November 2007 - Community -

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 ESE Changes - Part 1

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 introduces several changes in the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). Two of these are: Removal of page dependencies Disablement of partial merges But first, in order to understand what is discussed below, we should have a brief...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2007 8:38 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Mailbox, Storage

Detecting LDAP filters that could cause Exchange 2007 setup problems

Some customers have experienced a problem where the following error is generated when installing the Mailbox role on an Exchange 2007 server (typically the first Exchange 2007 Mailbox server in the org): Exchange server address list service failed to...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2007 8:21 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Setup, Role: Mailbox, Tools

Preview into WSS 3.0 SP1 and SharePoint Server 2007 SP1

Anticipation and excitement around Service Pack 1 for WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been building, and I'm excited to share some information on the upcoming service packs. There are truly gifts for everyone in Windows SharePoint Services...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2007 12:53 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: AJAX, Hotfix, SP1

Consumer In Car Connectivity Real with ATX Telematics

ATX Group provides telematic services to the automotive industry. The services are offered in cars via an intelligent, user-configurable portal that relies upon a combination of voice Internet browsing and a multi-modal, customer-directed interface. The...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 8:02 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

MOSS 2007 Profile Import Tool now available at http://www.codeplex.com/SPToolbox

The Profile Import Tool is designed to import users and update their profile properties in MOSS 2007 when forms based authentication is used rather than integrated Windows authentication. The tool was cleverly developed by Steve Peschka (SharePoint Ranger...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 7:33 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Developers, Source Code, My Sites, Authentication

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 – Released To Market!

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1 ) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any hosting provider businesses that delivery rich email and collaboration services. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a mission-critical communications...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 5:13 PM by Microsoft Hosting Partner Technical Advisor Blog!

Accelerating Sales for the Online Auto Dealer with Auto Bid Systems' LIVEoffer™

As consumers are using the Internet to research, locate and buy both large and small durable goods, the auto industry has realized that increasing their presence on the web and offering purchasing solutions to consumers is extremely important. Until recently...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 1:15 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

The wait is over: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has RTMed!

It certainly has been an exciting couple of months with the UC Launch and hearing a lot of great feedback and excitement from customers and press about the work we've done in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Today we are announcing...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 11:12 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Microsoft, Community

Microsoft’s Appetite for Acquisitions

This week, VC Taskforce organized a panel: What Will Microsoft Acquire Next? Mark Wolfram from Microsoft venture integration team spoke, along with Mark Lazar, EIR at Redpoint, and Henry Wong, former CEO of adECN, sold to Microsoft earlier this year....

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 1:04 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Acquisitions

Advanced Exchange 2007 Transport Logs Troubleshooting using Log Parser - Part 2

This is a second in my series of posts that deal with using Log Parser tool to analyze your Exchange 2007 transport logs. For the first post, please go here . I have written this blog post in a way that I walk you through building more and more complex...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2007 11:37 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Transport & Routing, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Edge Transport, Role: Hub Transport, Tools

Announcing the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0

I'm very pleased to announce that the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0 is now available at http://www.codeplex.com/AKS . The AKS, pre-announced a few months ago, provides templates, master pages, controls, and web parts along with technical...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2007 11:00 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community, Source Code, Partners, Accessibility

Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture poster in November 2007 TechNet Magazine

You might be interested in this: November 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine came with a 30" x 20.5" poster called Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture. Here is a preview (click on the thumbnail to open larger version): The above is of course...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2007 11:36 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Documentation, Community

Who owns your data on Google, Facebook, Netflix?

The blogosphere is raging about Facebook's use of " my data ". Doc Searls is promoting the idea of VRM (Vendor Relationship Mgmt) and says " Time to write our own rules ".   The bargain you made in exchange for free services...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2007 7:50 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

CTO Interviews: Rolf Kaiser, CTO, iBlocks

Why do startups choose Microsoft technologies? We decided to ask them, and share the results. This is the first in a series of ongoing interviews we’ll be conducting with Chief Technology Officers from our partner companies. Our intent is to showcase...

Published Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:02 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Silverlight, Partnering, Why Microsoft?, CTO Interview

CTO Interviews: Rolf Kaiser, CTO, iBloks