Traditionally, in order to access an internal share or site link posted within an email, one had to be connected to the company network. In addition, access to internal files was not available directly from a mobile device using ActiveSync unless the mobile device was tethered to the network. With Remote File Access in Exchange 2007, one can .. more »

I’ve completed testing of the NIC teaming on our new Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers.  I’m more than a little bit surprised by the results, which I’ll get to in a moment.  My initial assumptions were that the network adapters would perform in the following order, from best to worst .. more »

MS Outlook ICS and VCF Adapter is a set of VBA scripts that enables a user to connect any Calendar folder (appointments or tasks) to a remote iCalendar server in read/write mode (i.e. it is possible to read from the remote calendar and it is possible to publish to the remote calendar. Free... more »

SharedLook allows Outlook users to quickly and easily upload Outlook e-mail messages and attachments directly into SharePoint. Just click a toolbar button or menu item and select the target location. Browse hierarchies of multiple SharePoint Portals and WSS sites. Send one or more e-mail messages, calendar items or contacts. All items saved in .. more »

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Use the Outlook Connector with Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to access and manage Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts. Version 12.1... more »

I ran across Claus’s link to the makeuseof.com article that shows how to run Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection program as a portable application from a USB drive. This lead me to think about how this could be of value in my environment.  I frequently hop from server to server using Microsoft’s .. more »

We want to congratulate the Microsoft Storage Solutions team for releasing Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. While LCR, CCR and SCR all offer replication/protection capabilities for higher availability, our teammates in the System Center family have been providing a really solid backup & recovery solution for .. more »

I was recently performing some performance testing that required me to copy many files of a particular size from one Windows XP workstation to a Windows 2003 server. I had a heck of a time figuring out how to batch generate the test files. Finally I cam across the fsutil tool, which is included on both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The .. more »

This is about a discussion last summer but I thought it was interesting as I didn't see much of it until I ran into some posts by Ed Brill from IBM.  There's always been a back and forth between IBM and Microsoft with Lotus Notes and Exchange server on who has a bigger market share, who is more relevant, has .. more »

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Here’s how to move the Windows Server 2003 Inetpub directory from default directory c:\Inetpub to another drive, d:\Inetpub in this example. 1. From a command prompt type: xcopy c:\inetpub d:\inetpub /O /X /E /H /K This will copy the IIS Inetpub directory, it’s contents, and the file permissions to the new drive. See KB 323007 for .. more »

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  Despite our attempts at documenting various break/fix scenarios, it can often be frustrating when trying to locate the information you need to resolve an issue as quickly as you would like. I decided to share this information in an attempt to help you .. more »

How to identify your failure risk points and highlight the industry's best practices to reduce or eliminate them... more »

WebTeam Central is an outlook web-based group calendar offering an overview of multiple Outlook calendars along with intuitive scheduling tools. It gives managers, receptionists and co-workers an instant and easy web-based overview of their colleagues... more »

Today, for the final posting in the series covering the newly released App-V 4.5 Resource Kit , we are going to discuss the application listing tool. Ever wondered which applications are running virtualized and which natively in your machine? The application...(read more).. more »

Wondering when the bleeding is going to stop?? Not any time soon. IMO, the descent of Indian Rupee against the US Dollar is going to continue for a while. I would not be surprised if it goes beyond 55 and reaches almost 60. The biggest reason for this free fall is outflow of investor money from India given the economic crisis. Investors are .. more »

We had a case come in a few months ago where we were restoring Message Tracking Logs from backups and couldn't use the Get-MessageTrackingLog properly when specifying an -EndDate parameter. Consequently, we run into this same problem when trying to load up logs from other servers as well. Basically, Exchange documentation states the following (at .. more »

The launch of T-Mobile's G1 phone, based on Google's Android OS, was arguably the biggest news event on the planet the day it happened. Although I'm mostly indifferent to Android, I couldn't help but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. more »

If you've ever tried sequencing an application that has an installation program that requires a reboot you may have run into this dilemma - How do you restart the computer if you're running the sequencer to capture the installation actions?  While...(read more).. more »