Palm Releases Verizon Treo 700w/wx Updater 1.22

On July 12, 2007, in Hardware, Toys & Gadgets, by Babul A. Mukherjee

If you have a Palm Treo 700w/wx on Verizon – this is a REALLY BIG update!

My Treo is on Sprint :(   Where is the Sprint update?  I want the High Speed DUN and A2DP!!!

Palm has posted an update for the Verizon Treo 700w/wx

Palm Releases Verizon Treo 700w/wx Updater 1.22

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AMD or Intel Server?

On July 10, 2007, in Hardware, by Babul A. Mukherjee

AMD or Intel for your next server?  That is the question.  Which is cheaper?  Which is faster?

Found a great article at http://www.crn.com/white-box/200000056.

David Gilbert’s conclusion echos what I’ve seen performance-wise, though he provides some technical data to back it up. 

As David says, its a game of technical leap-frog, so any edge given to one camp or the other may be short lived.

Absolutely worth reading before your next server purchase.

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Must have utility – TreeSize

On July 5, 2007, in Uncategorized, by Babul A. Mukherjee

This is a great utility for finding out what is taking up so much gosh darn space on your hard drives!

The free version won’t work on network paths, but on local disks it works just fine.

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

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MSExchange ActiveSync Heartbeat Intervals

On July 5, 2007, in Exchange, Mobility, by Babul A. Mukherjee

I kept getting MSExchange ActiveSync 1040 warning events on many client’s Exchange servers (2003 and 2007).  The event itself sent me to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905013 (thanks Microsoft, that does help!) which pointed to a firewall issue.

Since we are using Cisco routers at these sites, I did a quick Google and turned up nothing.  Darn, time to hit the books ;)

I threw the following command in to modify the timeout in the CBAC inspect of HTTPS.  I set the timeout to 10 minutes.

ip inspect name <inspectname> https timeout 600

So far the warning event hasn’t shown back up…

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I love Outlook 2007 Programmability!

On July 3, 2007, in Uncategorized, by Babul A. Mukherjee

It only took waiting 12 years, but I can now programmatically create rules in Outlook for my staff! 

Here is the Microsoft code I started from: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb206765.aspx

Two clicks and each employee has the same “core company” rules as everyone else.  This provides HUGE rewards for us!  Everyone sees exactly the same folders and email organized the SAME way plus it definitely makes training easier.

Next to update my code to set aging on our core company folders.

Here is the same code Microsoft has provided for setting Outlook folder properties: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb176434.aspx

I thought I would probably need to go buy Sue Mosher’s new book http://www.amazon.com/dp/1555583466), which I found at our local Borders before I could accomplish anything, but it wasn’t that difficult.  I’ll save that for my next big Outlook automation project.

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