Monthly Archives: May 2011

Hotmail’s ActiveSync support

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

For as long as I have been using an iPhone, I have been frustrated by the inability of Hotmail to support a modern email access protocol. Hotmail seemed to be fixed in the mists of time at a point where … Continue reading →

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Musing on searching

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

The publication of the post by the Exchange team to reveal the secret registry instruction to allow multi-mailbox searches to interrogate more than 25,000 mailboxes got me thinking. First,  I thought that the era of registry hacks was over for … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Microsoft Certified Master accreditation

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

On May 16, Microsoft announced that the exams that lead to accreditation as a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Exchange 2010 will be available in centers worldwide. This development, similar to the announcement about MCM for SQL made in late … Continue reading →

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HP releases videos about E5000 messaging system

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

Last February, Paul Robichaux, Brian Desmond and I were invited by HP to come to Cupertino to look over the HP E5000 messaging system. Over two days we had the chance to quiz Dean Steadman, the HP product manager, and … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 SP2: Not the headline release that SP1 was

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

As part of their announcements at TechEd, Microsoft revealed the worst secret in the Exchange world and told us that they’re working on Exchange 2010 SP2. The software is still in a restricted beta and won’t be available for some time … Continue reading →

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Updated virtualization guidelines for Exchange 2010

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

On May 16, Microsoft took advantage of the start of TechEd North America (the marketing folks always like to have news to reveal at major conferences) to make a significant announcement about virtualization support for Exchange 2010. The two biggest … Continue reading →

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Managing Office 365 with the one true shell

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

Exchange administrators have known since the release of Exchange 2007 that only wimps seek the soft comfort of the GUI-rich Exchange Management Console (EMC) when they attempt to manage servers, mailboxes, or other objects. Exchange Online, part of Office 365, … Continue reading →

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Excluding disclaimers for encrypted or signed messages

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

In a recent post, I described the basic approach to building an Exchange 2010 transport rule to build corporate disclaimers containing Active Directory data and formatted nicely with HTML that are then appended to all outgoing messages. The approach works … Continue reading →

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On email disclaimers

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

The April 7 article ”Spare us the email yada-yada” published in The Economist provoked some consideration of how email disclaimers have evolved to a point where they have become one of the “minor nuisances of modern office life”, mostly because the … Continue reading →

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San Diego Maestro

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

We’ve just wrapped up the Exchange 2010 Maestro seminar in San Diego and everyone is making their way home after a pretty exhausting three days. Wednesday was particularly tough with an early start at 8am finishing up with a presentation … Continue reading →

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