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Friday, September 28, 2007 9:54 AM

NZ DST Changes this weekend!

Hi All, In April 2007 the New Zealand Government announced an update to the Time Act of 1974. This update changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, daylight savings time will start
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:59 AM

NZ Daylight Savings change: Impact to Citrix customers

Hi All, The following information was supplied by Andrew McPherson on the 24th of September 2007 by Citrix. New Zealand has announced a 3 week extension to the daylight saving period from September 2007. Daylight saving now commences on the last Sunday
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:12 PM

NZDST - Issue after installing KB933819 on Sharepoint with PSConfigui.exe

Hi All, Here's a recent support case on Sharepoint that maybe useful to you. ISSUE: ==================== After installing a hot fix 933819 customer is running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration wizard (PSConfigui.exe) wizard to upgrade
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:35 AM

New Zealand time zone differs between Windows Vista and down-level Windows OSes

Introduction Windows encodes the time zone transition dates on a yearly basis yielding the following rules for years 2006, 2007, and 2008: DST End DST Start 2006 Third Sunday in March First Sunday in October 2007 Third Sunday in March Last Sunday in September
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:38 AM

NZDST - Outlook 2007 popup creating confusion

Hi All, We have had a few queries from customers that are using Outlook 2007 and they receive a pop up requesting to rebase their calendar events.This prompt is coming from Outlook 2007. We have disabled this for Outlook 2007 SP1 because it causes more
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:57 PM

The latest version of the NZ DST Guidance Document (version 1.4) is now available

Hi All, I have updated the guidance document and this is now available for download in XPS and PDF formats. Updates include: Updating information on the Exchange Rebasing tool Providing reference material on TzMove and Exchange rebasing tools Adding links
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:30 AM

Updated Instructional Videos for Time Zone updates

Hi there, there are lot of new instructional videos that the product groups have produced. If you using any of the rebasing tools then I would recommend that you watch these. I have also attached the link to the now released exchange tool. Brad Exchange
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Monday, September 17, 2007 11:57 AM

How to correct time differences in Groove Virtual Office 3.x and Groove 2007

This article contains information about how to correct time differences in Groove tools that are caused by the extended daylight saving time (DST) periods starting in March 2007. This issue most significantly affects the Calendar tool and the Meeting
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Friday, September 14, 2007 9:38 PM

How to address daylight saving time in Exchange Server by using the Exchange Calendar Update Tool

Hi All, Steve Justice, Escalation Engineer from our Microsoft Exchange Support Team provides a walkthrough of using the Exchange Calendar Update Tool to update misplaced items in a calendars in an Exchange environment. For more information about the Exchange
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Friday, September 14, 2007 4:09 PM

How to update Commerce Server 2007 and Commerce Server 2002 for daylight saving time in 2007

Hi All, As noted at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_prodlist#CMS1 , Commerce Server has reviewed and updated their current guidance in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932395 , “How to update Commerce Server 2007 and Commerce Server 2002 for daylight
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:11 PM

Tzmove and /forcerebasesuppressallupdates

Hi All, We have had a few questions about Tzmove and using the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates switch. We do not recommend that customers use the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates switch with tzmove because ALL appointments in a users Calendar are updated
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:08 PM

NZDST - Updates for Entourage

Hi All, The Entourage product group has noted that the download http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/Office2004/Office2004_1137.xml&secid=4&ssid=37&flgnosysreq=True (Microsoft Office 2004 for
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:09 PM

What version of TZMove are you using?

Hi All, There was new version of tzmove.exe published to the web on the 30th of August. We highly recommend customers use this version and remove earlier versions. The knowledge base article that references this new version was update on the 5th of September
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:36 PM

Automation of rolling out NZ DST Patch for Windows 2000

Hi All, After receiving a few queries about our automation information in the Guidance document (Section 10) - and some issues with the formatting in the PDF file, I have placed the registry file and automation script on a site for you to download. 914387_reg_export.txt
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:18 PM

NZ DST and Windows XP Embedded (XPe)

Hi All, We are starting to have a number of queries about Windows XP Embedded (XPe), particular referencing thin client devices for connecting to Citrix and those being utilised in point of sale (POS) systems. Since Windows embedded is Windows XP, the
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Monday, September 10, 2007 12:38 PM

Handling NZ DST changes with the I-mate Jam & Dell Axim X50 Devices

Hi All, There are customers who not running Windows Mobile 5 & 6 and therefore the upcoming DST change presents a challenge for them. We received this great information from Tony in Wellington who has used our registry editor for CE and created a
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Monday, September 10, 2007 12:04 PM

Windows Mobile 5 DST patch did not change to the right date

Hi All, Here is a product support case that was raised last week here in New Zealand that I thought I would share with you, it is of particular interest if you are using Windows Mobile 5 and the Telecom Apache device. Action: ================ Device is
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Friday, September 07, 2007 2:01 PM

NZ DST Guidance Document Updated

This latest version of the NZ DST Guidance Document (version 1.3) is now available for download online here . This includes updates to the following KB articles: Windows (Vista, XP, Server 2003 SP1 & SP2 and Small Business Server 2003) Sharepoint
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:21 AM

How to Re-Base Mailboxes and Resource Mailboxes

Here are a couple of good training videos on how to rebase mailboxes and resource mailboxes Mailboxes http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/02/21/435543.aspx Resource Mailboxes http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/03/01/436164.aspx Nick.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:17 PM

DST and NT 4.0

DISCLAIMER - This is completely unsupported by Microsoft and therefore we offer no warranty or support if you choose to utilise information in this posting. This has not been tested by Microsoft as it is outside of extended support and therefore out of
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:13 PM

Guidelines for when an overseas company needs to install the NZ DST updates

Please see the guidelines below for when to update systems that are based outside NZ. Required: · Domain Controllers :- you will need to update all AD domain controller servers if that server has a dual role or is likely to run an application that use
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:49 PM

Microsoft DST website updates

The web site www.microsoft.co.nz/timezone is being updated. Key updates are: · Guidance Document : This has been updated to version 1.3 · TzMove: there has been a new version of TzMove released. This is cumulative update and includes the hotfix that was
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:48 PM

SAP and NZ Daylight Saving Time Changes

SAP Note No. 1080797 07.08.2007 Page 1 ________________________________________________________________________ Number 1080797 Version 2 from 07.08.2007 Status Released for Customer Set on 07.08.2007 Language EN Master language DE Short text Begin date
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:41 PM

Updated Blackberry information

For those of you wanting to update your Blackberry's The RIM documentation referred in these steps are: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB14170&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=47758087&stateId=0%200%2023172424
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:07 PM

New Zealand DST updates for Sharepoint, Dynamics, SQL Notifications, Visual Studio, CE and JVM

Microsoft Visual Studio Developers who use the .NET Framework may find their applications affected if the application uses the time zone information for historical purposes or if they have derived custom classes from System.TimeZone to provide custom
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:41 PM

Impact of Daylight Saving Changes on Office Outlook Calendar Items

Exchange Calendar Update Tool Note: This tool is currently in Beta, please read the KB article before using this tool. The Exchange Calendar Update Tool, described in (KB941018) can be used to automate the adjustment of calendar items in a Microsoft Exchange
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:38 PM

Manually Updating Microsoft Windows For Daylight Saving Changes

Method 1: Use the Tzedit.exe utility to manually modify the time zone The tzedit.exe utility, which is part of the Windows Resource Kit, can be used to set or change the start and the end dates for daylight saving for one or more time zones. TzEdit can
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:28 PM

New Zealand 2007 Daylight Saving Changes

In April 2007 the New Zealand Government announced an update to the Time Act of 1974. This update changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, daylight savings time will start one week
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