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Monday, October 31, 2005 3:29 PM

So what does "out of free support mean"

I’ve been answering a lot of questions recently about the fact that free support for Exchange 5.5 ends on December 31st.  Probably brought on by the fact that I blogged about our Exchange unplugged tour last week, and set a few thought processes
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Monday, October 31, 2005 12:29 PM

Blogcast: Moving User mailboxes

Part 13 of this blogcast series which runs through how to upgrade your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003 shows you how to move mailboxes.  This blogcast runs for 2 minutes and 38 seconds.  This blogcast talks about moving
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Friday, October 28, 2005 7:08 PM

New certification structure

Oooh! now this has caught my eye!  In my dim and distant (and vaguely murky!) past, I used to be a Technical trainer.  I used to train lots of Microsoft products ( I mean most of the Back office products, networking stuff and Internet type courses. 
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Friday, October 28, 2005 12:18 PM

Blogcast: Using the Public Folder migration tool

Well we're now onto part 12 of the blogcast series which shows you how to upgrade your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 6 minutes and 28 seconds. Exchange 2003 with SP1 has been installed, and there's
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:14 PM

Exchange unplugged tour

Well we're going on the road talking about Exchange 5.5 upgrades to Exchange 2003.  Support ends on December 31st this year by the way.  We're going to 9 venues in under 3 weeks.  it's a bit of a rock tour  - well if I'm going to
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:10 PM

Blogcast: Starting to install Exchange 2003

Part 11 of the blogcast series which has been talking about upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 5 minutes and 45 seconds. We're finally onto the stage in Deployment where we can install Exchange
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:37 PM

Cap Plan 2006 Beta refresh release

There's a beta refresh for System Center Capacity planner out at the moment.  I'd blogged about the features the other week, but the Windows Management team have been looking at feedback and have made quite a few enhancements: Don't forget though
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:19 PM

Inventory tool for Dell updates - mandatory re-install

I blogged quite a while ago about this tool and how it worked.  Well I've been alerted to something that you may need to be aware of to make sure that the tool still works effectively.  If you utilise SMS to do patching of Dell BIOS,
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Monday, October 24, 2005 12:03 PM

Blogcast: Verifying synchronisation

Part 10 of the blogcast series which has been talking about upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 1 minute and 39 seconds. It talks about how you can verify that the connection agreements have
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Friday, October 21, 2005 4:40 PM

Spend less time in the office?

I've just noticed this video on Steve's blog.  I was expecting something different and laughed out loud at the end of it... I hate airports - and now I know why :-)  
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Friday, October 21, 2005 11:45 AM

Blogcast: Creating a connection agreement

Part 9 for this blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 2 minute and 35 seconds and talks about creating a staging area for objects to be migrated and the connection agreement for
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:19 PM

An amazing set of support resources

Blake submitted an amazing set of links to the Industry Insiders blog yesterday, the links took me over an hour to check that they were all current and valid, so heaven only knows how long they took to collate.  He has managed to get every single
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:29 PM

Download Exchange SP2

Well, after all my talk and all of the tantalising glimpses aboutwhat you can do with SP2, you can go and try it for yourself.  If you're running Exchange 2003, just download the upgrade from the Download centre. And if you missed all of the hype
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:18 PM

Blogcast: Checking the migrated user accounts

Well, on to part 8 for this blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 1 minute and 17 seconds and looks at the acocunt names that have been migrated from Exchange 5.5.  There
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Monday, October 17, 2005 1:49 PM

Portals Webcasts for November

Microsoft Office System: Increase Collaboration and Efficiency on Your Board of Directors with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Board of Directors (Level 100)Tuesday, November 08, 2005 – 10:00 AM-10:30 AM Pacific TimeJason
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Monday, October 17, 2005 1:47 PM

Mobility Webcasts for November

MSDN Webcast: User Interface Techniques for Windows Mobile Devices (Level 200)Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific TimeJim Wilson, President, JW Hedgehog IncorporatedDiscover how to build Windows Mobile applications that make "write
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Monday, October 17, 2005 1:43 PM

Office Webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Model Network Changes in Minutes Using Visio 2003 (Level 100)Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimeBetsy McClain, Vice President, Visual Network Design, Inc.Increased government regulations and shrinking budgets
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Monday, October 17, 2005 1:40 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Enabling Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Office Communicator for Telephony (Level 200)Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific TimeTodd Eby, Director of Solutions Engineering, GenesysIs your company's implementation
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Monday, October 17, 2005 1:36 PM

Messaging & collaboration Webcasts for November

Microsoft Webcast: Bring Innovation to Messaging with Microsoft Exchange Server (Level )Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific TimeEd Wu, Program Manager, Microsoft CorporationDo you think that e-mail is just another boring commodity?
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Monday, October 17, 2005 1:23 PM

MOM & SMS Webcasts for November

Microsoft Webcast: Protect Critical Data While Lowering IT Costs with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 and HP Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimeChristopher Whyte, Technical Product Manager, Microsoft CorporationBrad
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Monday, October 17, 2005 11:40 AM

Blogcast: Configuring the Active Directory Connector

Upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 This is the seventh in the blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 4 minutes and 3 seconds and talks about migratig the user accounts
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Friday, October 14, 2005 2:24 PM

Blogcast: Using the Active Directory Migration Tool

Upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 This is the sixth in the blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation from Exchange 5.5 to 2003.  This blogcast runs for 7 minutes and 12 seconds and talks about installing the Active Directory
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Friday, October 14, 2005 10:23 AM

Introduction to Blogs and blogging

Steve and I really enjoyed talking to you the Blogs and Blogging Technet sesson last night and thank you for taking the time to give us some interesting and thought provoking questions, its always interesting to hear other opinions about blogging
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:47 PM

Women in Technology - and food

(Sounds better than the term girly geek dinner doesn't it).  Sarah did a fantastic job mobilising women to mix, network and interact with each other the other night.  Almost all of the women I chatted to were energised and motivated. 
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:16 PM

Blogcast: Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2003

Upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 This is the fifth in the blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation.  The blogcast runs for 2 minutes and 41 seconds and runs through phase 2 of the deployment tools that you can use. 
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:08 PM

Self Managing Dynanic Systems

There's been quite a bit of a buzz over the blogosphere over night with our announcement about self managing Dynamic systems.  Johns post tels you whats happening in the Virtualisation world. You can also look at the DSI website  and the official
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:52 PM

System Center Capacity Planner 2006 now available

The chaps in the Windows and Enterprise management division have certainly been busy with names.  We've had RepMan, CapMan and now CapPlan is now available to download.  Thats System Center Reporting Manager, Capacity manager and now Capacity
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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:52 PM

Outlook 2003 - where has all my mail gone?

I've been involved in quite a bit of a conversation with Robert recently who has been losing mails from Outlook 2003 when logged in over a VPN.  When he logs in from his new machine, his messages disappear from the server and he can't access
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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:11 PM

Blogcast: Exploring tools and checklists

Upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 This is the fourth in the blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation.  The blogcast runs for 7 minutes and 43 seconds and runs through the tools that you can use for deployment.  It's
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Friday, October 07, 2005 2:05 PM

Blogcast: Assigning appropriate rights

Upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 This is the third in the blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation.  The blogcast runs for 3 minutes and 21 seconds and talks about creating appropriate permissions between the NT 4 domain
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 1:00 PM

Office 2003 SP2 available for download

Allister reminded me that I hadn't blogged about Office SP2 yet.  Do I need to Allister, when everyone who reads my blog is probably already a fan of yours ;-) So what will you get with SP2?  Here's what it says on the download link. 
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:37 PM

Geek Dinner in London - for Girls

Sarah is organising a Geek dinner - for girls in London next Tuesday evening.  You don't have to be a geek to attend though  (actually you don't even need to be a girl either) - it's just a great opportunity to network with other women in Technology
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:00 PM

Blogcast: Creating the trust between Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2003

Upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 This is the second in the blogcast series for upgrading your Exchange Organisation.  The blogcast runs for 5 minutes and 34 seconds and talks about creating a trust between the NT 4 domain and Active
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:43 PM

System Center Reporting Manager - available

So I've noticed that you can now get the beta software for System Center Reporting Manager.  just register on betaplace to get the download.  You can read the overview here... 1. Go to the Microsoft Betaplace Site and sign in with your
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:36 PM

Add video clips to your Outlook emails

I've been chatting to a friend in Redmond recently, and he sent me a video clip tour to show me around his office and area.  He'd captured things on video, chopped it, played around with the file and sent it to me.  But there's a really cool
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Monday, October 03, 2005 1:47 PM

Blogcast: Reviewing Exchange 5.5 Organisation

This is the first in the series of blogcasts showing how to upgrade your organisation to Exchange 2003.  This is the first in the series showing all of the tools, and how they can help you migrate frm Exchange 5.5. The first blogcast is 1:51
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