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This came up this morning so I thought I’d take a second to speak to it. For one, this not is by any means complete. There are hundreds of ways to combat spam (SPF/SenderID, RBLs, Heuristics, White/Black/Gray/Red/Green lists, International suffixes, the list goes on). All I want to point out here is what I think …

Hey folks, A whole pile of great eBooks on topics like SharePoint, Office, Exchange, Lync, Azure, CRM, Duet and more are available at the links below.  All free, all legit. Enjoy. Part 1:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-sharepoint-visual-studio-windows-phone-windows-8-office-365-office-2010-sql-server-2012-azure-and-more.aspx Part 2:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/30/another-large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-and-resource-kits-for-you-including-sharepoint-2013-office-2013-office-365-duet-2-0-azure-cloud-windows-phone-lync-dynamics-crm-and-more.aspx

I wanted to synchronize my iPhone with my Outlook Tasks (that exist within our Exchange Server at the office).  I noticed a number of APPS in the App Store that had some really poor ratings (crap, abandoned, etc.). Then looking in the Apple Forums, I noticed a bunch of folks whining about how it didn’t …

Given that you can’t have good technology without good technology, a lot of business owners and managers assume that having the best, top-of-the-line hardware naturally assures that their company will have great networking and communication. That’s not always the case, however, and even spending huge amounts of money on having the latest and greatest hardware, …

If you are trying to determine the IP of the sender of a bullsh#t email message (A spammer), you’ll want to get the info from the message headers. Below are the various methods to get it as Outlook has changed the interface with every version. Note, you need the original message. If someone forwards a …

Found this free ActiveSync Testing tool (so you don’t have to blow away your own phone settings to test ActiveSync on behalf of users). Available in the APP Store as: ActiveSync Tester Vendor website: https://store.accessmylan.com/main/promo-testtool Figure 1 : looks like this and provides some diagnostic info after it attempts to connect

Here’s a thread I had recently with a customer about why/how some of their emails weren’t getting to the intended recipient. Unfortunately, no matter what we did, the upstream email recipient’s (the receiver) system was rejecting the message – worse still it wasn’t even telling anyone it was rejecting it (oh thanks!) Anyways, I thought …

This from the Office Neeter.   Deleting an Exchange 2007/2010 Mailbox WITHOUT deleting the Active Directory user account   Back in the old days, you could delete an Active Directory user account in the ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) console, and you would be prompted whether or not you wanted to delete or keep …

Ran into this the other day… Background Migrating/moving mailboxes from Exchange Server 2003 to a new Exchange Server 2010 Server. Most mailboxes moved but a couple would not complete, with the following error: Warning: Failed to cleanup the source mailbox after the move. Error details: MapiExceptionNotFound: Unable to delete mailbox. (hr=0x8004010f, ec=2147221233) Reason While not …

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …