May 2010

Microsoft goes open source with Outlook PST format

It seems with each passing day Microsoft gets closer to offering an openly documented and interoperable platform. Working with Exchange for a number of years, many customers notice that Exchange Server is a remarkably well-documented product, not only in terms of the feature documentation but also its protocols such as Exchange ActiveSync and Messaging Application […]

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Released: Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs

Microsoft has just released Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs. Filter Packs contain IFilters used by search search services such as Windows Search on Windows servers to index a particular file type. The Office 2010 Filter Pack contains the following IFilters: Legacy Office Filter (Office 97-2003: Word .doc, PowerPoint .ppt, Excel .xls) Metro Office Filter (Office […]

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Google Calendar outage an excuse for missing meetings today?

News.com reports today: Users relying on Google Calendar have good excuse for missing meetings Thursday a.m., as company scrambles to fix widespread outage. The outage, reported by Google on its Google Apps Dashboard at 8:30 AM, is still being investigated as I write. Another reminder of how disruptive “cloud-only” services can be for an organization. […]

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Microsoft to end newsgroup support in favor of forums

Starting next month, Microsoft will be ending support for NNTP newsgroups in favor of web-based forums. This marks an end of an era for many. Although I’ve preferred newsgroups over the web-based forums for a long time, the forums have matured significantly over the years and now present a great user experience. Over the past […]

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Migrating to WordPress: Code is Poetry

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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