Reviewing the New Nokia Lumia 800

by Nicolas Blank on 26/02/2012

I’m not religious about technology, and certainly not the tech I consume for personal use. Due to my travelling schedule, it HAS to work and be robust. With that in mind, I tend to be rather vocal about choosing technology on merit over brand loyalty. When I was given a Nokia Lumia 800 I was [...]

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How to migrate just about anything

by Nicolas Blank on 07/02/2012

I worked with the nice folks over at Mimecast to build a series of Webinars, which include: Webinar 1 – Migration planning: where to start Webinar 2 – How to design your Exchange migration process Webinar 3 – Migration gotchas: real world examples Webinar 4 – Measuring migration success I really enjoyed building these webinars, [...]

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Some of you may know that I own and operate a consultancy, however what isn’t so obvious, is that we have staff, which need to stay certified. With the new partner competencies in mind, getting your staff up to speed on their certs quickly is a concern. I’m not going to discuss the partner requirements [...]

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Office 365 is now available to South African Customers.  www.office365.co.za now resolves to the familiar Office 365 site we’ve become accustomed to while trialling the service, however, one crucial part of the site has been missing. The sign up screen now supports South Africa in the drop down list of available countries. There’s not much [...]

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Exchange 2010: Collapsing DAG Networks

by Nicolas Blank on 27/09/2011

I’d like to call out a superb blog post from Tim McMichael on this topic. To quote Tim, this is a topic, which is commonly misunderstood, and the benefits include the understanding of: Why do you disable the MAPI network from log shipping activities? Remember that if no other network exists in a DAG to [...]

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Exchange 2010 PowerShell cookbook–Mike Pfeiffer

8 September 2011

“Quick Answers to common problems” – I have to agree. A number of PowerShell books have graced my shelves, however very few of them allow an Exchange focused professional to learn in an incremental way, focused purely on Exchange. Mike accomplishes this by introducing a concept and then building on it, gradually cranking up the [...]

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The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2

30 August 2011

In a previous post I discussed where it looks like the Exchange product is headed for hosting companies. Today the Exchange product group published a statement which includes: We want to enable our hosting partners to offer the same rich feature set that our on-premises customers are used to. As such, with the release of [...]

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The Future of hosted Exchange

9 August 2011

If you host Exchange or you’re thinking of hosting Exchange, then you live in interesting times. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference hosted a number of sessions which re-enforced the software giant’s view on cloud and why partners should move to all things cloud, however – if you’re an Exchange hosting shop – one session would have [...]

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The Storage Calculator and Virtualization Support

7 June 2011

v17.2 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator was released yesterday with a number of bug fixes, however it’s not the bug fixes that I’d like to call out, it’s the virtualization support added two releases ago in case you missed it.   When designing for virtual workloads the general guidance has been [...]

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Exchange 2010 – Wrong path for kerbauth.dll in IIS config

20 May 2011

Exchange unattended installs can sometimes misfire, and I had an instance where the install path specified in the install script became D:\EXCHANGE,SERVER\ instead of D:\EXCHANGE SERVER\ with a comma “,” replacing the space. As a result the PowerShell provider broke and local management functions were impaired. Eventually I decided to uninstall and take the space [...]

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