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DirectAccess Documentation

Microsoft has published a step-by-step guide on how to implement DirectAccess. If you haven’t heard of DirectAccess, here is an overview that explains it more in detail along with its benefits.

Android Sync App from Funambol

Funambol Announces Open Source Mobile Sync App for Android. I’m glad to see applications being developed to fill the gap for those of us who want a way to sync with Outlook/Exchange. While it’s not the perfect solution, it’s all that’s out there as far as I know. I’ve put in my order for the T-Mobile G1 and can’t wait to test it out.

How to reply with multiple domains using Exchange 200X

How to reply with multiple domains using Exchange 200X (via Petri).

Exchange Analyzer Tools

Exchange Analyzer Tools help Exchange Performance, Configuration and Recovery.

5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats

5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats – Download Squad. The DriverMax application looks like it would help the most on systems that you don’t have the drivers too and aren’t able to find them online.

Uninstall a Windows Server 2003 Cluster

How to uninstall the Cluster service on a Windows Server 2003 cluster.

Exchange 2007 SP1 Cmdlet List

Complete list of Exchange 2007 SP1 Powershell commands.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available to download.

AVG Anti-Virus Professional 7.5 for free

Computer Active is offering a professional version of AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 for free. This offer is valid until January 17, 2008. I use the free edition on my PCs, but am going to upgrade them now. EDIT: The license will expire on December 1, 2008.

Windows Mobile 6.1 Screenshots

Screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.1 (via BGR).

New VHDs

Microsoft has added some new VHDs to their VHD Site including Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 and Windows Server 2008 Beta 3.

Windows XP SP3 hack

Hack Attack : Get Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update

VMWare Server 2 Beta released

VMWare released VMWare Server 2 Beta today.

Server 2008 virtualization installation

How to install and enable the Windows Server virtualization CTP in Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate. I spent about 15 minutes trying to get this configured on my test Server 2008 machine before I realized that I had installed the 32-bit version of the OS. Doh!

No more “click to activate” in IE

Internet Explorer is losing the “click to activate” requirement for embedded controls on a web page. Finally.