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Summary: A company has an AD forest with a parent domain with four child domains. One of the child domain DNS zones was properly delegated and the other three were not resulting in a DNS configuration error. The zones have been configured as Active Directory-Integrated and are configured to replicate to the entire forest. Running […]

WebParts Circa 2007: SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) Web Parts Since I started working on the Office 2007 Beta 1 there was some confusing information out in cyberspace regarding webparts for the latest version of SharePoint designated v3.0. Because of the plethora of SharePoint 2003 (v2.0) webparts, Microsoft built in backwards compatibility and you can develop webparts […]

I just spent entirely too much time searching for a resolution to an issue that, although quite simple to resolve, didn’t seem to be that obvious to me. When using the command csvde.exe to import data into Active Directory (i.e creating 1600 new user accounts in an environment with thousands of existing accounts) it might […]

My first project after landing here at PointBridge was a large virtual server migration/new implementation of between 250 and 3000 physical servers from Wolters Kluwer. (The varied number of servers is wide – at the time of this posting, WK has an undecided number of servers they will dedicate to virtuializaion.) Attached to this post […]

I just ran across a killer new feature in Outlook 2007 and it doesn’t require Exchange 2007. Ever wish you could see one view that contains the free/busy of all the meeting rooms? Or even a group of people you work with? I always hated creating a new meeting request, adding all the users and […]

Blackberry is giving a free version of BES 4.1. Called BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express. It comes with one free license It can scale up to 15 free licenses. Check it out. I am running it at home with Exchange 03. http://www.blackberry.com/select/server/personal.shtml?EMC-J5Q549023406&MIG=445AD09A9D17381EE10000000A659D4A

Microsoft has created a new site on Technet for their Beta programs called Technet Beta Central. If you are a Technet subscriber, you are auto enrolled. Otherwise, you need a passport account to associate to the beta programs. It looks like you will be subcribed to their TechNet Flash IT newsletter. Right now the betas […]

Microsoft shared with me the SharePoint team site templates that will be available in the Beta 2 release scheduled for May 22. These templates are what you can select when creating a new site collection or child site. As you can see, Office 2007 is offering alot more capabilities out of the box.

Look like Palm posted the updated to quick. They pulled it off there site. Users are reporting a few issues, but I suspect Palm posted the updated to soon. They do have a online meeting schduled for the 26 to release a few different push email solutions. http://registration.intercall.com/register.php?company_id=113&event_ids%5b%5d=17053 If you want the update, I have […]

After many hours working with clients trying to resolve communication failures and sporadic problems, I felt it was about time I put together a matrix on port communication based on many common scenarios. I’ve run in to some very unusual problems with some of my clients and I found most of these problems stem from […]

Microsoft just released the new version of Office Communicator Mobile or CoMo. CoMo runs on 2003 SE and v5 versions of Smartphone and Pocket PC. As a beta tester, I quickly learned that getting CoMo working is not as easy as installing the application. You have to install the correct certificate. Installing the certificate is […]

Part One – CSVDE Often, using command line utilities are far more convenient and powerful than their graphical counterparts – you all know that. But, the learning curve to become accoomplished at them is typically far more difficult. And, because many of us use the command line utilities somewhat infrequently, memorizing syntax can become a […]