My name is Nicolas Blank, I live in Cape Town, South Africa. My current Bio is as follows: Nicolas is the founder, as well an architect, author and speaker focused on Office 365 and Azure at NBConsult Group in South Africa, England and Hong Kong. Nicolas is a Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange and Office […]
We’re having our next free Cape Town based event. This time round we’ll have a particular focus on OCS integration and Windows 7. What can OCS integrate with, well darn near anything. To prove the point Uwin’s going to demonstrate integration from two extreme’s – Asterisk and Exchange 2010. One you would to be totally […]
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I’m writing this in Heathrow Terminal 5 whilst en-route to LAX to speak at TEC2010. I’m super honoured to be delivering two sessions in one of the most technically recognised conferences ever. The line-up of speakers is staggering, folks from the Exchange product group as well as several super bright MVP’s. Speaking amongst such greatness […]
I’ve been teaching PowerShell formally and informally for the last three years or so, and one of the trends I find coming up more and more, especially in companies that have their own in house development capability is the need to establish Standards for PowerShell developments, script rollout, signing, etc. One of the MANY advantages […]
My mobile phone’s a BlackBerry. I love how stable it is, I love the community support, the battery life, and so on and so on, Except I battle with the fact the RIM haven’t done anything about licensing ActiveSync. So, I understand there’s competing platforms, etc, but honestly, I don’t care. As the consumer, I […]
So Exchange 2010 was released for worldwide consumption, and was seen for the first time yesterday, or was it? Actually no. Due to the partners and customers who have spent months and even years working with Microsoft, a number of people have been benefitting from Exchange 2010 for a while now already, albeit in various […]
Release Candidate means that the features have been locked, but some bugs are still being chased. More importantly it’s available for download. There’s two links you want to checkout: The fist one is the Exchange Team Blog, the second one is the download site. The download site is taking a bit of time to come […]
And what a good-looking site it is too! Speaker bio’s, sessions information and agenda’s are up as well as the 19 tracks, which should present something for everyone. I’m expecting more detail on the site closer to the time but it’s looking great already! Were going to have 7 type of sessions, including Breakout Sessions, […]
I’m going to be part of Interop in South Africa. Essentially it’s a meeting between ourselves and the open source community to share how we can play together nicely. I do believe I’m going to be the only one waving the infrastructure flag, but I’m happy to take questions on anything. Things I’m playing with […]