From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Microsoft opens up SenderID

October 23, 2006

Microsoft announced today it’s putting its SenderID technology under its Open Specification Promise program. This allows anyone to create products or services using SenderID technology. SenderID lets (receiving) mail servers determine whether a sending mail host is authorized to send email for a particular domain, based on SPF records published in the sending domain’s DNS. [...]

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Outlook on a stick?

October 22, 2006

IBM’s just released Lotus Notes 7.0.2 has a cool new feature that IBM’s been touting all over the place – Notes on a stick. It lets you copy your Notes Desktop on a USB stick (or other such devices, including an iPod. Hint: Justification for writing off that iPod as a business expense… it’s a [...]

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Google’s YouTube purchase

October 17, 2006

Google’s recent purchase of YouTube, the video sharing site, has been discussed and commented on ad nauseam all of last week. InfoWorld columnist Robert X. Cringely (often wondered if that is his real name :-) has an interesting take on it in his Notes From The Field column. Says Cringely about the eye-popping price Google [...]

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Running Vista RC2 on a Sony Vaio SZ320p notebook

October 13, 2006

[I've never done product review type of posts on this blog before, but this laptop and Vista are indeed quite impressive and beg for exactly such a post... } Just tested Windows Vista RC2 (Build 5744.16384) on a Sony Vaio SZ320P laptop. This slim little laptop has a WXGA display (1280 x 800), comes with [...]

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TechEd 2007: Looking for another venue?

October 12, 2006

In Vegas I learnt Microsoft is moving TechEd 2007 from New Orleans – the venue announced and publicized earlier. Redmondmag.com has more on this today – Microsoft is citing logistics issues of moving (an estimated 14-15,000 people, including 11,000 attendees) in and out of the city. A new venue has not been announced so far, [...]

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@TechMentor in Las Vegas

October 8, 2006

I’m in Las Vegas for TechMentor conference – organized by 101 Communications, the publisher of Redmond magazine (formerly MCP Mag), and CertCities.com web site. All Exchange sessions at TechMentor are being presented by Zenprise folks this year. If you’re attending, don’t miss out on the Exchange track – sessions are listed here. (If you’re not [...]

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HOW TO:Get PowerShell version info

October 4, 2006

While the command ver could get you the version info at a command prompt, and winver does it in the GUI, if you’re stumbling to find the command to get the version number of Windows PowerShell installed on your computer (like I did for a while), it is Get-Host. You can also use the variable [...]

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Exchange Server 2007: Message Tracking from the command line

October 3, 2006

I’ve forever envied folks (including some colleagues— you know who you are… ) on the Linux/Unix side of things who were able to parse text log files generated by MTAs like Postfix/SendMail/EXIM in a fraction of the time it takes one to fire up Message Tracking Center on Exchange and search for a message. I [...]

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HOW TO: Change IP addresses on a cluster

October 1, 2006

A “Re-IP-ing” project around the corner where you need to change IP addresses on all hosts in a subnet? Or just a cluster? When you change the IP addresses on cluster nodes, cluster resources go offline. With the IP addresses on nodes changed (while moving to different network/subnets), when you start Cluster Admin you can’t [...]

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