26 Aug
Tuesday was a exciting day at ILTA 2009 with lots of great sessions and discussions throughout the day. About the only part of the day that wasn’t so great was the turkey bacon served at breakfast, which had the texture of construction paper and the flavor of it as well. The morning saw a number of Read more…
25 Aug
Macs continue to gain traction in the personal computing space. This in turn has required Windows administrators to become more familiar with Macs and the limitations they may have when connecting to a typical corporate Windows environment. In the past, Citrix has done an OK job providing Mac support for XenApp through a basic ICA Read more…
24 Aug
In working with a colleague, we came across what appears to be a bug within Outlook relating to meetings disappearing from calendars after an update is sent. This has been confirmed to affect Outlook 2007 but it may affect other versions as well. Symptom: A meeting for which you are the owner/organizer disappears from your Read more…
23 Aug
Previously, in part 1 of this blog post, I introduced Exchange 2010 and discussed large mailbox support along with native archiving features. In this post, I will present native electronic discovery features, retention policies, and legal holds. Native eDiscovery Features In previous versions of Exchange, third-party tools were required for even basic multi-mailbox searching and Read more…
21 Aug
Outlook 2003 and 2007 support a protocol called stssync, which allow SharePoint libraries to be viewed in Outlook. Outlook 2003 allows for read-only viewing, whereas Outlook 2007 also allows for two-way synching of certain content. The most common way of connecting to a SharePoint library is through the SharePoint Actions menu, as shown below.
19 Aug
The next version of Microsoft’s enterprise messaging platform, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, is due for release in the fourth quarter of 2009. The current version of Exchange, Exchange 2007, introduced dramatic architectural changes that made it a compelling upgrade both for law firms running previous versions of Exchange, such as Exchange 2000 or 2003, and Read more…
13 Aug
In my previous post, I discussed ways of bringing the legal user community into the matter centric design process. That’s only the first battle. Once attorneys are able to visualize the concept behind the organizational folders of a matter centric WorkSpace, they may want the structures to mimic what they are used to — especially Read more…
13 Aug
A couple of months back I posted on Citrix’s HDX Media Stream, as well as my first hand results with the trial release of HDX Media Stream for Flash. Today, I wanted to follow up on that post with the newly released betas of XenApp 4.5/5.0 Hotfix rollup pack 5 (HRP) and Citrix Online Plug-in Read more…
10 Aug
Installing the VMware Tools package inside a VMware virtual machine improves overall performance and allows the use of advanced features and faster virtual hardware drivers. The installation package also installs a tray icon that controls guest access to virtual hardware, time synchronization, etc. Since most virtual machines are servers and end users don’t typically access Read more…