Monthly Archives: September 2007

A footnote in history

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Devin

I’d like to toss a hypothetical out there for y’all to ponder. Say, for the sake of argument, that you’re an editor for a technical book publisher. You have a line of books that you want to make roughly equivalent … Continue reading →

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Time again for Connections!

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Devin

Here we are, September almost gone, and it’s time to be seriously thinking about November travel plans already. These plans, of course, include the fabulous Exchange Connections Fall 2007 conference in Las Vegas. Once again, I’m honored to have been … Continue reading →

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Great Exchange 2007 storage sizing resource

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Devin

A couple weeks back, the talented (and fellow Exchange MVP) Jim McBee blogged about his new free ebook on Exchange storage sizing. I’ve just had the opportunity to peruse it — in fact, I’ve been reading through it most of … Continue reading →

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Testing your new Exchange 2007 Send connector

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Devin

Updated 1401 PDT: added the diagram. A recent post on a mailing list I frequent gives me today’s blog post. So you’ve got an Exchange 2000/2003 organization and you’ve decided that you want to upgrade to Exchange 2007. You’ve done … Continue reading →

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Looking for a contact at Sun

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Devin

Does anyone out there reading this either work for Sun, or know someone who works at Sun, preferably in their hardware division? I need to contact someone there who works with their AMD-based servers configured with Windows. Share this post:ShareFacebookDiggRedditEmailStumbleUpon

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Sorry, LJ

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Devin

I’m getting really bloody tired of LJ’s RSS feed reader deciding to re-read old posts from my blog. Apologies to the 20 or so people who still read this blog’s LJ feed. I’m starting to think I need to just … Continue reading →

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Back to the Light

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Devin

Yesterday evening, I found out that author James Oliver Rigney died yesterday after a long struggle with amyloidosis (a disease where your body deposits insoluble proteins in its own tissues and organs). Mr. Rigney was better known under a variety … Continue reading →

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Memory

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Devin

I have something in my head trying to come out. It’s about 9/11. It’s not ready to come out yet. In the meantime, here’s John M Ford’s 110 Stories.    Share this post:ShareFacebookDiggRedditEmailStumbleUpon

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Using PowerShell to admin Exchange 2000/2003

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Devin

Via Evan’s blog, I found out about this pair of postings on using PowerShell’s WMI provider to manage Exchange 2000/2003 servers. I’m still working up my notes on my Exhange Connections session on this topic; once I get past the … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2007 online documentation now updated with SP1

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Devin

Check it out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124558.aspx is now updated with documentation for Exchange 2007 SP1. I’ve been living and breathing in the SP1 world for the past couple of months, between some cool projects I’ve been working on here plus doing the … Continue reading →

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Games in the key of X

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Devin

Thanks to the miracle of Cragslist, I have an Xbox. Not an Xbox 360 — that’s the plan for the family Christmas gift — but a regular Xbox, which is still more than enough to play all sorts of cool … Continue reading →

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Oh, yeah

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Devin

For those of you keeping track, I’m 35 now. Yup, had my birthday Wednesday. Going by a literal reading of the Bible, I’m half-way through my life span (“threescore and ten”). Going by modern numbers, I could in theory be … Continue reading →

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GENIUS!

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Devin

Earlier tonight while reading my LiveJournal friends’ posts, I saw this video: The Mean Kitty Song This video has been cracking me up for hours now. I’ve watched it, like, a gazillion times, and I still am laughing my ass … Continue reading →

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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager is officially released

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Devin

As recently posted on the Windows Virtualization Team blog, VMM has been released. This is big stuff, if you’re using Microsoft Virtual Server in your environment. Here at 3Sharp, we spend quite a bit of time managing the various virtual machines … Continue reading →

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