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At Tech-Ed US I presented a session on Windows Mobile 6.1 and the enhancements within it provides.  I’ve had quite a few requests from customers wanting to get access to the deck so I’ve uploaded it to Slideshare and embedded it below.  | View | Upload your own

O2 have just released the upgrade for their XDA Stellar device to Windows Mobile 6.1! If you have this device you can get the upgrade from HERE

The Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack 1 was finally released. Brief DescriptionMicrosoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack 1 introduces new features and functionality to ISA Server 2006 Standard and Enterprise Editions. OverviewThe new features focus on configuration change management and enhanced troubleshooting designed to help you identify and resolve ISA Server configuration issues within the ISA Server Management con... [read more]

The August edition of TechNet Magazine is now available online or, if you prefer, you can download as an  HTML Help .chm file for offline reading. Since the main subject is SQL Server, there aren't very articles I would like to highlight, besides these very interesting field notes, written by R'ykandar Korra'ti: IMAP Saves the World.         Share it! :

Yesterday, we released SP1 for ISA Server 2006.  ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 introduces new features and functionality for both the Standard and Enterprise Editions. The new features focus on configuration change management and enhanced troubleshooting. SP1 includes the following new features and improvements: Configuration Change Tracking   Registers all configuration changes applied to ISA Server to help you assess issues that may occur as a result of these changes. Test But... [read more]

I just have to share this with you, as I was quite impressed by how quick I knocked this script up.  Basically I wanted to see how much email was queued up on my Exchange 2003 servers.  I had a feeling that a WMI object existed so I ran scriptomatic...(read more)

My brave (and crazy) friends Jane Lewis, and Beatrice Nicolini have taken on a massive challenge which will take place later this year.   She’s taking part in a charity bike ride in Madagascar for computer aid international – which aims to provide refurbished PC’s to schools across the developing world – a really worthy cause.  Several Premier Field Engineers from across Europe will go on a cycle ride for 5 days in the north east of the island. This ride builds on the success of C... [read more]

Now that ISA Server 2006 SP1 we don't need to worry about ISA Server 2006 not supporting our Exchange 2007 SAN/UC certificates anymore. Two years too late would some say... :) Read more on the ISA Server team blog here and download the actual ISA 2006 SP1 package here.. more...

Domainsforexchange.net are having a sale on standard SSL certificates. You can now get SSL certificates that are trusted by most Windows Mobile devices, as well as the mainstream browsers for US$24.99 a year, down to $22.99 for two years or more. For us here in the UK is less than £13! The sale is on until the end of July, but if you are still using a self generated certificate with the pop up warnings etc, then now is a good time to get yourself a trusted certificate. http://domainsforexchange... [read more]

Just found this on the EV blog ( https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=EV_team_blog&message.id=65#M65 ) Shame I can't get to the FTP link and give you more info. Once I do i will be back There are also Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Symantec...(read more)

This arrived in my inbox Event Name: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Storage Deep Dive (Level 300) Event ID: 1032379718 We have rescheduled this event for the following date: Date: 07/18/2008 Start Time: 08:00 AM Pacific End Time: 09:30...(read more)

Thanks to Ari for this nugget ;-) The following events are visible: Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7000 Description: The Microsoft Exchange Monitoring service failed to start due to the following error: The service...(read more)

Vodafone today released some research that showed that 1/3rd of UK Businesses expect a response to a new business inquiry via email within 2hrs.  Scarily 11% of businesses now expect a response within 30 minutes! The headline is ‘30 Minutes And Counting…The New Email Time-Bomb For UK Business’ Whilst I can’t question the evidence – I’m really not sure I have ever experienced that speedy a response from a business that I’ve inquired to via email. Normally if I inquire... [read more]

Well Deep Earth is damn impressive. and it uses Silverlight and Deep Zoom.  Very compelling stuff here.   Have a look at the video. Thanks to Bronwen for the link      Technorati Tags: Deep Zoom,Deep Earth,Silverlight,Bronwen Zande

As part of our monthly content refresh today, we released a new White Paper - Continuous Replication Deep Dive.  This comprehensive deep dive white paper includes technical details about the replication components, the replication service, log shipping and replay, scheduled and unscheduled outages, lost log resilience, transport dumpster, database re-seed scenarios and incremental reseed, log truncation, and more! You can read the White Paper at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc... [read more]

Our Mobile Device Manager team continues to excel itself releasing great documentation.  The Global deployment document gives guidance on how to implement Mobile Device Manager in a global environment. The document is available HERE

  A couple of my ex-colleagues are involved in the Dashwire solution which is a web service for connecting your Mobile with your PC and other services.  They have just launched v2.0 with has some great new features: Graphical phone experience featuring user avatar, status updates, and media gallery Mobile access to photos & videos located on your Dashwire web account  – even if the actual media files aren’t on your phone Photo uploads from your computer to your D... [read more]

I had the opportunity to go to the top of the BT Tower in London on Friday last week.   I took some photos of the view from the BT Tower – I was really lucky it was such a great day with a great weather! I then stitched the photos together using Windows Live Photo Gallery – check out the result above!

The MSExchangeTeam released three new documents about Exchange Server 2007, one of them explains how to monitor exchange Server 2007 without using SCOM, as follows: Ensuring that servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 are operating reliably is a key objective for daily messaging operations. Therefore, ensuring server reliability should be systematically approached based on the principles outlined in Microsoft Operations Framework. For more information about Microsoft Operations Framework... [read more]

I spotted this graph over on Daniel’s blog which was forwarded to him recently. Thanks for the link Daniel…   Technorati Tags: Hyper-V

So you've heard some folks saying large mailboxes are a good idea. Your users have been screaming for mailboxes with more than 1GB quotas. Your management wants you to be able to recover from outages in minutes, not days. Everyone is telling you to do more with less. Well, with Exchange 2007 you can have your cake and eat it too (so long as you plan for it). Have a look at the rules of the game in the new Planning for Large Mailboxes with Exchange 2007 white paper. This white paper covers the be... [read more]

Performance analysis and troubleshooting can be a very complex and daunting area with Exchange Server. Being able to quickly and accurately identify and resolve issues requires a thorough understanding of the most interesting and important performance counters. With the July content refresh we've just released new content detailing these counters and many of the important thresholds to be aware of. The content is broken out by counters that are common across Exchange roles and counters that are ... [read more]

Many of you have been wondering how continuous replication works in Exchange 2007.  The Continuous Replication Deep Dive whitepaper discusses how log shipping, log inspection, and log replay work within Exchange 2007.  In addition, the paper discusses the mechanics of how scheduled and unscheduled outages are handled in a continuous replication enabled environment.  A big thanks goes to Scott Schnoll, Becky Benfield, Ramon Infante, and Alex Wetmore for helping me put this paper to... [read more]

Owners Circle is now Total Access – a new name, a new look, and even more exclusive content, offers, and extras. You can sign up and get more details HERE

Damm is that a month already :-| It's all downhill now .. only 176 days until Christmas! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in June 2008 Microsoft...(read more)