWA, and whilst looking around for the answer, I realised that we don't have all of the documentation for OWA in one place (Exchange team take note!).  Steve wanted a step by step guide
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:17 PM

EXchange 2003 and 2007 Documentation

Well I know that this is shamlessly pinched from Blake (who has done all of the hard work on this), but here's a collection of all of the new resource guides that we've released recently for Exchange 2003.  And if you're wondering... All of the
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:42 PM

Antigen for Sharepoint

Now this is interesting... Antigen for Sharepoint available for download here....So you can now identify potential threats and secure your sharepoint environment.  We're building up quite a few datasheets for Antigen - certainly worth a browse around
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Monday, July 03, 2006 9:16 PM

Checking for compliance

We talk a lot about compliance at Microsoft,  We throw acronyms at you like SOX, and HIPAA and expect you to nod knowledgeably about how your company is complying with the compliance regulations.  But you may not be.  You may not be all
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