Marcus Hass' [MS] Blog
Interesting tidbits about Microsoft Office 365 and other products. Occasional rants about travel, gaming and gadgets.
Renaming a UPN to another federated domain
During an ongoing Office 365 deployment, we identified an issue with Office 365 customers not being...
Date: 06/27/2011
Office 365 Due Diligence and Beyond
With Office 365’s imminent release, I have moved out of services after 11 years to be part of the...
Date: 06/22/2011
Exchange 2010 puts TargetAddress in ProxyAddresses?!
MMT is the BPOS-D migration tool and it uses Exchange 2010’s built in move service called MRS...
Date: 07/28/2010
Autodiscover using TargetAddress
I ran into a pretty unique problem this week migrating to Exchange 2010, but as it becomes more...
Date: 06/16/2010
I’m back, just have my head in the clouds
Over the last year, I have shifted my focus to “The Cloud”. It started in January 2009 when I...
Date: 06/02/2010
Microsoft Online and SBS 2003
I have been working with the Microsoft BPOS aka Microsoft Online guys in Enterprise accounts for a...
Date: 06/02/2009
Windows XP/XPe and Remote Desktop Services Single Sign On
This week I was working with a retail customer that has plans to place HP Windows XP Embedded...
Date: 04/16/2009
New Role for Mhass
So I finally rolled off my last gig, which had occupied me for the last 18 months. In the last...
Date: 04/22/2008
Automated install of Outlook Conferencing Addins
My customer (Mike Vrabel) and I got completely frustrated today in trying to find a way to deploy...
Date: 02/13/2008
Sony is brilliant, PS3 may surpass Xbox 360 in the future
The reason has nothing to do with games. Pretty much, all games are available on all platforms. The...
Date: 02/04/2008
CES: Tuesday
I got a chance to walk through most of the show today, my frackin' feet still hurt and my shoes have...
Date: 01/09/2008
HD-DVD going the way of Beta Max?
It is starting to feel like HD-DVD has lost. With Transformers only available on HD-DVD, I thought...
Date: 01/08/2008
CES: Monday Afternoon
So, I am here at CES 2008, I got a last minute push to come out for some meetings. I don't plan on...
Date: 01/07/2008
Using Facebook for socializing at work
I have been reluctant to jump on MySpace, Twitter, etc because it seemed to be so personal focused....
Date: 10/08/2007
SharePoint 3.0 WSP Deployment Scripts
I have been working with a customer over the last few weeks to come up with a mechanism that their...
Date: 08/20/2007
Transformers, go see it!
The red and blue cab of an 18 wheeler rolls into the center of the dark alley with led's and lights...
Date: 07/05/2007
ATT Internet problems, too many iPhones?
My customer just contacted ATT because their on-call phone hasn't been picking up email today via...
Date: 07/02/2007
iPhone and ActiveSync, a security concern
A couple days ago, Mary Jo speculated that Apple has licensed Microsoft's Active Sync technology...
Date: 06/29/2007
Inside WSS 3.0
In a really weird coincidence today, I ran into a great book about WSS 3.0. I have been busy hacking...
Date: 06/21/2007
Wil Wheaton and the butterfly tree
I was just going through my feeds, and always save Wil Wheaton and Mark Cuban's blogs for last. Mark...
Date: 05/01/2007
Comment changes, what happened to Intertubbers this week?
So, i had to start approving comments today. I had always allowed annonymous, open comments, but...
Date: 04/02/2007
Five things you don’t know about mhass
I know, I know, it’s been all the rage lately, and I kinda find it entertaining and cool to find out...
Date: 01/02/2007
Are you in the TIVO Generation?
You may be asking yourself, what is the TIVO generation? Details below. (In your best Jeff Foxworthy...
Date: 12/07/2006
Vista RTM + 1 week
If you have read some of my previous posts around Vista, you know that it was one of few Microsoft...
Date: 11/20/2006
Scary day in Philadelphia
I am here in Philadelphia this week working with Comcast in their towers right across from City...
Date: 09/21/2006
John Mayer needs RSS/ATOM
My wife and I went to the John Mayer and Sheryl Crow concert Monday night at Red Rocks near Denver....
Date: 09/19/2006
My Xbox is blabbing about me
I made a change to my blog site that now shows my Xbox Live Gamer Card instead of that goofy picture...
Date: 09/11/2006
NikePlus, Zune better be a platform!
There are two reasons why you will have to pry my iPod Nano out of my warm clutching hands (I am not...
Date: 09/11/2006
Seriously scary Blackberry
For years, competitors to Blackberry have been pointing out the inherent security flaws with RIM’s...
Date: 08/21/2006
Exchange 12 Stuff that I liked
I got a sneak preview of the Exchange 12 at TechReady and got excited about a few things. Since most...
Date: 08/08/2006
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 cool things
I have been doing weird, wacky things with SharePoint for the last two years to help customers use...
Date: 07/30/2006
Cool things coming to an Infrastructure near you
So, I have been at Microsoft Techready3 this week in downtown Seattle. This is an internal Microsoft...
Date: 07/30/2006
iPod vs the alleged Argo
First off, I have no inside knowledge of the alleged Argo device. But from what people are saying,...
Date: 07/20/2006
Why I need Office 2007
I am back to running XP because Vista 5456 just didn’t like my wireless device in my laptop and kept...
Date: 07/13/2006
Outgoing Caller ID not supported on Vonage!!
So, I finally got rid of Qwest at my house, not even the line is hooked up to anything. I switched...
Date: 05/01/2006