Category Archives: Tweaks

New Office Version – New Features – More Mobility

This weekend I got a little email from Microsoft containing the necessary details to download Office 2010 CTP. (I signed up almost two months ago at
http://www.office2010themovie.com, and received an invitation code to use at http://connect.microsoft.com .) I obviously had to test it out on Windows 7.

Being Office it contains the usual suspects like Word and Excel with a more Win7 feel, but although I use some of these applications on a regular basis it was two other apps I was more interested in testing first; OneNote and Outlook.

Personal Certificates and Exchange ActiveSync

By now you might have been playing around with enrolling certificates on your own, either through use of my little utility or typing your own xml, or making your own utility for all I know. I mentioned previously that Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) was one candidate for doing something useful with a personal certificate.

Explaining some of the steps involved in configuring ActiveSync to authenticate with client certificates without cradling to a desktop computer first.

Windows Mobile In Your Server Room

Every once in a while something neat comes along. Microsoft just released Beta 2 of ForeFront TMG – or the next version of ISA Server as it’s also known. There’s still the “old” features of ISA acting as a firewall and router in addition to some new features, and integrating itself in the ForeFront family of products. Hey, you can learn a lot more about it if you visit Microsoft TechNet if you’re interested in the sales pitch :)

We take a look at combining “ISP Redundancy” and Windows Mobile.