A lesson to be learned from one typing the wrong email address!

A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a

particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where

they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic

schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So,

the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his

wife flying down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel.

There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his

wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address,

and without realizing his error, sent the email. Meanwhile, somewhere in

Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband’s funeral. He

was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack.

The widow decided to check her email expecting messages from relatives

and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted.

The widow’s son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and

saw the computer screen which read:

 

To: My Loving Wife

Subject: I’ve Arrived

Date: October 16, 2004

 

I know you’re surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now

and you are allowed to send emails to your loved ones. I’ve just arrived

and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for

your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your

journey is as uneventful as mine was.

新词介绍:BRICs

BRICs是啥?上周才第一次看到这个名字, 台湾杂志把它译成“金砖四国”。BRICs [briks] 正好与 bricks 同音,是当今四个新兴经济大国的缩写:Brazil 巴西、Russia 俄罗斯、India 印度、China 中国。

Exchange Public Folders – Now and Beyond

Whenever we engage on an Exchange Healthcheck or a design review a question on Exchange Public Folders almost always comes up. Basically, should we be using them? What is Microsoft’s stance on their long term supportability and what are some of the alternate technologies offered by Microsoft.
 
To answer these questions, Exchange Team has posted an article to the “You Had Me At Ehlo” Blog, this morning.
 
In Summary, the following points are meant to clarify both our current recommendations and long term commitments around Public Folders.
 
1. Public Folders are widely used by our customers for sharing document, calendar, contact, and tasks; and for archiving distribution lists.
2. Exchange 12 (aka “E12”) and Outlook 2007 (aka “Outlook 12”) include public folder support – with great new investments in manageability and improved storage costs. Both of these products will be fully supported for 10 years from the availability of E12 – through at least 2016.  You can continue to use Public Folders with full support throughout this time.
3. Windows SharePoint Services is another option from Microsoft for, amongst other things: sharing document, calendar, contact, and tasks; and for archiving distribution lists. DL archiving and Outlook synchronization are new in Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS v3), which ships at the same time as Office 12 and E12.
4. For all new collaborative application development, we recommend WSS v3 and the new E12 web services as your platform, both of which are designed with .NET development in mind. We recommend maintaining existing Public Folder applications in-place.
5. All current versions of Outlook (from 97 through 2003) and Exchange (4.0 through 2003) require Public Folders to be deployed – Public Folders are required within an organization until all Outlook clients are upgraded to Outlook 2007, all mailboxes have been migrated to E12, and of course, no Public Folder applications are still used. (More details in the article.)
 
 
To read the complete article, please visit the Exchange Team Blog at:
http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/default.aspx