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According to Microsoft’s Facebook page, the next generation XBOX will be revealed on May 21st, at 10 AM PDT (on xbox.com).

This KnowledgeBase article on MS Support covers all the AntiVirus exclusions you’ll need to make for your SharePoint environments.  The title is slightly misleading, it doesn’t cover versions prior to WSS3.0 or MOSS2007 – sorry to anyone looking to setup a new SharePoint 2003 server – all your 10 year old technology are belong to …

As blogged by Frank Shaw, Corporate VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, Windows Phone is making some headway.  At this point, it’s mostly doing well in more developing markets, but if you can win “India” and “Russia” – with a potential Billion and a half-ish people, who cares if you win the much smaller North …

The leaks of the next generation of Windows are upon us.  Windows Blue, as it’s being called, is a milestone upgrade to the Windows 8/RT product line (not a new product, but a generational “half-step”), and has a number of changes – some minor, some major (like a new IE).  I’ve assembled a few links …

We’ve been having some issues with our OWA server recently, and I was ready to throw the VM away and build a new one, but I persisted and instead found a way to fix it, since I figured somewhere down the road we’ll need to do this for real with a customer, and rebuilding wouldn’t …

  This blog is dedicated to Sean who last night declared that his inbox was EMPTY. Coincidentally, this is also written by him so it’s a good thing he practices what he preaches 😉 Keep as few items in your INBOX as possible At the end of the day, you really shouldn’t have anything in …

The latest book I’ve helped contribute to is now available in print.  Many thanks to Sean Wallbridge for help getting me involved, Keith Tuomi for fighting over the chapters with me , and most of all, the author, Stephen Cawood, for being cool with letting the whole itgroove team join him in the technical editing …

I recently ran into a situation where I wanted to pull some content from another web site, however, due to a configuration constraint, I was unable to to this in a normal fashion.  Essentially, there was a table of data (a subset of the content on the page) on another site which I wanted to …

There are a lot of people out there gnashing their teeth over the whole question of Microsoft’s push for subscription licensing, specifically Office licensing via Office 365.  Indeed, there is a yawning chasm opening up between those of us who see advantage in the subscription model and those who cling to the old licensing models.  …

I have talked about the market changes that face all of us that are involved in supplying IT services in previous posts.  The Cloud (all of it , but particularly the Microsoft Cloud offerings like Office 365) is changing the market landscape in ways no one would have imagined just a few years ago.  And …