I have been quiet on this blog for a number of reasons. 

Check out the new site for all PFEs who want to blog at www.MrProactive.com.  This is a site that's has 4 main purposes:

• Tell more about what a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) is what we do
• Share with the community Proactive items and "Tips and Tricks"
• Announce new offerings
• Let the world know that we are hiring

There is another site where individual PFEs can blog at www.opsvault.com as well.  It has many of the same goals and has a different approach.

Variety is a good thing.

There is now a KB article that is available regarding this.  It answers questions about how to make the change with a Group Policy or using the Office Customization Tool.

982774  Direct Booking does not successfully book a resource in Outlook 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;982774

Now that Office 2010 has RTM’ed, we’ve started to see a number of issues pop up where customers are finding that they are having problems reserving a conference room using it.  The reason is that Outlook 2010 by default has Direct Booking disabled.  This is by design since Direct Booking is the old Exchange 2003 way of doing things and Exchange 2007 and 2010 has automatic processing of resource mailboxes.

If you are still on Exchange 2003, however, you may have the need to enable Direct Booking for your clients.  In order to enable it in Outlook 2010 you will need to add the following DWord in the registry for the organizers client:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar

DWORD: EnableDirectBooking

Value: 1

Hope that helps some people out.

Looks like we can now get to http://www.kin.com/.  Looks nice.  First phone to ship with Zune…  Very cool.

It finally is here!

Sweet…