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DST 2007: Is there an Outlook DST “patch”?

There seems to be some confusion about whether Outlook itself has a DST 2007 patch. As noted in a previous post “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“, there’s the Outlook Calendar Update Tool – TzMove.exe (“Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook” in Microsoft-speak). This is […]

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Symantec’s State of Spam report: Spam rates declining

Here’s something that should make messaging folks happier (as happy as you can be at this point given the DST 2007 huddle a lot of us may find ourselves in… :) Symantec’s monthly State of Spam report shows some interesting trends over the past month. In particular: 1. Overall percentage of spam “at the SMTP […]

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DST 2007: The order of things, again!

As we wind down towards the DST 2007 deadline, I’ve still been getting quite a few questions about this in the past day or two. This has been covered and repeated quite a bit over the past few days, but here it is once again. Here’s what Microsoft recommends on its DST 2007 web site:1. […]

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Zenprise Webinar availabe OnDemand: Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange

Zenprise held a webinar titled “Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange” on Friday March 23rd. The archived webinar is now available on the Zenprise web site [registration required].

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DST 2007: Exchange’s Message Tracking off by an hour

There have been reports of the Message Tracking tool in Exchange System Manager being off by an hour after you apply the DST 2007 time zone update to the operating system of a server running Exchange. This is a known issue. Message Tracking logs use UTC/GMT for logging (as do most logging and time-related functions). […]

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Switching your Linux systems to the new DST

Over on Linux-Watch, Steven Vaughan-Nichols shows you how to update Linux systems for DST 2007. As a sidenote to the above, Windows systems also use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to synchronize clocks to reliable time sources. This is required in Active Directory environments, for Kerberos v5 authentication. In an AD domain, all client computers and […]

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DST 2007 Rollup Post

If the navbar link on the left doesn’t get you quickly to the DST 2007 post you want to, here’s a list of all DST 2007 posts on this blog: – DST 2007: December 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems– DST 2007: August 2007 Cumulative Timezone Update for Windows operating systems– […]

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DST 2007: DoE isn’t convinced new DST will save energy!

The Department of Energy isn’t convinced changing the clocks will make a dent in energy consumption! In an e-mail to TIME magazine, DoE press secretary Craig Stevens writes: “The jury on the potential national energy-savings of extending daylight saving time is still out. Our preliminary report, based on decades-old information, indicates a very small amount […]

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Paul Thurrott: Microsoft Showed Practicality, Compassion for Mac at Apple’s Lowest Point

Paul Thurrott is one of the columnists and tech writers I enjoy reading every column and product review from. He is opinionated, criticizes Microsoft when it’s appropriate (and isn’t kind when he does it…), and gives credit to the company where credit is due. In his latest WinInfo newsletter/column titled “Microsoft Showed Practicality, Compassion for […]

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CNet News.com: IT pros battle clock and code in time change

A report from Erica Ogg at CNet News.com, aptly titled “IT pros battle clock and code in time change”. I’m trying to find the humor in all this, and this report provides it: “Microsoft acknowledges that the instructions for updating aren’t exactly credit card-size.” :) Further: “BlackBerry Pearl user (user name not published here, in […]

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