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Exchange in the cloud or on the ground?
18 November 09 10:02 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Following the price cut on the desperately-in-need-of-renaming BPOS services recently, I’ve been talking with a few people about the where the tipping point might be for running Exchange in house vs using some form of hosted provision. There are plenty Read More...
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Microsoft Online Services prices cut
06 November 09 04:37 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
The snappily-titled Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) offering, announced some price cuts the other day… I heard from someone internally that the price cuts were driven by increased economy of scale – ie. as more customers signed Read More...
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Outlook 2010 beta and E.164 number format updater
06 October 09 09:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Well hello again; it’s been a while. Normal service should now infrequently resume. I thought I’d update the instructions of a previous post, after I was showing someone how to use my old “ Contacts updater ” application to make all their Outlook contact Read More...
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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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.

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