It is pretty much impossible right now to not see the news and get a little depressed. While Microsoft is a healthy company and work life has been good here, all is not rosy in the economy in general. I now feel like a pauper when I travel to Europe as...

OK, this may be old news to many of you out there, but the Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit just shipped. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but you can be sure I will. I hope to receive a free copy of it at an internal event next...

There are several golden rules that I have learned over the last week while spending some time PInvoking Win32 functions from C#. 1) The content at PInvoke.net can often not be trusted. 2) The overwhelming precentage of articles on the net explaining...

I have noticed through working both at Microsoft and in other places a tendency for the two following practices to occur. At first, it would seem they contradict each other but in truth I very often see them together. 1) The product is made to fit...

Today I will venture outside the safe confines of Office Communications Server and discuss some quirks I have noticed with Windows services. ( Disclaimer: I am not in the Windows org so these are just my observations after some experimentation) Some of...

There are some product architectures created here at Microsoft that I am marvelled at with their simplicity, ease of use, and power. Unfortunately, I do not find WMI to be one of those architectures. With hope, some day we will have a sane replacement...

Working at Microsoft is really interesting in that I often see my work being used throughout the world. It was nice seeing the press about the Unified Communications launch, knowing that I helped participate. Executives here like to mention that we are...

Several days ago I mentioned that I will be splitting my blogs so that I can focus directly on Microsoft related discussions here and photography on a different blog. This weekend I have finally started this effort and you can now find my new blog on...

In yesterday's post, I discussed how knowledge of where the WMI provider retrieves its data is important when querying it. Today I thought I would provide a list of the WMI classes and where the data comes from for each. If you perform a lot of WMI querying...

As many of you are likely aware, Office Communications Server (and previous versions) make use of WMI for storing various pieces of data. You can find details of the WMI classes that currently ship with OCS 2007 here . While this gives helpful information...

OK, so one of my new year's resolutions has been to finally keep this blog going. I thought I would start with a quick status blog and explain what I have in store for the near future. As much as I would love to blog about the cool new feature I am...