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Go to VirtualizationFeed.com and get the latest on virtualisation in Microsoft and in the wider world. Also worth keeping track of what’s happening in the #virtualization community on Twitter at the same place . Read More...
To my fellow bloggers..
Quick list of the blog articles that have helped me and might help you…   10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider How to Write With Confidence   7 Read More...
Friday Dilbert
You gotta laugh… Read More...
I used to do it this way…
Just found some useful stuff on a colleagues blog - Gerod Serafin ; a field engineer in the US. It’s a series of blogs showing the difference in administering Exchange Server 2007 from Exchange Server 2003… Part 1 - I used to do it this way… Now how do Read More...
Software plus Services Guide & Business Advisor Podcast
Not something I would normally blog about but will be interesting to any of our partners who operate in this space. Guide to Opportunity: Software-plus-Services https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/productssolutions/40099765 This 16-page guide explains how Read More...
Offline defrag a replica database…
Let’s leave the “ why would you? ” to one side for the moment but is it actually possible or supported to defrag a continuous replication target database?  Well not surprisingly er ‘No’.  An offline defrag creates a new database with a new signature Read More...
You’ve just installed your 901st Exchange Server..
..and ExBPA warns you to consider consolidating servers..?  “ There are more than 900 Exchange servers in your Exchange organization ” ..because you’re nearing the default MaxPageSize limit of 1,000 that’ll be returned by an LDAP query. Wonder if Read More...
PST’s not supported on the LAN…?
This is a new one on me - ‘ Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link ’. “The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment. (!?!) The article also suggests Read More...
Corrupted OOF?
This is an interested blog from a Microsoft escalation engineer – Eric Norberg posted on his Technet blog : How to Remove an Invisible or Corrupted "Out of Facility" message with MFCMAPI If you suspect you might have a problem with a corrupted Read More...
MSUKUCC lives…
The Microsoft UK UC Blog is now alive and kicking after a slow start…  The blog will have contributions from various parts of the Unified Communications teams across Microsoft – so that’s support, field engineering, consultancy and pre-sales… …couple Read More...
Technet UK on Twitter
Excerpt from the latest Technet Newsletter … “Finally, I'd like to announce the launch of our ASKTechNetUK Twitter. If you want to ask a question about TechNet or Microsoft, or just fancy a general chin wag with us, then ask us at ASKTechNetUK . We'll Read More...
Windows 7
Recently installed Windows 7 and really liking it so far…  Not a single issue with it over the last 2 weeks which is a bonus to start with.  Here are a few bits that I like… I’ve had a widescreen laptop for a long time and every once in a while Read More...
Active Directory Recycle Bin
This is worth a look on Edge : Active Directory Recycle Bin “The new Recycle Bin functionality in Server 2008 R2 is really cool - you can actually undelete objects, and all their attributes are restored as if the object never went away - no requirement Read More...
£££ Time to have a word with the boss… again £££
Tech Workers Get a Raise “The average information-technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6% increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which surveyed close to 20,000 of its visitors” Read More...
Is my blog in the wrong place…?
When I started this blog at the end of 2006 I chose to stick it on MSDN mainly because the set of instructions for setting a new blog up on MSDN was the only ones I could find.  Let’s be honest it can’t have been that difficult to translate the instructions Read More...
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