May 2010

fifa, Football, 2010, world cup, productivity, email and more

by Nicolas Blank 31 May 2010 News

  What a buzz…. 10 days left before the start of one of the largest copyrighted events in the world, and it’s a great time to be living in Cape Town and to be in South Africa as an IT Professional. I remember where I was during the last world cup – in the middle [...]

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Tagged as: comentary, eskom, fifa, football, telkom, totally unrelated to IT

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ITPRO Africa Cape Town Event – 10 June 2010

by Nicolas Blank 29 May 2010 Exchange

We’re having our next free Cape Town based event. This time round we’ll have a particular focus on OCS integration and Windows 7. What can OCS integrate with, well darn near anything. To prove the point Uwin’s going to demonstrate integration from two extreme’s – Asterisk and Exchange 2010. One you would to be totally [...]

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Tagged as: Asterisk, Cape Town, events, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Free, Linux, Microsoft, News, OCS, Open Source, UC, UM, Windows 7

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Exchange 2010 Cost saving Calculator

by Martin Coetzer 27 May 2010 Exchange

  An Exchange 2010 upgrade really could save you money. I see this all the time in the implementations I do.There are lots of potential places where you can cut capital and operational costs of running a messaging system by upgrading to Exchange 2010 without sacrificing functionality, performance or availability.In fact, if you do it [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange, Exchange 2010, Microsoft

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Interesting new product from Seagate

by Peter Johnson 24 May 2010 Desktop

This just appeared in my Inbox and appears to be quite compelling:  It’s a new HDD from Seagate that combines an SSD with a traditional spinning HDD platter.  The drive combines the speed of SSD with the lower cost of traditional drives by monitoring usage and automatically moving the most used data to the SSD. [...]

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Tagged as: itpro, UC

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Useful browser security check link

by Peter Johnson 24 May 2010 Desktop

In my day to day operations and learning process I came across the following useful link from the team at Mozilla i.e. the Firefox people:   http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/   This link checks on all of the browser plugins installed on you machine and informs you whether or not they are up to date.   It works [...]

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Tagged as: Security, UM

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May Q&A with the SharePoint MVP Experts Chat

by Nicolas Blank 21 May 2010 Sharepoint

Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums. By [...]

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Tagged as: facebook, Sharepoint, Upcoming Events

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New Security Advisory from Microsoft

by Peter Johnson 19 May 2010 Anouncements

Hi to the IT PRO Africa Audience. Microsoft have released a new security advisory (2028859) which is references a vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution. It affects Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Here’s the link to the advisory on the Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2028859.mspx Here’s a blog entry [...]

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Tagged as: Microsoft, Security, Windows 7

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Useful Powershell and WMI Tip

by Peter Johnson 18 May 2010 Documentation

During my day to day operations, currently doing a documentation exercise, I came across the following rather useful tip to recover the UUID of a server from within Windows using Powershell either locally or on a remote server. The UUID is a 32 bit number for the server that is guaranteed to be unique across [...]

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Tagged as: UC, UM

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Virtualization

by Uwin Young 18 May 2010 News

In a post on Microsoft’s Office Communications Server blog, Jerome Berniere, senior program manager in the Office Communications group, said the company would support both a fully distributed virtualized topology across several hypervisors and a single server virtualized topology. The topologies are supported on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and any Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) [...]

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Tagged as: download, Microsoft, SQL

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FEEDBACK WANTED

by Nicolas Blank 17 May 2010 Feedback

I know it’s radical, but we’d like some feedback on how were doing. ITPRO’s generally have a reputation for not sharing, not responding and not communicating.  I’d like to a) break the mould, b) prove the perception wrong. With that in mind I’ve posted the same question on our Facebook page under discussions, so please [...]

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Tagged as: discussion, facebook, Feedback wanted, itpro

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