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There has been a lot of discussion about running Exchange 2003 SP2 on a Windows 2003 server while upgrading the domain to Windows 2008 R2 native mode. There are two real authorities that I rely upon and unfortunately there is disagreement.
First is Microsoft TechNet. According to their Exchange Server Supportability Matrix, last updated on 12-09-2009, [...]

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I have been working with Windows 7 recently and since it does not ship with Windows Messenger, I had to install Windows Live Messenger on it.  In doing so, I noticed a lot of new features in that product, including integration with a number of Web 2.0 items.  One of those features is to add [...]

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We’ve all been there.  The CEO, corporate council and/or other executives are demanding that the company have a legal disclaimer at the end of all E-mail messages.  Their obvious solution is to demand that every user put the disclaimer at the end of their signature block.  That quickly becomes a nightmare as every internal message [...]

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I previously wrote about the problems and issues with version 5.20.x and that we were looking forward to seeing what 6.1 was going to provide.  Well, we downloaded version 6.0 and it is a significantly different product; even changing the name to IBM Systems Director.  For starters, it no longer uses a thick client for administration, [...]

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Like a lot of companies, we have been looking for alternatives to giving our users a full copy of Adobe Acrobat.  Not because of the features or capabilities, which are plentiful, but because the price ($449) is way too high for what most users need.  I would say that most people are simply converting Microsoft Office documents [...]

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In setting up a Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) cluster, there are various reasons to want to separate or group client systems together.  For example, you may have a set of systems that communicate constantly in processing information and therefore you want them to be on the same ESX host.  On the other side, you may [...]

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