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Ten days after Windows 7's October 22 launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said:Certainly we’ve seen initial sales be fantastic. The first ten days were bigger than the first ten days of XP or Vista or any other Windows launch that we have done.All Things Digital's John Paczkowski responded with Well, What Did You Expect Him to Say? Windows 7 Is Selling Poorly?. Needless to say, similar

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Office 2010, the wave 14 release of Microsoft Office, has been released to manufacturing (RTM) today. Congratulations to the Office team - using this shiny new version of Office is a pleasure! There's lot to like in all of the Office apps - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project— and Outlook 2010 really shines!There's a long list of new features and improvements, and the new ribbon UI is

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Microsoft has just announced Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1! A beta of the feature-laden SP1 is headed your way come June 2010. Some of the juicy new features in SP1 include the ability to locate the Personal Archive on a different mailbox database than the one where the user's primary mailbox is located (a much requested feature— In Exchange 2010 RTM, both the primary and the archive

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It's finally time to move the blog off an old, archaic platform! Back when the blog was started (~6 years ago!), Blogger seemed to be the quick and easy way to do it, while still being able to use my own domain and server. Down the road, Google acquired Blogger, and I joined the Exchange team at Microsoft. For a while, the blog existed in a twilight zone — a blog about Exchange, Windows and other

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It's been over two months since I posted here! No, I'm not taking a break, at least not an intentional one, and hopefully will get back to posting regularly soon. Meanwhile, check out the posts on the Exchange team blog.And if you've been monitoring the team blog, you must have come across (and read with interest, I hope) the Top 10 Exchange Storage Myths post and the Large Mailbox Vision

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Didn't notice earlier— one of my favorite Outlook/Exchange tools is now compatible with Outlook 2010. Outlook Spy is primarily a tool for Outlook/Exchange developers, but Exchange administrators also find it useful. It allows you to look under the hood of mailboxes and messages. Created by Dmitry Streblechenko, an Outlook MVP, Outlook Spy has been on my list of "must have Exchange tools" for as

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Every time I pass the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, I'm amused and amazed that a Microsoft campus is in close proximity to Yahoo, Google, and other Silicon Valley bellwethers. The talent here is amazing!If you haven't done so already, check out BingTweets, which fuses Bing's search results and real-time content from Twitter.The San Jose Mercury News carried an interesting

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In an increasingly web-centric world where cloud services are supposed to replace all our desktop apps, the web browser has become an important tool. Although new browsers have been introduced and old ones mature, the browser experience continues to degrade, alarmingly so!Browsers, including the "smaller", "faster", "nimbler" ones, increasingly consume large amounts of system resources. I'm

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Google seems to have discovered the benefits of using SSL to encrypt HTTP traffic. In a blog post on the Gmail blog, Engineering Director Sam Schillace explains that Google has finally started valuing security over latency, and enabled HTTPS by default.Gmail has always been using SSL to encrypt the authentication credentials sent from the login page. However, past the login page and accessing

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I spent last week thinking about couple of blog posts I wanted to finish, but it seems this year the holiday spirit took over a little sooner than it normally does (for me). It's been a busy year with Exchange 2010, and now that it's released and getting rave reviews, it's time to take a break.Seth Godin has put together What Matters Now - a collection of thoughts strung together in an ebook

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Microsoft and Research in Motion have just announced full BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) support for Exchange 2010 - the earliest customers have been able to deploy BlackBerry smartphones with a new Exchange release— ever.You'll need the just-released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010, Exchange Server MAPI Client v6.5.8147, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.01 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1).

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If you haven't looked at Palo Alto-based cc:Betty yet, perhaps you should. cc:Betty promises to keep everyone on the same page. Still in beta, it's a useful web app that helps users organize their email communication, collects email content, catalogs attachments and files, and also maintains your contacts. It's also amazingly simple to use. Besides adding content on the cc:Betty web site, users

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It's been over 4 years since I wrote about the duplicate SID issue in SID error on cloned Virtual Server / VPC / VMWare OSes. I recommended using the NewSID utility from Sysinternals to fix the cloned machine.Hyper-V wasn't around back then, and looking back it seems incredible that many of us survived without it (or your virtualization platform of choice).Since then, I've only used sysprepped

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Interestingly, after reporting last Friday 'Black Screen woes could affect millions on Windows 7, Vista and XP', and causing a furor amongst IT pros, users and the media, Prevx apologized for claiming a patch applied by Windows Update was the cause of the so-called 'Black Screen of Death'.In last week's post, Prevx stated:If you Google Black Screen then you will find a whopping 80 Million plus

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Now that Office 2010 Beta is officially available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers, here's a quick shout out to the Outlook team for what's shaping up to be an excellent, super-impressive, fabulous new release of Microsoft Outlook!I've always preferred web-based apps, including Outlook Web Access (OWA) in the past, and Outlook Web App (still OWA!) in Exchange 2010. Like most IT pros,

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Automating bulk mailbox creation required fairly advanced scripting skills in Exchange 2003/2000. Thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (aka "the shell") in Exchange 2010 and 2007, this task is greatly simplified. It doesn't require any advanced scripting skills and it can be accomplished by relative newcomers to Exchange Server with very little knowledge of the shell.Exchange Server 2007: Bulk

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I've been waiting for the Kingston SSDNow V Series 40 Gb solid state drive (SNV125-S2/40GB).NewEgg.com's 'ShellShocker deal' of the day— $84.99 (after a 20 dollar rebate), and free shipping. Unfortunately, they seem to be perpetually sold out! Shortly after the drive went on sale on Nov. 9th, NewEgg.com indicated it was sold out. The site informed me the drive would be in stock on Nov. 11th. Not

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Microsoft announced the release of Exchange Server 2010 today at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Berlin. The release marks the first version of Exchange Server designed for the cloud, and provides customers the option of deploying it on-premises— the way Exchange Server has always been deployed, or use it as a service hosted by Microsoft, or a combination of the two.Exchange Server CVP Rajesh Jha posts

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Exchange 2007 will be supported on Windows Server 2008 R2, Kevin Allison, GM Exchange Customer Experience, posted on the Exchange team blog today. With the general availability of Exchange 2010 just around the corner, Microsoft had earlier decided not to update Exchange 2007 to support its latest server operating system. Exchange 2007 is supported on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2,

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When you use Outlook 2007 and later in Cached Exchange Mode, the Instant Search feature uses the content indexes created by Windows Search (formerly known as Windows Desktop Search). When searching in online mode, Outlook uses the content indexes created by Exchange Search on the Exchange server (Exchange 2007 and later).If the index created by Windows Search is corrupt, you may not find the

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After a widespread outage earlier this month, Google's Gmail web-based email service is reporting yet another outage today— this time affecting only "a small subset of users". More from Stephen Shankland in Gmail outage hits 'small subset of users'.

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Apple implemented device encryption in the iPhone 3GS, improving its odds of being considered for enterprise deployment. However, users using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) to connect to their Exchange 2007 mailboxes couldn't take advantage of it, even when encryption was required by an Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policy, because the device didn't tell Exchange it can support encryption.With the

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In Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007, you can add custom words or phrases as good or bad words to modify the Spam Confidence Level (SCL) assigned to messages. Messages with a good word or phrase are assigned an SCL of 0 and bypass other antispam agents that fire after the Content Filtering agent. Messages with a bad word are assigned an SCL of 9, and any configured action (delete/reject/quarantine)

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Are you involved with e-Discovery (aka "electronic discovery") as a consequence of litigation, regulatory audit or perhaps an internal investigation? Whether you've been hit by litigation or not, it's important for messaging professionals to know about e-Discovery, and be prepared for it. Mimosa Systems, the Santa Clara-based archiving software company, has an e-Discovery guide that's very well

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Google's Gmail service had yet another widespread outage on Tuesday at 12:30 PM which lasted more than 3 hours between 100 minutes (according to Google) to 2 ½ hours (according to PC World). News of the outage quickly spread like a wildfire on social media networks, where it quickly earned the epitaph of Gfail. A great day for Twitter and Facebook! Even by Google's own account, it was a "big deal

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