October 2007 - Posts

Holy smoke, it's an explosive demo
25 October 07 06:54 PM | Ewan | 6 Comments   

I've spent the last couple of days in London helping out with the first Exch ange Unplugged 2007 events , which have gone really well. One attendee to the first session, held with BT at the Tate Modern, said in 15 years of working in IT, it was the best Read More...

Filed under: Exchange

Geek T-shirt cool - or not
19 October 07 08:05 AM | Ewan | 2 Comments   

I always like reading Jason's blog, and had to laugh the other day when he posted a great picture of a now-favourite t-shirt, which glows when in a WiFi zone. I'm not much of a t-shirt wearer, but I think the best geek slogan I've seen so far is (from Read More...

Filed under: Humour, Random Stuff

Microsoft launches "Online" hosted services
17 October 07 02:16 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

In an attempt to clarify the whole online software branding, with "Live" being consumer oriented and "Online" being aimed at businesses, Microsoft launched a new service recently, but that may have gone unnoticed (what with other launch events such as Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Sharepoint, OCS

Windows Home Server - would you have it in your home?
16 October 07 12:24 AM | Ewan | 3 Comments   

I just read an interesting article from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on ZDNet about Windows Home Server , speculating whether there really was a market for such a device, and who would buy it. Adrian's point - and it is a valid one, if you know anything about Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Consumer Tech, Random Stuff

Dell's "anti-crapware" initiative doesn't go far enough
10 October 07 09:15 AM | Ewan | 5 Comments   

My wife's small business has recently had a requirement to upgrade a couple of PCs, after 5 or 6 years. Since I am ultimately responsible for all their IT (and I am not proud of what they have - I cut all sorts of corners to make my life easy, but they Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Vista

Gibson Guitars "Riffs on OCS" (boom, boom)
08 October 07 07:25 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

Information Week reported that Gibson, makers of the iconic Les Paul guitar (as used by just about everyone, maybe most famously Jimmy Page of Led Zep or Slash from Guns N Roses), are doing great stuff with Office Communication Server, and singing its Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff, OCS

Custom presence states in Communicator, reprise
03 October 07 11:37 AM | Ewan | 4 Comments   

A quick follow on to my post the other day about having custom presence states in Office Communicator 2007 - the Communicator Deployment Guide has a couple of minor errors which could frustrate you, as one commenter pointed out, and I've had comments Read More...

Filed under: IM, Unified Comms, OCS