Some of you may have worked with Microsoft Consulting Services on a project, but the consultant was likely in a technical delivery role. Many customers do not know that MCS offers strategy consulting as well. Historically, the ITAP (IT Architecture and...

Reason #101 to use OCS for audio conferencing. Who is listening in on your conference call? With our previous conference bridge solution, we were assigned a permanent attendee code for people to use to join a conference call. This number provides the...

For Christmas this year, we bought our kids the Flip video recorder . On my plane ride, I was reading PC Magazine, which had an editorial blurb about users giving up their rights (forcibly) to just use a product. I am somewhat of a privacy nut, so reading...

Tomorrow is a Midwest Messaging and collaboration User's Group meeting. Stop by if you have time! Tuesday, April 15th 12:30 - 5:00 pm Microsoft Downers Grove Registration & Lunch (provided by PLA) 12:30-1:00 pm 1:00 – 1:15 pm Exchange Capacity Planner...

My first impressions are that it's a very cool piece of software. I am using it in my lab to create VM's for Exchange, AD, SCCM, and SCOM. This got me..I tried to make a template from a brand new Windows 2003 R2 install. SCVMM made it to about 49% then...

An interesting conversation popped up the other day. There is no doubt the success and usefulness of Sharepoint out of the box, but many IT executives/business execs see it as "anarchy" or more p.c. "organic growth". They do not see the overall business...

I needed to setup secure LDAP for my lab and was not sure how to do it. I did not want to purchase a certificate, and I did not want to have to install a Windows CA either. I found a self SSL certificate generator in the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit called selfSSL...

I just passed my review board and received my certification!! What is the certification all about? "The goal of the Messaging Architect Program, the first Product or Depth Architect program under the Microsoft Certified Architect umbrella, is to...

Check out my article in Exchange & Outlook Magazine! http://emea.windowsitpro.com/MicrosoftExchangeOutlook/Article/ArticleID/50172/50172.html Every time Microsoft releases a new version of Exchange Server, we wonder whether it will still...