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  • Moving back to Windows Phone

    I’ve been using an iPhone 3GS for the last two years and have enjoyed the experience. I even wanted to get an iPhone 4S before Christmas but couldn’t get one for love or money anywhere in Dublin. I might not have tried as hard as was necessary to procure a…

  • December 2011 articles posted on WindowsITPro.com

    Happy New Year to all! This post lists the articles that I posted to my WindowsITPro.com blog during December 2011. Enjoy! Reporting Exchange Server 2010 Client Access Licenses (December 29) discusses the two types of Client Access Licenses (CALs) supported by Exchange 2010 and offers some advice as to how you…

  • A visit to Craven Cottage

    There’s something impressive about professional sport when it is played at speed and with precision at the highest level. Wednesday evening saw my sons and I pay a visit to Craven Cottage in London to see Fulham FC welcome Manchester United in an English Premier League game. Fulham had won the…

  • The pain of CDG transits

    Is there another airport in the world that rivals CDG-Paris in terms of its ability to infuriate passengers through senseless bus journeys from one part of the airport to another? This thought came to my mind as I endured yet another opportunity to get far too close to people I…

  • Oops – “Reply All” strikes again

    Anyone who’s worked with email for a while is probably well aware of the havoc that the uncontrolled (or unintended) use of the Reply/All option can wreak on the unwary. It was interesting to see The Register report on the case of a UK-based recruitment executive who lost his STG200K…

  • Collective early December ramblings

    Last week my wife and I traveled to The Netherlands to visit Utrecht and Amsterdam for some business and a little pleasure. In Utrecht, we stayed at the Hotel Karel V, which was very nice if a tad cold at times. While there, I visited Conclusion Future IT to talk about a…

  • RunAs radio interview on Office 365

    Recently I had the chance to sit down and chat with Richard Campbell of RunAs radio, who posted a recording of the interview on December 7. The topic of the interview was the current state of play with Office 365, who’s moving to it, what the impact of the August…

  • Installing Exchange 2010 SP2

    By now you’ll have read the news that Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Exchange 2010. If not, you can read my article on WindowsITPro.com and then go and fetch the necessary bits from the Microsoft Download Center. Installing SP2 is a relatively straightforward affair and Exchange 2010…

  • November posts on WindowsITPro.com

    I know that many of the readers of this fine blog don’t have the chance or the time to keep up to date with the “Exchange Unwashed” blog that I contribute to on WindowsITPro.com (of course, you could subscribe to Twitter and follow me there), so here’s a brief recap…

  • The Email Museum

    Email has been part of our life for so long that it’s hard to remember a time when email was not pervasive and available on so many devices in so many forms. But there was a time when email access was confined to senior people or those who “had the…