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For various reasons, including security, many of our outlying divisions aren’t part of our Active Directory forest although they use our Exchange server.
This puts us in the unenviable position of using RPC over (secure) HTTP.  The issue is passwords.  These gentle folk have two: one for their local AD and, when they open up [...]

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I’m finally getting around to implementing SMS 2003 even though it’s been supplanted by a recent version.
SMS is a strange little beast, skulking in the background of operations at once mischievous and helpful. Mostly mischievous. I’m using Pro SMS 2003 by Rod Kruetzfeld as a reference. I really like this series [...]

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According to this bit of news, storing pst files on a network drive is a VERY BAD THING™.  Fine, what then?  We store our users archived email on a network drive and we haven’t had too many problems, I wonder if that article covers this as well?  If not, since we don’t have any kind [...]

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Returned from a useful meeting of the Boise Area VMUG (VMWare Users Group) at Blue Cross of Idaho (BCI).  These guys at BCI have done such a great job of running the last two meetings I attended, I gotta say thanks for Shad at BCI.
If there’s one thing today’s meeting has taught me it’s that [...]

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Many of you know there is a change-a-coming in the Daylight Saving Time (DST) set up for March.  Microsoft has thoughtfully made the following webcast available to help us.
Which is all well and good, but Keeerist, why do we have to make additional changes to Exchange mailbox calendars, etc., etc.?  Huh?  Why can’t one magical [...]

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I just got a call from a customer complaining about a 500 error on OWA.  At first, by rote, I thought she’s been putting in the wrong URL and so, I walked her entering the proper URL and she was still reporting the same error.  Just to make sure, I logged on to her account with my [...]

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Ugh, I foresee  another disaster waiting in the wings.
For starters, a bunch of us “techies” have installed the latest–and supposedly greatest–Office suite.  It installed easily but Outlook opens with a baby blue theme, which we all uniformly hate.  So, dear reader, what do you think one would need do to change this?
We tried everything.  Using [...]

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Ben Winzenz, an Exchange MVP, blogs about the weird issue of missing Outlook delegates.  In effect, if a delegatee’s account no longer exists through deletion of the account and mailbox, Outlook doesn’t automatically remove the delegate (you know, because that would make too much sense!) so any meeting messages generate a strange NDR from the recently “deceased” [...]

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Big fan of Microsoft’s OneNote (and Evernote also, by the way).  Chris Pratley has a good blog entry about using OneNote on two or more machines.  Very handy to know.

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Of sorts…  From here, I find it is possible to embed a rar file inside a jpg.  Pretty neat, don’t you think?

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