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Moving the Blog

Welcome to all of my loyal (and occasional too) readers to the new home of the blog. After 4+ years of running the blog on various versions of blogging servers on my own hardware, I am simplifying my life by letting someone else do the heavy lifting. In this case, Blogger.

For those of you who have migrated over to the feed link, this shouldn't even hurt a bit, as your reader will just swap over to the new feed. If you have any hard links to old articles, unfortunately those will no longer work.

Thanks for tagging along in the change. I've got a bunch of things planed for 2008, so stay tuned.

SharePoint 2007 Service Packs Available

SP1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 have arrived. You can get the download, read installation instructions, and find out more at the SharePoint Team Blog and the official SP1 Site.

For User Review

The impacts of email can be devastating to careers and can be long-standing with the permanent nature of the communication. A recent article on law.com highlights the think before you send mentality that needs to be ingrained into company cultures far and wide.

E-mails, text messages, BlackBerry communications all are potential time bombs if not worded thoughtfully and with discipline. "It just creates the potential for a permanent record for all this type of stuff," Clarke said. "People don't realize that to some degree, if it's in an e-mail, it's analogous to etching it in stone."

Read the entire article here.

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1

Yep, available now.

• Download link
• Release Notes

Improvements in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 include:
Anywhere Access
• Integrated Exchange Unified Messaging functionality with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
• Outlook Web Access additions, including public folder access, S/MIME support, personal distribution lists, and mailbox rules editor.
• Webready document viewer supports Microsoft Office 2007 documents in addition to Microsoft Office 2003 documents.
• Extended language support in Outlook Web Access with Arabic and Korean spell checking.
Operational Efficiency
• Support for Windows Server 2008 deployments, including benefits in flexible clustering, native virtualization, advanced networking, and simplified management.
• Additional tools in the Exchange Management Console, including public folder management and configuration options for clustering and POP/IMAP access.
• Improvements to the Exchange Management Shell syntax and import-export PST in the move-mailbox command.
• Wider variety of web services for application development, including public folder access, delegate management, and folder level permissions.
Built-in Protection
• Addition of Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) for site resilient high availability deployments.
• Extended Exchange ActiveSync policies for mobile policy enforcement.
• Information rights management pre-licensing by the Hub Transport role.
• Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP) support in the Unified Messaging role.
• Support for IPv6 when using Windows Server 2008.