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November 2006 - Posts

Vista/Office/Exchange Launch in Cleveland, Jan. 23, 2007

In a strange turn, the day-long Cleveland, OH launch event for Vista/Office/Exchange launch events are being held at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, not at the IX Center. The day of events (five choices total, three in half of the day and two in the
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ISA Server 2004 with a Polycom 7000e VSX

I have a customer who recently replaced a braindead port-filtering NAT "firewall" with a real firewall, namely an HP ProLiant DL320 ISA Server 2004 Appliance (purchased from Business Smarts ). Because ISA Server 2004 is an intelligent firewall
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PowerShell 1.0 released for all but Vista

When I was working the TechEd Hands-On-Labs this summer, PowerShell (a. k. a. codename "Monad") was a very popular lab. Many administrators wanted to work with the product and have an early hands-on with it. Well, version 1.0 for XP/2003 (x86/x64/IA64)
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Firefox 2.0

In my post covering what's happened since I posted in the spring, I neglected to mention something else very important that was not a Microsoft event - the release of Firefox 2.0 . Competition is good, as long as it's done well. It forces improvements
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Vista sounds

One topic that has come up occasionally during the tail portion of the Vista beta was around the sounds associated with the beta. For example, there is a "startup" sound, which initially the user would not be able to turn off , although the
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Wow, seven months

It has been almost seven months since I've had time to sit down and write a blog post. All kinds of things have happened in that time. Vista and Office have RTM'd, which is great - I am very excited about Office 2007, more than I was about Office
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