From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Office 2010 Beta: Outlook 2010 Shines

November 18, 2009

Now that Office 2010 Beta is officially available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers, here’s a quick shout out to the Outlook team for what’s shaping up to be an excellent, super-impressive, fabulous new release of Microsoft Outlook! I’ve always preferred web-based apps, including Outlook Web Access (OWA) in the past, and Outlook Web [...]

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Bulk mailbox creation: Import passwords from a file

November 16, 2009

Automating bulk mailbox creation required fairly advanced scripting skills in Exchange 2003/2000. Thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (aka “the shell”) in Exchange 2010 and 2007, this task is greatly simplified. It doesn’t require any advanced scripting skills and it can be accomplished by relative newcomers to Exchange Server with very little knowledge of the [...]

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The Elusive Kingston SSDNow 40 Gb Solid State Drive

November 11, 2009

I’ve been waiting for the Kingston SSDNow V Series 40 Gb solid state drive (SNV125-S2/40GB). NewEgg.com’s ‘ShellShocker deal’ of the day— $84.99 (after a 20 dollar rebate), and free shipping. Unfortunately, they seem to be perpetually sold out! Shortly after the drive went on sale on Nov. 9th, NewEgg.com indicated it was sold out. The [...]

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Exchange Server 2010 Released

November 9, 2009

Microsoft announced the release of Exchange Server 2010 today at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Berlin. The release marks the first version of Exchange Server designed for the cloud, and provides customers the option of deploying it on-premises— the way Exchange Server has always been deployed, or use it as a service hosted by Microsoft, or [...]

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Windows 2008 R2 Support Coming for Exchange 2007

November 4, 2009

Exchange 2007 will be supported on Windows Server 2008 R2, Kevin Allison, GM Exchange Customer Experience, posted on the Exchange team blog today. With the general availability of Exchange 2010 just around the corner, Microsoft had earlier decided not to update Exchange 2007 to support its latest server operating system. Exchange 2007 is supported on [...]

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