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November 2006 - Posts

Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:59 PM

Can't decide what to do?

Paul has created a neat little mashup using Virtual Earth and a number of other API's. and its UK focused too. It's called the Random Day out Generator Basically, you enter a postcode, when you want to go out and the type of things you like doing/eating.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:30 PM

The links of human kindness

I'm really impressed with how the world really works. Last month I was on tour doing my Unified Communications demos and labs, and had my first stop in Athens. Troy and I had some free time so we went around the Acropolis, the Parthenon and then onto
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:14 PM

spam in the holiday season

I've always said (to anyone who'll listen) that we get more spam during holiday seasons, and now cNet agrees with me . The volumes are incredible aren't they? 60 "billion". Whatever your definition of a billion is, that's still a heck of a lot of mail.
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Monday, November 27, 2006 3:00 PM

Messenger: Lost password or secret question

I blogged about this a couple of years ago, but I still get quite a few mails asking about resetting passwords on Live Messenger (MSN Messenger). Some people can't remember their password, some have had their account hacked, some cannot sign in. All of
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Friday, November 24, 2006 8:27 PM

The same look and feel

I noticed Cows blog today was talking about the Office UI licensing that we've announced . You know this is one of the most significant things about Microsoft I've seen all year. We're actually granting rights to our Intellectual Property to developers
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 7:13 PM

Do what? for world peace?

Completely off topic for me, and very bizarre but I'm linking to this article in the NY Times about what to do on December 22nd to focus on World peace. I won't say much more as its certainly not technical, nor is it IT related at all, but it certainly
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:30 PM

Exchange updates

There's has been quite a bit going on with Exchange recently. I've had my head down getting ready for the launch event (worrying about hardware, DVD's, slides and Event schedules), and I've also been installing Vista and Office RTM on my machine. It just
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:06 PM

Mobility Webcasts for December

Momentum Webcast: Enable Your Mobile Workforce by Using Mobile Solutions from Microsoft (Level 100) Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Jeff Lowe, Solution Specialist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032317217&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:04 PM

Office Webcasts for December

Microsoft Office System Webcast: A First Look at the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Five Useful New E-mail and Collaboration Features (Level 100) Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Evan Archilla, Senior Training Specialist, Projectline
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:02 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 (Level 300) Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032314188&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:56 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) Friday, December 01, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Keith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032317841&Culture=en-US
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Monday, November 20, 2006 6:48 PM

Atlas AJAX - Getting a richer experience for your users

I'm not a developer as you know, but I fully appreciate the amazing things that well developed and executed code can do. I'm aware of most of our developer offerings at a high level, but wouldn't be able to deliver any presentations or demos. Well I noticed
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Friday, November 17, 2006 8:41 AM

Download Vista and Office

John always has to be the first to announce whenever things get released, launched, become available. (You haven't changed a bit I see...) So of course he had to be the first to blog about Vista RTM becoming available. Office 2007 has been available to
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:14 PM

The next User Group meeting

Both Nathan and Arthur have been nagging me recently. Nathan has a bit more influence at the moment as he's out here at ITForum and nags me everywhere I turn. Arthur, who runs the Unified Communications User group has a list of up and coming events, including
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:25 PM

Come to the launch of Exchange, Vista and Office

I'm in trouble. I've been going on and on about the launch of Vista, Exchange and Office for ages, but I haven't actually given out any links for you to register. It was only when my personalised email arrived inviting me to the launch, that I thought
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:09 PM

Powershell: all you ever wanted to know

I've been inundated with Powershell questions this morning. (Powershell RTM'd today and is available to download) I've been on the Ask the Experts desk at IT Forum today. I love working at the front desk. The questions are amazing, From amazingly good
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Monday, November 13, 2006 4:19 PM

the nights at the Roundtable

I really like the idea of this roundtable audio videoconferencing offering that we're working on. We intend to ship this in 2007. The chance to see all of the meeting at once seems quite cool. The news in especially interesting considering we announced
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Monday, November 13, 2006 4:16 PM

Averting a keyboard crisis

I'm at TechEd ITForum this week and was more than a little bit stressed this morning. I offered to help on the Exchange 2007 hands on Labs - a nice easy job wandering around appearing knowledgeable. Because I've been traveling around Europe last week,
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Friday, November 10, 2006 6:28 PM

Share your calendar with Office Online

I'm pleased that the 2007 Office system has finally been released to manufacturing . We've re-jigged the Office Online site too. We've spent a year on the project to redesign and re-architecture all of the Office content. Some of then new features include:
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:31 PM

RSS - just how popular is it?

I wrote the article below for the TechNet newsletter this week and I've been amazed at the huge response I've had to the article. I've decided to reproduce it here to see if blog readers have the same thoughts about RSS than those who read the TechNet
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:02 PM

Error, Error, Error!

I got this error message on my machine last night. I don't remember what I was actually doing - perhaps I was just closing things down for the night. But it made me laugh out loud, so I thought I'd share it with you. Nothing like "emphasising" the fact
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:57 PM

Men: stop using your mobile phones if you want a child

Sometimes, some of the news is so strange it catches my eye - even when 2 apparently related articles contradict each other. So this article tells me that my phone can alert me to warn me when I'm at my most fertile - however, I can't tell the love of
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:24 PM

Don't work late.

I like this tip about leaving the office on time. I got it from the Microsoft at work newsletter that I subscribe to. Christian writes an excellent newsletter (and blog too by the way). I feel strongly that we should all get into the habit of working
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:30 PM

Wiki's - changing your interaction with Microsoft

I love Wiki's. They're an amazing collaboration tool, quicker and lighter than Sharepoint. the document you have is the "definitive" final document. When we're planning the roadshow, or the next set of Technet events, we use a Wiki. we all put our ideas
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:14 AM

Software in the air...

James, (not not "that" James , "this" James ) has linked to this great video from Microsoft research on his blog. Video: Fortune Teller - 300kb Fortune Teller - 300kb The amazing thing is - this vision is a lot closer than it seems... If you think back
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Monday, November 06, 2006 2:20 PM

Exchange Hosted Services: an update

I noticed that the latest release of Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) Release 5.5 went live last week. I've never worked for any companies that use hosted messaging services, but people who I've talked to totally love the ease of use, management, and the
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Monday, November 06, 2006 1:16 PM

Windows Mobile Device center

Jason has been busy blogging with a storming post on Windows mobile Device Center and how it looks in Vista. it's much simpler to use (it just works straight away, you don't "have" to set up a partnership if you're only using the cable to charge the phone).
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Friday, November 03, 2006 1:41 PM

Do you know about Exchange?

Do you want to work for Microsoft in the UK? We're looking for some good Exchange consultants to work in Microsoft Consultancy Services (MCS). This is a fantastic time to get involved with Exchange. You'd initially be working on Exchange 2003 projects,
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Friday, November 03, 2006 1:16 PM

Instant phishing

I read this in the newswires about phishers taking over IM accounts and using these accounts to get personal details from you. SPIM (spam for Instant messaging) is something that would really bug me (if I got any). as my IM account is really simple to
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Thursday, November 02, 2006 4:11 PM

All the help you need

It's hard sometimes being an expert. Well other people "think" I'm an expert and ask me all sorts of Exchange questions. Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007. And they expect me to know the answer off the top of my head (I wish I had all of that information
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:37 AM

Virtually everything Sharepoint

Phew! You can tell we're moving on to the launch of a major set of products with the amount of stuff we're producing to help you get acquainted with the new features. Fortunately, I haven't had to do all the research for this. The internal "Launch 2007"
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