Microsoft Strives to Make Exchange More Like an Appliance

posted by  tom (176)  22 months ago (www.eweek.com)

One of the major challenges and goals facing the development team working on Microsoft’s Exchange Server, is how to make the e-mail, calendaring and messaging product more like those appliance products that make migration and operation far more automatic... more »

Running POP and IMAP on Exchange 2007

posted by  tom (176)  21 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Some info on Exchange 2007 server roles and where one could install POP and IMAP services.. more »

password recovery for pst files

posted by  scaler (17)  15 months ago (digWin.com)

Hello

I have forgotten the password of my pst archive. Is there any way to recover it?

thanks in advance.

Exchange 2007 SP1 ships on 30 November!

posted by  bond007 (26)  5 months ago (mostlyexchange.blogspot.com)

According to today's Technet Flash, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 will be available for download on 30 November! Woo hoo!!!! Get your servers upgraded to W2K3 SP2 and make sure you get KB 867460 applied (not required, but recommended.).. more »

Microsoft sued over "Windows Vista Capable"

posted by  keith (109)  5 months ago (vanishorg.blogspot.com)

This, the most basic version of Vista, doesn't support the Aero interface or plenty of other desirable goodies, and the plaintiffs claim that Home Basic "is not the 'real' Vista marketed by Microsoft." The entire OS version was little ..... more »

Bill Gates Eats his own dog food!

posted by  davidmkean (7)  5 months ago (office.microsoft.com)

Mr. Microsoft himself reveals what he uses on a daily basis at work. Not surprisingly, he mentions only Microsoft products! Thus the use of the term "eats his own dog food"... more »

Windows Live Writer v1 released

posted by  mmuray (107)  5 months ago (so1d.warazd.com)

Still there is only spell checking for 4 languages so if you want it for other languages take a look at my previous post Spell checking in other languages in Windows Live Writer 2008. …. Ultra Low Latency Grid Computing ..... more »

Windows Live OneCare Firewall Repair Tool

posted by  sorab (52)  5 months ago (myitforum.com)

This support tool is intended for customers whose OneCare firewall reports that it cannot install a required upgrade or cannot turn on the firewall. This tool is NOT intended to diagnose or treat more specific functionality issues such ..... more »

How to Connect Google Talk With Yahoo! or Windows Live Messenger?

posted by  slafrey (82)  5 months ago (archivesmymy.blogspot.com)

Messenger and MSN (Windows Live) Messenger users can chat with each other easily without changing clients. Similarly, Google is working with AOL to allow users of Google Talk connect with their AIM buddies. Now consider a completely ..... more »

Microsoft’s Ken Pawlak on Mobile Broadband Laptops

posted by  antonio (188)  5 months ago (www.besttechnoblogs.com)

Plug in a mobile broadband or High Speed Internet Access (HSPA) chip into the laptop and you are good to surf the internet. What is the target market for these mobile broadband PCs? They are millions of people in the middle and the base ..... more »

Microsoft : PC = Google : Mobiles

posted by  sorab (52)  5 months ago (googlerelated.blogspot.com)

(NASDAQ: GOOG) have high hopes for their new cellphone operating system, which will use an open-source friendly development framework called ‘android‘ to develop mobile applications. The search giant is offering prizes worth . ..... more »

Visual Studio 2008 How Long Should We Wait?

posted by  sorab (52)  5 months ago (www.mojoportal.com)

Since Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET framework 3.5, I like most passionate geek developers could not wait to try it out. I was under the impression that projects and solutions from VS 2005 would be compatible so ..... more »

Cheapest in the market: Microsoft Offers $500 Vista PC in India

posted by  rwilson (80)  5 months ago (compl.design-freestyle.com)

The main topics brings the framework and continuity we need to bring our points of view closer. The adjunction of new items like critical resources, semantic web, protection of children, bill of rights and others shows that the method ..... more »

Zune chief has praise and criticism for iPhone

posted by  keith (109)  5 months ago (iphone-cases.blogspot.com)

As a response to the iPhone, Microsoft will add Zune features to the Windows Mobile OS, but a Zune phone is apparently unlikely. "If we can put the customer first, we prefer to do it with partners. We didn't create the Zune because we ..... more »

Windows Server 2008 File Transfers: Numbers are significant

posted by  keith (109)  5 months ago (teched.indepthtalk.net)

Ward Ralston writes, "....the improvements to our TCP/IP stack and SMB 2.0 Protocol gave us a 3.5x time-to-completion improvement over Windows Server 2003. The paper really is a good read and it has some good technical details of what ..... more »

Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 official ISO download

posted by  keith (109)  5 months ago (igoolge.blogspot.com)

English: On the other day, Microsoft's had issued on its official serverdownloading center Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 entire series editionsdownloading, separately contains the following edition (the before VHDversion not to be ..... more »

SharePoint Certification Exams

posted by  slafrey (82)  5 months ago (aerradi.spaces.live.com)

Course 6072: Managing Enterprise Content by using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Course 6073:Creating Business Intelligence Solutions by using Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Course 6074: Integrating Business Data by using ..... more »

Microsoft clears up Zune 80 availability issues

posted by  mmuray (107)  5 months ago (xps-hosting.com)

Apparently Microsoft’s sales forecasts called for it to produce more flash Zunes, but the strong reaction from the press and consumers has led to increased interest in the Zune 80 instead — which seems like the sort of thing you ..... more »

Office Live Documents - Hotmail Founder Challenges Microsoft

posted by  mvrok (14)  5 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft in 1997 for around $400 million. After selling Hotmail, Sabeer tried new ventures but none of them were very successful. Now Sabeer has decided to challenge... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Nokia combined forces with Microsoft

posted by  kevyn (54)  5 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Nokia combined forces with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions to bring five major New Year’s Eve celebration concerts to life .. more »

Windows update fails with error: 0xC800021F

posted by  scaler (17)  13 months ago (digWin.com)

I a'm trying to use the Windows update and every action I attempt gets thefollowing error number: 0xC800021F

Anybody knows details about this error?

Microsoft Releases Windows Defender Final

posted by  nicolas.blank (99)  18 months ago (www.microsoft.com)

Windows Defender features
• New option to display Windows Defender system tray icon even when there are no pending actions needed.

• Enhanced performance through a new scanning engine.

• Streamlined, simplified user interface and alerts.

• Improved control over programs on your computer with enhanced Software Explorer.

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DataViz to Fill 'Direct Push' E-mail Gap with RoadSync for Windows Mobile 2003

posted by  tom (176)  22 months ago (www.dataviz.com)

DataViz, Inc., today announced that RoadSync, its Exchange ActiveSync client, will support Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition devices, starting with the HP iPAQ hw6500 series and Samsung i700 series - so if your organization has too many users carrying these devices, its time to reuse it for Directpush mail tech using ..... more »

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta Begins Today

posted by  bradspencer (11)  5 months ago (www.mtechxp.net)

WLM 9.0 is released on Connect and shhh...you can't talk about it...it is against the NDA... more »

Windows Live Messenger 9, Whats New

posted by  bradspencer (11)  5 months ago (www.rm249.net)

Today I got accepted into the new Windows Live Messenger 9 beta program, the new version of Windows Live Messenger includes some cool new features which include (From the Microsoft Connect website):.. more »

Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google

posted by  varson (7)  5 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

Andy Guess tips us to his article at Inside Higher Ed offering a detailed look at the snowballing trend of colleges outsourcing their email infrastructure, mostly to Google and Microsoft Live. Even outsourcing just email would presage big changes in the work that IT departments do on campus; but more such changes are on the horizon as schools .. more »

Turn Windows Into Vista!

posted by  ramunasurbonas (11)  5 months ago (digWin.com)

Pretty cool tips for the best skin out there, and the one we want, which is Vista! Its a cool way to make your XP look more like Vista! Thats why a lot of people out there, but Vista, they just like the look... more »

SQL Server 2008: INSERT over a DML statement

posted by  llyatumanov (16)  5 months ago (decipherinfosys.wordpress.com)

In this post, we are going to cover another T-SQL enhancement in SQL Server 2008. We will be using the same set of tables that we did in one of our previous blog post in which we had talked about the MERGE command in SQL Server 2008... more »

Microsoft Set To Check Windows Genuine Advantage's Anormalies

posted by  jembury (114)  5 months ago (technobash.blogspot.com)

Three months after a major failure of Microsoft's anticounterfeit system fingered legitimate Windows XP and Vista users as pirates, a senior project manager has spelled out the steps his team has taken to prevent a repeat. ..... more »

Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw

posted by  mvrok (14)  5 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

Hugh Pickens writes "Apple's QuickTime media player software contains a previously undocumented security weakness in the way QuickTime handles the RTSP media-streaming protocol. The vulnerability is present in QuickTime versions 4.0 through 7.3 (the latest version) on both Windows and Mac systems. Symantec has tested the publicly available exploit .. more »