Yearly Archives: 2007

Vlad’s School of Customer Service

IT Business
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Tip #2: Do not ridicule your customers right to complain by an outpour of sympathy and promises both of you know the organization cannot live up to. Case and point, one of our larger companies decided to put their eggs in … Continue reading

Strange Monday & Goings On

Vladville
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Today has been a strange, strange Monday. I’ve been swamped over the past week working on Shockey Monkey now that the major work on ExchangeDefender v3 has been completed. And not to hit Microsoft again but god it’s great working on my … Continue reading

VladCast, Day 2. WOW. (please read this)

Vladville
on VladCast, Day 2. WOW. (please read this)

Wow, what a response. Thank you, thank you, thank you. As of 1:00 PM EST the VladCast #2 has been downloaded 10,372 times, nearly 1/5 the audience of the SBS Show. However, the feedback loop has been through the roof, … Continue reading

Get a free Exchange 2007 demo account

Microsoft
on Get a free Exchange 2007 demo account

Want to try out Exchange 2007 for free but don’t want to install it or play sysadmin? Well, I have good news, Microsoft and Unisys have teamed up to offer a free trial account. Fill out a form with three … Continue reading

Making Friends

Vladville
on Making Friends

This came courtesy of a partner from Jacksonville and was just so good I had to share, enjoy:   While waiting on a client outside of Starbucks today, I was right in the middle of listening to you talk about  the … Continue reading

VladCast Episode 2

Vladcast
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VladCast 2, back at ya, louder and harier than ever! In the five or so minutes I talk about: – Walkthrough of workaround for KB 935963 RPC/DNS vulnerability– Release of Ubuntu Edgy Eft– Release of Outlook 2007 Performance fix– Microsoft … Continue reading

Vladville volcano NOT related to 933493

Microsoft
on Vladville volcano NOT related to 933493

Well, got my tale between my legs. The little eruption here regarding the crashed Outlook at 5 hours of downtime were not related to Outlook performance fix kb933493. I am not sure if I’m allowed to comment on what the … Continue reading

On Microsoft

Microsoft, OwnWebNow
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Just wanted to clear the air a little because I got an email from a Microsoft PM today that said, paraphrasing “We want to keep you as an MVP and a fan of the product”. So for him and all … Continue reading

Blog Upgraded

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on Blog Upgraded

Wow, that was quick. Even my own code ported over really fast. I did find one significant change, which I wrote about last year. Coma-separating the categories. Previously categories were treated as special lists which had separate functions applied to … Continue reading

Pardon the dust

Vladville
on Pardon the dust

Pardon the dust over the next 2–3 hours, I’m upgrading WordPress on Vladville to the 2.1 release. It’s likely going to take only a few minutes to upgrade but I have a lot of custom code running this stuff so … Continue reading