Bharat Suneja

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 device into a BlackBerry at the touch of a button. Sort of. Once installed, the application will provide users with a “virtual BlackBerry appearance” – including support for BlackBerry email, […]

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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 DNS on a Windows Server (using DNS Server service), this affects you. Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer has a nice write-up about this issue that I just stumbled upon, thanks to Sunbelt […]

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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 were correctly logged in UTC), as noted in previous post titled “DST 2007: Exchange’s Message Tracking off by an hour“. Microsoft recently released a hotfix to correct this rendering issue […]

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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 Shaw’s The BlackBerry Beat blog on ZDNet, or News.com (RIM offers explanation for massive outage), or the publication of your choice – it’s all over the place. Judging by the […]

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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: 4.1.1.1 Extended HELLO (EHLO) or HELLO (HELO) These commands are used to identify the SMTP client to the SMTP server. The argument field contains the fully-qualified domain name of the […]

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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 breaking up with him. After a bad argument the couple had earlier in the day, user Rafael Paz’ girlfriend sent him a few emails. When she did not receive a […]

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Zenprise proactively detects BlackBerry N. America outage!

BlackBerry® users in North America were without email last night (Tuesday April 17th), thanks to an extended system-wide outage in Research In Motion’s network that handles email. Zenprise customers report that Zenprise for BlackBerry automatically detected this outage in the BlackBerry SRP network at 5:19 PM last night, and were able to pro actively inform […]

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Fixed: Outlook 2007 Performance issues with large mailboxes

If you’ve been frustrated with Outlook 2007’s performance when working with large mailboxes or PST files, Microsoft has a hotfix for you – KB 933943: Description of the update for Outlook 2007: April 13, 2007. The update also fixes a couple of other issues documented in this KBA. You won’t need to call Microsoft support […]

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Released: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 just got its first update. Update Rollup 1 (KB 930809) resolves the following issues: – KB 932487: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops unexpectedly when the Exchange Server 2007-based server replicates the Public folder (This happens when Event Logging level for Replication DS Updates is set to anything but Lowest).– KB […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Managing And Filtering Anti-Spam Agent Logs

Exchange 2007 includes a number of anti-spam agents to filter spam. The anti-spam agents log their actions in (anti-spam) agent logs. The default agent log locations: Exchange 2010: \Exchange Server\V14\TransportRoles\Logs\AgentLog Exchange 2007: \Exchange Server\TransportRoles\Logs\AgentLog Agent Log Configuration You can’t change the agent log location. Here are the available config options: Enable/Disable agent log: On transport […]

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