07.22.08

HMC Provisioning with Powershell

Posted in Work at 10:39 am by JohnB

I came across this article today and wanted to share it out to all of you out there who are using Powershell to manage and maintain your HMC environments instead of the Exchange UI tools. The article title is :-

“HMC provisioning issue: Adding machine into default OAB CAS Pool in Exchange 2007″

- J.

07.16.08

iPhone in Exchange Admin

Posted in Work at 4:27 pm by JohnB

I spotted this excellent post over at ‘You had me at EHLO’ and wanted to share it out. The guys over there have shown what an attached iPhone lookslike from an Exchnage administrators perspective.

ATTENTION HMC hosters - are you telling your customer you support iPhone? Figures this morning told of 1 million iPhone sales since launch.

Here’s the link the the EHLO article

- J.

07.07.08

Other peoples presentations - PPT and the death of the speaker.

Posted in Work at 12:05 pm by JohnB

I’m putting together a reasonably significant presentation for an organisation at the moment and have been provided with some reference material to get a ‘feel’ of their phrasing and terminology. I have a lot of fun looking at other peoples presentations as they usually say a lot about the person or organisation which created them.

I have always been of the opinion that a ‘presentation’ is given by a person and that tools such as PowerPoint or Keynote should be used to deliver punch, highlights and provide a flow to the message. The details of the message can be included in speaker notes for sure, but the actual delivery comes from the person.

I’ve sat through more than a few (too many if I’m honest) presentations where the ’speaker’ simply reads through the information presented on the screen in fabulous verbosity! not fun and certainly not a valuable use of either of our time! So here’s my new presentation paradigm, put highlights on the screen to get attention, use graphics and animation where appropriate and timely to do so - a picture can say a thousand words, but sitting through pretty builds can just get boring. Make sure the notes supplied contain all of the information you are going to use - that’s what note are for, the slides should be clean and crisp.

And finally if your presenting, present, don’t simply read from the deck. Anyone can read, you have to engage.

- J.

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