October 2006 - Posts
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1dc0f61b-d30f-44a2-882e-12ddd4ee09d2&DisplayLang=en This download contains an introduction to key Exchange Management Shell features. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 introduces a new management
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Looks like Windows Defender has RTMed Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer
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I don’t want much in life, but a decent NAS device for home would be nice. I made the very bad mistake of purchasing two SC101’s with a couple of 200gb disk ide disks each stuck in them. It worked fine for about 6 month and now they are a
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Ooops! Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6062074.stm 18 October 2006: Apple is warning that some video iPods are harbouring a Windows virus. In a statement on its website Apple said that a small number of video iPods sold after 12 September
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Source: http://www.tvr.co.uk/news.php 18 October 2006: Staff at TVR's Blackpool factory have been informed today (Wednesday) that the company is planning to outsource all production. Agreements are being finalised for the 2007 run of Tuscan, Tuscan Convertible
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Interesting: Source: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/about/pressroom/information/GB/EN,contentid=12940 FREMONT, Calif. Oct. 18, 2006 and ROMANEL-SUR-MORGES, Switzerland, Oct. 19, 2006 —Logitech International (SWX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announced
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Looks like a weeks worth of Windows PowerShell Webcasts. The times for the rest of the world are a bit pants - 1930 - 2100 UK time! They are only level 200, but a good place to start 6 Nov 2006 TechNet Webcast: And Now for Something Completely Different:
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Oh er misses. Found this and wanted to share it: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/servicepacks.mspx SP3 for Windows XP Professional is currently planned for 1H CY2008. This date is preliminary.
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I have been play around with PowerShell as some of you may know. Over the last couple of months I have compiled this .chm file that has the PowerShell help in it. I has saved me mid cmdlet from running get-help blah Enjoy and look out for a better one
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Been looking for some documents on booting an exchange server from a SAN. Wamted to share these: Boot from SAN in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wss2003/techinfo/plandeploy/BootfromSANinWindows.mspx
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Download it and check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx
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Junners reminded me of this, 910268 Meetings are unexpectedly moved one hour ahead in the last week of October in Exchange Server 2003 Typically there are only four Sundays in October so normally this is not a problem, however in certain years there are
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Found this on my travels Source: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/syllabi/en-us/3938afinal.mspx Updating Your Skills from Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Elements of this syllabus are
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This makes an interesting read! Souce: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/09/429135.aspx the important bit: Exchange 2007 mailboxes MUST NOT be managed with Exchange 2003 tools. Note that this is not blocked, but mailboxes managed from Exchange
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Thank you Brett, I have been having heart ache trying to work out to send emai to my test server. Check it out ( http://blogs.technet.com/brettjo/archive/2006/10/13/testing-with-the-ex2007-default-receiveconnector.aspx ) .. its easy really [PS] C:\ps>Get-ReceiveConnector
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Jason Posted this .. but how crazy are things getting now Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2401915,00.html THEY are the hand-held devices so addictive that they are known as “CrackBerries”. The palm-sized mobile phone with
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Check it out, Microsoft make the top right Source: http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol4/article1and2/article1and2.html The e-mail security boundary market continues to be a crowded one. Spam and virus filtering are becoming commodities,
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/korean_legal_poser/ South Korea's finest have a bit of poser on their hands: does the pimping of inflatable sex dolls breach the country's anti-prostitution laws? We should explain that, according to news
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Found a couple of KB’s with hotfixes in to fix some well know issues with Activesync. Check them out: 923164 A user receives a SYNC_5 error when the user tries to synchronize calendar items on a mobile device with Exchange Server 2003 When a user
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Been looking at this for a while. So it you are using a workstation to move mailboxes, you need to make sure it is “close” to the exchange servers. Essentially, the workstation will be used to transfer the data from once server to another.
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I have been asked this a few times and thought I would share it. Basically it’s possible to have a “standby” single node cluster in a DR site to keep exchange running! Using Standby Clusters http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/DROpsGuide/2493c2d6-618c-4c49-9cb1-fff556926707.mspx?mfr=true
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This took me a while to work out, and was quite easy once I found how. So I basically wanted to like out events from the security event where the message equalled something and the event had a pairticular id. I searched the web and found nowt (as expected)
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Check it out now funk soul brother Source: http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,52ee0531-c24c-4fd5-8eed-d05c6ec48ca0.aspx Lee has created a downloadble PowerShell Quick Reference Guide. Just forked out $12.99 and it looks good. 115 pages of pdf.
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Strange things for the register to run with, but interesting! … As they say, every day is a school day! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/the_odd_body_virus_bacterium/ Viruses and bacteria are both capable of killing humans and ravaging
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