Ex-Vice President Exposed: Engadget features a gadget-junky Al Gore

I have to post about Engadget’s (the blog/site for gadget-junkies) post today showing environmentalist ex-Vice President Al Gore’s den – look at the post on Engadget.com titled “Al Gore: ex-VP, environmentalist, gadget freak“. Comparatively, I’m not doing too bad – I need to add 2 more of those super-sexy Apple Cinema displays, but don’t care […]

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Update: Windows Vista and Virtual CD/DVD emulators

After I posted about the issues with Windows Vista and virtual CD/DVD emulation utilities (that let you mount ISO images of CDs/DVDs as virtual CD/DVD drives), quite a few visitors responded with details, workarounds and updates on how to make these work – some left comments, and I received a few responses by email as […]

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Grimes Gripes About RBLs

InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes gripes about Real-Time Block Lists (aka Real-Time Blackhole Lists, DNSBLs or DNS-based Block Lists. The Exchange Server 2007 term for RBLs is “IP Block List Providers”). The feelings towards RBLs are understandable – you won’t be a fan of RBLs if your IP addresses are the ones getting listed, and your […]

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Can The Blue Monster Change Microsoft?

Apparently, this cartoon created by Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid.com is getting traction amongst Microsofties, and outside Microsoft. Microsoft’s Steve Clayton explains what it is in a video. What strikes me is the simplicity of the message (and the medium). Hugh adds: “The Blue Monster was designed as a conversation starter. To paraphrase the ongoing dialogue […]

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Hilf: Don’t look at Fortune magazine as the manifestation of Microsoft strategy

In an exclusive interview to InfoWorld magazine, Microsoft’s Bill Hilf clears up the air [read previous article – “Bill Hilf: Free Software Movement Is Dead“] about Microsoft’s open source strategy, and its patent infringement claims. According to Hilf, Microsoft’s strategy hasn’t changed. It’s not on the litigation path. Ignore Fortune’s spin on Microsoft counsel Brad […]

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CAS In DMZ Redux: Time For an OWA Appliance?

The number of times I continue to field this question is amazing – Can the Client Access Server be located in the perimeter (DMZ) network? I wrote about it not too long ago [read previous post titled “Locating Exchange Server 2007 CAS role in the perimeter?“]. Exchange folks continue to get the standard requirement/mandate from […]

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Cluster Continuous Replication and Public Folders

In previous versions of Exchange Server, Exchange Virtual Servers (EVSes) are not very different from standalone servers. Besides mailboxes, they can host protocol virtual servers (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, HTTP/OWA), Public Folders, etc. Exchange Server 2007’s clustering model is simplified further to provide high availability for mailboxes. There is no protocol support – SMTP is the […]

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Applying Managed Folder Policy to more than one user

Scenario: You have a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy called Policy-DeletedItems90Days. The policy has Managed Content Settings to permanently delete items in the Deleted Items folder after 90 days. You can easily apply this Managed Folder Mailbox Policy to a single user using the Exchange console, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Applying a Managed […]

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Bill Hilf: Free Software Movement Is Dead

This may add a lot of fuel to the platforms (Windows v/s Open Source and Almost Open Source But Never Free) debate, and will certainly balloon into a controversy of interesting proportions. Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s GM of Platform Strategy, said in a recent interview in Bangkok: “The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn’t exist […]

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HOW TO: Expose original senders and recipients of quarantined messages

The Content Filter Agent in Exchange Server 2007 allows you to quarantine messages above the SCLQuarantineThreshold. Messages so quarantined are delivered to a quarantine mailbox, specified in the Content Filter configuration. [Read previous post for more info, “Exchange 2007 Content Filter: How to move messages to users’ Junk Mail folder“] Messages arriving in the quarantine […]

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