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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Observations on Obtaining One’s Passport
Somewhere in the instructions, the Department of State website, or the various other places that talk about the process, there should be a warning that your birth certificate will be sent into the processing center and returned with your passport. … Continue reading
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DCAR ebook Chapter 4: Implementation part 1: People and processes
Chapter 4, Implementation part 1: People and processes, of my ebook on DCAR (Discovery, Compliance, Archival, and Retention) is now available for download. This ebook is published online by Windows IT Pro. Before you spend a lot of time thinking … Continue reading
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My week, summarized
I’ve been silent on the blogging front lately, so here’s a quick update on what I’ve been up to this last week: Monday: I was coming down the stairs to head to my office to begin my work day, and … Continue reading
An update on Windows Mobile 5.0 certificates
A month ago, I posted about some of the limitations of Windows Mobile 5.0′s handling of certificates. In the comments, Exchange MVP Ben Winzenz informed me about a registry hack you can perform on your WM5.0 device that disables certificate … Continue reading
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Beat Exchange Event ID 9548!
Sooner or later as an Exchange admin, you want to disable a mailbox-enabled user account in Active Directory while keeping the associated mailbox intact. Up until now, this caused problems, because as soon as the account was disabled, any mail … Continue reading
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Book signing in Orlando
Paul, Missy, and I will all be speakers at this spring’s Exchange Connections 2006 conference, held at the Walt Disney Swan Hotel in sunny Orlando this April 9-12. Not only will we have 8 sessions of Exchange goodness to share … Continue reading
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Should have known
I should have known, from first thing yesterday morning, what kind of day it was going to be. Starting with sleeping through the alarm I’d set so I could get up and get a headstart to a long day, right … Continue reading
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A good regulatory compliance resource
I know I’ve been on a Windows Mobile kick for the past few days, but it’s not all I’ve been doing. I just recently turned in the final draft of Chapter 4 of my DCAR (Discovery, Compliance, Archival, and Retention) … Continue reading
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Yeah, that would do it
When I did my last round of server and desktop deployments here at the house[1], I tried to set up each of my servers (Windows Server 2003) with at least 256MB of RAM and each of the desktops (Windows XP … Continue reading
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Exchange 2003 SP2 and WIndows Mobile 5.0 MSFP first impressions
Wow. What a difference my little experiment yesterday is already making. I’ve got my Qtek 9100 set to pull up Google as the home page. Previously, it could take 30-60 seconds to establish the initial connection, then resolve DNS and … Continue reading
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Kids, don’t try this at home!
Today, I did something I’d never done before. It was risky and a bit scary, and I don’t recommend it as a general procedure for everyone. Yes, I upgraded my Qtek 9100 to AKU2, better known as Windows Mobile 5.0 … Continue reading
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Kids, don’t try this at home!
Today, I did something I’d never done before. It was risky and a bit scary, and I don’t recommend it as a general procedure for everyone. Yes, I upgrade my new Window Mobile Pocket PC. What made it risky was … Continue reading
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One Man’s Upgrade (or, how I applied the I-Mate AKU2 ROMs to my Qtek 9100 and stayed sane)
First written: 07 Mar 2006 Latest update: 07 Mar 2006 Note: You can also download this document in Word format. I-mate recently released new ROM images containing AKU2 (aka Windows Mobile 5.0 with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack) for … Continue reading
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Short reaction: Qtek 9100 Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC
This isn’t a full review, but I wanted to at least get some reactions down sooner rather than later. In general, I really like the device. I’ve been unhappy with the increasing trend toward smaller and smaller devices, so the … Continue reading
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Search your AD quickly and easily
If you’re trying to search to see which object in AD holds a particular property, then Exchange guru Jim McBee’s post on solving the “email address already exists in this organization” error should be a big help. Using the custom … Continue reading
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One last bug
I don’t know whether folks reading this via RSS got it too, or whether it’s just a quirk of Livejournal’s RSS feed system, but for some reason when LJ finally picked up my new blog posts this afternoon (so why … Continue reading
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Thanks, Scott!
Thanks to the timely comment from Scott Watermasysk, the developer of .Text (which became the blog engine for Community Server), we’ve got our technical glitches sorted out and everything should be working normally. How often have you had a software … Continue reading
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Upgrade woes and date night!
How wonderfully frustrating, in a minor way.Last night, I upgraded from Community Server 1.1 to 2.0, which offers tons of new features, better performance, a hugely improved administrative interface, a better skinning model — in short, lots of crunchy goodness. … Continue reading
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