April 2008 - Posts

The biggest file I've ever seen - 3Tb PUB.EDB
25 April 08 04:18 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   

Well I haven't seen this for myself, but I was sent a screenshot of it. Actually, it was 3 different Exchange public folder servers, each of which had ~3Tb of public folder data... That's scary and impressive in equal measure. Reminds me of some of the Read More...

Filed under: Exchange

Tips for optimizing Vista on new hardware
23 April 08 07:42 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   

Ed Bott over at ZDNet posted a really interesting article yesterday, detailing the journey he had of making his friend's brand new Sony Viao laptop work properly with Windows Vista Business. In short, his friend upgraded a trusty old XP Vaio to a new Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Vista

Tip for finding when an appointment was created
21 April 08 01:52 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   

Here's a tip for when you suspect someone has magicked up an appointment to coincidentally collide with an Outlook meeting request you sent them... In your own calendar (and other people's), you can see when a meeting was scheduled (ie request was sent Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Outlook, Office

Imperialism, Metric-centricity and Live Search
17 April 08 12:51 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   

I'm a child of a mixed up time when it comes to measures and the likes. I am feet and inches tall, stones and pounds heavy, when it's cold outside, it's below zero degrees, but when it's hot, it's in the 80s. I learned small measurement in mms and cms, Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Random Stuff

Exchange 2007 clustering advice
15 April 08 09:25 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I appreciate it's been a while since I blogged last - a combination of "not much to talk about, really" with even more "no time to talk about it"... :( Anyway, a few questions came in the other day from a reader: - SCR and CCR seems Read More...

Filed under: Exchange