I just sent my resignation email a few minutes ago (I won’t publish this post until I get a confirmation it was received and acknowledged, though).

After 28 services.dal.net releases, 15 stats.dal.net releases, new users.dal.net website, a few updates to services2 and probably other things I forgot, I think it’s fair enough to say I did my share.

I’ll probably post about the other projects I’m working on soon so stay tuned!

-Kobi.

(Kobi_S @ DALnet)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/03/30/3416253.aspx

-Kobi.

 Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929395

“Wallaby” is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML. This allows you to reuse and extend the reach of your content to devices that do not support the Flash runtimes. Once these files are converted to HTML

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

I needed to buy a SSL certificate for a website and someone recommended StartSSL to me. I usually buy my certificates from GoDaddy or DigiCert but since they are providing free class 1 certificates, I’ve decided to give it a try… when I tried to add one of my domains, it got approved right away, however, when I tried to add the real domain I wanted to use, I got an error message that said it was blacklisted… weird, heh? I contacted StartCom to see what’s the problem and they told me google has blacklisted it in the last 90 days. That’s semi-true, one of the website’s sub-domains is used as a free web-hosting and someone has uploaded a malicious file to it, however, it was a totally different machine and the uploading account has been suspsended as soon as we got the complaint from google. They weren’t willing to add the domain manually for me unless I pay 49.99$ for verification… I really needed a multiple domain (UCC) SSL certificate for 5 sub-domains and comparing to GoDaddy’s 89.99$/year, 49.99$ for two years didn’t sound too much… in addition to that, they provide unlimited sub-domains so I could add a few more sub-domains we use for the same fee.

I had bad experience with another SSL certificate provider (not godaddy or digicert, they’re fine) but I decided to give them a chance anyway. They asked me to scan two different identification IDs with pictures and my phone bill and they even called me to verify I am really me… after that, they manually verified the domain I wanted the certificate for and I could issue it. Everything was done within a few hours and I’m really happy.

The bottom line is that I recommend StartSSL too, just remember to be prepared with the needed “papers”.

 -Kobi.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/gg394259.aspx

-Kobi.

-Kobi.

I’ve waited for Exchange 2010 SP1 for a long time and I must say I like:

- The ability to create mailbox archives on a different server/database (the ability to host the archives online is interesting too).

- The ability to reset corrupted virtual directories (yes, I’m a lazy person).

- Scripting Agent (I know I could do some of it with a daily script running on new mailboxes but still).

- New-MailboxRepairRequest.

- Distribution group naming policies.

- More GUI options for managing DAGs.

- The ability to install the required Windows roles/features.

- The ability to set Public Folder permission from the Exchange Management Console (welcome back!).

- Import/export .pst files without outlook.

- Soft-deleted mailboxes.

- SMS Sync looks a nice feature, I hope other mobile clients will support it too.

- Calendar publishing looks like a nice feature too.

P.S. in case it wasn’t obvious - I didn’t intend to list all the changes, just the ones I like! for the full list, check out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257.aspx

-Kobi.