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03-14-06 - Exchange 12 overview

03-15-06 - Giving the administrator more control

03-16-06 - Client access and web services

03-17-06 - Message security and active protection

I will be there as long as I'm not onsite somewhere for work or buried in phone calls. Of all the betas that I want to be involved in, this is the one. Due to Sharepoint 2001/2003 [WSS] and Exchange 2000/2003, I'm very familiar with the JET database backend and I'm curious to see how it has morphed in this version of Exchange. Besides, Monad is just plain cool for scripting junkies like me.

As time goes on, more and more people have come up to me to say that they were searching on the Internet (is it proper to capitalize Internet?) about a problem they were having and a link from a search engine brought them here. As strange as it sounds, the same thing has happened to me on accident.

I was looking up information on Quickbooks and Terminal Services and this website was one of the first links to show up. I don't know why but I found that to be tremendously cool. My little place on the web is making a difference to people.

It is also helping get my unusual last name out there. My grandfather came over at age 18 from Finland to Michigan. The rest is history. He was a communications marine in World War 2 over in Iwa Jima, among other things. Yeah, that Iwa Jima. I hope he is watching over us from up above and that I am doing our family name proud. I still think about him a lot and the fact that he never got to meet his great grandchildren.