My dev lead Jim has a nice history of OWA on the Exchange blog. He talks a bit about the early versions of OWA and describes how XMLHTTP came into being for the Exchange 2000 release and how it came to be installed with IE. Neat little piece of internet...

I noticed today as I was trying to work out why I was unable to log in to my work blog, that this day two years ago was when I made my first blog entry. After one year I made an entry about what I thought of the blogging phenomenon after a year of trying...

There are a couple new TechNet articles on customizing Outlook Web Access. These are two months old now, but given that I haven't posted in some four months, I'll consider them "new". In any case, they deal with creating custom UI themes and changing...

My former intern Albert has finished his metronome project that uses DirectSound and talks about some of the issues he hit on his MSN Space -- The Groove Yard . It Works! Creating streaming, live audio is sorta easy! This opens the doors for all kinds...

Hey Omar, regarding this entry ... Your comments are closed so I thought I'd let the trackback do the talking. I just wanted to say I have been bitten by this kind of thing before as well. This would work too. get { return DateUtc.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd...

I think thinking about incorporating forums into my pickup sports sites - InfiniteHoops.com and InfiniteSoccer.com - and although I am tempted to write my own forum code, the fact is I have so little time and this is something I think there are several...

The Code Project has a project by Pedro Maia Costa based on an HTC we put out for a Web Team Talking article a couple years ago. NIce job, Pedro. For me one of the great benefits of writing on the web in a developer community like blogs.msdn.com is that...

Here's a little CSS quiz that I found courtesy of the CSS weblog (yes, there is such a thing). I got a 19 out of 20. Apparently I messed up the index of the left and right padding values. No doubt the result of years and years of writing symmetric web...

Since the US beta launch of MSN Spaces, I made up my mind to focus more random interests posts to my space and leave this one for posts focusing on Outlook Web Access, .NET or general programming. More eclectic posts like those on best Seattle mochas...

Monday I received an e-mail from James Buchanan asking what is the query-string parameter to bring up a monthly calendar view in Outlook Web Access. Actually, I am starting to get a lot of emails from people asking about this or that, which is great and...

As you know OWA's UI or display language is determined by the Accept-Language HTTP header sent up by the browser on each request. This is controlled by a value set in Tools / Options / Languages... Now there are times when an OWA administrator might wish...

The Exchange Content Engineering team (including a couple of characters I've been known to hit the espresso stand with) along with various other folks have released a revamped Exchange TechCenter on microsoft.com as a portal for finding technical information...

So, today the sphere is all a buzz with the US launch of MSN Spaces. I am psyched that the Japanese beta of Spaces I had associated with my Passport automatically converted to English with the launch. Now I can read and customize it. I guess Scoble will...

This is from January, but it's making the rounds again. Here's a listing of .NET Framework equivalents of the Win32 API. Highly useful to some. Historically interesting as well. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet...

"Publisher: 'Blog' No. 1 word of the year" No kidding. The word has entered mainstream consciousness like never before. No doubt Howard Dean was the impetus. People have been waiting for weblogging to reach a critical mass and perhaps after this election...

Here's an interesting modular robot made up of individual cells that combine into basically arbitrary and distinctly molecular-looking shapes, except you know -- each cell is about the size of a softball. via New Scientist: A shape-shifting robot comprised...

Ah yeah, no Tivo with IR blaster for me. Comcast is finally offering a DVR based on MS technology (this one, I believe http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/ ) and we're getting it Saturday. Sweet. Yes, my wife is already sad to know there will soon be a...

I received this nice e-mail asking about creating rules on more message properties than we support today in OWA 2003. Since Exchange has been around a long time and I've only been part of the team for one release, I thought I'd share when I learn something...

I've recently subscribed to Jason Calacanis' weblog and was just looking over some of his recent posts. He mentions that the feeds on his WeblogsInc.com family of sites are now including ads . He also mentions that Yahoo will launch Overture ads in RSS...

Apparently, I'm a GNE. What are you? http://undergroundlondon.com/social/index.html

I have really fallen off blogging lately. I think I'll probably be migrating to my own server and cross-posting technical pieces here in the near future if I can find time to put some kind of UI together. Unfortunately I haven't found the time to do things...

I've just finished reading Writing Solid Code , which it seems everybody at Microsoft has and recommends. I think one of my past dev leads bought each of us on the team a copy. The odd thing is that it's having immediate effect. Maybe that's not odd,...

One of the sites I run on my home web server is my baby photoblog for my friends and relatives. I built it during the fantastic paternal leave Microsoft gives its employees (one month off at full pay!), and I am still actually really into it. I recently...

K and I signed up for AT&T CallVantage voice over IP at our place and last week the D-Link DVG-1120M telephone adapter (TA) arrived. I spent some of the weekend integrating the thing into my home network. I run a Linksys wireless access point / router...

Consider the following HTML: IE displays the background color of the second column blue, but Firefox does not. My question for you CSS pros out there is: Is the background-color style not supported on COL elements? (or is there something I can do to make...