Author Archives: Vlad

WWPC Barrier: To blog or not to blog?

Events
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Untitled document With the recent degradation in the quality of service provided in the lower ends of the IT market many IT Professionals have called for some minimum barriers to entry. Unfortunately, there is not much that separates your Joe … Continue reading

ActiveSync 4.2 is out! Solves 85010014 errors.

Mobility
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Untitled document ActiveSync 4.2 is out. Now the thousands of you that have come to the Vladville wiki in search of resulution to the popular problem 85010014 will finally be able to sync without disabling SSL. Go get it !  … Continue reading

Cheers Harryb

Misc
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Untitled document The beauty of this business is that if you're serious about it (and realize it takes getting out of your cave to learn and network) you can meet some wonderful people and talk to them about things other … Continue reading

To the three friends moving on…

Friends
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First and perhaps geographically the closest, Chris Rue has finally moved off Blogger and to Own Web Now. Welcome to the club. His site is on Word Press now and markedly less flaming than it used to be. He however, … Continue reading

4th of July Vladville Reflections

Vladville
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Untitled document Fourth of July weekend is a great time to do major infrastructure migrations but also a time where even I get to take some time off and reflect on what I’m doing. I was, to say the least, … Continue reading

Microsoft’s Best Marketing Pitch EVER: It’s One Louder.

Microsoft
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The key to being “louder” is great marketing. Microsoft often gets beaten up over their poor consumer product marketing (sans the Xbox of course) so they either intentionally or most likey unintentionally produced the following pitch for Windows Media Player … Continue reading

ExchangeDefender Updates: So this is what its like to work on Microsoft Vista?

IT Business
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Yesterday I had a pleasure of hanging out with half a dozen of our customers and at some point I got the Vista treatment: We really love your product, but the file rules blow. This is Vlad’s version of UAC. ExchangeDefender … Continue reading

How to learn Exchange?

Exchange
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Every now and then we get an onslaught of newbies coming into the SBS world and trying to learn about Exchange. Unfortunately, they try to learn in the exact opposite way than the way Exchange is supposed to be deployed. … Continue reading

Microsoft Re-releases MS06-025 Patch

Security
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Microsoft is releasing an update to the patch it provided earlier this month, vulnerability in Routing and Remote Access blah blah (911280) where blah blah means remotely exploitable, patch now.  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-025.mspx

Busy News Monday: To Q or Not to Q, Dude, you’re getting an AMD

Vladville
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I’m wondering if it would be better to stick this into the upcoming Vladville Vlog or keep it in the blog for my partners but every week I find a lot of info that I don’t have any particular opinion … Continue reading