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20% discount on Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange September rotation
Neato! I just got mail from Greg Taylor, head of the MCM: Exchange program. They’re offering a $3,550 discount on the upcoming Exchange 2007 rotation (September 21-October 10). Register here to get the...
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First look: Snow Leopard and Exchange
Given that I’m in Palo Alto, and that probably half of my coworkers use Macs, it’s no surprise that I installed Snow Leopard today. I’m not going to review the OS, or even the Exchange capability, but...
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Exchange Connections Fall 2010 call for sessions
My co-chairs and I are working on assembling this year’s Exchange Connections content, which we’ll be presenting November 1-4 in Las Vegas at good ol’ Mandalay Bay. That’s why I’m posting this call for...
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Advice to Exchange ActiveSync developers
Now the folks at Apple, Google, and other ISVs who develop Exchange ActiveSync clients no longer have excuses for bugs and misfeatures in their clients. Why? Because Katarzyna Puchala of Microsoft...
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Announcing Exchange 2013 Inside Out
Big news, at least to me! Tony Redmond and I are delighted to announce a new joint project: Exchange 2013 Inside Out, a two-volume set that we will write for Microsoft Press, with an anticipated...
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Loading PowerShell snap-ins from a script
So I wanted to launch an Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script to do some stuff for a project at work. Normally this would be straightforward, but because of the way our virtualized lab environment...
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How Autodiscover works in Outlook 2011
Fellow Exchange MVP Rajith Enchiparambil, proprietor of the excellent How Exchange Works blog, asked an interesting question the other day: how does Autodiscover work in Outlook 2011? Is it different...
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What "supported" really means
If I had a nickel for every time I had had a discussion like the below… <Customer> wants to <do something>. I don’t think it’s a good idea and tried to explain that to them. They want to do...
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Stalking the wily ADAccess event 2112
Timing is everything. A week ago, I got a late-night phone call about a problem with an Exchange server that seemed to be related to an expired certificate; the admin had replaced the expired cert on...
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Man-in-the-middle attacks against Exchange ActiveSync
I love the BlackHat security conference, although it’s been a long-distance relationship, as I’ve never been. The constant flow of innovative attacks (and defenses!) is fascinating, but relatively few...
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Excessive transaction log growth with iOS 6.1 devices
Well, it appears that Apple has done it again: reports are starting to surface of runaway transaction log growth when mobile devices running iOS 6.1 synchronize with Exchange Server. Tony has a good...
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MEC 2014: Austin, 31 March-2 April 2014
This is pretty darn exciting: Microsoft has announced the official date and time of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in 2014. It will be held in Austin, home of at least one of the original MECs...
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Microsoft Certified Systems Master certification now dead
I received a very unwelcome e-mail late last night: Microsoft will no longer offer Masters and Architect level training rotations and will be retiring the Masters level certification exams as of...
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Do mailbox quotas matter to Outlook and OWA?
Great question from my main homie Brian Hill: Is there a backend DB reason for setting quotas at a certain size? I have found several links (like this one) discussing the need to set quotas due to the...
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Microsoft Exchange engineering and cloud-scale
The Exchange team (or at least Perry Clarke, its fearless leader) has been known to describe Exchange Online as “the gateway drug to the cloud.” But how did that come to pass? This week at Ignite, I...
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