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Office 2007 SP2 now available
28 April 09 07:47 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I’ve been beta testing Office 2007 SP2 since the beginning of the year, and it’s been great – the single biggest reason to use it is the myriad improvements made to Outlook, in terms of stability & performance (particularly relating to search and Read More...
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Exchange 2010 beta & high availability strategies
15 April 09 10:45 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
Exchange 2010 beta released - significant changes to architecture of clustering and high availability make provisioning highly available servers simpler and less expensive. Read More...
Outlook Thread Compressor download now available
11 April 09 02:34 PM | Ewan | 7 Comments   
Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Thread Compressor on here – it’s an add-in to Outlook which removes unnecessary emails, on the assumption that most people reply to mail and leave the original intact, so you could keep the last mail in each branch of Read More...
SMSE – a System Center light hidden under a bushel
26 March 09 02:47 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
SMSE – pronounced (in the UK at least) as ‘Smuzzy’, short for Server Management Suite Enterprise – is a licensing package from Microsoft, which can be an amazingly effective way to buy systems management software for your Windows server estate. If you’re Read More...
Look what I found in my loft: a 9-year old netbook
30 January 09 06:56 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I splashed out a week or two ago, and bought a Samsung NC10 netbook – a bargain at under £300, and it runs Windows 7 really well. Impressed with the size and utility of the thing, I recalled a forerunner of the netbook, so went rooting around in my “box Read More...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Exchange updates Transporter suite for Domino & IMAP
23 January 08 03:34 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
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The lost art of the OOF
29 December 07 10:10 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
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, Read More...
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Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant
30 November 07 09:10 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
Exchange 2007 SP1 signed off
29 November 07 09:04 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
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 . Read More...
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Drowning in a deluge of spam
27 November 07 07:49 PM | Ewan | 3 Comments   
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 Read More...
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Careful what names you give to Outlook Contacts when using UM!
05 November 07 09:45 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
I learned a cool thing about Exchange UM today
02 November 07 03:22 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
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