April 2007 - Posts
It's a 29.6mb MSP file, that is basically a manual windows update file. It doesn't arf take some time to apply. Talking to Richard, he said that the Rollup will actually update the exchange install package and cause it to perform a "repair" and applies
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I have been looking at a design for Exchange 2007 and wondered about Virtualization. So I have been looking for information about, and here are my finding: Exchange 2007 and Virtualization Exchange 2007 is not supported in production in a virtual environment;
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You see it always pays to test and test again or this will happen!!!! Do you think the tester still works for them? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6574767.stm The maker of the Blackberry wireless e-mail device says an insufficiently tested software
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Oh Jason this did make me chuckle on the way home! http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2007/04/18/blackberry-humour.aspx Thank You! NOC NOC Who's there? .........
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Oh dear Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/18/HNblackberryoutage_1.html The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion appears to have suffered a widespread outage starting Tuesday evening in the U.S. Customers on the BlackBerry
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Wow, found this while looking for an M400 to buy. I think I have changed my mind! Source: http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/productPage.do?service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=126832#0 The new Portégé R400 provides leading edge design
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excellent! I wonder what make they will be? Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6550361.stm Every household in the UK will be able to request a free device that shows how much electricity is being used in the home at any one particular moment.
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Noooooooooooo ... well it was what we all suspected. I wonder if they will revert back next year? Link taken fron: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/04/dst-2007-as-predicted-we-didnt-save.html ... But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers
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Time to blow the dust off my coding shoes and give this ago! ... In Exchange 2007 one of the new features is resource mailboxes out of the box you have two types of these mailboxes Room mailbox and Equipment mailbox. http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2007/04/webservice-to-find-room-and-equipment.htm
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http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2007/04/tracking-permission-changes-to-mailbox.html This is a cool looking script from Glen that would work quite nicely with the steps in my auditing doc http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2007/04/04/auditing-within-exchange-200x.asp
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Ben you are the dogs whatits. This is just an awesome post on how to 1) Make ad admin simpler and 2) How to create your own pseudo-cmdlets. http://blogs.technet.com/benp/archive/2007/04/10/creating-an-ad-shell.aspx Now tie that in with some of Dmitry’s
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No sure how I found this blog but its damm good. Check out these that I have been reading today! IE7 - Tabbed Browsing http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/03/30/ie7-tabbed-browsing.aspx Windows Vista - SuperFetch & ReadyBoost http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/03/29/windows-vista-superfetch-readyboost.aspx
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Okay so I live in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It's quite good we get a weekly recycling collect and I aim to have more recycling bags more than rubbish bags. In the post yesterday came the Borough Newsletter and an article on the environment listed
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This is another popular doc. I have seen it at a number of customers blown to A0 size and mounted on a wall! You can get it here: http://files.flaphead.dns2go.com/exchange_2000_Message_Flow_v1.4.zip It still applies to Exchange 2003, but NOT Exchange
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I have been asked for this a few times, so I have posted it here: http://files.flaphead.dns2go.com/exchange_2003_SMTP_filtering_flow.zip
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I knocked this up a while back and was expecting it to be put on the msexchangeteam blog, but it didn't appear. So here it is instead ;-) I have only tried this on Exchange 2003. In the next month or so I will get a chance to see what Exchange 2007 does.
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Read an advert in today's London Lite that says from June 1st 2007 every home on the market will have a Home Information Pack that rates its energy efficiency. (I wonder who will pay for it?) Included is a rating of the home's energy efficiency and recommendations
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Well I didn't know that this was coming out. A half page advert in the metro today leads you to an exclusive preview on msn.co.uk Looks like the film will be out in London on July 6 2007 Guess what, at 0850 london time, the trailer is not on msn. The
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damm, since the merger Virgin has been on the war path! Source: http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/tv/news/virgin-challenges-freeview-to-free-tv-fight?articleid=461180734 Vrgin Media has ratcheted up competition in the free-to-air TV market with
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So I would just like to thank Simon, Chris, Iain, Sam, Neil and Keith for getting the beers in tonight! You might not think it but it means a lot to me. thanks guys bans see you soon
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What richard says is true! This man knows what he blogs! Source: http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/04/02/How-to-Interpret-Windows-Installer-Logs.aspx If you have a problem with the Windows Installer or an MSI package you're installing,
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Mark has been reading this book and said look at the tip on page 34, I have now lost all respect for this book. So page 34 says: To reduce network traffic between Exchange Servers, Domain Controllers and Global Catalog Servers you’ll typically want to
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So I'm creating 3 Windows 2003 VPC's today and windows update told me I needed SP2. As usual every day is a school day, and I didn't know that Microsoft provided an ISO of SP2 (x86 and x64), which is very handy when creating virtual machines! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2.msp
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Has anyone found a decent WM5 NNTP reader. With my shiny new Ameo I want to do some more newgroup stuff. I have downloaded Qusnetsoft NewReader 3 but its not the most screen real estate friendly application. Any recommendations?
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So I have completed a month in Exchange and I noticed this new KB. ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=555854 ) It actually looks quite good. It provides a whole wealth of links that will help you in the process of upgrading Exchange 2000/2003 to Exchange
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Sorry, its a bit late this month :-| DOWNLOADS Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples March 2007 The Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples assist developers building applications for Exchange Server 2003. This release of the SDK
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How log have I been using Vista? Well that is just not long enough! I have a new T-Mobile Ameo and I couldnt work out why Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center didn't fire up as expected when I pluged the Ameo in. All I was getting was the autoplay options
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<RANT ON> So today is my last day in the office. I still work for the company in question until Friday (I will give you more details on Friday! but some of you know already) Any way, so I have been working for said company for over 6 years of which
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This sounds like something you do in your bathroom ;-) Source: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/03/exchange-server-2007-how-to-turn-off_29.html ....the Back Pressure feature, that detects resource pressure on Exchange Server 2007 transport servers and
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This is just so cool ... you could have hours of fun! Source: http://www.joshuarey.com/index.pl?Action=ShowArticle&ID;=134&DoNotGoToFood;=0 As a service to busy kidnappers I'm delighted to offer this ransom note generator.
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I saw this in computing magazine and wantted to share it. so vista does have some good points! Source: http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2186708/college-uses-vista-save-power Bockenhurst College is installing the Microsoft Vista operating system
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This is a test blog post using my new T-Mobile Ameo and the Diarist
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