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iOS 4.0.1 Includes Exchange ActiveSync fix

July 15, 2010

Image courtesy Engadget: The iOS 4 issue wit Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) which resulted in iPhone 4 and other iOS devices running the OS not being able to sync with Exchange Server (see Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync), has been fixed in iOS 4.0.1. Earlier Apple released a configuration profile to change [...]

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Real-World iPhone 4 “Grip of Death”

July 14, 2010

The iPhone 4 antenna issue seems to have taken a life of its own, and acquired a slew of nicknames in the process— “Grip of Death”, “Apple’s Vista”, “Antenna-Gate”, and “Hold Different” to name a few. Consumer Reports’ verdict accompanied by what’s perhaps the best video demonstration of the iPhone 4′s antenna design flaw makes [...]

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More on moving to WordPress and blog design

June 3, 2010

I keep getting comments from readers about the move to WordPress. I really do appreciate it! You have changed my perception about you! I used to think my blog readership is restricted to IT folks interested in Exchange Server, Security, Active Directory, and Windows. Thanks for all the comments – I now know a good [...]

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Migrating to WordPress: Code is Poetry

May 4, 2010

Early this morning, I migrated this blog from Google’s Blogger to WordPress – for the fourth time in less than a month! Luckily, the wonders of XML-based data transforms between Blogger and WordPress made the process a lot easier than I thought, compared to the few single-handed attempts at migration made in the past year [...]

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Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark

April 27, 2010

Ten days after Windows 7′s October 22 launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: Certainly we’ve seen initial sales be fantastic. The first ten days were bigger than the first ten days of XP or Vista or any other Windows launch that we have done. All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski responded with Well, What Did You [...]

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Office 2010 RTMs

April 16, 2010

Office 2010, the wave 14 release of Microsoft Office, has been released to manufacturing (RTM) today. Congratulations to the Office team – using this shiny new version of Office is a pleasure! There’s lot to like in all of the Office apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project— and Outlook 2010 really shines! There’s [...]

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Announced: Exchange 2010 SP1, Beta in June

April 7, 2010

Microsoft has just announced Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1! A beta of the feature-laden SP1 is headed your way come June 2010. Some of the juicy new features in SP1 include the ability to locate the Personal Archive on a different mailbox database than the one where the user’s primary mailbox is located (a [...]

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Exchangepedia Blog Changes

April 6, 2010

It’s finally time to move the blog off an old, archaic platform! Back when the blog was started (~6 years ago!), Blogger seemed to be the quick and easy way to do it, while still being able to use my own domain and server. Down the road, Google acquired Blogger, and I joined the Exchange [...]

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Geek Out With Perry: New Video Series and Blog

March 31, 2010

It’s been over two months since I posted here! No, I’m not taking a break, at least not an intentional one, and hopefully will get back to posting regularly soon. Meanwhile, check out the posts on the Exchange team blog. And if you’ve been monitoring the team blog, you must have come across (and read [...]

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Outlook Spy 2.15 is Outlook 2010-compatible

January 28, 2010

Didn’t notice earlier— one of my favorite Outlook/Exchange tools is now compatible with Outlook 2010. Outlook Spy is primarily a tool for Outlook/Exchange developers, but Exchange administrators also find it useful. It allows you to look under the hood of mailboxes and messages. Created by Dmitry Streblechenko, an Outlook MVP, Outlook Spy has been on [...]

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