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Bing!
In: In the news|Micro$oft
8 Jan 2010Recently we had a pretty funny conversation with our Microsoft premier support tech. It was clear that a memo had gone out from up above and he was doing his part to push bing out to everyone that he could. Unfortunately, he forgot he was talking to engineers. We’re smart ass bastards and he should [...]
HMC Resource Management
5 Jan 2010Today I’m going to talk about the wonderful thing that is the Resource Manger for HMC (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration), the wondering framework from Microsoft for provisioning users for Exchange, OCS and SharePoint automagically. Now, we tend to do things a bit differently at my current job. For example, I’m pretty sure I’m the only [...]
Windows 7 Failure?
2 Nov 2009So I was checking out CNN today and I found this article titled Mac share grew after Windows 7 debut. In the article, you’ll see some gems such as this: If Microsoft (MSFT) was hoping that the launch of Windows 7 would halt the erosion of its operating system market share — and curb further [...]
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One Character == World of Suck
7 Jun 2009Ladies and Gentlemen, today you are going to learn a lesson on why you do NOT edit the active directory directly for exchange attributes. Background A long time ago, we had a very crappy provisioning system for our hosted Exchange 2003 platform. It worked ok, but missed a lot of things that we wanted to [...]
Business as usual
31 May 2009Over the past couple of years, I have been able to tolerate Microsoft a bit more than I used to. When your primary income relies on people purchasing Exchange and OCS accounts that you provide the back end provisioning and automation for, you quickly realize where your bread is buttered. But this sort of crap [...]
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Greedy Bastards
In: Micro$oft
27 Mar 2009I’m not a windows mobile developer. And why would you want to be. Seeing this latest article from CNet News, I can’t think of a reason I would want to play in the Micro$oft world of endless, confusing licensing agreements. Microsoft plans to charge mobile-application developers $99 to release upgraded versions of applications they submit [...]
Exchange 14 – Service First, Server 2nd
In: Micro$oft
3 Mar 2009I’m thinking that Microsoft is finally starting to realize that the hosted model ‘works’. Seeing this article on cnet is starting to make me feel a lot better about the future of Exchange. As a hosted exchange provider, I can tell you that making Exchange a multi tenant environment is not the easiest thing to [...]
First!
In: In the news|Micro$oft
10 Feb 2009There are very few times that a company gets to claim that they are first to do something. But today, my project is launching and LightEdge Solutions gets to claim that we are the first service provider to provide this integration. Today we are announcing that we are rolling out our Hosted Office Communication Server [...]
The need for speed
28 Jan 2009As I’ve written before, the main engine that we are using to provision users on our Exchange system is Microsoft‘s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) framework. I’ve had a few issues with it and various hoops that I have had to jump through. Many of which I have not had a chance to document on [...]
Microsoft cutting 5,000 jobs on weak results
In: In the news
22 Jan 2009Microsoft said Thursday its sales and earnings for the December quarter fell well below expectations and announced a series of cost-cutting moves, including its first-ever companywide layoffs The software maker said it will cut up to 5,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce, over the next 18 months. About 1,400 jobs were eliminated immediately. [...]
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- Tags: Economy, Job Cuts, Microsoft, Skunkworks
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