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Hamad Darwish, a photographer, was comissioned by the Windows Vista team to take a series of photographs of which some would be used as wallpapers in the new OS. Long Zheng introduced him via some blog posts. In the interview Hamad mentioned releasing the entire set of photographs to the public. The shots are simply amazing. Here is the link to his site and the photos. He also has a Flickr page.
Long's original blog post.
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Please join the Southern Ohio Exchange Users Group on March 7, 2007 for a night of presentations highlighting Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista. We will be presenting several technical demonstrations on Exchange 2007 including deployment, operational efficiency and Unified Communications. We will also have some fun and informative Windows Vista technical demonstrations as well.
Please register here so we have an accurate head count for food and drinks.
The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30pm and end around 8:30pm. We will also have some great prizes including full versions of Windows Vista Business Edition.
You can visit the SOEUG website here.
Please feel free to pass this email on to anyone you think would be interested in attending.
After the event, you will have a chance to respond to a Microsoft survey and
receive a voucher for 30% off your choice of one Microsoft Certified Trainer exam
(choose from the Microsoft Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 exams).
Download Exchange Server 2007 Evaluation Software
Download Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Evaluation Software
Get Additional Developer Resources for the 2007 Office System and Microsoft Windows Vista
Get additional .NET Framework 3.0 resources for Developers
April’s Meeting on the 11th will highlight a presentation by Paul Robichaux. Be sure to mark your calendars for a great event.
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Gizmodo is proposing March as "Boycott the RIAA Month." I, for one, am happy to join in. There arent many groups I am in disagreement with when it comes to trying to increase their revenue income, but the MPAA and RIAA have been so blind to making a system for fair digital consumption of their respective media for America that it boggles the mind! They could both be rolling in more money than they could ever want (well, maybe not that much) if only they would inact a no DRM or more DRM-friendly system. Of course, the only language they speak is $$$ so let's hit them where it counts.
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I love Harold's webcasts on Exchange. He is a highly knowledgeable TechNet presenter. I recommend checking out his on-going 24 Hours of Exchange 2007 webcast series (I would list the link here but finding an event on the Microsoft website is about as frustrating as it gets IMO). I just completed hour 11 which focused on Policies and Compliance. Here are some highlights:
- Hub transport rules are not replicated to all the hub transport servers by any Exchange replication engine nor are they stored in the registry. They are instead replicated by Active Directory.
- Need to implement email disclaimers? No longer create them with vbscript and an event sink! Create a hub transport rule. Zip through the wizard and viola!
- You can also use the same hub transport rules to fashion an "ethical firewall" which allows for an enterprise to easily screen, copy and prohibit unwanted or confidential information from leaving via its email system. You can also key on information by wildcards like XXX-XX-XXXX (social security numbers).
- Journaling is now robust enough to be applied to a single user or groups of users (apply it to a DL). It can also journal everything, internal mail or external mail and many variations in between.
- Harold also mentioned routing journaled mail to a Sharepoint 2007 document library. Any resources on how this is possible Harold? Seems like a powerful solution to present to a compliance officer for searching and indexing.
Oh, and Kevin answered questions. Take that for what its worth. :)
Update: I found the link to the 24 Hours of Exchange webcast series.
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The You Had Me at EHLO blog is dishing the scoop on the forthcoming service pack 1. Look for an April release timeframe.
What I am looking forward to:
- OWA - personal distribution lists, rules and deleted items recovery.
- OWA - viewing Office file formats as HTML.
- EMC - public folder configuration (I know they're going but it is going to take a while)
- EMC - SendAs permission configuration
- Move mailbox to include import\export to a .pst.
- Can I also blow by the 2gb limit? :)
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Download here. Official website is here.
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Sign up for the Windows Home Server Beta 2 here. Ideal candidates will have two or more home PCs and a test box on which to install the beta.
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The "You Had Me at EHLO" blog is running a contest for the most excellent Exchange 2007 limerick. Grand prize is a Microsoft Zune engraved with the Exchange 2007 logo and catchphrase ...