Thoughtsofanidlemind's Blog

  • Update report for the Exchange SP1 book

    I’ve not written much here for the last week or so, but I have a good excuse. I’ve been heads-down to complete a number of chapters for my Exchange 2010 SP1 book to be able to submit them to Microsoft Press and begin the editing process that eventually leads to…

  • Books, books, books

    I’ve been asked how many books have I written to date. The answer is that twelve have been published so far, all with Digital Press, and now I’m working on #13 for Microsoft Press. Digital Press started as the technical publishing arm of Digital Equipment Corporation. When I started working…

  • Exchange 2010 SP1 on the horizon

    Sometimes I have been accused of being a “yes man” for the Exchange development group; someone who thinks that everything Redmond (the development group in the town rather than myself) does is good in terms of advancing the Exchange product and is slow to offer criticize. I happen to believe…

  • TV Match Official in Toulouse

    My outlet from technology is rugby refereeing. These days the number of actual games that I referee is low as age, weary knees, and creaky ankles all conspire to stop me getting around the field as I once did. So I do two things – performance review for active referees…

  • Exchange 2010 SP1 Book

    The broad outline of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out that I am working on is given below. This may well change when Microsoft Press starts to fit the chapters that I have written into the format of the published book. In any case, it gives a reasonable idea of…

  • Recommended in Palo Alto

    We lived in Palo Alto, CA from August 2007 to July 2009. This week we were back in town to catch up with some friends and stayed at the Cowper Inn (705, Cowper St). If you’re looking for somewhere to stay in Silicon Valley, there are worse places to be…

  • Musing on Bits n’ Pieces

    I’ve ignored blogging for long enough. Perhaps it was because I was too busy with the day-to-day work that went on inside HP to have time to blog as well as do other (more interesting) things such as writing articles and books, not to mention the time required to do…