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Archives for November 2009

Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook

30 November 2009 | outlook | No Comments

A great way to start a Monday morning after a break is to not be able to check your email. I fired up Outlook, and got the error “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” (see below)

After some searching around, I came across a solution that fixed the problem.
I ran the following [...]

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Bookmarks for 11/18/09

18 November 2009 | bookmarks | No Comments

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for SQL Server – The webcast was on Nov. 4th, but you can still download it.
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server – The webcast was on Nov. 4th, but you can still download it.
Installing Exchange 2010 Pre-requisites For Windows 2008 SP2
New Windows 7 [...]

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Bookmarks for 11/14/09

14 November 2009 | bookmarks | No Comments

Multihomed DCs with DNS, RRAS, and/or PPPoE adapters – Explains in depth why you shouldn’t use multihomed domain controllers.
Google Gives You More Storage for Less, but Still No GDrive – You can now get up to a 16TB mailbox.
Exporting and Importing Mailboxes with Exchange Server 2010 – They’ve added a way to import/export [...]

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Bookmarks for 11/11/09

11 November 2009 | bookmarks | No Comments

Displaying Exchange 2007 public folders in SharePoint
VMFS Metadata size? – A formula on how to calculate the amount of disk space the metadata will consume.
Microsoft Azure: Security in the Cloud
First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones – I’m surprised it took this long for someone to create one.
Cloning Hyper-V Virtual Machines the Right [...]

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Exchange 2007 support on Server 2008 R2

5 November 2009 | asides | No Comments

Microsoft has decided to offer support for Exchange 2007 running on Server 2008 R2 after customers gave some feedback. They are going to release an update early next year.

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Distribution Group Management in Exchange 2007

5 November 2009 | exchange 2007 | No Comments

Managing a distribution group in Exchange 2007 works little differently than it did in Exchange 2003. In Exchange 2003, you could select a user to manage a distribution group, and select the option so that they could update the members in the list. (see image below)

In Exchange 2007, you have the ability to select a [...]

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Microsoft cuts BPOS pricing.

3 November 2009 | asides | No Comments

Microsoft Cuts E-Mail Price, a Bid to Ward Off Google. It seems that Microsoft it getting aggressive with their pricing to compete with Google. Of course, they say it has nothing to do with Google.

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Free Exchange 2010 e-book

3 November 2009 | asides | No Comments

Red Gate Software is offering a free e-book on Exchange 2010. (via SysAdmin Network)

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