The Wonderful World of Alginald

Is RBAC in Microsoft Exchange flawed? If you ask Microsoft, they will tell you that it is not. If you ask me or my friend, we think the...

Manually Creating a MobileConfig file including certificates I've spent a long time trying to automate the creation of MobileConfig file...

iPhone PDF attachment missing Well, this is a strange one. iPhone syncing with Exchange 2003 via Push Mail. Sharepoint (or MOSS or WSS or......

Changed Job again After over 2 1/2 years at PlanB ( www.plan-b-gmbh.com ) I have changed jobs. Although I enjoyed my work there, it wasn...

Don't use biro on a notebook when using paintbrush.... After showing somebody (name removed to protect the innocent) how to use paintbru...

Office Communications Server R2 - Error 0x80070534 Just done my first test install of OCS R2, and each time I tried to activate the OCS Serv...

Unable to send / receive SMS (text) messages on my phone for months Turns out that because I've got dual-sim (one for a backup phone) th...

OCS - Office Communicator cannot access address book Troubleshooting Address book issues with OCS can be a pain, fortunately, there's a ...

OCS / Communicator - Cannot Synchronize Address Book Although there are lots of reasons for this error appearing, including problems with th...

Strange problem sending an email as attachment in a task Outlook 2007 / Exchange 2007 / Forefront for Exchange SP1 Strange problem.... if Fo...

Cannot delegate calendar to shared mailbox or mail non-universal group -Exchange 2007 Strange problem with Outlook 2007 users running agains...

0x80050014 - Server-sided Active Sync Yes, I've followed article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817379 and no, I still can't sync ...

Added New Photos of Alan and Peter Finally got round to adding a few (not many) actual photos of the little ones. Alan is well over 2 and Pe...

Dell 1815dn Multi Printer sends PDF via Exchange 2007 incorrectly Had a problem today with a Dell multi device, whereby the attachment was i...

And then there were four...... Peter James was born last night, 16.07.2007. 3350g, 54cm. Both Diddly and Peter are doing well, the two Alans...

Quintum and Office Communications Server 2007 I got a new toy. Well its not really a toy, but a rather wonderful box of tricks that allows y...

Publishing Multiple Exchange 2007 behind ISA Server 2006 I liked the idea of a Front-end Server in Exchange 2000/2003. Trying to get the sam...

Asterisk, SIPX and Exchange 2007 I've had a lot of mails, and hope that I've helped a lot of people over the past few months. Howeve...

Plan-B GmbH Hi All, Just to let you know, I now work for Plan B GmbH in Wasseralfingen. My email address is "first dot last @ plan-b-gm...

Instructions on how to connect Asterisk to Microsoft Exchange 2007 for Unified Messaging UPDATE AGAIN: There are MUCH better instructions fo...

Asterisk and Exchange 2007 working! After spending a bit of time playing around with the Unified Messaging features in Exchange 2007, and ge...

Goodbye, god bless, and thank you. I have left my job in Sunny South Germany after 12 years of working for a top Windows consultancy company...

China Visit Just returned from a few weeks work in Qingdao, China. Quite a strange experience, walking the streets, rarely seeing another eu...

Sleepless Nights - I don't think so.... Little Al is doing well.... I've published quite a few more photos to flickr if you're i...

And then there were three..... Who's the daddy? I am. Little Al came into the world at 19:29 on 17 March. Weighing in at 3420g and 54 cm...

2 weeks to go (ish) Well, its 1 day before the start of March, and its snowing outside. I wouldn't mind if it was good snow, but its jus...

Exchange 2003 Public Folder Error 80090325 SSL Problem Just when I thought all error messages regarding E2K3 were documented, I run into one...

Change of telephone number As you might have read in the last post, I am moving house soon. My telephone number will also change, therefore,...

Housework So, got the new house. Fortunately there's not too much work to be done. I've finished painting the walls, just gotta stri...

How the world can change.... Well it's been a few months since my last post. Things have been pretty hectic. Bought a house, getting mar...

Snow fun anymore Well, it just wont stop snowing here, I'm sure we're all going to move into igloos soon :-)

New NAS device Went to the hobby messe (exhibition) in Stuttgart on Monday. Didn't really want to go, but as I got there at 9 am, it...

Outlook 2003 Nicknames Now I don't often rant about MS :-) but something like this really annoys me. I have spent the last 2 hours tryin...

Marriage (not mine), Linux and other things First things first, congratulations to two of my best friends, Elaine and Lee, on their marria...

Even Microsoft isn't that impressed with .pst files.. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297019 Not supported over WAN or LAN co...

England vs Ukraine What a game, well played Becks and Owen, and what a goal by Wright-Phillips. In fact, in the second half, it was the ...

Exchange Virtual Memory There still seems to be a lot of problems out there with Exchange and Virtual Memory. Beware of rogue informatio...

Don't backup Exchange 2003 Information Stores and the System State in the same backup job! Of course we wouldn't do this anyway, or?...

Beamer woes Decided to kill my beamer last week. Dropping it from 1.5 meters tends to have that effect. Thankfully, after breaking off bits ...

Oh, To Be In England Just been back to my island for the last few days. Had a good time wandering around the junk shops, collecting books ...

Fraser My mate Fraser has got a new CD out. Its called "Rain before seven". Given it a few plays, and it gets my thumbs up. There...

Exchange 2000 Disaster Recovery Just as I thought I was getting an early hometime (16:30) along pops another Exchange 2000 problem. This tim...

WLAN Bought a new Wireless Router on Friday. I know its *only* 11MB, but as the internet is only 768Kb, its enough for surfing. I bought the...

Active Directory Disaster Recovery Well, two weeks later, and I've just finished giving a 2 day Active Directory Disaster Recovery tra...

Another translation of sorts A work colleague sent me an email regarding an Office CD that I needed. He translated the original german int...

Finished giving a two-day Exchange 200x disaster recovery course. Went well in my opinion. Probably the worst thing was the speed of the mac...

Well its a very sunny day today. Temperature at 17C is rather strange for this time of year, although we should have snow back by the weeken...

Well, I've been doing an ISA Server installation the last few days, which, as always, was fun, and quite easy. A little problem with the...

Hi, this is my first blog, which will probably get deleted at some time or another. I just needed somewhere to keep information which could ...