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January 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM

Old to new reference guides

Oh heck - why didn't I find these months ago when I was scrabbling around trying to work out where the new commands were in Word and PowerPoint. One thing everyone agrees on is that the new ribbon interface in the 2007 release is quite a bit different
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:54 PM

People and problems

I often get asked why I answer all emails sent to me through my blog. Often these mails are not related to my technology (sometimes they are so far away I don't know what the heck they mean). Sometimes the question scares me too much I want to respond
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Monday, January 29, 2007 6:54 PM

The evolution of the video clip

I'm amazed at co-incidences and how often that they happen to me. Often 2 totally unrelated incidents happen that are portentous because they refer to the same thing. On Saturday, Jon sent me the link to this really really old video that we did about
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Monday, January 29, 2007 6:29 PM

Lots of SDK's

I noticed that we're ramping up with our release of software development kits. There's one for SharePoint 2007 (with the additional benefit of getting an enterprise content management starter kit - whatever that is!). We've also brought out an SDK for
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Friday, January 26, 2007 2:18 PM

Let's start Talking Microsoft again

The team have had loads and loads of challenges with our Talking Microsoft blog that we started in the summer ( explained here ), but we've finally worked stuff out, and are ready to publish our backlog of videos. The aim of Talking Microsoft is to give
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:38 AM

From passion to profession

Yesterday at Microsoft in the UK I think we held a first for a product launch 5 user groups in the UK - Nathan Winters - Messaging and Mobility , Nick Swan - SharePoint , Arthur Pounder – Unified Communications , Jim Moffat - Groove user group (site under
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:50 PM

Daylight Savings Time - what you need to do...

Ali is having a total nightmare with the changes to Daylight Savings time in the US and mailed me for help, so I started digging around for information. We'd mentioned DST in our last TechNet newsletter (register here by the way). Here's what we said...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:39 PM

Lotus Notes Migration tools

Steve highlighted this article that appeared on eweek. I'd been following the news internally and saw the blog post that the Exchange team and the collaboration team have been blogging about. As Don succinctly puts it: "Many Lotus Notes customers wanted
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Monday, January 22, 2007 5:48 PM

PowerShell Week

Richard (he of the PowerShell User Group ) is having a meeting on January 24th , close to Microsoft Campus in the UK. The meeting follows the Community launch day that all of the user groups are having on Wednesday here at campus (see Nathan's post ).
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Monday, January 22, 2007 2:43 PM

Get ready for Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 has been launched, you knew that didn't you? So you're all ready to move to the benefits of a 64 bit platform, extra headroom and a much more controllable and compliant environment for your users. But what if you're in the "wait and see"
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Monday, January 22, 2007 9:41 AM

Office Webcasts for February

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Essential Tips and Tricks for Project Standard 2007 (Level 100) Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Robert Happy, Senior Consultant/Partner, PM Practice http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032324156&Culture=en-US
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Monday, January 22, 2007 9:39 AM

SharePoint Webcasts for February

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages the World's Largest Windows SharePoint Services Deployment (Level 300) Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Scott St. Jean, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032324073&Culture=en-US
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Monday, January 22, 2007 9:37 AM

Exchange Webcasts for February

TechNet Webcast: Labcast Series (Part 1 of 8): Installing Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200) Friday, February 02, 2007 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Harold Wong, Senior Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032322628&Culture=en-US
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Friday, January 19, 2007 2:42 PM

Managing people at Microsoft

...is different to managing people anywhere else I've ever worked. In some ways it's frustrating, with all of the processes, forms, meetings, templates and review forms to fill out. In other ways, this structure means that your career history, performance,
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Friday, January 19, 2007 1:15 PM

Get into the Groove

We've had a lot of interest in Groove since we ran our "Introduction to Groove" TechNet session last month. Groove is an interesting phenomena. Until you've actually been part of a Groove workspace and seen how effective it is, then you don't tend to
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:39 PM

Pre configured Exchange and LCS DVD to download

I make no apologies for this (why reinvent the wheel?). David produces an Exchange 2007 newsletter which he distributes internally from time to time. I'm unashamedly reproducing it here as he finds things I've never seen before, so I'm banking on the
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:03 PM

junk email reporting

Well with the monstrous amounts of spam going around the net clogging things up, I'm pleased that we've brought out a reporting tool to report junk mail. The Microsoft Junk E-mail Reporting Tool version 1.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook (to give it it's
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:43 PM

Security on your mobile device

I'm really impressed with the information that's in this security newsletter , especially the information about how to secure your mobile device and remotely wipe it. Now I'm on Exchange 2007, I can wipe my own mobile device as often as I want to (for
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:35 PM

Thank goodness I was right

I was confidently chatting to one of the attendees at the BETT show last week , answering her questions on Office and Exchange when she asked when the next version of Office for the Mac would be released. The current edition is Office 2004, so I launched
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:50 PM

How creative are you?

Phil asked me to mention this as it's for a good cause, and you may not have seen this through other channels. I would like to bring to your attention to an activity that builds on the success of Design IT in 2006. How could you help a charity if we offered
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:59 PM

Next messaging and mobility user group meeting

Here's some advance notice about the next MMUG meeting 26th Feb in London. February Meeting is all about PowerShell and Forefront. To sign up for the London event see here . and you remember the user group in Scotland too?
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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:52 PM

Useful Exchange documents

I've been doing some Exchange work recently and poking around in our document library looking at the guides to send out to a customer. We don't seem to put a definitive list of good best practice documents and make them easy to find. So here are a few
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Friday, January 12, 2007 9:36 PM

Vista and Office and the SharePoint Learning Kit

My team has been manning the technical helpdesk this week at the BETT show at Olympia . More than 30,000 Teachers, Network Administrators, ICT Administrators, Headmasters, and some very strange unidentified people wandered around for 4 days. Microsoft
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:01 PM

UK TechNet roadshow

I've been busy recently and have totally forgotten to mention that we're going on the road with this years TechNet Roadshow next month. We're going to Nottingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Harrogate and London. We're talking about Exchange, Vista and Office (but
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:54 AM

Error 80072F05 “The security certificate in the server has expired"

Emma mailed me yesterday, she was pulling her hair out over this error with Exchange and Windows Mobile 5.0. We have numerous mobile 5.0 devices of all different kinds, none of which will sync due to an error with our certificate. The error is 80072F05
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:31 PM

Scottish Messaging User group

Nathan and Andy have started up a Scottish chapter of the Messaging and mobility User group and are having their first meeting soon. Please forward this to all of your Scottish buddies and encourage them to attend. Here's the info... Here are the details
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:51 PM

Monitoring Exchange 2007 with MOM

I've noticed that there's quite a bit of stuff about MOM and Exchange with the release of the MOM management pack for MOM 2005 and MOM 2005 SP1 release notes, there's even a management pack for Forefront which supplies critical events and alerts on virus
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, January 08, 2007 6:29 PM

Configuring your PBX for Exchange 2007

At last we've started releasing documentation of Unified Messaging PBX configuration. Alex thinks that we've released our own already, but for now we've got documentation on which PBX's are supported for use with Unified Messaging and IP/VOIP gateways,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 6:53 PM

SharePoint resources...

Well here are even more resources on Sharepoint and WSS after my blog post the other day. See, I'm still swotting up on things and have a fair bit of reading to do... Perhaps I just need to hire a Sharepoint / Office evangelist instead... - any takers?
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Friday, January 05, 2007 6:30 PM

Centro and Cougar betas

Steve blogged about this the other week but I've just got round to looking at this in any detail. I talked about Centro a few months ago, but Cougar was new to me. So why will David be getting all hot and bothered about Cougar? Exchange 2007 of course!
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:35 PM

Shortcuts for Windows and Outlook

I'm glad Ewan has started blogging again. He has loads and loads of unique and off the wall hints and tips - information that techies love. Well, this post totally blew me away... I had no idea there was so much useful shortcuts hidden in Windows (why
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:24 PM

Thinking about SharePoint 2007?

I've been getting up to speed with SharePoint 2007 and have been trawling round the resources. I started by listening to Tom Rizzo talking about SharePoint 2007 . Tom is the director of SharePoint Server here. There's also an audio file on the site about
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:02 PM

IBM and Microsoft for Exchange archiving

I was interested to see this article on the partnership with IBM for Exchange archiving. I've got a bee in my bonnet on compliance at the moment. Most customers I talk to see it as a really low priority. But then disaster, or something else strikes and
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:49 PM

Unified Communications Techies - we need you...

Do you fancy a technical presales role in Unified Communications? Do you want to work for Microsoft? Do you want to work somewhere warm? like Sydney? If so, here's a job that Oscar has just forwarded to me. I've reproduced the job description here and
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Monday, January 01, 2007 10:48 AM

Getting on my soapbox

Well it's the first day of the New Year, I've broken several resolutions hours ago, so I thoughts I'd repair some of my damaged brain cells by looking at some of the new stuff we've been doing last year. I've been having a look at MSN Soapbox which is
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