Download Exchange Server 2007 virtual machine images

Just found out (thanks to fellow MVP Jeff Centimano) – Microsoft has posted virtual machine images of Exchange Server 2007 (and a few other products) on TechNet. VM images in Microsoft’s VHD format can be used by Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 (also free – download from here). You can use […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell

Bulk creation of mailboxes (and the accompanying user accounts) in Exchange Server 2003/2000 involved some elaborate scripting effort. This task can now be done fairly effortlessly, thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The Shell can very easily import/use CSV files saved from a spreadsheet or text editor and create the mailbox-enabled users. Here’s how. […]

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Microsoft opens up SenderID

Microsoft announced today it’s putting its SenderID technology under its Open Specification Promise program. This allows anyone to create products or services using SenderID technology. SenderID lets (receiving) mail servers determine whether a sending mail host is authorized to send email for a particular domain, based on SPF records published in the sending domain’s DNS. […]

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Outlook on a stick?

IBM’s just released Lotus Notes 7.0.2 has a cool new feature that IBM’s been touting all over the place – Notes on a stick. It lets you copy your Notes Desktop on a USB stick (or other such devices, including an iPod. Hint: Justification for writing off that iPod as a business expense… it’s a […]

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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: Get PowerShell version info

While the command ver (short for version) could get you the version info at a DOS/Windows command prompt, and winver does it in the Windows GUI, if you’re stumbling to find the version of Windows PowerShell installed on your computer, the command (cmdlet is the correct and official PowerShell term) you’re looking for is Get-Host. […]

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Message Tracking from the command line in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

I’ve forever envied folks (including some colleagues— you know who you are… ) on the Linux/Unix side of things who were able to parse text log files generated by MTAs like Postfix/SendMail/EXIM in a fraction of the time it takes one to fire up Message Tracking Center on Exchange and search for a message. I […]

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