From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Firefox, Internet Explorer, and CSS: Never the twain shall meet?

December 29, 2006

It’s been a long while since I designed or created a web page with any complexity, so I’ve never had to face the browser incompatibility issues. I’ve always known and at times felt the pain that web designers feel when designing something to look good on both browsers, but the chasm seems to have grown [...]

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Exchange Server 2007 Scriptacular Demo Pack posted

December 26, 2006

Vivek has posted what he calls the Exchange Server 2007 Scriptacular Demo Pack on his blog. This is a bunch of scripts Vivek & Mihai wrote while Exchange shell was being developed. It contains the out-html, out-ie and out-email scripts from Vivek’s blog that I’ve talked about earlier, and some that I haven’t seen before. [...]

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A little bit of Exchange is what I need: Microsoft’s Mambo Number 5

December 20, 2006

Ken Rosen, MCT Worldwide Program Manager at Microsoft, posted this recently on MCT newsgroups. Since it’s on YouTube now it’s for all to see – Microsoft’s Mambo Number 5. Part of the lyrics can be attributed to Ken. This is from the NT 4.0 days, which seem like a distant memory now. And yes, this [...]

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Exchange Server 2007: Cross-Mailbox Search Using Export-Mailbox

December 20, 2006

Exchange Server 2007 includes the much-required feature that allows you search for and export messages to another mailbox. You can search all mailboxes for messages with particular keywords and export those messages to a separate mailbox, which can then be accessed by compliance/legal folks who need access to such messages. Another scenario where this feature [...]

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Unsubscribe message: we’ll never forget you!

December 19, 2006

Just happened to unsubscribe from a known software company’s newsletter/sales pitch, and got this wonderful unsubscribe message… not too sure what to make of this. :) If you love something, you must set it free; thus, you are completely unsubscribed from the ***** [company name] newsletter.Though our time together was short, we’ll never forget you. [...]

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Grimes Gripes About Backup Software

December 19, 2006

InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes gripes about backup software in his Security Advisor column [ "Backup Software: Bah Hambug" on Infoworld.com]. Some of the stuff he complains about are situations we find ourselves in ever so often – the bad tape drives, the dumb backup software that’s supposedly getting smarter every day, expensive technical support from [...]

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Open Relay Database ORDB.org shuts down

December 18, 2006

After five and a half years, the non-profit organization ORDB is shutting down its DNS service (a Realtime Block List of open relays) and mailing list today, because the general consensus within ORDB is that open relay RBLs are “no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering your network”. The ordb.org web [...]

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Exchange Server 2007 Evals Available in 64-bit & 32-bit versions

December 17, 2006

Exchange Server 2007 evaluation software is available in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions on microsoft.com (may require registration). The 120-day evals can be upgraded to the full product by entering a license key. Questions about the 32-bit version continue to be asked in some Exchange forums and public newsgroups. It’s important to clarify – yet [...]

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Conflicting Mailbox Store Policies

December 17, 2006

I spent some time (ok, I’ll admit – more than “some time”… ) writing a script to get user mailbox storage limits/quotas [an improvement on the script I posted earlier - read previous post "SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits"]. The new script checks users’ individual mailbox limits (if these are set in user properties in ADUC). [...]

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Bulk mailbox-enabling users using Exchange Shell in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

December 14, 2006

In Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell, I wrote about how to bulk create mailboxes (including user accounts) from a CSV/text file. This post is in response to readers who asked for a way to mailbox-enable existing user accounts. Bulk mailbox-enabling users using the EMC The EMC allows you to [...]

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