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Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:23 PM

Dog crashes car

I love this news article. It's not at all in my technology area - but it really made me giggle. Lots. Dog crashes car during driving lesson . It raises many more questions than it answers doesn't it?...
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:32 PM

Get software immediately with Technet plus

All of my Marketing stuff gets moved by an Exchange rule into a folder, and I look at them once in a while with my finger on the delete key. Most of the communications are internal only, and warn me to look out for up and coming software releases, marketing
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:40 PM

Blowing my own trumpet

***edited link*** (in case you hadn't heard of the phrase in the title there's an explanation here ..) ...Well I thought I'd have a little bit of self promotion here, but I'm feeling really chuffed about this, so thought I'd share it I made it into Mary
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:52 PM

Photosynth

I like the idea of virtual roaming. To be able to go on tour without leaving my house is a bizarre way of passing the time - but gives me the opportunity to travel without having to book too much holiday. Photosynth builds on this idea. According to this
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, August 28, 2006 1:12 PM

Hijacking BlackBerrys

Ooh this is a bit scary. Paul talks about this potential security issue with BlackBerry devices. Getting confidential information from a game of noughts and crosses. BBproxy seems like something you don't want on your corporate network One step up from
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Friday, August 25, 2006 1:11 PM

Waiting for Vista

Steve has been busy creating another piece of Machinima to follow on from his Staying patched clip. It's over on Youtube . So what is machinima? The word itself is a portmanteau ( mashup ) of Machine and Cinema, and we’ve been using concepts like this
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:03 PM

The Exchange wiki

KC blogged about a fantastic new tool that they're playing with in the Exchange team. The Wiki. (Which means quick in Hawaian apparently). I've reproduced her post in full... We threw up a wiki for beta 2 to experiment with the format (hooray for slave
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:47 PM

Windows Live contacts: website integration

Wow. I must be psychic! No sooner than I blog about how cool Meebo is, that we announce an add on which allows third party websites to access Messenger contact lists. I'm spooked. The article explains how the gadget (which works client side) works with
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:32 PM

Creating a line in a document in Word

This is a nice tip and one I didn't know... Create a line across the page of your Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Outlook 2007 document with just a few keystrokes. At the beginning of a new text line, type three consecutive hyphens and press Enter . A solid
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Monday, August 21, 2006 7:11 PM

Instant messaging - anywhere

A lot of us are trying to get our heads around Web 2.0 and how it will affect the way we work on the web. People are driving the web - not the other way around. Think about commenting on blogs, subscribing to something on a Wiki - this is changing how
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Monday, August 21, 2006 5:57 PM

Setting up direct push for Windows mobile 5.0

Emily contacted me as she was having trouble setting up direct push on her Exchange 2003 Server. Could you point me in the direction of some instructions on how to set up exchange 2003, ISA 2004 and mobile 5.0 to enable direct push email? I can’t seem
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Friday, August 18, 2006 1:04 PM

Voice spam: How to stop it

I really love this idea. We've been working on a tool to stop voice spam. You know, those annoying calls offering to give you a better deal on your cell phone, a free kitchen, a credit card that pays you just for using the card. I have my own ways of
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:07 PM

Easy blogging with Windows Live Writer

Mike has been bugging me to blog about this, and because I didn't do it immediately, he's blogged about the beta version of Live writer is now available for you to download . I've been using Live writer to do these posts for a while now. So why do I like
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:06 AM

Office webcasts for September

Microsoft Office System Webcast: A First Look at Office Project 2007 (Level 100) Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Keith Wilson, Senior Consultant, Project Management Practice Inc. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032305752&Culture=en-US
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:04 AM

Sharepoint webcasts for September

MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Jim Masson, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032304828&Culture=en-U
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:57 AM

MOM & SMS Webcasts for September

Microsoft Webcast: Reduce Costs and Optimize Server Management Operations Using Proactive Monitoring with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (Level 200) Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Mackal Smith, Senior Architect - Operations
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:51 AM

Messaging Webcasts for September

TechNet Webcast: Regulatory Compliance, Archiving, and Electronic Discovery with Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200) Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time David Sengupta, Exchange MVP, Product Manager, Quest Software Martin Tuip,
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:58 PM

Talking Microsoft

James has been talking to people at Microsoft in the UK and has started with one of the newest hires to join the UK team - the General Manager, Gordon Frazer . We hosted this video, and have created a new blog - a " Talking Microsoft " blog. We're just
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:58 PM

Boy Geeks and Girl Geeks

I've just bullied my team in going to the next Girly Geek dinner in London (Each boy needs to be invited by a girl). We get so much out of these events (without actually having to work at all). There are so many interesting women there from all walks
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:27 PM

Adding Speech to Office Comunications Server

I know that Speech Server isn't directly in my technical area so to speak, although I've mentioned it from time to time, but with the inclusion of Speech Server within Exchange Unified Messaging, and now with the announcement in the news that we're adding
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Monday, August 14, 2006 5:04 PM

Failed to register Service Principal Name for exchangeRFR; error code c10379bc.

Aaron was searching around for the Exchange RFR error code c10379bc and found my blog entry about Disaster recovery . He had sone interesting challenges, and after working through them all worked out that re-applying Service Pack 2 for Exchange fixed
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Friday, August 11, 2006 1:07 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1

I noticed this today - from the demo's that I've seen, it's certainly worth evaluating. Tony also has lots of other useful information over on his blog as does David The System Center Virtual Machine Manager public beta announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:22 PM

Exchange 2007 ignite training

I've just finished delivering 2 days of Exchange 2007 training to a group of Microsoft Certified Trainers from across Europe. It's called Exchange Ignite training (Ignite the interest / ignite the spark / ignition). There were 18 MCT's in the room (2
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:35 PM

System Center Operations Manager Beta 2

...I really like the new name for MOM v3. System Center sits well with me. it describes what the product is supposed to do, look after your system. Microsoft Operations Manager was a little too vague for my liking, because IT operations can include all
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:53 PM

Smartphones more popular than PDA's

I'm completely in agreement with this report . I've got a pocket PC and also a smartphone, and I do 70% of my work on the smartphone after testing both of them. We've had to make a choice for one of the new 3G devices which are on the way soon, and most
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Monday, August 07, 2006 2:26 PM

Microsoft at work

I've been receiving this newsletter for some time now. Sometimes it's got some cracking tips that I've never heard of before. Some a little bizarre, some that I add to my repertoire. Like these: Powerpoint: Navigate slideshows with ease. Go to a particular
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, August 04, 2006 3:12 PM

Plasma or Diamonds

Sorry. I really don't agree with this . I'd MUCH rather have a diamond necklace. Who the heck did they ask? Surely women in Technology can't be that geeky can they? Ladies. help me out here... which would you choose? PS. Pearls would be good too - :-
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:14 PM

Business scorecard manager for Exchange

Oh Heck. I've been asked to evaluate the Business Scorecard Manager Microsoft SQL Reporting Services Exchange Report Pack Template Samples and I haven't got a clue about SQL reporting services let alone Business Scorecard Manager. The only bit I get is
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:48 PM

Download 2007 Office System beta for $1.50

There's been a lot of comment in the press about the fact that we're charging $1.50 if you want to download Office 2007 Beta 2. We've had more than 3 million downloads of Office and over 1 million downloads of Vista. Some of this press has been fairly
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:49 PM

Exchange jetstress

I was asked about resources for Jetstress the other day, and whilst nosing around, found a few gems starting with this post from Brett . Greg had told me that he'd been writing for TechNet magazine (I'm always on the lookout for contributors to TechNet
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