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Continuing my recent tradition of expressing what are likely to be fairly unpopular opinions with my peers, tonight I’m going to rag on Google‘s “Chrome” project and tell you why this is a Bad Idea ™. I’ll try to keep this short (update: I failed). This is considered to be a discussion starter, not a [...]
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The delegates and the manager must all use Outlook 2007 when you use delegates in Outlook 2007. Important post out there for you sysadmins dealing with Exchange and delegation scenarios. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Image via Wikipedia This post is focused on those of you who have decided to deploy Exchange in a resource forest. You’re in for tears. While the resource forest is technically a supported deployment method for Exchange, I’m going to point out what can go wrong in your Exchange world that will keep your admins [...]
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Once again, the iPhone rules the press with a heavy dollop of enticing news. There’s a lot here on the surface and a lot below the surface. Let’s scratch the surface first. The announcements about Apple licensing ActiveSync are interesting. There was lots of speculation in this regard and greetz to those who called it. [...]
Here’s one of those technical blog posts that I’ve been meaning to post for a while now, but did not have the chance to do. Since I’m sitting here in the Baltimore airport next to a German-looking girl with extremely long hair, I’ve decided to work on the blog post so I do not appear [...]
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HUNTSVILLE, AL: A creature formed by excess cable in a data center has been slain by an intrepid systems administrator armed with a caution sign. The creature, which formed after floor tiles were opened for the first time in 7 years, spoke to the systems administrators working in the area and taunted them with “trash [...]
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I was one of the engineers on the call documented here from last weekend. This was the Friday night from hell. I won’t rehash the technical details of what happened. If you want to know the tech piece of it, head to the link. There’s no need to restate it – besides, it would bring [...]
Proving that Mary Jo Foley knows absolutely nothing about what she’s writing, she claims to have “inside information” that Apple will announce it has licensed Exchange ActiveSync so they can hook up to Exchange servers. Article is here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=534 Why do I say she’s an idiot? Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that the iPhone [...]
Greetings again from WWDC 2007. Those of you who know me know that I’ve made my living thus far as a Windows admin. I’ve always had a particular bent toward messaging technologies and I do have certifications in the Microsoft space to prove that I can architect these solutions. The project I am working on [...]
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I spoke with a developer here at WWDC who is deploying Exchange 2007. He said that the Linux/UNIX folks on Evolution are finding it impossible to use due to some kind of webdav issues introduced with Exchange 2007. I’ve not yet had a chance to test/play with this to look into it deeper. I will [...]
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