January 2011

Exchange 2010, Outlook 2003 UDP notifications are back

by Nicolas Blank 29 January 2011 Anouncements

Exchange 2010 has been criticised for appearing to be slow for Outlook 2003 clients, that’s another way of saying that customers didn’t rush out and update Outlook to the latest versions as they became available. Outlook 2003 users would complain that messages would only appear on a minute boundary, and generally they hand held derives [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange 2010, Outlook, Outlook 2003, SP1 RU1

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Exchange 2010 SP1: The Troubleshooters has been released

by Mahmoud Magdy 19 January 2011 Exchange

Today, Exchange PG team announced on msexchangeteam.com as set of troubleshooting scripts that will help you aiding common errors in your Exchange organization, the set of scripts include: Content Index Troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-CI.ps1) Database Latency Troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-DatabaseLatancy.ps1) Database Disk Space troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1)grab your version and read more here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2011/01/18/457713.aspx Share this post:

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My list of Exchange 2010 Migration Considerations and Prerequisites

by Nina Nortje 17 January 2011 Active Directory

There are many considerations and prerequisites to keep in mind for a successful implementation, and many customers do not want a “Big Bang” approach to moving to Exchange 2010. So, I thought somewhat apprehensively – for my very first ever blog in my 16 years of working as an IT professional – I would put a little list [...]

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Tagged as: Active Directory, CAS, Certificates, download, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, IIS, internet, Microsoft, Security, SP1, UC, UM

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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express

by Nicolas Blank 17 January 2011 Anouncements

A “lighter” version of IIS 7.5 has been made available for download and install for non server machines. Quoting from the Download page:   IIS 7.5 Express is a simple and self-contained version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developers.   IIS 7.5 Express enhances your ability to develop and test web applications on [...]

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Tagged as: Express, IIS, IIS 7.5

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Win 7 SP1 out soon

by Robby Pedrica 13 January 2011 Security

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 should be available soon and won’t have much new functionality, but will have the usual hot fixes and patches. 3 items that will make an appearance are: Advanced Vector Extensions ( AVX ) which will be available in forthcoming processors RemoteFX – an extension to RDP Dynamic Memory – intelligent [...]

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Tagged as: Security, Windows 7

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Microsoft Touch Mouse

by Nicolas Blank 13 January 2011 Hardware

The Microsoft Touch Mouse, honestly I was amazed when I saw this on a PC platform. A lot of the gestures make sense and all I can say is that I’d like one please! Checkout the video to see for yourself. Share this post:

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Tagged as: Microsoft hardware, Microsoft Mouse

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PHP Manager for IIS 7

by Nicolas Blank 13 January 2011 IIS

No you didn’t read wrong, the title is correct – PHP manager will work with IIS 7 and 7.5 The official IIS site now features a very cool download allowing you to:   Register PHP with IIS; Validate and properly configure existing PHP installations; Run multiple PHP versions side by side on the same server [...]

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Tagged as: IIS, Interop, PHP

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Security Policies in the organisation

by Robby Pedrica 12 January 2011 Documentation

Most organisations of a reasonable size, will today have at least some policies which integrate with HR to govern Internet and computer use within the company. However, the ability of these limited documents ( and sometimes procedures ) to protect the company is often minimal. With the extent to which malicious vectors are able to [...]

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Tagged as: internet, Security

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10 Best Things Microsoft Did in 2010

by Nicolas Blank 12 January 2011 Feedback

According to Redmond Magazine who released an article by the same name here. A few surprises – Exchange 2010 and Office 2010 aren’t on the list – but then they were released in 2009. Things that aren’t surprises are the number 1 and the things that aren’t number one – but don’t let me spoil [...]

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Tagged as: General News, Last year in review, top 10

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Exchange 2010 goodies–shapes and guides

by Nicolas Blank 12 January 2011 Documentation

In case you missed them, two nice pieces of download made themselves available last year – Exchange 2010 SP1 Visio Shapes Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Exchange 2010 SP1 Share this post:

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Tagged as: Exchange 2010, Infrastructure Planning and Design, itpro, Visio

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