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Monday, September 28, 2009 3:52 PM

Hello Exchange 2010

Inside Microsoft we have this custom of “dog-fooding” new software, and Exchange 2010 is now at the point where Microsoft IT feel they can run it outside of North America. So a few days ago I got a mail saying my mail box was going to be moved to a new
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:18 PM

My enduring love for OCS .. and a Nice windows 7 feature

My job as an evangelist focuses on Windows platform (client and Server OS), including management (i.e. PowerShell) and Virtualization. But there are other Microsoft products which from my day to day use of them I feel evangelical about. One is Windows
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:54 AM

PowerShell Verbs Vs Nouns

The first big PowerShell project I worked on was to produce the scripts in the OCS resource Kit. With OCS R2 announced, it won’t come as a great surprised that we’re working on the Reskit again and I’ve gone back to my scripts. Boy oh Boy have I learnt
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:18 AM

Reasons to go to San Diego.

Eileen has already mentioned that she's going to San Diego (there's a song in there somewhere).  I've only been to San Diego once - the year I joined Microsoft - and it was jolly nice city for a conference, although after the flight back I asked
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Friday, November 30, 2007 2:46 PM

Exchange 2007 SP1 released

The news went live on the Exchange Web Page yesterday. Technet Magazine has " 16 new features in Exchange SP1 " the one which is of most interest to me is " Improvements to Unified Messaging "... that's all about integration with OCS and communicator.
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Monday, September 10, 2007 11:29 AM

Tales from a weekend of PowerShell: Get-Needle -haystack ...

First to explain the title: Sooner or later I will stop banging on about hot-desking and the bedlam which is our office area - last week it did seem to plumb new depths with one team sitting round a speaker phone in the open plan office yelling into a
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:54 PM

Persistent chat - what's that then ? A quick guide to collaboration modes.

Since I posted about Parlano , a couple of people have asked me about persistent chat. So.. (very briefly) most people understand Mail and Instant messaging. IM is usually 1:1, but we can have multiple users in a a chat. One of the major grumbles about
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:33 AM

"Microsoft to buy Parlano" peristant chat.

One of the things about working odd hours is I see things come in from the US, when most sensible Brits are in bed. One came with the message "This announcement was originally scheduled to happen Thursday, August 30 th , 2007 at 7AM PDT- however CNET
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:43 PM

Office Communications Server trial bits available.

I had a mail from the Unified communications team over the weekend. They were happy to announce that the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Trial Downloads (both Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition Servers) together with their associated
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:28 PM

Campaign for real numbers update

I've had an outlook rule in place for a while to tell people about broken phone numbers, I thought I'd report back. The first thing I found was that colleagues who forward lots of mail threads soon tired of seeing the message, so I've filtered out anything
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:10 PM

Office Communications Server round-up

Two sets of information have come my way about OCS. The first is the licensing is beginning to get clearer. Please don't send me questions on upgrades and pricing – talk to whoever you normally go to when you acquire software. Licensing The different
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:17 PM

Voice control ... sooner than I thought.

Maybe I'm getting mellow in my old age, or maybe things in Microsoft IT are changing. There was a time when I really didn't think much them - directly after they off-shored the help-desk was the low point. But since then they've been doing this and that
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:40 AM

Unified communications team goes Hollywood

I've already blogged about the Devil Wear Prada videos that the Unified communications team put out. Kevin who looks after the Unified communications team blog sent me this link Usually these movie posters don't get seen outside product group offices,
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:52 PM

A new day, a new phone.

Bias declaration: I've been a fan of Windows Mobile since before we started using the name. But having picked up my new Orange E650 aka HTC S710 codename “ Vox ” I'm left thinking " Boy oh boy Mobile 6 devices are a jump forward ". You could dismiss some
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Monday, April 23, 2007 10:38 AM

More information on Office Communications Server

I had a list of interesting bits on the web in my mail this morning, and I thought the following two OCS ones were worth passing on. A 13 minute Video in which Paul Duffy explains to David Berlind of ZDNET , where we are with LCS and where we're going
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