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June 2006 - Posts

Customising the 'You are over your quota' message in Exchange

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 9:07 AM by markdea
I am sure a number if you have seen this message before, well it’s now possible to customise the message to include more terse wording or perhaps the option to pay money into the IT administrators Paypal account to a bigger mailbox ;-). First of all I Read More...
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Skype is bad MMM-Kay

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:08 AM by markdea
Well ... not 'bad' ... just a little sneeky :-) Recently I had a conversation with Allister Frost (the artist formally known as Exchange PM) about the technology behind the Skype platform that most people don’t tend to know about, it resulted in posting Read More...
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Unified Communications Announcements

Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 7:24 PM by markdea
As you will be reading over the next few days, we have made a number of announcements in the last few hours around our Unified Communications vision and where we will be going over the next few years. A recording will be available here for the next two Read More...
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PTS-TV with Chris Parkes

Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:00 PM by markdea
Yes ... that's right ... another great episode of PTS-TV! This episode features a PTS by the name of Chris Parkes, a sterling chap, talking to Katie about business intelligence. As per, pop along to the PTS-TV site and take a look ! Read More...
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Windows Live Messenger is here!

Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:15 PM by markdea
On Monday we announced the availability of Windows Live Messenger. I highly recommend you go ahead and download it straight away from here but if you want a quick summary of what it includes then here is a list Call both PCs and phones from within Windows Read More...
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London to Brighton Bike Ride - Track my progress !

Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 4:52 PM by markdea
As many of you know, Steve Marsh and I are doing the London to Brighton Bike ride this Sunday to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. If you have already sponsored me then many thanks and feel free to track our progress by clicking here . If Read More...
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End of an era and the start of a new one?

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:37 PM by markdea
I realise this might seem like a bit of odd post but I think its worth doing so here goes, let the comments begin :-) With the recent news that Bill Gates is looking to change his role within the company in 2008 and a following on from chat with a friend, Read More...
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PTS-Tv With Dave Sayers, Andy Clark and Virtualisation

Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:08 AM by markdea
Yes, that's right, we have released another video onto the website featuring the familiar face of Dave Sayers and our new budding interviewer ... Andy Clark. In this video, Andy and Dave discuss virtualisation while looking like they had just met each Read More...
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More PTS-TV with 'The Beast'

Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:35 PM by markdea
Since I last made a posting about PTS-TV, we have added a further 2 videos to the site . We have also added an RSS feed so that you can subscribe to PTS-TV and know the minute a new video is available! Pop along to PTS-TV and watch the videos (one with Read More...
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Windows Vista – Download it today !

Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 2:01 PM by markdea
Windows Vista up until now has only been available to those with a Technet or MSDN subscription. This has now changed and anyone can download the beta from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx or get it sent to them in the post. Read More...
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Taking Unified Communications to a new level

Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:44 AM by markdea
Steve Clayton sent me this article a while back and I thought I would make a short post about it. The article talks about the final balance between partner and competitor with our colleagues at companies like Cisco and Avaya but also includes a mention Read More...
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More announcements on Exchange Messaging Security

Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:08 PM by markdea
Yesterday we launched a new line of e-mail security products based on the Sybari products we acquired a while back. Available via volume licensing on July 1 st and as a 90 day free trial from the Microsoft website, you will be able to buy a ‘three pack’ Read More...
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Exchange 2007 with extras !

Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:17 PM by markdea
Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Dave Thompson , recently suggested that an ‘enterprise’ version of Exchange 2007 could come with hygiene services from both former FrontBridge and Sybari as part of the all in price. Although the name suggests this Read More...
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Adobe and XPS

Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:40 PM by markdea
Something a little different from the normal stuff I talk about but defiantly worth a read. When you have a free moment take a few minutes to read this article which highlights the reasons why XPS and Save as PDF is being pulled from Office 2007 and some Read More...
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