Iif you don't fit into the subject line category please switch off now - I just know you won't know the answer (no offence, of course). I've been an Exchange dev for years (although a little rusty now) and still don't know. However, read-on if you want...

So after numerous emails about this, and some comments on my previous blog post back in June , I spent a couple of hours this afternoon improving the backup script (which although was written as a generic Exchange backup script, is suitable for file system...

I've just got out from a meeting and after a colleague happened to display their calendar on the projector noticed something which (for me at least) is really dead useful. I never knew you could display more than one timezone on your Outlook calendar...

With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to know more about Host Clustering - a new capability supported with this release - what better way to find out than with a live on-demand demonstration,...

With the Beta program for Virtual Server 2005 SP1 (as it was named when released to the web) having come to a close last week, and the imminent release of Virtual Server 2005 R2, here's run through of the steps to get you to the production release. ...

As just announced by Bob Muglia at the keynote for IT Forum 2005, the cost of Virtual Server 2005 R2 has been significantly reduced. The Standard edition now will retail at $99 US estimated, and the Enterprise edition will now retail at $199 US, estimated...

Ben posted up an article a few days ago about the amount of Video Memory in the emulated S3 Trio graphics adapter under Virtual PC. His answer - 8MB. Obviously there are a number of differences between Virtual Server 2005 (R2) and Virtual PC 2004 in terms...

Just got news in my inbox that all the US Virtual Labs for both Technet and MSDN are running on Virtual Server 2005 R2 which I thought was kind of cool. If you haven't had a chance to play with the online labs - you should. There's lots of labs...

Virtual PC futures have been a little quiet in terms of announcements. There will be more shortly, but if you weren't already aware, Virtual PC Express will be out sometime around March next year. Virtual PC Express is a benefit for SA (Software Assurance...

There's a lot of revised information on www.microsoft.com/virtualserver since R2 was released to manufacture last week, although a really useful document is the new reviewers guide. This document provides a great deal of useful information and answers...

Many people are in the process of upgrading from 100MBps to Gigabit (I've got a few machines Gigabit capable at home, but am still running almost exclusively 100MBps except for my iSCSI storage device). I noticed there's a KB article on microsoft.com...

If you're a regular reader, you'll know that Virtual Server 2005 R2 (previously known as Virtual Server 2005 SP1 when in beta) is going to launch soon. Very soon actually - more to follow when as it's announced. Along with a name change from SP1 to R2...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. To make the next steps clearer, here's a picture of what we're trying to achieve in combining Forms Based Authentication with RPC/HTTP, and the routes through which traffic will flow. Hopefully...

Annoyance of the past few weeks for me has been Internet Explorer 6 has been temporarily freezing (something like 3 seconds) while opening pages. After enough being enough, I set about yesterday trying to find the cause. It turned out to be an add-on...

And while on the subject of official Virtual Server 2005 R2 information starting to becoming public , we now support iSCSI for VHD storage and clustering shared storage. Typically iSCSI can be a far cheaper alternative to fibre channel attached storage...

I thought I'd seen all the Outlook prompts possible, but when I saw this one and it sat there for 30 secs or more, I had to hit "Prnt Scrn" to capture it. I've absolutely never seen this one before. Admittedly, my machine was running a couple of Virtual...

There's an interesting case study recently published on the Microsoft UK web-site for HMV who are using Microsoft Technologies to support both their physical stores and online store. You can read more here . (Just also noticed it was mentioned in the...

I have to admit, I'd never thought of this one. Yes, I've looked into using ADS (Automated Deployment Services) for deploying Windows Server 2003 and use it as part of the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit ( VSMT ) solution but never thought of using it...

Its been a busy week for me, so it's only now that I'm getting a chance to catch up with what's going on the world of IT, or even watch or listen to the news. Hence apologies if you've already seen this. For me, RSS is a great way of catching up, and...

If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. So, another blogcast series starts, but only 5 parts...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. We now move Outlook Web Access back to HTTPS, and we correct a naming error on the Network Listener "FBA LocalHost 443" in the last part (it's actually listening and remains listening on...

Now that Virtual Server 2005 R2 has been officially launched at IT Forum this week, here's a quick summary of what's different: - Performance improvements - particularly for guests which are running memory-intensive applications - Performance improvements...

OK, so this is a slight rant, but I'm a little (understatement) annoyed right now! Having just spent the best part of an hour preparing a blog post, all the way through I'd been using the keyboard. At the point everything was just right, I grabbed the...

I was forwarded this by a colleague last week and found it interesting reading. It's a short article written by Jesper Johannson and published last month up on TechNet. It raises many good questions, many of which arise on a frequent basis, but after...

Boy, things can move fast when you're busy keeping a close eye on other technologies, hence I didn't spot this one released onto the web - version 4.1 of the ACT is available for free download here .