Vermyndax on October 6th, 2009

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One of the industry buzzwords that needs to go to the grave is the user “experience.”
Don’t quote me here, but I recall this buzzword being developed by Microsoft as part of the marketing campaign behind Windows XP.  XP was supposed to be “experience” or “expert” or “Xtra stuPid marketing,” I’m [...]

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Vermyndax on September 28th, 2009

Are you curious about the hard stats of messages running around your organization?
Try this one in powershell on your hub transport server:
get-messagetrackinglog -start “mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss” -end “mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss” -eventid “send” -resultsize 9999999 | measure-object
This will pull stats for messages that were “sent”.  To pull the number of messages received, change the “eventid” parameter to “receive.”

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Vermyndax on March 11th, 2009

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Paul Thurrott posted a nice attaboy to the MSN folks today for releasing a wallpaper product that will check Microsoft for updates to your operating system.
Get ready folks, I’m about to show my ass again.
Are you KIDDING ME?  Paul Thurrott has obviously never had to manage a network beyond his own house.  Microsoft [...]

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Vermyndax on February 5th, 2009

(note: the following is a stream of consciousness post regarding some software requirements as i dream them up.  if you are a developer and actually take up these requirements as the design for a software project, please let me know.  if you are aware of a software product that accomplishes all of this, please do [...]

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Vermyndax on December 2nd, 2008

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So, I don’t mean to continue to rail on Vista like I did about a year ago, but something absolutely ridiculous happened to me today.
I’ve been doing some hard drive recovery for my dad’s old NEC Windows 98 system. (I had to do some recovery on another system as well, but that [...]

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