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NetApp Data OnTap 7 and Flexvolumes

The Saturday (July 16th) was spent on migrating an Exchange cluster from an older NetApp 840 to a new 920 filer. My personal experience with NetApp’s Exchange solutions – from the older filers that used NetApp’s VLD protocol to the newer iSCSI filers – has been a string of hit or miss affairs. The Windows […]

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Exchange 12 to axe Active/Active Clustering?

Oliver Rist’s Enterprise Windows column in InfoWorld talks about many facts/announcements related to the Exchange Server product roadmap – most of it discussed/announced at TechEd in Orlando and at other venues. He also talks about Active/Active clustering being history with Exchange 12. I’m a little surprised – I thought Microsoft would perhaps work towards making […]

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Adding disclaimers to outbound SMTP messages

Disclaimers are increasingly becoming commonplace in email messages sent to external (and at times internal) recipients. Security policies at many organizations require these disclaimers. If you’ve been looking for this feature in Exchange System Manager, it’s not there yet! You need to use a SMTP Event Sink to get this done. Microsoft has couple of […]

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Message Tracking as part of OWA/Outlook

Message Tracking is one thing I’ve since long wanted to see built into the client – either as an OWA-only feature or perhaps in OWA and Outlook. Problem: Users want to find out where a message they sent ended up – was it delivered? At what time? To which server? Same thing for inbound messages. […]

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Exchange Server 2003 SP2 to ship soon!

Just back from TechEd in Orlando, and I’m going to try to make up for the slack in posting over the past few weeks. Exchange Server 2003 SP2 will ship soon.Notable:1. Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition store limit raised to 75 Gigs! In addition to the Standard Edition’s ability to be a Front-End server (2003 […]

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IBM In Denial Over Lotus Notes

Another interesting article – this one’s about Lotus Notes’ declining marketshare, and the Lotus community’s claim of it still being No. 1. IBM In Denial Over Lotus Notes The marketing folks in IBM’s Lotus division are starting to sound like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who insists he’s winning a […]

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The 24-hour Linux phenomenon

Interesting observation by InfoWorld columnist Neil McAllister. He quotes Jim Allchin (Group VP of Platforms at Microsoft). Excerpts from the Open Enterprise column (emphasis mine). Standard disclaimers (including “take this with a pinch of salt”) etc. apply… I do think there’s some element of truth in this – having heard from or of people who’ve […]

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Long string error viewing/editing Group Policy in GPO editor

If you try to view/edit a GPO in the Group Policy Object Editor on Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP SP1, you get the following error:The following entry in the [strings] section is too long and has been truncated. Why does this happen? Older version of GPO Editor cannot interpret some string […]

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Reinstall XP without activation

Ever needed to reinstall the OS on the same system and wondered if it’ll still activate? This lets you reinstall Windows XP without having to activate it again: Copy the file %systemroot%\system32\wpa.dbl (to removable media like floppy/CD if you plan to reformat the drive and do not have Reinstall Windows XP Copy the file back […]

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Windows Beats Linux in Live Security Contest

Interesting… I’ve since long held Windows as a more easily “securable” (provided you know how) OS. This just came in – from WinInfo Daily Update (Paul Thurrott, creator of SuperSite for Windows, part of the Windows IT Pro mag network).—————————————————– Windows Beats Linux in Live Security Contest During a live duel of sorts between backers […]

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