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Interesting snippet from Bob Woodward’s ‘State of Denial’

On the way back from vacation last week, I decided to finish reading Bob Woodward’s excellent book ‘State of Denial: Bush At War, Part III‘. Interesting snippet, and not completely off-topic. Time of the incident: July 2003. As the public face of the American declaration before the United Nations that Saddam had WMD, Powell had […]

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Novell credits Microsoft for booming SUSE Linux sales

Novell reported a 243% jump in sales of its SUSE Linux operating system, crediting its alliance with Microsoft. Interesting development, after the initial teething issues the two companies have had with their relationship, and the open source community’s quick kneejerk reaction (not that it wasn’t expected… ) to it.

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Gmail flaw allows forwarding messages to attacker’s mailbox

As I sat watching a cool video put together by “Gmail fans” yesterday, reports of a flaw with Google’s popular web-based email service were beginning to appear. The flaw allows an attacker to create a filter to forward a victim’s messages to any email address specified by the attacker. Scary stuff – Gmail is one […]

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Zenprise in Network World’s ‘9 Wireless Network Companies To Watch’

Zenprise was named as one of the ‘9 Network Wireless Companies To Watch’ by Network World. From ‘ on NetworkWorld.com” href=”http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/090607-wireless-watch.html?page=9″>Network World: Why it’s worth watching: Zenprise for BlackBerry software was launched in February 2007. Two months later, when RIM’s North American BlackBerry network crashed, Zenprise customers were perhaps the only people on the continent […]

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Entourage 2008: OOFs coming to the Mac

With the release of Office 2008 for the Mac, Entourage users will be able to use Out of Office messages just like the rest of the world (i.e. Windows users with Microsoft Outlook) have been doing forever. Entourage 2008 supports Exchange Server 2007’s enhanced OOF functionality, including the ability to schedule OOF start and stop […]

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One more thing: iPhone’s 33% cheaper in 10 weeks

Did you rush out to buy the cool new and way overhyped 8 Gb iPhone on Day 1 for $599? You must love Jobs’ announcement this morning – the music player + cell phone + web surfing + email (sans Exchange ActiveSync, of course.. ) device just got a 33% price cut. You can now […]

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Quick Poll: Moving to Exchange Server 2007?

Where are you, your organization or your customers (in case you’re a consultant or vendor) on the road to Exchange Server 2007? Been there, done that? On the way? Perhaps next year? Take this quick poll and find out where other responders are.

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Distribution Groups and maximum recipients per message

In Exchange Server 2003, you can restrict maximum number of recipients per message in the following places: Global Settngs (Message Delivery -> properties | Defaults) Figure 1: Max recipients in Global Settings | Message Delivery -> properties | Defaults tab SMTP Virtual Server -> properties | Messages ADUC -> recipient -> properties | Exchange General […]

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Released: Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 4

Microsoft has released another update to Exchange Server 2007 – Update Rollup 4. The roll-up is available for both platforms – x64 and x86. This rollup fixes 9 issues, discussed in KB 940006. The cumulative nature of Exchange Server 2007 updates/rollups means Update Rollup 4 includes the updates in Update Rollups 1, 2 & 3. […]

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DST 2007: August 2007 Cumulative Timezone Update for Windows operating systems

In case we all forgot about the DST 2007 nightmare (read previous post: “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“) we had to live through earlier this year, this update serves as a reminder. It hasn’t really been that long! :) Microsoft has released a new timezone update – […]

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