Monthly Archives: June 2008

Hyper-V in the hizzouse!

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Devin

Everyone’s being so coy in the Windows blogosphere today. “As you may have heard…” Heck with that; this is wicked cool. Hyper-V has Released To Manufacturing … and is already available for download. As the link explains, it’ll start coming … Continue reading →

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These are not the solutions you’re looking for

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Devin

As IT professionals, we are more than often prone to fall to the perils of magical thinking. (I’m sure this is a side-effect of being human, which is a pesky and bothersome condition I will have to do something about … Continue reading →

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masteringdpm.com back online

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Devin

Things got hairy enough last week that I forgot to post, but my hosting provider got the problem sorted out and the website is back online. Share this post:ShareFacebookDiggRedditEmailStumbleUpon

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masteringdpm.com temporarily down

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Devin

If you’ve tried to get to masteringdpm.com in the past couple of days, you may have gotten a cryptic error message instead of a site with DPM goodness. I’m working with my hosting provider to get it put back up … Continue reading →

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Tech-Talk: Making Backups Cool with DPM

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Devin

While I was at the Tech-Ed NA IT Pro conference last week, Jason Buffington and I took the chance to invade the Tech-Ed Online fishbowl studio and record a quick Tech-Talk on using DPM. You can now view it online … Continue reading →

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Welcome, Mike Rand!

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Devin

Just a quick shout-out to fellow 3Sharpie Mike Rand, who just posted his first post to the 3Sharp blog site last week. Mike’s a super-smart developer here with mad SharePoint skills; I can’t imagine why he hasn’t blogged sooner than … Continue reading →

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Updated Exchange Developer Roadmap

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Devin

To reinforce yesterday’s post about Exchange Web Services (EWS), I wanted to draw your attention to the Exchange Developer Roadmap posted on May 22 2008 on the Exchange API-spotting blog. There shouldn’t really be any surprises here, but there were … Continue reading →

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A .NET add-on for working with Exchange Web Services

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Devin

I just got word that Independentsoft has come out with a beta version of an EWS client API for the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework. I’ve not looked at it yet, but I’m particularly hopeful about having a good … Continue reading →

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3Sharp, Podcasting, and You

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Devin

The talented people at 3Sharp are one of the best reasons to work here. Our Platforms Group is just one piece of the pie here; we’ve got some top-tier development talent who can make SharePoint stand up and dance. Those … Continue reading →

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All purchases should be this easy

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Devin

If you haven’t seen me in person recently, you may not realize I’m a heretic. Yes, that’s right — I use an Apple 15″ MacBook Pro with Vista as my laptop. It took some jiggling to get it all working … Continue reading →

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Revised guidance on protecting Exchange with DPM 2007

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Devin

Just a quick note to let you  all know that the Protecting Exchange Server with DPM 2007 white paper is available for download from Microsoft. This is the same white paper I worked on for them last year, but freshly … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V RC1 available

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Devin

This is pretty cool — I didn’t even notice this at first! Hyper-V RC1 is now available for download through the Microsoft Download center or through Windows Update as an optional update. One of the nice changes here is that … Continue reading →

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Three random links make a post

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Devin

…so I’ll throw in a fourth for good measure. Rather than try to write a full-length post about each of these, I’m just going to give you a quick bullet list: Want to get the MAPI client or CDO libraries … Continue reading →

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