Google Calendar outage an excuse for missing meetings today?

News.com reports today: Users relying on Google Calendar have good excuse for missing meetings Thursday a.m., as company scrambles to fix widespread outage. The outage, reported by Google on its Google Apps Dashboard at 8:30 AM, is still being investigated as I write. Another reminder of how disruptive “cloud-only” services can be for an organization. […]

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Microsoft to end newsgroup support in favor of forums

Starting next month, Microsoft will be ending support for NNTP newsgroups in favor of web-based forums. This marks an end of an era for many. Although I’ve preferred newsgroups over the web-based forums for a long time, the forums have matured significantly over the years and now present a great user experience. Over the past […]

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Migrating to WordPress: Code is Poetry

Early this morning, I migrated this blog from Google’s Blogger to WordPress – for the fourth time in less than a month! Luckily, the wonders of XML-based data transforms between Blogger and WordPress made the process a lot easier than I thought, compared to the few single-handed attempts at migration made in the past year […]

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Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark

Ten days after Windows 7’s October 22 launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: Certainly we’ve seen initial sales be fantastic. The first ten days were bigger than the first ten days of XP or Vista or any other Windows launch that we have done. All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski responded with Well, What Did You […]

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Office 2010 RTMs

Office 2010, the wave 14 release of Microsoft Office, has been released to manufacturing (RTM) today. Congratulations to the Office team – using this shiny new version of Office is a pleasure! There’s lot to like in all of the Office apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project— and Outlook 2010 really shines! There’s […]

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Announced: Exchange 2010 SP1, Beta in June

Microsoft has just announced Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1! A beta of the feature-laden SP1 is headed your way come June 2010. Some of the juicy new features in SP1 include the ability to locate the Personal Archive on a different mailbox database than the one where the user’s primary mailbox is located (a […]

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Exchangepedia Blog Changes

It’s finally time to move the blog off an old, archaic platform! Back when the blog was started (~6 years ago!), Blogger seemed to be the quick and easy way to do it, while still being able to use my own domain and server. Down the road, Google acquired Blogger, and I joined the Exchange […]

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Geek Out With Perry: New Video Series and Blog

It’s been over two months since I posted here! No, I’m not taking a break– at least not an intentional one, and hopefully will get back to posting regularly soon. Meanwhile, check out the posts on You Had Me At EHLO… (the Exchange team blog). And if you’ve been monitoring the team blog, you must […]

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Outlook Spy 2.15 is Outlook 2010-compatible

Didn’t notice earlier— one of my favorite Outlook/Exchange tools is now compatible with Outlook 2010. Outlook Spy is primarily a tool for Outlook/Exchange developers, but Exchange administrators also find it useful. It allows you to look under the hood of mailboxes and messages. If you need to peek under the hood of Exchange mailboxes and […]

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How did it feel to beat Google?

Every time I pass the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, I’m amused and amazed that a Microsoft campus is in close proximity to Yahoo, Google, and other Silicon Valley bellwethers. The talent here is amazing! If you haven’t done so already, check out BingTweets, which fuses Bing’s search results and real-time content from […]

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