There is a huge amount of excitement in the internal MS blogging community as MSN has launched a beta of its MSN Spaces site. This is a blog hosting site that seems to have a lot of cool features, such as image hosting, blogging via email, and so on....

Iain's blogging . Rock. His last few posts are quoting one of my all-time favorite software development documents, the "Out of Control" memo. I have those words printed up and hung outside my door, taking up a long chunk of the hallway, as a constant...

Hey, Scripting Guy! From the command prompt the command copy a.txt+b.txt ab.txt will take the contents of a.txt and the contents of b.txt and combine them into a new file named ab.txt. Can I do the same thing with a script? -- DL Hey, DL. In yesterday’s...

This post is the continuation of my VSAPI posts, the second one that goes into troubleshooting. Please see part 1 , part 2 and part 3 for architecture details and part 4 for troubleshooting using Performance monior. The following events may be encountered...

A common question we recieve is around Alerts (also IM to groups which will be a separate post) Customer question - Alerting Services Is there a way to inform all LCS users by Corporate Alert like MSN Alerts does it. The idea is to build a solution when...

There is a debate raging inside Microsoft, and I'd like to get some feedback from our customers. Currently, Microsoft makes a great deal of guidance available to its customers via its web site. Some of this content can be downloaded anonymously, but some...

Note, that is different from geek hobbies . :-) Steve talked about techies having non-technical hobbies. This reminded me of a job I interviewed for a few years ago (in marketing - long story, basically I was tired of the death march to RTM [1] and wanted...

The much anticipated (at least by me) video tour of the Enterprise Engineering Center is now up on channel9 . Jeremy Collins and Scott Napolitan were gracious enough to do the walking tour and Robert Scoble of course was behind the camera. Good stuff,...

I came across this today and thought it would be useful for you folks. The Virtual Server 2005 Administrator's Guide is the core resource you will need for deployment, operations and technical reference. Enjoy!...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I edit.INI files using a script? -- MZ Hey, MZ. Yes, you can edit .INI files (or any kind of text files, for that matter) using a script. The method you have to use might not be the most elegant process in the world, but it’ll...

Hi folks, I'm in Melbourne at the moment sitting in on the Melbourne Biztalk User Groups inaugural meeting and attendance in impressive! Around 40 attendees learning all about the in's and outs of Biztalk 2004. Our Biztalk MVP, Bill Chestnut is doing...

This is an issue one of my team mates Kevin shared with me about the new Aggregate Presence behavior in LCS vs. Exchange IM. For those customers who have used Exchange IM with WM 4.6, 4.7, 5.0 you may have noticed that when you sign in to multiple machines...

I am updating this topic to ensure that you never come here for information that is located elsewhere. The KB should always be authoritative, what you find here would be a supplement or clarification. I will post here the summary of main presence related...

LCS 2003 & Windows Messenger 5 Connectivity Overall the behavior below is applicable for LCS 2005 but given the new feature of Pools there may be some slight/subtle difference, so for now this is about 2003 and I will edit at a later time with 2005...

LCS 2003 Certificates * For those looking for LCS 2005 data, information will be documented and does vary slightly due to the use of a pools (collection of Home Servers), which will require the use of SUBJECT_ALT_NAME One of the main calls received for...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated April 29, 2005 New subject as I will post another entry that is more specific to the Windows Messenger client and port...

Sabes qué son las Copias de Respaldo (Shadow Copies), pues si no lo sabes, o si lo habías escuchado y no sabes como explotarlo, contínua leyendo, este post te puede ser útil. :) Este nuevo servicio dentro de la plataforma Windows 2003, te ayuda a recuperar...

On December 9, 2004, 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Robert Larson will be showing us how to create a two-node cluster of virtual machines running Windows Server 2003—a key feature of Virtual Server 2005. To register, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/techinfo/events/default.mspx...

As David mentioned on his blog yesterday: Today, our second Exchange ActiveSync licensee announced their upcoming device with direct Exchange Server connectivity: Motorola and their upcoming A780 . Of course Motorola has several Windows Mobile devices...

Well the rain fell today and the temperature dropped and guess what I forgot to bring a jacket. I have a habit of forgetting key items when I travel. When I went to Singapore about a month ago I forgot socks so I had to buy kangaroo socks at the airport!...

No quería dejar pasar la oportunidad de comentarles del chip en el que están trabajando IBM, Sony y Toshiba - CELL (así nombrado por la tecnología que emplea). Dichos esfuerzos se han venido conjuntando desde hace más de 3 años, pero en estos días se...

Dean Calvert MVP for Small Business Server had me present at the Adelaide User Group tonight. Great turnout! Presentation went fine past the first demo and all. Unfortunately my second demo failed just at the crucial time when I wanted to do a reverse...

Today, our second Exchange ActiveSync licensee announced their upcoming device with direct Exchange Server connectivity: Motorola and their upcoming A780 . Of course Motorola has several Windows Mobile devices (the now-shipping MPX 220 and upcoming MPx...

I was sitting at home the other day going through the log files for the Windows XP SP2 firewall (as you do for want of something more stimulating) and thought you might like to know about the utilities I use and have found for parsing these files. Please...

Althea asked what the difference is between Virtual PC and Virtual Server, and when she'd use one versus the other. This seems to be a popular question, so I wrote an article on the subject. You can find it on my blog, under "Articles" at http://blogs.technet.com/megand/category/8232.aspx...