December 2009

Connected, as never before

I spent last week thinking about couple of blog posts I wanted to finish, but it seems this year the holiday spirit took over a little sooner than it normally does (for me). It’s been a busy year with Exchange 2010, and now that it’s released and getting rave reviews, it’s time to take a […]

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Microsoft and Research in Motion announce full BES support for Exchange 2010

Microsoft and Research in Motion have just announced full BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) support for Exchange 2010 – the earliest customers have been able to deploy BlackBerry smartphones with a new Exchange release— ever. You’ll need the just-released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010, Exchange Server MAPI Client v6.5.8147, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.01 Maintenance […]

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cc:Betty: A cool web app you may want to block

If you haven’t looked at Palo Alto-based cc:Betty yet, perhaps you should. cc:Betty promises to keep everyone on the same page. Still in beta, it’s a useful web app that helps users organize their email communication, collects email content, catalogs attachments and files, and also maintains your contacts. It’s also amazingly simple to use. Besides […]

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Cloned machines and duplicate SIDs

It’s been over 4 years since I wrote about the duplicate SID issue in SID error on cloned Virtual Server / VPC / VMWare OSes. I recommended using the NewSID utility from Sysinternals to fix the cloned machine. Hyper-V wasn’t around back then, and looking back it seems incredible that many of us survived without […]

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Prevx Apologizes: So-Called Windows ‘Black Screen’ not caused by Windows Update

Interestingly, after reporting last Friday ‘Black Screen woes could affect millions on Windows 7, Vista and XP’, and causing a furor amongst IT pros, users and the media, Prevx apologized for claiming a patch applied by Windows Update was the cause of the so-called ‘Black Screen of Death’. In last week’s post, Prevx stated: If […]

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