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Saturday, May 10, 2008 9:20 AM

Even More on Vista

So, yesterday I wrote an opinion-piece about Vista , and it appears that Bob Cringely did too . Completely unrelated, and I didn't read his piece before I wrote mine. Of course, his readership is more than mine. :-) His piece has generated lots of...
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Monday, April 07, 2008 5:07 AM

MVPs Congregate...

Next week, in Redmond/Seattle, Washington, those of us who Microsoft calls "Most Valuable Professionals" congregate in an annual event where Microsoft wines us, dines us, asks our opinions, and tells us theirs. Which, shockingly (not), often...
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Monday, March 10, 2008 3:49 PM

Microsoft Enters Collaboration Hosting Arena

In a move that was likely a surprise to no-one, last week Microsoft announced its offering for hosted Exchange 2007, hosted SharePoint (MOSS 2007, not WSS 3.0), and hosted LiveMeeting. This was the next logical progression from the Microsoft Office Live...
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Friday, February 15, 2008 4:23 PM

More on Single Level Domains and Exchange 2007

In this article I reported on the fact (then) that single level domains were not supported in Exchange Server 2007 sp1. Microsoft, as of today (February 15, 2008) has changed their position on single-level domains and Exchange Server 2007. This is the...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:33 PM

More on My Move to 64-bit Vista

On January 31, in this post I reported that I had loaded 64-bit Vista on my laptop and that things were going well. As I reported then, I expected it to take several weeks to re-install all my applications, but that my main applications were already running...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:20 PM

SharePoint Licensing - The Toughest Licensing of the UC Products

In this post , I began talking about licensing of the various Unified Communications (UC) products, starting with Exchange Server. I followed that with this post discussing licensing for the next of the UC products - Office Communication Server. As part...
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Monday, January 28, 2008 5:28 PM

Where is Microsoft Going With Small Business - Comments by Marc Maiffret

Marc Maiffret and I recently had a conversation on an e-mail based discussion forum. Marc is one of the founders of eEye (who produce the Blink and Retina digital security products) and he has recently gone out on his own again. I asked Marc about reproducing...
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Friday, January 11, 2008 1:26 PM

OCS 2007 Licensing - More on the UC Wave...

In this post I talked about licensing vs. features for Exchange Server 2007. In that article, I made the comment that Exchange licensing made my "head hurt". The licensing for other pieces of the "UC Wave" are just as convoluted. Exchange...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:16 PM

Even More on Exchange Server 2007 Licensing...the UC Wave?

My head hurts. Microsoft licensing was messed up enough already. With the release of Exchange Server 2007, it got even more complicated. Now, Outlook CALs aren't included in Exchange licensing. Ugh. Oh, and then wait, to get Enterprise IM (which I...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:55 PM

Microsoft Hot Fix and Hot Issue Center

A new blog on technet appeared a few days ago, from the Hot Fix and KB content team. The intent is to publish weekly all of the KB articles and hotfixes that were released. If it happens, and is updated regularly, it will be a great resource! The blog...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:01 PM

LOL Exchange - What More Can Be Said?

I'm guessing this is a budding project of some of those crazy Exchange kids at Microsoft, but you have to check out http://www.lolexchange.com/ ! Not much content, at least not yet, but if you like cats - you'll get a laugh or three!
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:55 PM

Office 2007 Service Pack 1 - It's a doozy!

Wow. I've never quite seen such a service pack release. Six separate files, for nineteen products - all released at once. It looks like the only Office desktop product that didn't get a service pack was Communicator. Two Office Servers didn't...
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:47 AM

Information Store Antivirus for Exchange

In my recent EMO article, I referred to the fact that there are two different kinds of anti-virus that may execute on an Exchange Server: file-level scanning and information store scanning. In this article, I write more about information store scanning...
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Friday, November 23, 2007 4:11 PM

EPM 2007

And now for something a little different.... The breadth of products that Microsoft offers is amazing. From point-of-sale products, to education products, to office products to --- amazingly -- Enterprise Project Management (EPM). I'm getting ready...
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Monday, November 19, 2007 11:23 AM

Microsoft's Hotfix Request Web Submission Form

Calling PSS is a hassle. Waiting on hold, speaking with someone who may or may not have a decent command of your language, etc. etc... Would I like a little cheese with my whine? After lots of requests and long delays, Microsoft has made it posible for...
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