The Electric Wand
Weekly tips from the "Tip o' the Week" email distribution inside of Microsoft.
Tips for using Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Like many people who demo software technologies or who need to perform testing on multi-machine...
Author: EwanD Date: 12/11/2007
Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant
Here's a quick & dirty tool I put together for Outlook to be able to update all the phone...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/30/2007
Exchange 2007 SP1 signed off
The Exchange team gave the green light to build 240.06 of SP1 yesterday! The download will be...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/29/2007
Fun and games with identity (and keeping it safe)
I was going to title this post, "the Wizard of Id" but decided against it. It hasn't been a great...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/26/2007
NASA's new server - with 4Tb of RAM and 2048 CPU cores
Wow. George Ou from ZDNet wrote yesterday about NASA's new supercomputer, the most powerful single...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/16/2007
Zune software and firmware upgrade now live
Just noticed that www.zune.net has the latest Zune software for the PC and corresponding device...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/13/2007
Gartner's wisdom and the IO models
Over the years, Microsoft and Gartner Inc (neé Gartner Group) have had an interesting relationship:...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/12/2007
Careful what names you give to Outlook Contacts when using UM!
This is a follow up to Friday's post about what happens if you have Exchange Unified Messaging set...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/05/2007
I learned a cool thing about Exchange UM today
I've seen this behaviour in practice before, but I don't think it really clicked with me until Neil...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/02/2007
Voicemail sizes on Exchange 2007
A question we get asked a lot is regarding the sizing of voice mail messages in Exchange 2007. If...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/01/2007
Holy smoke, it's an explosive demo
I've spent the last couple of days in London helping out with the first Exchange Unplugged 2007...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/25/2007
Geek T-shirt cool - or not
I always like reading Jason's blog, and had to laugh the other day when he posted a great picture of...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/19/2007
Microsoft launches "Online" hosted services
In an attempt to clarify the whole online software branding, with "Live" being consumer oriented and...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/17/2007
Windows Home Server - would you have it in your home?
I just read an interesting article from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on ZDNet about Windows Home Server,...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/15/2007
Gibson Guitars "Riffs on OCS" (boom, boom)
Information Week reported that Gibson, makers of the iconic Les Paul guitar (as used by just about...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/08/2007
Custom presence states in Communicator, reprise
A quick follow on to my post the other day about having custom presence states in Office...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/03/2007
Custom presence states in Office Communicator
I just discovered how to modify presence states in Office Communicator 2007: it's documented in the...
Author: EwanD Date: 09/27/2007
The business case for Exchange 2007 - part IV
Another installment in a series of posts outlining the case for going to Exchange 2007. Previous...
Author: EwanD Date: 09/24/2007
Identity & presence: the key to anyone's Unified Communications strategy
I spend a lot of time talking with customers about what Microsoft is doing with various new...
Author: EwanD Date: 09/07/2007
The process of testing Halo3
I came across a fascinating article on Wired which looks into some of the processes that Bungie, the...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/22/2007
Playing with Roundtable prototype
I've been looking forward to Roundtable coming out... it's a very interesting type of hybrid between...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/21/2007
The business case for Exchange 2007 - part III
This is a continuation of an occasional series of articles about how specific capabilities of...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/17/2007
Sometimes, you know you didn't pay enough
... (and sometimes you probably suspect you paid too much) A common trait in western cultures is the...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/15/2007
Keep the Item count in your mailbox low!
I've been doing a little digging today, following a query from a partner company who're helping out...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/09/2007
Laptop melts, for once it wasn't the battery
Here's a funny - it happened a while back, but I was sent a link to this story today. The author...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/07/2007
OCS2007 trial edition now available
If you want to get your hands on trial software for the recently-released Office Communications...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/06/2007
Plain text, RTF or HTML mail?
Here's an interesting question that I was asked earlier today; I can't offer a definitive answer,...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/02/2007
Living the dream with Office Communicator 2007
I've been a long-time fan of instant messaging and pervasive "presence", especially the cultural...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/25/2007
The business case for Exchange 2007 - part II
(This is a follow on to the previous post on measuring business impact, and the first post on the...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/23/2007
Lelouch's "C'etait un Rendezvous" gets mashed
Someone has taken the petrol-heads' classic film, a 9-minute dash through early morning Paris known...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/20/2007
BBC iPlayer kicks up a stink
It's been interesting reading various news articles about the fact that the soon-to-be-released BBC...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/12/2007
Exchange mailbox quotas and a 'paradox of thrift'
The study of economics throws up some fantastic names for concepts or economic models, some of which...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/10/2007
How to handle URLs with spaces in Outlook, Word etc
I was talking to a customer earlier today who was envisioning frustrations around using...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/03/2007
The business case for Exchange 2007
(this is a follow on to the previous post on measuring business impact, and are my own thoughts on...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/29/2007
Technology changes during the Blair era
So Tony Blair stepped down as the UK's Prime Minister this week, just over 10 years since his...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/27/2007
The Campaign for Real Pedantry, erm, I mean numbers
Hats off to James O'Neill for a display of true, world-class pedantry to which I could only aspire....
Author: EwanD Date: 06/27/2007
Outlook 2007 signatures location
Following my post about .sig files, I had cause to dig around looking for where Outlook actually...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/25/2007
"Success kills" - Marc Andreessen on Facebook
Like so many other people in the last few weeks, I started using Facebook. They're growing at such a...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/23/2007
Measuring business impact
I'm going to approach this topic over a number of posts, as something I've been thinking about...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/22/2007
Graeme Obree: The Flying Scotsman
I went to see a really interesting film tonight, a preview of The Flying Scotsman, a film about the...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/19/2007
Picture association - a new variant of word association
I've seen this crop up a couple of times on web discussion forums - basically a game kicks off where...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/12/2007