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Optimize Your Communications Environment with Exchange Server 2007

You Had Me At EHLO... — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:29:00 GMT

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 can help you deliver the advanced protection your company demands to safeguard its messaging environment-anywhere access people require to boost productivity and operational efficiency to cut costs. Tune in to a webcast...(read more)

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is almost out-the-door

You Had Me At EHLO... — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:07:59 GMT

This is a heads up that Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is in the final stages of getting released and should be out in a couple of days. The next step for the Exchange team will be to release the Update Rollup onto the Download Center and then...(read more)

How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:17:52 GMT

Overview Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill , a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. ThreeWill recently worked with Microsoft to build a generic Service Request...(read more)

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Launch

You Had Me At EHLO... — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:17:00 GMT

Our friends over at Office Communication server wanted to get the word our on their upcoming release which they are promoting through their website. Here's their announcement, go check it out! Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will launch on February...(read more)

How to Configure Certificate Based Authentication for OWA - Part II

You Had Me At EHLO... — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:42:00 GMT

In my last post I showed how to set up OWA certificate based authentication on a Windows 2003 CAS with ISA 2006. In this post, I will cover how to set this up when your Client Access server is running on Windows 2008 server without being published with...(read more)

Announcing SPDisposeCheck tool for SharePoint Developers

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:48:24 GMT

The SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods are an important thing for developers who work with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to master. Many SharePoint API's allocate COM based memory that is not released by CLR garbage collection and...(read more)

Microsoft User Research Group Looking for SharePoint Users

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:05:01 GMT

Last week, the Microsoft User Research team reached out to me regarding a set of studies they were planning to execute in the upcoming months. In a nutshell, the team focuses on how people interact with hardware and software products; and then the information...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:41:24 GMT

This week at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Jason Zander, the GM for Visual Studio, announced and demonstrated the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint. Here's a quick summary of what he showed: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other...(read more)

Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:19:20 GMT

Last week at IT Forum in Barcelona, we announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Master program is designed to be the top-tier technical...(read more)

Good Morning Exchange community!

You Had Me At EHLO... — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:01:00 GMT

It's now been 3 whirlwind weeks since taking the helm of the Exchange team. As I'm getting to know the team, I wanted to take this opportunity to better introduce myself to the Exchange community. I feel fortunate to inherit such a strong product...(read more)

How to tell which version of Update Rollup you have installed?

You Had Me At EHLO... — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:18:46 GMT

As we have released Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 4 on Microsoft Update two days ago, a question came up: how do you tell which version of the Update Rollup is installed? The simplest answer is to go to Add or Remove Programs Control Panel applet. Then...(read more)

Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Storage Cost Calculator

You Had Me At EHLO... — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:44:00 GMT

Overview Earlier versions of Exchange did not scale well enough, at a low enough cost per mailbox (because of expensive hardware and recovery options) to allow IT administrators the ability to match the ever increasing mailbox sizes of personal e-mail...(read more)

How We Did It – Allowing Connections to Multiple SSRS Servers with Report Viewer and Explorer Web Parts

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:11:00 GMT

Overview Today’s guest blog post is from ThreeWill , a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. You might remember them from a previous article about the SharePoint Connector...(read more)

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals

You Had Me At EHLO... — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:51:59 GMT

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT professionals. For five days, 5,000 IT professionals are learning how to architect, plan, deploy, manage and secure a connected enterprise...(read more)

Microsoft Office for Mac releases 12.1.4 Update - Fixes Entourage calendar issue

You Had Me At EHLO... — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:04:00 GMT

Our friends over at Mactopia.com announced the release of the 12.1.4 update. According to their site, this fixes an issue from the 12.1.3 and scheduling meetings when an Entourage identity is configured with more than one mail account. Check it out here...(read more)