Marcus Hass' [MS] Blog

Interesting tidbits about Microsoft Office 365 and other products. Occasional rants about travel, gaming and gadgets.

Renaming a UPN to another federated domain

During an ongoing Office 365 deployment, we identified an issue with Office 365 customers not being...

Author: quato Date: 06/27/2011

Office 365 Due Diligence and Beyond

With Office 365’s imminent release, I have moved out of services after 11 years to be part of the...

Author: quato Date: 06/22/2011

Exchange 2010 puts TargetAddress in ProxyAddresses?!

MMT is the BPOS-D migration tool and it uses Exchange 2010’s built in move service called MRS...

Author: quato Date: 07/28/2010

Autodiscover using TargetAddress

I ran into a pretty unique problem this week migrating to Exchange 2010, but as it becomes more...

Author: quato Date: 06/16/2010

I’m back, just have my head in the clouds

Over the last year, I have shifted my focus to “The Cloud”.  It started in January 2009 when I...

Author: quato Date: 06/02/2010

Microsoft Online and SBS 2003

I have been working with the Microsoft BPOS aka Microsoft Online guys in Enterprise accounts for a...

Author: quato Date: 06/02/2009

Windows XP/XPe and Remote Desktop Services Single Sign On

This week I was working with a retail customer that has plans to place HP Windows XP Embedded...

Author: quato Date: 04/16/2009

New Role for Mhass

So I finally rolled off my last gig, which had occupied me for the last 18 months.  In the last...

Author: quato Date: 04/22/2008

Automated install of Outlook Conferencing Addins

My customer (Mike Vrabel) and I got completely frustrated today in trying to find a way to deploy...

Author: quato Date: 02/13/2008

Sony is brilliant, PS3 may surpass Xbox 360 in the future

The reason has nothing to do with games. Pretty much, all games are available on all platforms. The...

Author: quato Date: 02/04/2008

CES: Tuesday

I got a chance to walk through most of the show today, my frackin' feet still hurt and my shoes have...

Author: quato Date: 01/09/2008

HD-DVD going the way of Beta Max?

It is starting to feel like HD-DVD has lost. With Transformers only available on HD-DVD, I thought...

Author: quato Date: 01/08/2008

CES: Monday Afternoon

So, I am here at CES 2008, I got a last minute push to come out for some meetings. I don't plan on...

Author: quato Date: 01/07/2008

Using Facebook for socializing at work

I have been reluctant to jump on MySpace, Twitter, etc because it seemed to be so personal focused....

Author: quato Date: 10/08/2007

SharePoint 3.0 WSP Deployment Scripts

I have been working with a customer over the last few weeks to come up with a mechanism that their...

Author: quato Date: 08/20/2007

Transformers, go see it!

The red and blue cab of an 18 wheeler rolls into the center of the dark alley with led's and lights...

Author: quato Date: 07/05/2007

ATT Internet problems, too many iPhones?

My customer just contacted ATT because their on-call phone hasn't been picking up email today via...

Author: quato Date: 07/02/2007

iPhone and ActiveSync, a security concern

A couple days ago, Mary Jo speculated that Apple has licensed Microsoft's Active Sync technology...

Author: quato Date: 06/29/2007

Inside WSS 3.0

In a really weird coincidence today, I ran into a great book about WSS 3.0. I have been busy hacking...

Author: quato Date: 06/21/2007

Wil Wheaton and the butterfly tree

I was just going through my feeds, and always save Wil Wheaton and Mark Cuban's blogs for last. Mark...

Author: quato Date: 05/01/2007

Comment changes, what happened to Intertubbers this week?

So, i had to start approving comments today. I had always allowed annonymous, open comments, but...

Author: quato Date: 04/02/2007

Five things you don’t know about mhass

I know, I know, it’s been all the rage lately, and I kinda find it entertaining and cool to find out...

Author: quato Date: 01/02/2007

Are you in the TIVO Generation?

You may be asking yourself, what is the TIVO generation? Details below. (In your best Jeff Foxworthy...

Author: quato Date: 12/07/2006

Vista RTM + 1 week

If you have read some of my previous posts around Vista, you know that it was one of few Microsoft...

Author: quato Date: 11/20/2006

Scary day in Philadelphia

I am here in Philadelphia this week working with Comcast in their towers right across from City...

Author: quato Date: 09/21/2006

John Mayer needs RSS/ATOM

My wife and I went to the John Mayer and Sheryl Crow concert Monday night at Red Rocks near Denver....

Author: quato Date: 09/19/2006

My Xbox is blabbing about me

I made a change to my blog site that now shows my Xbox Live Gamer Card instead of that goofy picture...

Author: quato Date: 09/11/2006

NikePlus, Zune better be a platform!

There are two reasons why you will have to pry my iPod Nano out of my warm clutching hands (I am not...

Author: quato Date: 09/11/2006

Seriously scary Blackberry

For years, competitors to Blackberry have been pointing out the inherent security flaws with RIM’s...

Author: quato Date: 08/21/2006

Exchange 12 Stuff that I liked

I got a sneak preview of the Exchange 12 at TechReady and got excited about a few things. Since most...

Author: quato Date: 08/08/2006

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 cool things

I have been doing weird, wacky things with SharePoint for the last two years to help customers use...

Author: quato Date: 07/30/2006

Cool things coming to an Infrastructure near you

So, I have been at Microsoft Techready3 this week in downtown Seattle. This is an internal Microsoft...

Author: quato Date: 07/30/2006

iPod vs the alleged Argo

First off, I have no inside knowledge of the alleged Argo device. But from what people are saying,...

Author: quato Date: 07/20/2006

Why I need Office 2007

I am back to running XP because Vista 5456 just didn’t like my wireless device in my laptop and kept...

Author: quato Date: 07/13/2006

Outgoing Caller ID not supported on Vonage!!

So, I finally got rid of Qwest at my house, not even the line is hooked up to anything. I switched...

Author: quato Date: 05/01/2006

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