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The biggest file I've ever seen - 3Tb PUB.EDB
25 April 08 04:18 PM
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Ewan
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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
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Tip for finding when an appointment was created
21 April 08 01:52 PM
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Ewan
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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
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Exchange 2007 clustering advice
15 April 08 09:25 AM
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Ewan
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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
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Exchange updates Transporter suite for Domino & IMAP
23 January 08 03:34 PM
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Ewan
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I posted a while back about the release of the Transporter Suite for interoperability with (and maybe migration from) Lotus Domino, to Exchange 2007. The development group recently released an update to the whole suite, which now includes support for
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The lost art of the OOF
29 December 07 10:10 PM
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Ewan
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Some time ago, I posted about how the ".sig" has faded from grandeur. I'd like to add the somewhat terminal dryness of the OOF message to that list, and propose a solution. OOF is a Microsoft term for Out of Office. It should really be OOO,
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Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant
30 November 07 09:10 AM
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Ewan
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Here's a quick & dirty tool I put together for Outlook to be able to update all the phone numbers of contacts to make them E.164 compliant. It relates back to a post a while back around the challenges of formatting numbers 'correctly', particularly
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Exchange 2007 SP1 signed off
29 November 07 09:04 AM
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Ewan
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The Exchange team gave the green light to build 240.06 of SP1 yesterday! The download will be available here as soon as they can get the packages deployed to the web. More information on what's in SP1 is on Technet already .
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Drowning in a deluge of spam
27 November 07 07:49 PM
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Ewan
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I'm sure everyone knows that email spam is a growing problem and that there's not a great deal we can do to stop it entirely - initiatives like SenderID can help reduce the volume an organisation receives, and by using smart sender and recipient filtering
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Careful what names you give to Outlook Contacts when using UM!
05 November 07 09:45 AM
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Ewan
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This is a follow up to Friday's post about what happens if you have Exchange Unified Messaging set up to send you notifications on missed call alerts (and on voicemail), using caller-ID to reverse lookup against the personal contacts folder. Stephen Spence
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I learned a cool thing about Exchange UM today
02 November 07 03:22 PM
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Ewan
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I've seen this behaviour in practice before, but I don't think it really clicked with me until Neil May from PostCTI (who was hosting our penultimate Exchange Unplugged event today) told me how pleased he was with it. This functionality concerns the "missed
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Voicemail sizes on Exchange 2007
01 November 07 06:45 PM
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Ewan
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A question we get asked a lot is regarding the sizing of voice mail messages in Exchange 2007. If you're not familiar with the built-in voicemail capabilities, Exchange can function as a voice mail system (or Unified Messaging system, really - it's a
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Holy smoke, it's an explosive demo
25 October 07 06:54 PM
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Ewan
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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
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Microsoft launches "Online" hosted services
17 October 07 02:16 PM
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Ewan
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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
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Windows Home Server - would you have it in your home?
16 October 07 12:24 AM
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Ewan
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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
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The business case for Exchange 2007 - part IV
24 September 07 02:12 PM
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Ewan
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Another installment in a series of posts outlining the case for going to Exchange 2007. Previous articles can be found here . GOAL: Make flexible working easier "Flexible Working" might mean different things to differing organisations - some might think
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Ewan Dalton::
Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.