Mobility
ZDNet: Zenprise gave indications 2 hours before the BlackBerry outage
Before the world knew: insider’s diary of BlackBerry service shutdown by ZDNet‘s Russell Shaw — For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks…
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April 2007
News
‘Crapware’-free: Longhorn Server does not include useless desktop apps
We’ve been hearing a lot about ‘crapware‘ apps installed by hardware vendors on desktops and laptops – apps like AOL (or other ISP) software, myriad…
Exchange 2007
CCR Over WAN: Failover and FSW questions answered
Exchange Server 2007’s Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) feature provides a way to set-up geographically-dispersed clusters to protect against data center failure (aka “site failure”). Though…
Administration
HOW TO: Convert a user mailbox to a resource mailbox
When creating a new mailbox (or a mailbox-enabled user) in Exchange Server 2010/2007, you have the option of creating a user mailbox or a resource…
Mobility
RIM does a BlackBerry on Windows Mobile
Interesting announcement from RIM – it will offer the BlackBerry application suite for devices running Microsoft’s Windows Moible 6, which will morph the Windows Mobile…
News
Computerworld: The deal on the Windows DNS bug
The still unpatched Windows DNS Server bug has been the topic of many a security discussions during the past few days. If you’re running your…
Administration
DST 2007: Hotfix released for Exchange Server 2003 Message Tracking issue
Following DST 2007 patches, Exchange’s Message Tracking Center displayed times that were an hour off (though the actual times logged in the Message Tracking log…
Mobility
RIM Reveals Cause of BlackBerry Outage
Research In Motion finally provided more details about the cause of its 14-hour outage starting Tuesday night. You can read more about it on Russell…
Administration
RFC 2821, HELO again: Validating the HELO/EHLO domain
RFCs 2821 and 1869 specify the format of HELO/EHLO commands issued by a SMTP client to initiate a SMTP session. RFC 2821 on HELO/EHLO command:…
Mobility
BlackBerry Outage Cause of a Break-up!
In an interesting twist on last night’s BlackBerry outage at RIM, Network World’s John Cox reports how the extended outage resulted in one user’s girlfriend…