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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:28 PM

Communicator documents

Office Communicator 2005: Office Communicator 2005 Telephony Planning and Deployment Guide The Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 Telephony Planning and Deployment Guide walks you through the deployment process for enabling telephony using Communicator
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:27 PM

Enhancing your presentations

I stumbled across this link when looking for something entirely different, and picked up some good hints and tips about presenting effectively.  i thought I'd share it with you in case you're the sort of person who has fear in your heart if you're
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:28 PM

LCS 2005 Security Guide Available

This is quite a good document about best practices for securing your LCS deployment.  Download it here
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Monday, May 30, 2005 7:19 PM

Filtering contacts from the GAL

John mailed me with this conundrum: We have a dozen or so contacts that we do not want displayed in the GAL. Instead, we use a secure custom address list to display these contacts. I cannot figure out how to change the filter on the default address
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Monday, May 30, 2005 5:46 PM

LCS 2005 Service pack 1

I was wondering why I couldn't send a URL to my colleague the other day and thought that it was just a policy that we'd introduced internally.  Then I remembered that this was a new feature for LCS 2005 which is designed to stop the propagation
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Friday, May 27, 2005 7:39 PM

How to create Exchange folders with a script

I've found a web page which is quite useful if you have to create numerous folders in Exchange and would prefer to script the creation of the folder.  The Exchange SDK has quite a few scripts starting at this page that will give you a start. 
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Friday, May 27, 2005 6:14 PM

LCS 2005 concurrent session limit

I often talk about LCS 2005 and how many more concurrent sessions we can support compared to LCS 2003.  We've greatly increased from the previous figures of 10,000 active sessions.  So when I was asked to quantify what I meant with
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:18 PM

Exchange support in Virtual Server

John blogs about Virtual Server (his favourite cool toy), and I blog about Exchange  -one of my many cool toys :-).  But I've got the question about whether we support Exchange in a virtual environment. The short answer is no. (we don't support
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:03 PM

Customising OWA to the Xbox theme

I've just noticed that the zip files to customise the OWA theme to an Xbox skin are now on Microsoft.com.  Good job that Kristian did a blogcast for me demoing just how easy it is to do this. Its one of the most popular blogcasts too - don't you
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:44 PM

Exchange SAN allocation size

Sean has been configuring his SAN for his Exchange 2003 implementation and wondered about our disk allocation unit sizes.  His SAN vandor insisited that he had to use 64k which puzzled me a little so I did some research.   From
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:43 PM

Exchange users not persisting when permissions assigned

I've been offering some telephone support to my friend who is running Exchange 2000 who is trying to with migrate the rest of his users from Exchange 5.5 and I've noticed some strange behaviour (from Exchange, not my friend!).  Users
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:25 PM

SMS Primary and Secondary sites

So what's the maximum number of secondary sites that can attach to an SMS 2003 primary site?  <customer question> Well, I've searched all over for the definitive answer to this one - and I can't find anything! I've discovered that
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Monday, May 23, 2005 3:52 PM

TechNet Showtime

So now you don't even have to get out of your chair to watch your favourite presenter speak.  TechNet UK have created IT's ShOwtime, where you can watch on demand presentations.  We're going to be adding to these presentations month after month,
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Friday, May 20, 2005 8:35 PM

Active Active Clusters in Exchange 2003

Sam mailed me with the question that made me shout out Aargh! "We're trying to configure Active Active cluster situation in Exchange 2003 but are having problems with poor performance when failing over.  Can you advise please?" Well the best
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Friday, May 20, 2005 6:54 PM

Multiple Points of presence in Office Communicator 2005

I often work with 2 PC's: my Demo machine and my daily workhorse (which has all of my music on it) I use Outlook in cached mode on both, so i only need to take my demo machine away with me when I travel to the roadshow.  Office Communicator auto
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:36 PM

MSN Desktop Search

I'm glad that we've released MSN Desktop search to the web.  I've been a big fan of Lookout for ages and was really pleased when I heard that we'd acquired Lookout.  It finds anything really quickly so my mails in my inbox and other folders
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:00 PM

Blogging from your mobile phone to MSN spaces

I've just seen this on an email.  Cool idea (and nice that we've got this feature before anyone else...! ) Mobile SMS To MSN Spaces Blog What is it? This is a new BETA Service which allows our Spaces users to update Blogs on their MSN Spaces with
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:56 PM

Log Bugs and make suggestions for MOM 2005

I received the following mail from the MOM team.. The site is worth bookmarking if you have any suggestions for MOM 2005 The MOM Product Team has been fielding bugs and enhancement requests logged directly from our community since MOM 2005 released last
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:23 PM

System Center Data Protection Manager Webcast

Paul is delivering a TechNet event for me next month on System Centre, here in the UK.  Well, if you're too busy to come to the session or have some other reason, like you live in Australia or some other valid excuse. There's a webcast coming up
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:38 PM

MEDC 2005 - in the UK

Marcus has been blogging about the launch of Windows mobile 5.0, and Bill's keynote at Mobile & Embedded DevCon (MEDC 2005) in Las Vegas. (watch the webcast for more info).  I've completely missed this, due to other committments which kept
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:03 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for June

  TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 200) Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Pacific Time Paul Duffy, Product Manager, Microsoft Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 delivers a fully integrated,
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:55 PM

Portals Webcasts for June

Portals in Action: Connect people, processes, and informationLive and on-demand webcasts available now Do your employees spend too much time each day searching for the data they need? Is it difficult for teams to collaborate on projects and share best
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:49 PM

Messaging and collaboration Webcasts for June

The Microsoft Platform: Leverage your Notes investmentLive and on-demand webcasts available now Tune in and learn how you can get more out of your Lotus Notes investment by combining it with the Microsoft collaboration platform. Discover how communication
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:36 PM

Mobility Webcasts for June

Windows Mobile Solutions: Increase revenue and reduce costs Live and on-demand webcasts available now The ability to collaborate and communicate while remaining highly mobile can be the key to business success and reduced costs. Tune in and learn
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:08 PM

Office Webcasts for June

Microsoft Office System Webcasts: for business professionals, topics include: using Microsoft Office System products such as Visio, Project and OneNote.   Microsoft Project: Align people, work and priorities Live and on-demand webcasts available
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Monday, May 16, 2005 4:19 PM

Office Communicator 2005 on the web

I got a mail over the weekend letting me know that Office Communicator 2005 has been released to manufacturing. I got quite a lot of mails after I'd blogged about this last time. You can download an eval version here.  Rex has some good
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Friday, May 13, 2005 8:16 PM

Static port mapping for Exchange 2003 and Outlook

I got into a bit of a heated discussion in the pub the other evening about how Outlook communicates with Exchange.  Daft isn't it, how innocent statements get turned into full blown arguments (I suppose thats how some wars get started too). 
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Friday, May 13, 2005 4:54 PM

Moving the Public Folder hierarchy in Exchange 2003

I've been asked about this twice this week, so I thought it was worth a blog entry. How do you move public folders to another Administrative group?  Well firstly you need a Public folders container To create a Public Folders container and
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:38 PM

Organising recipients in Exchange 2003

Mike asked me if there was a way to organise recipients in Exchange 2003. He wanted to have the structure of the GAL so that when the GAL displayed in Outlook it would look like this: Organisation name Company name    Region
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:30 PM

Exchange mailbox size limits

Scott mailed me with some questions about the Exchange stores, the differences between standard and Enterprise edition and how to upgrade from standard to enterprise edition. Well with standard edition you are: Limited to 1 mailbox store database
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:45 PM

System Center Data Protection Manager beta

Whilst the beta for System Center is just around the corner, you can have a look at Data Protection manager and how you can optimise and centralise your backup and recovery.  Click here to download the DPM beta software from the DPM site There was
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:16 AM

DSI Demo

There's a nice little flash based demo on the web about DSI (you've got to press the ctrl key when you download it, as it runs in a pop up window).  It's very animated :-). I present this session quite often, and this demo covers all of the
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Monday, May 09, 2005 4:42 PM

Exchange performance monitor wizard

I found this tool  on the web the other day when I was looking for something else (that's always the way isn't it?)  Not only does it help to troubleshot the OS, but you can also use it for Exchange too.  It's a nice handy thing
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Friday, May 06, 2005 5:23 PM

Try out a smartphone for free

Only if you're in the UK though.  You can try the c500 free for a month in your organisation with 200 minutes of voice and 4mb of data. Then you'll be hooked.  Like I am.  I love this phone!  
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Friday, May 06, 2005 12:33 PM

Get a list of all .PST files on a computer

I get a lot of comments about what a nightmare PST's are to manage effectively and how out of control they seem to be in lots of organisations.  I've had my own challenges with PST's too, so my sympathies are with every IT manager who has this problem.
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Friday, May 06, 2005 11:47 AM

Installing Exchange 2003 into a new site

Jemima mailed me with a question: If I have a mixed mode Exchange 2003/5.5 environment of one site, can I install a second Exchange 2003 server into a new site? (and how)  Or do I have to change to native mode to do so? Chapter 6 of the Exchange
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:39 PM

Detecting Stealth Software

My blog content mole pointed me to this report which has just been released . Detecting Stealth Software with Strider GhostBuster Yi-Min Wang; Doug Beck; Binh Vo; Roussi Roussev; Chad Verbowski February 2005 Stealth malware programs that silently
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:31 AM

Restricting mail to a distribution group in exchange 2003

We recently created an email alias for the Industry Insiders forum and we were talking about whether to restrict inbound emails to the alias as we wanted to minimise any potential influx of spam.  The email alias is for Insiders to submit articles
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:44 AM

Outlook command lines

Ewan sent me a mail the other day about all of the hidden stuff thats in Outlook that can be exposed using command lines. I had a browse around the site and found the crabby office lady, and the wonderful bit of Office Triva which will stay in my mind
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:49 AM

Exchange 2003 ADC

Michael emailed me with a problem he had with his Exchange 5.5 organisation talking to Exchange 2003. Whenever he sent email from the 5.5 server to Exchange 2003 the email does not arrive in the 2003 email account until he clicked on
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:34 AM

Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor

I found this on a forwarded mail the other day.  Its a previously internal only tool.   You can use the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor to gather real-time data to better understand current client usage patterns, and to plan for
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