Microsoft’s direct push technology for delivering email, calendar and contacts from Exchange 2003 SP2/Exchange 2007 to Windows Mobile 5 devices seems to be pretty simple, functional and elegant, even better it’s being licensed for use with other mobile device operating systems. For more details this blog is a great place to start.
Watch the Microsoft demos and the offline capabilities of SharePoint look really slick, but dig into the details and you find that it’s not as rosy as you first thought, in fact in some areas, like Excel 2007 integration with SharePoint 2007 it’s actually worse than in the 2003 products. ...
This is a great article if you want to get a good overview of the features of Exchange 2007, these are my favourites: Voice Messaging System Voice mail can now be stored in the mailbox and accessed from a unified inbox in Outlook, Outlook Web Access, on a mobile device,...
One of the more interesting business trends is increasing mobility and how it will change many lives, it’s certainly changed mine allowing me to work from home, out walking, from cafes and restaurants and hotels. So I was pleased to find this very interesting open survey on this critical dimension of...
I just read a great post that describes some of the challenges that face project managers. The basic premise is that it’s almost impossible to control a project because there are just too many people making too many decisions, but don’t give up hope the article provides a coping strategy. ...
Anyone you read my blog knows that I am a big fan of multiple monitors. In Vista support for multiple monitors is slightly more restrictive, here’s a summary: Multiple monitors attached to a single card – no problem Multiple monitors attached to multiple cards with the same driver (which normally...
RSS has grown up on the public Internet and it seems that authentication will be problematic when it moves into the Intranet. On Intranets expect to find the following authentication mechanisms: NTLM kerberos Digest Forms based Basic (usually combined with SSL) Only the last of these mechanisms can be assumed...
Stephie and I went for a long walk this morning beside the salt marshes, just a short walk from our house. Stephie has just got back from hospital having been in for a couple of nights with concussion, she was still struggling with her balance and not very confident, by...
Having spent a long time as a customer it continues to frustrate me that many companies seem to neglect existing customers, it seems illogical to me: We want existing customers to be repeat customers Existing happy customers are a wonderful sales asset Existing customers are where we prove that we...
Attracting and retaining best staff is becoming a bigger issue, my experience has always been that leadership, flexibility and freedom are big factors in retention. CnnMoney.com has a useful article that describes what the next generation are looking for and it seems to be more of the same: 77% of...