THE BI Blog : Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI: "Here’s a collection of some cool Microsoft BI Demos that I use regularly to showcase aspects of the Microsoft BI stack and show interesting examples of what insight to information can actually accomplish".. more »

Download details: The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2): "The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)".. more »

Collates appointments from individuals into a group calendar either with or without Exchange Server. With Exchange, you can use a public folder as the group calendar and it will update automatically. Synchronizes automatically when connected to the network. Data is stored in Microsoft Access and can be accessed by other applications. For Exchange .. more »

I had a support call on this the other day and realized that there really isn’t a good blog post on it so I decided I might as well go ahead and correct that situation now. You may run into an issue where the console just randomly crashes, or it crashes and generates either a 0000C800 or 0000C81D error code. There are a couple different .. more »

This blog presents the algorithm for IP affinity load balancing farm publishing in ISA. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  Background ISA Server supports 2 options for load balancing farm web publishing. The first method is session based (aka cookie based), the second method is based on .. more »

Before we go through this specific scenario it is important to remember some good references on how to troubleshoot issues related to change password feature on ISA Server: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  1.       .. more »

I opened a ticket w/ Microsoft asking why OCS R2 Tabs no longer work dynamically and here is their answer I received in bold. Basically The RTC Team reassigned the purpose of ContactID and removed the OnSelectionChange Function. So there are no more dymanic tabs in which you can send the contact SIP URI to a webpage and update your tab - now there .. more »

Coming soon to a roll up near you is a set of changes to the way that Exchange Server handles x-headers and named properties, specifically named properties that represent x-headers. This represents a change in behavior that has been this way for nearly a decade, so it bears explanation of the old way, the new way, and how it will impact (or not) .. more »

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In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be adaptable and cost effective, Microsoft Exchange Server 14 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business .. more »

OutlookAttachView scans all messages stored in Outlook and displays a list of all attached files that it finds. You can select one or more attachments and save all of them into the desired folder, as well delete unwanted attachments. You can also save the list of attachments into xml/html/text/csv file. Version 1.05... more »

How to verify a standby continuous replication copy... more »

This week I got a really interesting collaboration call from Michael Hunter from Directory Services Team where customer was having problem to access a HTTPS site published through ISA Server 2006 using a certificate issued by an internal CA. In summary the access to the HTTPS web site published   .. more »

Create project plans in Excel and sync with Microsoft Project, Outlook Tasks, Calendar and Email. Create and Print Gantt Charts directly from Excel – Microsoft Project NOT required. Compatible with Microsoft SharePoint... more »

We've put together a new video, sharing some of the cool new stuff you can expect to see with the next version of Exchange, code-named Exchange 14. Please take a few minutes to go watch it because, hey, we put a lot of work into it and it's no fun if you just skip the video and read only the text! One of the biggest features we're announcing .. more »

Creating personalized pages and visible comments on users' folders to improve end-users Outlook experience... more »

Although otherwise very readable publications/sites, some tech media outlets increasingly come up with news that really isn't news, and certainly not worthy of publication. For instance, this item in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. more »

PSTViewer is an easy-to-use viewer for accessing the contents of Microsoft Outlook .PST and .OST files... more »

Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Sebastian Gernert, one of our hard working App-V Support Engineers across the pond in the glorious land of Germany.  This one is about an issue you may run into when Microsoft Word is virtualized and you try to open a DOC or DOCX file from a SharePoint site: ==== Issue: When you have .. more »

Permessa Email Control! Express provides dozens of customizable reports for Exchange email tracking, service level management, capacity planning and more. These reports help you identify what is happening within your Microsoft Exchange environment and beyond so you can detect and respond to delivery issues and network bottlenecks before they impact .. more »