Author Archives: Vlad

ORDB Shutdown Drama

Exchange
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There seems to be a lot of drama surrounding the shutdown of ORDB spam blacklist. Here is why this is a non-event: Open relays no longer significantly contribute to the amount of spam. Few years ago, this was not the … Continue reading

Clearing the Community Question Box

Vladville
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Many of you bothered to write in, comment on my blog post and forward me email’s from the sbs list I left. In my absence there has been enough said on and off the list along with discussions that have … Continue reading

Vlad switches to Zune!

Microsoft
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I take back every bad thing I ever said about Microsoft Zune. Now they are talking to my market! (25–34 male with expendable income). I’m of course talking about the story from Chicago titled: Gift Was Not What They Expected: … Continue reading

Shockey Monkey Activations

Shockey Monkey
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Just giving you an ETA update on Shockey Monkey. We’re very excited here, there are over 2,000 folks that already got all their stuff ready: Dear Partners, I wanted to take a moment and update you on the status of … Continue reading

Exchange 2007 is Available!

Exchange
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Exchange 2007 has finally been released. It is available to Volume Licensing customers on licensing.microsoft.com. There are no bits on MSDN or Technet yet (will be there soon) but you can get the evaluation copies already and remember that Microsoft … Continue reading

Should IT Experts Be Held To A Higher Standard?

IT Culture
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I had another spirited debate with Ms. Bradley over the last three hours and considering the previous discussion I felt it was important you consider the following question: Should we hold technical experts to a higher degree of responsibility for … Continue reading

Have SBS Yahoo groups lost all value?

IT Culture, SMB
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Not too long ago Yahoo SBS groups were filled with people that are at the very top of our field. From MVPs to book writers to technology experts to even Microsoft developers and test engineers, SBS Yahoo groups were the … Continue reading

Speaking about SBS at TechMentor TechPartner Conference

Events, SMB
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Today I signed the final paperwork to speak at the TechPartner TechMentor conference in Orlando on March 28–29, 2007. You can find the conference details here but suffice to say this is thrown by Remond Channel Magazine (previously MCPMag) so you … Continue reading

Blast from the past

IT Culture
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Steve Litt runs our local Orlando Linux Users Group and forwarded this gem earlier today. REQUEST FOR QUOTE ON MULTITECH COMPUTER SYSTEM>From Steve LittTo Zev Gobst, Maximum MediaI’d like to purchase the following:1 Multitech Accel 900 10 mhz computer $1450.00 … Continue reading

SBS CAL Activations Not Working

Microsoft, SMB
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Straight from da man: We’ve had several reports of SBS CAL activations failing.  We’re currently looking in to the situation and will post an update here as soon as we have more information.  This only affects CALs at this point, … Continue reading