Category Archives: Technical

Limiting external users from sending mail to Exchange objects

This article goes over how to allow only known external users to be able to send to internal users and groups with Exchange 2007.   See the full post here on outlookexchange.com

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Script: Get transaction log count (EXCollect)

7/21 Update:  I’ve created a wiki page for this script: http://info.izzy.org/Wiki/EXCollect.aspx go here for the latest info.  I’ve also renamed the script to "EXCollect" 🙂   At my new company (Mimosa Systems) we have a sizing XLS that we use to … Continue reading

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Blog upgraded using free Community Kit for SharePoint

This free, open source, add-on\upgrade to SharePoint is a major improvement over the standard blog site in SharePoint 3.0/2007.   You can download it and view the docs at: http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=CKS  

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Two-way Sync with Excel 2007 and SharePoint 2007 requires this add-in

In Excel 2003 you could edit a SharePoint list using Excel.  For some reason, probably because they are trying to push users to use Access for this now, Microsoft dropped two-way sync support in Excel 2007.  This ability was listed as … Continue reading

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Got to love corporate influenced politics…

I friend of mine, Glenn Deans from Atlanta, forwarded this to me, asking me why I didn’t ask Steve Ballmer about this last week at the MVP Summit. 🙂   Anyways this post "The Norway Vote – What really happened" … Continue reading

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MVP Summit 2008

Well this year’s Microsoft MVP Summit is over and MVPs from around the world are heading home. This year’s summit was great, minus the food, again. The highlights were the deep technical information on what’s coming out in E14 (next … Continue reading

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At the Microsoft MVP summit in Seattle this week

I’m in Seattle this week for the MS MVP Summit. At the summit MVPs get to spend two full days with the product groups (developers and managers) in their area of expertise.  At these sessions mostly the up coming versions  and … Continue reading

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Creating a Spam Quarantine with Exchange 2007

My latest article has been posted to http://www.outlookexchange.com   Creating a Spam Quarantine with Exchange 2007Out of the box Exchange 2007 has support to store/quarantine possible spam messages.  This articles goes over how to enable and fully utilize this feature.

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10 more years of Public Folders (Exchange)

Well Microsoft has "officially" announced, at least on the Exchange Team blog, that E14 (next version of Exchange, after 2007) will support Public Folders 😦   Why am I sad?  Well Microsoft has been saying they are going to stop … Continue reading

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Exchange, SharePoint, and Outlook 2007 articles

I’ve talked to a few technical friends of mine in the last few weeks about Exchange 2007 and SharePoint 2007. Most of them haven’t had the time to spend with either of these products since they were release, which was … Continue reading

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