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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:47 PM

IT Forum - the highlights

I've been sitting in on the first day of our IT forum highlights event. We cherry pick sessions from IT forum held in Barcelona each November, and redeliver 2 tracks worth of content (which will be delivered on 2 seperate days). The interesting thing
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Monday, January 30, 2006 4:53 PM

Organisational Forms management

This is quite an easy thing to do - if you know where to look. But I've reproduced this here - in case you dont... Q: Do you know how to remove an Outlook form from the Exchange organizational forms library? I know how to publish a form into the Exchange
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Friday, January 27, 2006 5:53 PM

Exchange and Lotus Notes - interoperability and migration

I've been arguing with my husband today. I've only been back in the UK for a week, but we've had a heated discussion all day on Technology! (He's an engineer suveyor and has nothing to do with IT beyond power user sort of stuff). He works for a major
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:04 PM

Exchange 2003 and WINS

I've had this conversation before - several times, but ths same old thing keeps cropping up in various distribution lists, messages to various furums and emails send to me asking the question. And the answer is Yes! Exchange needs WINS! (Do I need to
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:19 PM

Download the SMS 2003 Desired Configuration monitoring tool

Well I blogged about the desired configuration monitoring guides the day before the updated tool was released for download on the web. That'll teach me to be so efficient :-) Well the SMS 2003 Desired configuration monitoring tool is available for download
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:55 PM

System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Release Candidate Available

Gosh I'm way behind in my emails about System Center whilst I've been focusing so much on Exchange 12. I've been ignoring all of my non essential mails in my attempts to keep up to date with my day job, my managers job, whilst attending 2 weeks of trechnical
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Monday, January 23, 2006 5:03 PM

Setting the SmtpIpRestrictionFlag to allow anonymous connections in Exchange

I was having an argument about Exchange 2003 on the flight over to the UK on Thursday night about SMTP connections (I really shouldn't have had that 3rd glass of wine before getting on to the flight, I must have been up for an argument right from the
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Friday, January 20, 2006 7:04 PM

Back in the UK - with some scripts to write

So I'm finally back on the GMT timezone - although it will take my body clock a couple of days to catch up with the 8 hour time difference. I'm hungry at completely the wrong times and more than a little tired. My head is totally full of the E12 stuff
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:34 PM

SMS 2003 Desired Configuration monitoring guides available

I noticed this on one of our internal mails the other day...thought it was worth highlighting Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM)
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:47 PM

Mobility Webcasts - February

MSDN Webcast: Creating a Windows Mobile Line of Business (LOB) Application (Part 5 of 13): Dealing with Data, Continued (Level 300) Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Maarten Struys, Product Manager, PTS Software In Part Four
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:42 PM

Messaging and collaboration Webcasts - February

TechNet Webcast: Planning a Migration from Lotus Domino to the Microsoft Collaboration Platform (Level 300) Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time Edward Wu, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation This webcast presents a technical
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:36 PM

Windows Management Webcasts - February

TechNet Webcast: Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup and Recovery with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Quantum (Level 200) Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Jason Iehl, Manager Strategic Alliances, Quantum As information
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:32 PM

Portals Webcasts - February

Microsoft Webcast: Honeywell Realizes the Versatility of SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 100) Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time Sam Wilson, Intranet Program Manager, Honeywell Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:10 PM

RTC Webcasts for February

Microsoft Webcast: Implementing Integrated Communications with Microsoft Collaboration Technologies (Level 200) Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Bob Sutton, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation Information workers
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:53 PM

Watch your TV recordings from anywhere

I've been using the Orb for some time now - as has Chris . It's really impressive to be able to show photos and recorded TV from my Media Center displayed on my smartphone. I can even see what's been recorded whilst I've been away, and watch the TV recordings
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Monday, January 16, 2006 8:51 PM

Exchange 12 - so much new stuff

I'm still on the West coast of the States - this week I'm actually on Redmond campus on an Exchange 12 course. The course is designed for people in the field who need to have a thorough understanding of Exchange and how to present the slides, demo the
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Friday, January 13, 2006 11:44 PM

Triscadecaphobia - and a film crew...

Yup, I have triscadecaphobia . I hate days like these. I'm glad I don't have to get on a plane today... I'd rather hang around an airport and fly tomorrow instead, so I thought that I'd keep a bit of a low profile today and not do anything to attract
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:28 PM

RPC/HTTP in Small Business Server

I was chatting to Jenny today, and she was telling me about one of her neighbours who has a problem with Small Business Server, specifically Exchange. The two chat regularly as John knows that Jenny works for Microsoft, and can share lots of hints and
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:38 PM

Windows Live - and lots of gadgets

Well I've been playing around with Windows Live Messenger 8 since I downloaded it the other day and I'm really impressed with it too. From the beta page, I've had the chance to get to other beta sites to try, and Live.com has blown me away. If you've
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:00 PM

Technical Training – Face to face or on line?

I’m in Seattle for a couple of weeks to attend some technical training events. Next week, I’m on a course to learn all of the ins and outs of the next release of Exchange 12 so that I can redeliver the sessions in the UK in a few months time. This week
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Monday, January 09, 2006 10:08 PM

Exchange 2003 Cross forest mailbox moves

Now this is a challenge for a weekend migration... Dave is trying to is migrate all of his users from one forest to the other in one hit - qall at the same time, and at the same time migrate the mailbox content, all of the rules and mailbox rights, so
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Friday, January 06, 2006 10:24 PM

Messenger 8.0 beta for download

Well I'm impressed with the UI of the new MSN Messenger 8.0 beta, or as I really should be calling it: Windows Live Messenger 8.0 beta. A selection of existing MSN messenger users have been invited to try the new beta version. I can't give you the link,
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:17 PM

Active sync web administration tool

The Exchange Activesync web administration tool was released a couple of weeks ago, and because I was running around like a mad thing on the Exchange Unplugged tour - I completely missed this appearing on the download site. With the advent of Exchange
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:00 PM

Creating Address lists in Exchange 2003

So I'm over in Seattle for a couple of weeks (no, I'm not posting my blog posts in the middle of the night! I'm over here for a series of meetings, a Technical training event (a bit like TechEd for internal staff) and then I'm going on an Exchange 12
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:31 PM

Generating the Offline Address Book in Outlook 2003

Steve had been playing with his Offline Address book on the Exchange Server and had run into some problems with OAB generation and performance. He'd been trying to compress the OAB when hardly anyone else was in the office and the load on the server was
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