Marcus Hass' [MS] Blog

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

iSCSI, cheap disk for archiving?

Back in 2002, I was involved in migrating some of Microsoft’s biggest ISP customers from a product...

Author: quato Date: 07/16/2005

Language Barriers

I am a little more sensitive about language barriers than most, because both my parents are not...

Author: quato Date: 07/16/2005

Trustworthy Administrators

Check out an this interesting article from Steve Riley about trusting administrators. Trustworthy...

Author: quato Date: 07/16/2005

SAN, SAN and SAN

I can't believe how important storage has become. I am working on some Hosted Exchange projects, and...

Author: quato Date: 07/14/2005

GAL lookup from MS Smartphone

You can do this via OMA (Outlook Mobile Access), but this little app is much easier. Microsoft...

Author: quato Date: 07/12/2005

MS AntiSyware team responds to Claria mumblings

The AntiSpyware team has posted a response to the articles that have arose recently concerning...

Author: quato Date: 07/11/2005

Security Words of Wisdom and a little Security Entertainment

If you have never seen Microsoft's Steve Riley speak on security, I highly encourage you to take a...

Author: quato Date: 07/11/2005

PS3 will NOT have router capability

Looks like the guys at Sony have given up their dream of dominating the router market (through...

Author: quato Date: 07/11/2005

Good places to eat, errr work, in St. Louis

Jus returned from St. Louis on a fairly productive trip. I was with Scott Beatty from MS Mid America...

Author: quato Date: 07/08/2005

Xbox Live, no gamer left behind

I was fortunate enough about 3 years ago to work for the Xbox Live team, where I was a hired gun to...

Author: quato Date: 07/06/2005

Don’t be a bad pitcher (blog etiquette)

I saw Scoble link to an entertaining post from Anil Dash regarding what bloggers want. I am still...

Author: quato Date: 07/06/2005

Podcasting and excercise

I grabbed the lastest copy of iTunes, and I have to say that I am addicted to both podcasting and...

Author: quato Date: 07/05/2005

Staying in shape to work on computers

Earlier today I exchanged some email with a very popular blogger, and he gave me the advice: "A good...

Author: quato Date: 07/05/2005

RANT: Unhappy with EA, BF2

I have really been looking forward to Battlefield 2 (BF2) since I played the Desert Combat mod on...

Author: quato Date: 07/05/2005

Another SharePoint Project begins

I am off to St. Louis next week to start another SharePoint project. I have become known in our...

Author: quato Date: 06/30/2005

Gadget: Two New HTC Mobile Phones, PPC form factor

Very cool new phone from HTC called the Universal. It's kinda like a tablet PC with a swivel...

Author: quato Date: 06/30/2005

Configure your server wizard, never build a server without it!

I don't think I have ever used the "Configure your server wizard" in Windows 2000 or Server 2003....

Author: quato Date: 06/28/2005

Windows to include RSS, and something funny

Microsoft announced today, "future versions of Windows will inlcude native RSS support". The funny...

Author: quato Date: 06/24/2005

Xbox 360, the world has no idea

The Xbox team this morning presented a first look into the Xbox 360 for Microsoft employees. Sitting...

Author: quato Date: 06/24/2005

Virtual PC/Server Differencing Disks

Thank to my buddy Raul Camacho, I played with differencing disks on Virtual PC. It is a pretty cool...

Author: quato Date: 06/22/2005

The best products Microsoft ever made, errr, I mean bought

There are a few times in a techy's life that you come across a product that you use every single...

Author: quato Date: 06/21/2005

Tabbed Browsing in IE 6 Available!

If you are an Opera or Firefox fan, check out the addin for IE:...

Author: quato Date: 06/21/2005

SharePoint SP2 (WSS)

I can't wait for it, I need it now. Service Pack 2 for SharePoint is available in the Beta of...

Author: quato Date: 06/21/2005

MOM 2005, ahem, features

<originally posted on MSN Spaces blog on April 30, 2005> Since I have been doing some work...

Author: quato Date: 06/16/2005

Microsoft Instant Messenger, which client to use?

<originally posted on MSN Spaces blog on April 27, 2005> I have been playing with Office...

Author: quato Date: 06/16/2005

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