Those microsoft bloggers talk about the future too much!
I'm so tired of hearing that "microsoft bloggers talk about the future too much." There's a whole bunch of people blogging about current technologies right now - so let's stop disrespecting them by...
View ArticleThe Three Dastardly D's: Derailing a Discussion on a Distribution list
Over the last three or four years I've seen an increasing trend here at MS: complaints about off-topic discussions on DLs. A thread will start out on a DL and (since we're all human), at some point (if...
View ArticleA free CHM compiler
I was pointed at this by the MSHelp MVP Lead, it's a sweet little freeware app, works great. Within about 90 seconds of starting it, I had compiled my first CHM:http://www.vizacc.com/And they also have...
View ArticleWhere are all the women bloggers at?
(Just kiddin' :-)I just bought a ticket to BlogHer '06.Are any other softie bloggers or readers of softie blogs going? Leave a comment or trackback here if you want to get in touch.I'm also thinking...
View ArticleSurprise your users with an April Fool's Day OWA 2003 theme
Customizing OWA themes is quite simple to do. Here's an example of a theme I just put together, I call it "MOOWA":The fun part about this theme isn't so much the graphics as the sounds: included are a...
View ArticleI wish we were this cool
Vista is doing some really sweet stuff, visually... there's http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista which is just stunning, and now this ad on the front of microsoft.com which just kicks ass:How cool is...
View Articlewiki-wiki-waaoowww
We threw up a wiki for beta 2 to experiment with the format (hooray for slaveintern labor!):http://www.exchangeninjas.com(it's named after the e12 icon, which we call "the ninja star")Or if you insist...
View ArticleSilence equals adoration?
Evan blogged today asking for feedback on the posts about systems management that have gone up on EHLO recently.Anecdotally, it looks like the "# of comments per post" has gone down over time on EHLO...
View ArticleRain-->Pour
OK I realize how much it sucks to average one post a month for six months and then do several in one day, but I've got a bunch of things on my mind today and I wanted to blog them. Shoot me.I'm going...
View ArticleIdeas for new Outlook macros?
An email with a coworker who was recently acquired and is getting accustomed to Outlook after years with PINE reminded me that it's been a while since I wrote any Outlook macros. Plus, I just need an...
View ArticleMeet the Exchange MVPs
We recently added a new page to the Exchange community website, that has pictures and bios of our MVPs:http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/community/mvp/default.mspxSeveral of the Exchange MVPs also run...
View ArticleNew graphic for Exchange geek t-shirts is up...
http://www.cafepress.com/ehloThe coworker who came up with the logo idea bought one of the “MAPI makes me HAPI“ t-shirts and wore it to an internal meeting today with the store team, and he told me...
View ArticleExecutives & the community...
I recently received an email letting me know that Eric Rudder made some suggestions to the folks who own the community websites at Microsoft about how the most important parts of the pages should be...
View ArticleThe MVP Summit, Rudder & "The geekiest named blog"
Yesterday was day two of the MVP summit, and it's been a blast so far. Lots of great people and discussions packed into just a few days. Yesterday morning, Eric Rudder talked about a lot of the...
View ArticleSet up a meeting with other attendees or Microsoft employees at Tech-Ed!
I'm “speaking“[1] at Tech-Ed, and while completing my registration today, I also signed up for Rio, which is a system that Tech-Ed attendees can use to find and set up meetings with people with similar...
View ArticleThe directory of IT bloggers has been started...
So it took me a while, but thanks to the wiki on Channel9 and Scoble's mention of blog directories, there is now a place for IT bloggers to list themselves.I added the ones in the comments of my...
View ArticleHave you customized your Global Address List templates? The Outlook team...
The Outlook team is investigating making some improvements to this scenario, and they would like to see real-world examples from any customer who has customized the templates. If you are willing,...
View ArticleVisual Studio team bios
This link to bios of people on the VS team[2] was posted to Channel9 earlier today, and my first thought was: aw man, they did it before I got a chance to![1] And then my second thought was gee, I...
View ArticleI'll have a side helping of shared source with my long-standing feature request
I'm very excited to announce that today we have done two things I've been wanting to do for a long time: #1: With Exchange 2000 SP3 and the latest post-SP3 hotfix rollup (as well as with Exchange 2003...
View ArticleThe MSDN product feedback center - What about Exchange?
Many others have blogged about it. One of the comments in Scoble's entry asked if other products like Windows & IE would be using it. I can't speak for those products, but I can tell you that in...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....