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Google’s YouTube purchase

Google’s recent purchase of YouTube, the video sharing site, has been discussed and commented on ad nauseam all of last week. InfoWorld columnist Robert X. Cringely (often wondered if that is his real name :-) has an interesting take on it in his Notes From The Field column. Says Cringely about the eye-popping price Google […]

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Running Vista RC2 on a Sony Vaio SZ320p notebook

[I’ve never done product review type of posts on this blog before, but this laptop and Vista are indeed quite impressive and beg for exactly such a post… } Just tested Windows Vista RC2 (Build 5744.16384) on a Sony Vaio SZ320P laptop. This slim little laptop has a WXGA display (1280 x 800), comes with […]

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TechEd 2007: Looking for another venue?

In Vegas I learnt Microsoft is moving TechEd 2007 from New Orleans – the venue announced and publicized earlier. Redmondmag.com has more on this today – Microsoft is citing logistics issues of moving (an estimated 14-15,000 people, including 11,000 attendees) in and out of the city. A new venue has not been announced so far, […]

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@TechMentor in Las Vegas

I’m in Las Vegas for TechMentor conference – organized by 101 Communications, the publisher of Redmond magazine (formerly MCP Mag), and CertCities.com web site. All Exchange sessions at TechMentor are being presented by Zenprise folks this year. If you’re attending, don’t miss out on the Exchange track – sessions are listed here. (If you’re not […]

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HOW TO: Change IP addresses on a cluster

A “Re-IP-ing” project around the corner where you need to change IP addresses on all hosts in a subnet? Or just a cluster? When you change the IP addresses on cluster nodes, cluster resources go offline. With the IP addresses on nodes changed (while moving to different network/subnets), when you start Cluster Admin you can’t […]

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Chat with your Windows MediaCenter!

As reported by Engadget.com, you’ll love this concept and way geeky app to remotely tell Windows MediaCenter to record a tv show – just chat with it over MSN Messenger! Stuck in a car with no way to record a tv show? You can now do it over a Windows Mobile phone (signed in to […]

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PowerShell RC2 and Exchange Server 2007

PowerShell Release Candidate 2 was just released and is available for download here. If you’re using Beta 2 or any other build of Exchange Server 2007, don’t rush to install this just yet. Exchange Management Shell – Exchange Server 2007’s command-line management interface that’s built on top of Windows PowerShell – isn’t compatible with RC2 […]

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Add/Remove Windows Components and other time-saving shortcuts

Keyboard/command-line short-cuts that get you to a particular control panel applet or Windows dialog box are usually such great time-savers if you use them enough and (therefore) can remember them. Here’s a list of some great time-saving short-cuts – (some will impress even your IT Pro colleagues… ): The number one time-saver for me is […]

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Spamhaus, the E360Insight lawsuit and the future of RBLs

If you’ve been keeping track of spam issues and RBLs, you probably took notice of the recent order by an Illinois court against leading RBL provider Spamhaus for listing Wheeling, IL-based E360Insight on its ROKSO (Register of Known Spam Operations) list. In a no-defence, default ruling, U.S. District Judge Charles Kokoras ordered [PDF] Spamhaus to […]

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Webinar: How to Simplify Exchange Troubleshooting – An In-Depth Look at Tools

Windows IT Pro magazine recently held a webinar titled “How to Simplify Exchange Troubleshooting – An In-Depth Look at Tools” (access the archived version here – the link has beex fixed). The webinar is presented by Jim McBee, Exchange MVP and author of popular Exchange books like Exchange Server 2003 24Seven (the recently updated edition […]

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