Month: April 2010

It seems like a long time since I studied to be a programmer. In fact it was back in 1999 that I completed my Dip BC in the programming stream at CPIT. A stint of Access development over some holidays convinced me I was not cut out for that line, and when I returned to…

It was just a year ago that I blogged about our progress in the direction of migrating to Exchange Server 2007. One year on, we have just finished uninstalling that server after migrating everyone for a second time, to Live@Edu. What changed our great plan to run our own in-house Exchange server? Exchange 2007 is…

One of the useful features of Windows 7 is XP Mode, but hitherto it was only available for computers which had hardware assisted virtualisation. This meant I couldn’t use it because even though this PC is only 2 years old, the Intel CPU is a model that doesn’t have vT support. MS has recently changed…

Well, our migration is almost complete. We are still working on a few small things here and there. There has been one very significant issue that a number of our users have experienced and that has been that their addresses which they used in the old domain have been changed into funny addresses that look…

Last time I posted about some of the early steps of getting mailboxes across to Live@Edu. As of this moment I have not had a response to my query raised with Outlook Live as to the Import-Mailbox functionality. We have migrated all mailboxes manually by setting up Outlook to connect to the account and then…

If you have a registered Internet domain name and you want to provide email addresses to your users based on that domain name, you have basically two options: Provide an on-premises mail service and infrastructure Utilise externally provisioned (hosted) mail services Historically, the second option has only been viable with a fairly small number of…