March 2007 - Posts
Ohhh. Not I use the PocketPC version and it is VERY VERY good. Not you can get it for a Blackberry! Source: http://www.visualit.co.uk/Blackberry/BB.htm and http://www.visualit.co.uk/Blackberry/BB_Tube2.htm Tube 2 our award winning and highly acclaimed
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Nice update ... The important thing for me is ... Instead of a 1:4 ratio, you can have a 1:8 ratio between Global Catalog processor cores and Exchange server cores. This assumes that you fulfill one critical requirement: You must have enough RAM installed
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Yeah great, but you can't download it at the moment!!!!!!! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-28Deepfish.mspx SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2007 – Today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (eTech), Microsoft unveiled a
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WindowsUpdate downloaded this today .. not tested it yet, but i can't be any worse that the previous version! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934002 and http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/software.htm The Zune software is your one stop for music and entertainment.
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Rui has done good .. check out his post on FREE ebooks .. All you need to do is register! Source: http://msmvps.com:80/blogs/ehlo/archive/2007/03/29/724423.aspx The Administrator Shortcut Guide to Blocking Spam with Sender Validation The Administrator
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If you play with Windows PowerShell the this is a MUST. It's a PPT with some .ps scripts and it's really quite interesting. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/28/mms2007-managing-systems-using-powershell.aspx Jeffrey presented this
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Save the trees man ... Shame my Elonex doesn't have the Hibernate Option on the start menu. Also upgrade to an LCD monitor and save too! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-21vistapowermgmt.mspx REDMOND, Wash., March 21,
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Now this could be an issue that the PowerShell guys have shared .... its good to talk! Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/19/windows-server-2003-sp2-upgrade.aspx Because of the nature of the Windows Service pack (SP) releases, all
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Ohhhh nice with a Core 2 Duo now too .. But do I want a Slate or a Convertible ? Source: http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_le17.asp Empower yourself with an option-packed LE1700 Tablet PC and experience innovative, cutting-edge mobile
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Saw a reference to some of this stuff the other day and wondered where it came from. Isn't google (err I mean live search) great ;-) Source: http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/intellectualproperty/protocols/easp.mspx Microsoft has licensing programs
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I am playing virtual tennis with Shawn today and he scored his first point with this (the game is at 15-40) In the past I have used ScriptomaticV2 or wbemtest to test WMI or get vbscript to dump WMI data. Shawn showed me WMIC and I am very impressed.
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Check this out, it is very cool. So you create an image and slap it on your usb stick. Then you can use the VMware player to run the image off your usb stick. I like! http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/ace/
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Ewan post this today, and it's very interesting .. every day is a school day! I had better update my email footer and website then :-| Source: http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2007/03/22/is-your-email-compliant-with-the-uk-companies-act.aspx semi
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Now this is a damm good idea!. Also when I was in India, I read an article about a way to generate electricity from the motion of cars on a road!. Source: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2466 How many speeding cars does it take to power
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Okay so this weekend we flew up to Inverness for a Wedding. The weather was nice and the drive from Inverness to Helmsdale was long, but the scernery is breath taking. Anyway, coming back on Sunday we stop off at the great little farm shop. We get some
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Shawn just sent me this. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/23/java_emulator/ and http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/index.html Researchers at Oxford have built an x86 emulator that runs purely on Java, making it ideal for security researchers
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Yeah yeah I hear you say I can use Scriptomatic so what is new .. Well Marc aka MOW aka the PowerShell Guy has just blogged a WMI Explorer written in Windows PowerShell. How Damm cool is this! Source: http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/03/22/powershell-wmi-explorer-part-1.aspx
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Interesting Mr Bond .. I wonder what will happen with the construction business, as Wimpey is mainly Homes now after it sold it's consutction business to Tarmac and then Carillion ... Humm Oh you might be asking why have I published this .. well a long
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I have noticed that I am "loosing" disk space and couldn't for the life of me work out why. So after some major ranting, Shawn shut me up with treesize free . For some reason windows\ServiceProfiles\AppData\Local\Temp\TfsStore\Tfs_DAV has nearly 5gb of
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Every day is a school day. I have been looking for this for ages. Basically I want to populate the Allow list on an SMTP virtual server programatically .. and this KB tells you how: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810913 Microsoft Exchange 2000 provides
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Might be interesting .. lets hops it not all sales! Source: http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?ContentID=4689&site=&prod=&technology=&prodfamily=&loc= LIVE WEBCAST 27 MARCH 10:00 - 10:45 BST Quest Software understands the
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I have updated my Tube Gadget so it works with the new TFL website. You can get it here: http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=16b8a96d-021e-41a1-bc59-cf6d769c423e Let me know what you think and/or of you have any isssues
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Check this out. It's a option on the new Volvo S80. it's not cheap at $495 but it's damm cool! Personal Car Communicator (PCC), including keyless drive, two-way remote communication of vehicle's security status, and heartbeat sensor The Personal Car Communicator
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So, do americans WANT you to feel like a criminal before you even enter the country! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/us_travellers_fingerprints/ The US will increase the amount of information it holds on foreign visitors when it takes
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Is this REALLY worth it ... 10% off! ... < http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/03/20/purchasing-additional-windows-vista-licenses.aspx > For customers who acquired a full or upgrade version of Windows Vista from retail or
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Check this out .. Freecom has released a Digital terrestrial TV & Radio receiver housed in a SCART interface! Yes you did hear me right .. in a SCART interface. Have a look for yourself < http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3388&CatID=8120&sCatID=1147055&ssCatID=1147055
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Wow, I wondered my be SideBar Gadget stopped working properly yesterday. TFL have updated the Live travel news site. Check it out, it looks really good http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/tube/default.html Also have a look at the Departure
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Oh, oh the new show is coming to Royal Albert Hall, London with Varekai , set to begin in January 2008. Looks like it will run from the 10th Jan 2008 until the 3rd Feb 2008 On March 22, the tickets will be made available to the general public. Deep within
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I had to dump these all out today, so I thought I would share them with the rest of you. They are under MSExchange ActiveSync in Performance Monitor Average Request Time is the average time elapsed waiting for a request to complete. Bad Item Reports Generated
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Richard posted this the other day. Check it out, it has load of interesting links. Source: http://blogs.technet.com:80/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/03/12/Virtually-Everything-About-Microsoft-Virtualisation-Technologies.aspx For a recent customer presentation
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So I have been using Windows Vista for a while, and I signed up to OneCare too. I couldn't understand why my i-mate JAMin wouldn't sync. I had basically given up, as I thought my JAMin might be knackered. Anyway, I had an issue yesterday and wanted to
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Humm, this could accelerate the user of IP Telephony! Source: http://www.microsoft.com:80/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-14PowerOfSpeechPR.mspx REDMOND, Wash. — March 14, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire Tellme Networks, Inc., a leading
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So I was off at the start of January after my Op . One observation is how the phrase "Carbon Footprint" has exploded in media during the last week and a half or so. Especially after Marks and Spencer announced a business-wide £200m "eco-plan" . Now in
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Check it out ... this does look very good! I have seen the beta in action. Here is a "fact sheet" for using DPM to protect Exchange ( http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/9/6/09623531-cb39-475a-88b7-1de963a99d9a/DPMv2_Datasheet-Protecting_Exchange_Server.pdf
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ooops Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/14/apple_megapatch/ Apple has released a security update to its Mac OS X operating systems to plug multiple security holes. Bugs in third-party components have also been addressed by the security update.
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Eilleen has posted this http://blogs.technet.com:80/eileen_brown/archive/2007/03/13/want-an-early-look-at-longhorn-virtualisation.aspx Its an interesting video .. check it out
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Nooooooooooooooooo Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932132 This article lists the hotfixes that have been repackaged to make them compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Certain hotfixes have been repackaged to replace
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So I am looking to buy my own TabletPC and I am finding it really hard to find a decent website that list out a comprison (If you know one, let me know) So here is a little summary. Looks like it's the new Tosh M400 for me then! Processor W x D x H Weight
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Well thanks Jason ! I downloaded the preview yesterday! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dd567053-f231-4a64-a648-fea5e7061303&displaylang=en Microsoft Device Emulator 2.0 is the second publicly released version of the
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Ohh baby, baby. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2.mspx Whats new? well these bits are! Clustering A new event log event has been created to address certain situations in which the Cluster service account becomes excessively restricted
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Humm, a bit late me thinks. Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934001 The Exchange Calendar Update Tool (Msextmz.exe) is the tool that Exchange administrators can use to apply time zone changes to a calendar for one or more
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I have been looking for this since I lost it. So for Windows Mobile 5.0 containing the MSFP you need the following: Virtual Machine Network Driver for Microsoft Device Emulator Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 with Windows Mobile OS Images If you want the
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Interesting read Source: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/edgetransport.mspx In deploying the Exchange 2007 based messaging protection solution, Microsoft IT used all messaging protection features of the Edge Transport server role and
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I have been wondering why people have have this in Windows Live Messenger. So after some digging I found out. Microsoft is giving Windows Live Messenger users the chance to give money to some charities as part of their “I’M Initiative. Just add some letters
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So this is it! You have this weekend as an outage window before the brown stuff hits the fan. So I have been around the blogoshpere and the web and here are a list of resources that you might find handy this weekend. Oh by the way, if you are leaving
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Don't panic, its not related to DST2007 Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931222 Meetings are moved back one hour in an Exchange 2003 organization if the meetings are scheduled between September 16, 2006, and October 7, 2006
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I am on an internal course this week called Exchange Environmental Dependencies. Brian is doing an exellent job of teaching us (check out his blog http://reidablog.blogspot.com/ ) Brian mentioned greylisting smtp conversation today. I have heard of it
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Gents, Welcome to the big bad world of blogging! Ben is blogging here: http://blogs.technet.com/benp/ and Richard here: http://blogs.technet.com/Richard_macdonald/
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Iliumsoft have release a new version of NewsBreak. http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/nb_20.htm With NewsBreak 2.0 you can: Listen to your favorite podcasts, watch vidcasts, and view attached files and images! Schedule your podcasts to download when and
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What the hell, check out http://www.marmite.com/ and http://www.unilever.co.uk/ourbrands/whatsnew/ Some say it's madness – others call it pure genius. Marmite and Guinness have joined forces to create a limited edition Guinness Marmite. The glass jar
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Keep an eye on the sky tomorrow night (that is if you can see if with all the cloud & rain we have been getting!) Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/01/moon_going_red/ ... This Saturday night (3 March) the Earth will move between the sun
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Shawn sent me this ... I wonder what OS they will try and shoe horn on the 360? Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/01/xbox_hack/ Hardware hackers have developed a technique to hack Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console so that it might be possible
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Shawn is a bad man! .. These are old but very funny! UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE Bamber Gascoigne: What was Ghandi's first name? Contestant: Goosey, Goosey? THE WEAKEST LINK Anne Robinson: In traffic, what "J" is where two roads meet? Contestant: Jool carriageway.
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What is going on. BSkyB and the newly created Virgin Media (formerly NTL, Telewest & Virgin Mobile) are fighting over Sky's Basic Channels. exNTL & Telewest customers used to get Sky One, Sky Two, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Travel and Sky
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