Friday, March 14, 2008

Nice 70-290 Study Tool - FREE

I was looking at some recommended Windows links over at Networkworld and happend upon these very nice flash cards.

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It Begins - I am supporting an Iphone

What a week. I have my first Iphone inhouse, and it has been a pain trying to setup the little buggar to access our Exchange E-Mail.

According to an article I found on Apple's site, you need to do the following:
Open port 993
Installl a digital certificate
Open port 587, 465, or 25

No problem, sounds easy, right? WRONG. Our network guys refuse to do the first one, assuring me that I should be able to use ActiveSync. Of course, ActiveSync isn't available yet for the Iphone really, but when it is, this should all work quite nicely.

What a pain!! I am still searching to make sure I haven't missed something. . .but for now. . .I have told my user he is out of luck, but I just hate that answer.

Quick Recommendation - Video Cast

I stumbled upon a video cast that is pretty good, and certainly helpful for anyone studying for the 70-290 test.

I personally am starting with the older versions of the ITIdiots show, but the newer ones may be more applicable to those who are on the cuttting edge of Microsoft Server technology. These guys have some well done videos, their content is free and easily subscribed to, and the cute accents don't hurt the entertainment value either.

The videocast won't be able to replace your training videos, but it is a nice supplement to them. If you have found some really great free resources, or you have some of your own, let me know.

Exchange Note to Self - Contacts

I came across a new thing today in our OU and I wanted to document both what I found and how I changed our settings. I came across a few contacts, where all other listings are Users or Groups.

We had three "contacts" setup in our list of users who have email accounts outside of our mail system. As far as I could tell, they had no account or email with us, but they were members of two internal distribution groups. The only options I have with these contacts is to add to a group, move, delete email addresses, open home page or send mail.

My boss asked me to delete these accounts today and forward the mail to him. I couldn't forward their mail, as it existed off our server, and I couldn't disable the contacts as far as I could tell either, not did I really want to do this. Instead, I simply removed the two group memeberships from these accounts. Which actually achieved his goal, they will no longer get mail from us.