Scripting Exchange Server

For ‘ad hoc’ scripting of Exchange Server, you just cannot beat Dmitry Streblechenko’s Outlook Redemption. It is basically a set of COM objects (in a DLL) which wrap many of the Outlook / Exchange objects, saving you from having to put some C++ code together to get around the horrible…

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Tools for every machine.

There are some tools I find myself adding to every machine I work on. Some of these come from Scott Hanselmans’ Ultimate Tools List. Currently I install the following on every machine :- Notepad2 Winzip CmdHere Powertoy for XP BGinfo from SysInternals CommandBar for Explorer VNC I also use a…

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Helpdesk Application

I have been working in Support / Technical Services for many years now and have seen my fair share of CRM / Helpdesk Applications. These vary from the big guys Seibel, Remedy, HEAT all the way to free PHP scripts with a messy web front end. One I’ve seen recently…

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Samsung D600 review

I have just changed my mobile phone to the new Samsung D600 (perviously I had always used Nokia models). The Samsung phone is pretty good, it provides me with a 2 mega pixel camera, micro SD slot (which I filled with a 512MB card, so now my phone are over…

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Is it worth it ???

Well I beat my record. This weekend I drove from Newbury, Berkshire to Argyll, Scotland to do some ‘munro baggging’ with my brother.It’s a 400 mile journey that I expected to do in around 7 hours. I ended up driving for 10 hours each way. The weather was pretty miserable…

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