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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:04 PM

Windows Live Local addin for Outlook

I really had high hopes for this. What a fantastic idea. Windows Live Local for Outlook . Just the thing to add maps and directions to my meeting requests. One of the most useful things is that I'll now be able to calculate the travel distance between
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 9 Comments
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:30 PM

Watch out: Another Instant messaging worm

This IM worm has been affecting Yahoo Messenger users, and installs a "Safety Browser" onto the desktop (hiding behind an Internet Explorer logo). This leads the user to sites which could install spyware on PC's. Have a look at the news article and press
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Monday, May 29, 2006 11:13 AM

Beta 2 of Office 2007 now available

Ok, so I missed this announcement when it came out last week (I was having a break scuba diving, looking at wrecks in the northern Red Sea). But lots of other bloggers picked this announcement up and passed this arround so I thought I'd follow suit...
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, May 26, 2006 1:58 PM

Office Developers conference

There's an Office Developers conference coming up in the UK in June (the venue is close to London Heathrow by the way so you can fly in, attend, and fly out). With all of the changes to Office 2007, the new file formats and the cool new things you can
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:35 PM

Live Messenger features

(I can't get my head around this new name. I still think of this as MSN messenger 8.0). Anyway, here's a list of features that you can try, now that you've got your hands on the beta ... Windows Live Call. With one click users can now make cheap national
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:59 PM

Outlook signature formatting problems

TS (he didn't leave his real name on his email), contacted me through my blog to ask me why his signature files had become corrupt. My signature file on new messages only works in rich text format, not html. It used to but one day decided to stop. Any
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:49 PM

The Crabby office lady talks about Office 2007

I noticed that the Crabby Office Lady has started to comment on the funky bits of Office 2007. With Beta 2 of Office just around the corner, and all the webcasts starting to talk about Office, the ball has really started to roll for the 2007 release.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Monday, May 22, 2006 2:07 PM

MOM 2005 Free Seminbar in London

Ian alerted me to an event that he's delivering on MOM thats running in London that sounds really interesting. Here are the details: The Pygmalion Group invites you to learn how to save time and money enhancing IT service management at the “ Using MOM
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, May 19, 2006 5:12 PM

Word 2007 and blogging

I was having a play with this new Word feature which allows me to publish this post to my blog. All you do is click on the Office logo in the corner, Publish and then blog. Voila! Now that’s impressive. Nino won’t be able to send me mails complaining
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:22 PM

Disaster recovery for Exchange

Wang Jijin had a bit of a problem after a catastrophic power failiure at his company: After a site power failure (Both DC and Exchange server are affected), the Exchange server which has been up for nearly 2 months is down. The exchangeIS together with
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:17 PM

Webcast for Introverts

I've included this webcast this month as it really struck a chord with me. I work with a lot of introverts who do an amazing job. However, in other parts of Microsoft, we tend to favour hiring extroverts (I sat through a recruitment day yesterday to decide
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:15 PM

RTC Webcasts for June

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 100) Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Evan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline Services Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:14 PM

Mobility Webcasts for June

MSDN Webcast: Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0: Data Access and Security (Part 3 of 5) (Level 200) Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Glen Gordon, MSDN Developer Community Champion, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft ASP.NET
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:05 PM

Sharepoint webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Integrating SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Outlook, and Exchange (Level 300) Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Scott Jamison, Information Worker Architect, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:01 PM

Messaging Webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Security Matters: Secure Messaging (Level 200) Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Ryan McGee, Senior Product Manager, Security Product Market, Microsoft Corporation This webcast outlines the Microsoft approach to
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:00 PM

Office Webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Benefits of Deploying the 2007 Version of the Microsoft Office System (Level 100) Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time Mark Mueller-Eberstein, Director, Office Deployment, Microsoft Corporation This webcast explains
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 1:40 PM

MOM and SMS Webcasts June 06

TechNet Webcast: Application Compatibility Testing (Level 300) Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Glenn Fincher, Senior Consultant, Xtreme Consulting Group When you deploy a new operating system in your organization, compatibility
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:18 AM

The death of the iPod?

Not yet...but certainly something to think about... I was scanning through the news links this morning and noticed this article saying that within 5 years, then most of us would not be carrying portable MP3 players around at all, but instead would be
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Monday, May 15, 2006 12:12 PM

Software using Full Mailbox Access permission in Exchange

I knew that as soon as I highlighted something "important" that you needed to do on yor Exchange systems, I'd get something wrong, or miss something out.. Nick sent me a mail mentioning possible issues with MS-019 ... I have been alerted to a possible
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, May 12, 2006 2:57 PM

Check that your Exchange system is up to date

We released a security bulletin about Exchange the other day, (MS06-019) with a critical severity rating. It's a good idea to check that your systems are up to date. To find out whether your system needt this patch, then use the Baseline Security Analyser
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:17 PM

Phone wizard

Well after months and months of dithering and prevarication, I've finally got my hands on a nice new phone. The Windows mobile team sent me one of these to evangelise. Certainly! Very impressive - the Wizard 100 has lots of features . It won't fit in
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:17 PM

MSN Messenger 8.0 beta

Well it's not really MSN messenger 8.0 any more, it's called Windows Live Messenger. And you can download it now as it's gone to a beta program where enyone can try it out. Just go here to see all of the different beta programs you can be a part of and
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:49 PM

Setting up the fax service in Outlook

Sometimes I get messages that leave me totally stumped, not because I have absolutely no idea of the answer (although that's sometimes true), but because I've been heads down focusing on a specific topic, that I've sort of forgotten about this other thing.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:13 PM

Speech Server 2007 public beta

Almost every email I get at the moment wants more and more information on Unified messaging in Exchange 2007. There seems to be a big buzz around it, how it works, integration with Speech Server and things like that. Well the Exchange team will be publishing
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:04 PM

New Blog location

No not mine. The Exchange team have changed their URL to something snazzy with a new domain too. http://MSExchangeteam.com Their new blog looks really cool, with the option to deliver blogcasts (one coming out today ). Nice job team. Nice looking blog.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, May 08, 2006 2:57 PM

Preview the 2007 Office system

Actually Kevin blogged about this a month ago - but I've only just got around to looking at the video on the Office preview site . I know, I don't even have 13 minutes free in my day. I'm herding cats the rest of the time with my team and events, and
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, May 08, 2006 2:29 PM

Entourage and Exchange

I know about Exchange. I know how it works on PC's. I know about Outlook too. Thats the core part of my job. I have no idea about the world of the Mac, although I've had several Mac questions recently, seen the adverts about buying a Mac, and am in "Admin
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, May 05, 2006 6:43 PM

Orb lets you view your files on your phone...

I've been raving about this for ages now - Orb gives me the ability to watch my recorded TV programs from my Smartphone. I need never be disconnected from my TV soaps again. It really impressed my US colleagues when I showed them back in January. But
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, May 05, 2006 3:43 PM

PTS-TV - the Geek boutique

I love this! it's a sort of low budget, British channel 9 . Katie goes and interrogates the Partner Technical Specialists in the UK. The video has been edited for the final version - and they've kept the out-takes in the video. Lots of giggling and mistakes
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:02 PM

Direct Push mail to your mobile - how to get it

I was asked several times at the roadshow the other day about how to get direct push mails down to your mobile phone, so I thought I'd have a look faround or some related resources on mobility. First you need to have the Windows Mobile 5.0 Messagng and
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:14 PM

Office Communicator for your cell phone

We've now released a version of communicatior for the mobile phone. So we now have the full client , the Web client and a client for cellphones . nice... Communicator Mobile extends the reach of Live Communications Server 2005 to information workers who
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 9:07 PM

The Dynamic Systems Initiative - what's that then?

I'm certanly doing the rounds at the moment. As soon as the roadshow in Birmingham had finished, Melville and I headed north to Manchester to the most hallowed of places (so I'm told) Manchester United football club We were there to deliver presentations
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:59 PM

Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging

Well at the roadshow session today I was convinced something was going to go horribly wrong. I'm demoing Beta 1 code (which works really well by the way) I've logged into an Exchange 12 (oops 2007 ) server in Redmond, and accessed OWA 2007 on Exchange
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 8 Comments
Monday, May 01, 2006 1:43 PM

Beta Central. All the Betas in one place.

I'm quite impressed with the concept of this new Beta Central site which has been live for a couple of weeks now. It used to be a bit complicated to keep your eye on everything that was going on in the Beta world, and wonder if your registration process
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