February 2007 Entries
Hamad Darwish, a photographer, was comissioned by the Windows Vista team to take a series of photographs of which some would be used as wallpapers in the new OS. Long Zheng introduced him via some blog posts. In the interview Hamad mentioned releasing the entire set of photographs to the public. The shots are simply amazing. Here is the link to his site and the photos. He also has a Flickr page. Long's original blog post...
Please join the Southern Ohio Exchange Users Group on March 7, 2007 for a night of presentations highlighting Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista. We will be presenting several technical demonstrations on Exchange 2007 including deployment, operational efficiency and Unified Communications. We will also have some fun and informative Windows Vista technical demonstrations as well. Please register here so we have an accurate head count for food and drinks. The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30pm and...
Gizmodo is proposing March as "Boycott the RIAA Month." I, for one, am happy to join in. There arent many groups I am in disagreement with when it comes to trying to increase their revenue income, but the MPAA and RIAA have been so blind to making a system for fair digital consumption of their respective media for America that it boggles the mind! They could both be rolling in more money than they could ever want (well, maybe not that much) if only they would inact a no DRM or more DRM-friendly system....
I love Harold's webcasts on Exchange. He is a highly knowledgeable TechNet presenter. I recommend checking out his on-going 24 Hours of Exchange 2007 webcast series (I would list the link here but finding an event on the Microsoft website is about as frustrating as it gets IMO). I just completed hour 11 which focused on Policies and Compliance. Here are some highlights: Hub transport rules are not replicated to all the hub transport servers by any Exchange replication engine nor are they stored in...
The You Had Me at EHLO blog is dishing the scoop on the forthcoming service pack 1. Look for an April release timeframe. What I am looking forward to: OWA - personal distribution lists, rules and deleted items recovery. OWA - viewing Office file formats as HTML. EMC - public folder configuration (I know they're going but it is going to take a while) EMC - SendAs permission configuration Move mailbox to include import\export to a .pst. Can I also blow by the 2gb limit? :)...
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My favorite note taking application has some new power toys! Technorati tags: OneNote, OneNote 2007, Power Toys...
Sign up for the Windows Home Server Beta 2 here. Ideal candidates will have two or more home PCs and a test box on which to install the beta. Technorati tags: Windows Home Server...
The "You Had Me at EHLO" blog is running a contest for the most excellent Exchange 2007 limerick. Grand prize is a Microsoft Zune engraved with the Exchange 2007 logo and catchphrase