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Friday, November 30, 2007 6:51 PM

Running Exchange 2007 across 2 AD forests

I was at the TechNet roadshow in Manchester (and heck was it COLD!). It was great to see so many people, chat about my recent diving holiday. Talking Nitrogen tissue saturation always makes me wistful :-) I answered a few Exchange questions too, strange
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:10 PM

True romance - in a junk email

This mail was caught by my junk mail folder. I'm copying it here because it made me smile: Good day, my friend This letter is of great importance. I am here in order to build my own Planet which will be called a Planet of Love. My future family will live
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:37 PM

Exchange 2007. Getting certificates working for OWA

Eric is trying to get his certificates working: I have installed exchange 07. I have not turned it on yet, meaning clients are getting email from a web server we do not host. I am getting sync errors saying a url can't be located for OAB. I can't get
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:55 PM

System center guys launch their blog

I notice that the system centre team (alright system centER) to those of you from the left hand side of the pond, have a blog too . - there are some good posts there too. One hint guys – how about a category (tags) for biographies? We like reading about
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:20 PM

Take control of your Inbox

I don’t t think I’m an email ostrich – I currently have about 220 mails in my inbox at the moment which I’m trying to get down below 100. I clear my server folder once a year and archive off old stuff to a .pst file which I delete when it’s 2 years old.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Monday, November 26, 2007 4:44 PM

Messaging and Mobility User group - November meeting

Nathan has sent me details and asked me to remind you about the next messaging and mobility user group in November in London: Here are the details of the November MMMUG meeting. This event will be held in London at the MS offices at Cardinals Place near
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Friday, November 23, 2007 12:57 PM

The Inventor of PowerShell

Jeffrey tells us why he invented PowerShell. The last 5 seconds of the movie made me smile. Nice guy... Technorati Tags: Jeffrey Snover , PowerShell
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:31 PM

Computers that can read minds

I just love this article that I found on Live Science about computers that can read minds. Apparently this computer can detect whether you’re bored or overwhelmed, tired or have been looking at the screen for too long. " We don't know how specific we
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:42 PM

Sending large files via email

Dave had an interesting issue with a mail he was trying to send: Yahoo only allow 10MB to be sent. I tried to send 47MB. I cannot delete it from Outlook. I get a message it is "sending". It will not send or delete. How do I delete the "outgoing Email"?
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:40 PM

Sessions and sights to see

It's great to be back home in the UK after my extended trip - the warm waters of the Bahamas seem so far away at the moment, and the hustle and bustle of IT forum is exhilarating and exhausting. Its glad to be back home. I've missed loads though whilst
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 7:09 PM

Blue monster evolution

So here's the card that Hugh drew for me last week whilst he was out at IT Forum . We were sitting in the bar of the Hilton hotel chatting about the evolution of the blue monster and the additional cartoons that he's drawn around blue monster since then.
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Friday, November 16, 2007 2:44 PM

Giving Data Protection Manager 2007 away

Isn't it always true that the best things in life are free and at IT Forum exhibition booths there were certainly a lot of giveaways. Some gifts are really useful (like the 2Gb memory sticks at the Windows Server booth), some funny (like the antlers that
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:27 PM

IT forum bloggers

It's always great to meet other bloggers at events like these and also to meet up with people who read my blog. It's great to see real faces and names instead of looking at web hits and RSS views. It's always really great that people stop and say hi,
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:46 AM

NZ Girly geek dinner

Amanda asked me to spread the word about their girly geek dinner in New Zealand. On Thursday 22 nd November in Parnell, Girl Geek Dinners are holding their inaugural event and it would be great to make this first event a huge success. There’s only a week
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:18 PM

IT Forum Day 3: Filming and being filmed

Well everyone is running around with video cameras this week. There's Tony and Daniel who host the Virtual Side , David and Adam who are filming for Edge and other people wandering around videoing people. I did a part of the Day 3 wrap video (out tomorrow),
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:51 PM

Changing your password in MSN messenger

Well several months after I last blogged about this, I still get the same questions about how to change your password in MSN Massenger (or messenger, or mesenger if you prefer). Here's how you do it... Go to Account help central : then select the change
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:11 PM

Bags and T-shirts

Phew! IT Forum this year is huge! There are over 5000 delegates here in Barcelona, some of the breakout sessions are in Tents outside. Yes tents. Well. they're more like the marquees that you'd get at a wedding party actually, but these are kitted out
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, November 12, 2007 12:52 PM

Microsoft RoundTable - Star Trek Style

I just had to share these as they made me smile - and I'm a big fan of Star Trek too. Here's their version of RoundTable from long ago... I reckon that our version of RoundTable is actually an homage to star Trek as it looks like the Enterprise although
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Friday, November 09, 2007 3:03 PM

IT forum - here I come

I'm really looking forward to IT forum next week. I'll be fresh back from my scuba diving holiday in the Turks and Caicos Islands, I'll be bronzed and relaxed and raring to go. (Don't worry, I've post dated this blog entry to publish when I'm out there
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:06 PM

IT Pro momentum

So this is shamelessly pinched from Daves blog. IT Pro Momentum is a program that the IT Evangelists use to get you help and support with your early adopter projects. Here's a schematic below which explains things in a little be more detail. What happens
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:16 PM

My personal calendar assistant ikordo

I got an interesting email last week inviting me to a meeting. I'm an automated system called ikordo and I'm helping Jim Cook find a time for a 2 hour meeting. I am checking availability before proposing a time for the meeting. What's your availability
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:29 AM

TechNet Edge is on it's way

So I've heard people talking about TechNet edge which has been rumbling round the blogosphere today. I hear that there's going to be a launch of the site really soon which I'm looking forward to hearing about. Apparently its a sort of channel9 for IT
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 9 Comments
Monday, November 05, 2007 2:23 PM

Unplugged: the winning formula

Well the Exchange unplugged tour seemed to go really well. All the feedback I've received gives a big thumbs up to the format of the day. Its also good to have presenters from across the different business groups in Microsoft (Enterprise pre-sales, the
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Friday, November 02, 2007 6:53 PM

Security for the 78 year olds

I found this on the Security tips and tricks blog and loved the article that Scott Charney did for Computerworld about how he tries to make things safe in the online world for his 78 year old mum. I chat to my mum about online security regularly. "I'm
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:26 PM

Exchange Unplugged resources

I promised I'd blog all the links from the Exchange Unplugged roadshow so that they're all together in one place - so here goes: The crew: Tony Cocks , Jason Langridge , , Julian Datta , Brett Johnson , Ewan Dalton , Tanya Dyason, Paul Brombley (and me
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