Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Overview
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.
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20.12.2005 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix
Customers using Microsoft products that have entered their "Extended" support phase will need to fork over $4,000 for a patch that makes the software compatible with the new March 11 date for Daylight Saving Time (DST), according to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
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1.3.2007 Updates from the Microsoft Daylight Saving patch trenches
It's going to be a busy weekend for IT administrators still struggling to get their systems patched to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 11.
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10.3.2007 Exploit Puts Windows 2000, XP at Risk
Microsoft warned on Thursday that exploit code had been published that would allow attackers to take advantage of vulnerabilities in both Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000. The flaw has been given a "moderate risk" by the French Security Incident Response Team.
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21.11.2005 Microsoft Turns Up The Heat On Windows 2000 Users
With the recent release of Microsoft's newest potential cash cows, Windows Vista and Office 2007, the company is expecting a wave of upgrades from users seeking the latest functionality.
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19.12.2006 Brute Force Keygens for Windows XP and 2000
I thought Vista had a brute force but found out they made ones for Windows XP too such as these files.. Thanks to our users btalex1990 and an2o1s12ds19dk for this info and downloads links.
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27.7.2007 Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks.
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16.4.2008 No Surprise in XP Outperforming Vista, the Same Is Valid for Windows 2000, 95 and 3.11
With the advent of Windows Vista in 2007, the latest Windows client, and the product that could have done with a tad more refinement according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a barrage of criticism started orbiting the operating system.
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3.4.2008 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Worm Could Wreck Exchange
The bug in Exchange that Microsoft disclosed Tuesday is too juicy a target for hackers to pass up, security companies warned Wednesday, and users should expect to see a worm pop up any time.
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14.5.2006 Exchange 2007 RTMed
This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you!
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8.12.2006 Exchange 2010 RTM!
The big news today is that Exchange 2010 is now code complete.
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8.10.2009 Public Beta of Exchange 2007
Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of the public betas of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the new Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
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24.7.2006 Microsoft Exchange 2007, still on track
Exchange 2007 is still on track for RTM in the end of the year and global availability in Q1 2007.
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25.9.2006 Microsoft begins testing Exchange 12
Microsoft said Wednesday that it has released the first test version of Exchange 12, the next iteration of its e-mail and calendar server software.
Among the new features Microsoft is touting are the ability to handle voicemail and faxes, improved manageability of the software for IT managers and a better Web-based mail client. As part of a push toward so-called unified messaging, Exchange users will also be able to use the telephone to access their e-mail and have it read to them by the computer.
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16.12.2005 Exchange Server "12" and Public Folders
A frequent topic of discussion with customers is the future of Public Folders, thus I think it would be good to capture that discussion on our blog.
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21.2.2006 Exchange 12 Preview Live Webcasts
IT professionals, keep your skills and knowledge about Microsoft Exchange Server up to date with tips and best practices from Exchange experts.
Through the use of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations and product demos, our subject matter experts cover in-depth topics such as operations, mobility, migration, management, and security, providing you with the tools and knowledge that help optimize your Exchange Server 2003 environment.
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23.2.2006 Exchange Server 2007 RTM released
I just received a bulletin from Microsoft that Exchange Server 2007 RTM has been made available for download to subscribers of the TechNet and MSDN services
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11.2.2007 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system.
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25.8.2009 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 Released
Microsoft recently released Exchange Server 2003 SP2 to the masses.
Following on from a public beta, SP2 enables devices with Windows Mobile 5 and the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 to accept push mail similar to Research In Motion's (RIM) Blackberry devices. SP2 uses an HTTP connection, maintained by the device, to push new e-mail messages, calendar, contact, and task notifications to the device.
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Microsoft Readies Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2
Microsoft recognizes that today?s businesses are depending on the ability to seamlessly and instantly connect with colleagues, customers and partners, to gather and analyze information and take action. Exchange Server 2007 will help meet this need enabling access to communications, calendar and contacts, any time, any place.
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12.6.2006 Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 Installation Screenshots
The Black Digital blog has posted an extensive screenshot review of the upcoming Exchange Server 2007 Beta. The images speak for themselves and there's very little comment on the whole process.
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25.7.2006 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta Released
Microsoft today released the beta of Microsoft Exchange 2010! Codenamed Exchange 14.
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15.4.2009 Microsoft announces Exchange Server 2010 availability
Today at the Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide.
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9.11.2009 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging.
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12.5.2009 Tuesday Microsoft will release 2 Windows patches, 1 Exchange patch, some critical
Security Updates - One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Exchange. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Critical. These updates may require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
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5.5.2006 Anti-Spam Sites Block Microsoft Hosted Exchange Services
Microsoft's Exchange hosted mail services, designed to help businesses combat spam, have themselves been blocked by several anti-spam blacklists around the Web, CRN has learned.
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31.12.2006 Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 Launched in The Netherlands
Today Microsoft launched Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 for Volume license businesses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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29.11.2006Western Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Windows
Western Australia is
introducing daylight saving
for a trial period commencing
December 3, 2006. Several
Microsoft® products require
updates in order to display
the correct time during the
daylight saving period.
Western Australia is
introducing daylight saving on
a trial basis for the next
three years.
Microsoft products which are
aware of daylight saving time
changes need to be updated to
include the new Western
Australia time zone rules.
The following table shows
the start and end dates for
the daylight saving period in
each year of the trial
Start /
End
the hour of 2
a.m. on 03 Dec 2006 / the hour
of 2 a.m. on 25 March 2007
the hour of 2 a.m. on 28 Oct
2007 / the hour of 2 a.m. on
30 March 2008
the hour of
2 a.m. on 26 Oct 2008 / the
hour of 2 a.m. on 29 March
2009
Note: Both the
start and end time are
specified in standard time, so
the end time is 3 am daylight
saving time.
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06.12.2006Microsoft & Daylight Savings Time in North America
Because this year, Daylight Savings Time starts three weeks earlier than normal, on March 11th, 2007, and it is ending one week later than usual, on
November 4th, all software on your computer needs appropriate updates in order to have the correct time. Windows users with Automatic Updates
configured for Windows Update already have the necessary update to ensure the date and time change is made correctly. There are, however, various
other Microsoft programs that need to be updated as well. If you have noticed that one of your programs is not up to date, follow the links below to
download the appropriate update.
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04.11.2007Microsoft Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool v2.0 Available
The Exchange Calendar Update Tool enables administrators to update multiple user mailboxes and adjust calendars and meetings for daylight savings
times.
Before you run the Exchange Calendar Update tool, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article
941018, "How to address daylight saving time by using the Exchange Calendar
Update Tool," for complete information about potential effects on your IT environment and user base.
After you install the DST
updates for Microsoft Windows, all old appointments that occur during the DST change periods will be incorrectly displayed as occurring one hour
later. This is true for both recurring and single-instance appointments. These appointments must be updated so that they will be displayed correctly
in Outlook, in Outlook Web Access, and in CDO-based applications. Outlook provides a tool that is named the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft
Office Outlook . This tool enables users to update their own calendars.
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04.09.2007Microsoft: Daylight Saving Fix for $4000 in Extended Support
Microsoft have decided to
reduce the pricing of a patch
to fix the new March 11 date
for Daylight Saving Time (DST)
from a whopping $40,000 to
a mere $4000 for products
that have left mainstream
support and have entered the
"Extended" support phase,
according to
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo
Foley.
Products
affected are Windows 2000,
Exchange Server 2000 and
Outlook 2000,
among
others. Microsoft explains
in a PowerPoint document
distributed to
analysts
"For
products that have entered
into the Extended Support
phase, Microsoft will provide
customers with the opportunity
to purchase the DST 2007
hotfix at a reduced price of
Four Thousand Dollars (US
$4,000). Customers will
only be charged a single fee
of $4,000 to obtain all
hotfixes, for products in
Extended Support phase, needed
to update their systems for
DST 2007.
"For
customers who have previously
purchased DST 2007 hotfixes
for products in Extended
Support, Microsoft will
reimburse the difference to
them under the new pricing
category."
A
Microsoft spokesman was quoted
saying the $4,000 price
represents a "substantial
discount" and that it was
merely to "cover costs".
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01.03.2007Microsoft Preps for Daylight-Saving Time Headaches
Microsoft is taking steps to ease the transition back from daylight-saving time.
Microsoft is trying to ensure that when
daylight-saving time ends and Americans turn the clock back in the first week of November, the experience is seamless.
That was
not the case on March 11, when daylight-saving time started three weeks earlier than usual.
It will also end a week later than
usual, on Nov. 4, as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended daylight-saving time by a month in the United States, and came into
effect in 2007.
For those companies that do business in other parts of the world, the pain is not yet over. As much of the United
States and Canada "fall back" in November, there are going to be changes happening in Jordan, Egypt and New Zealand that were not planned in the
spring.
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14.09.2007MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix
Customers using Microsoft
products that have entered
their "Extended"
support phase will need to
fork over $4,000 for a patch
that makes the software
compatible with the new March
11 date for Daylight Saving
Time (DST), according to
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo
Foley...
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28.02.2007Microsoft announces Exchange Server 2010 availability
Today at the Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced that Microsoft Exchange
Server 2010 is now available worldwide. During an opening Keynote, Elop also announced the release of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server.
Forefront provides better anti-spam and multi server management tools. "Exchange Server 2010 customers are already reporting cost savings of up to
70 percent thanks to a simplified high-availability model and support for lower-cost storage. Customers are also seeing productivity gains of more
than 20 percent with a universal inbox that delivers e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging and text messaging consistently across virtually any
device," Elop said.
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09.11.2009Virtual server sprawl kills cost savings, experts warn
Virtual server sprawl can eliminate the cost savings so many IT shops covet when they embrace server virtualization, warns a Boeing IT professional
who is leading a virtualization initiative at the company.
"We're under the gun to try to find any kind of cost savings we
can," says Jett Thompson, a Boeing computing infrastructure architect based in Washington state. "Virtualization has been one of the hot ones
because theres readily identified savings there."
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05.12.2008Australia Daylight Saving - Revised Announcement - February 2008
Australia Eastern (New South Wales, Victoria, Australia Capital Territory and Tasmania) and Central (South Australia) time zones will extend daylight
saving and also harmonise start and end times commencing April 2008. From April 2008, daylight saving will end on the first Sunday in April and
recommence on the first Sunday in October in all states.
This change will affect Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Outlook and
other Microsoft, third party and custom applications:
- All Microsoft Windows PC, server and mobile devices in the affected time
zones will need to be updated.
- Microsoft Office Outlook calendars may need to be adjusted. Client and Server-based tools to automate this
process are available from the Microsoft Download Centre.
- Microsoft, third party and custom applications which schedule events at future
dates should be reviewed to ensure they will operate correctly during the extended daylight saving period. Previously scheduled events may also need
to be adjusted.
- Microsoft recommends that all PC and server systems are updated regardless of location to ensure consistency of
operation.
The
Australia 2008 Daylight Saving Planning
Guide is now available for download.
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06.02.2008Microsoft Antigen 9 Service Pack 1 Now Available
Tom Canino: So you have heard that Microsoft Antigen 9 Service Pack 1 is available. You are probably asking œSo what does that mean to me? or œThats
great, but why should I install this thing? To find out the answers, keep reading. But a quick check first. Are you running Exchange 2007? If so,
please visit the
Microsoft Forefront Server
page for information about downloading Forefront for Exchange Server with SP1. Microsoft Antigen support Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 only.
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03.01.2008FAQ: What the daylight saving shift means to you
Editor's note: This FAQ was originally published last spring. It's been updated to account for the fall changing of the clocks.
The fact that the U.S. is "falling back" a week late has left some folks with a few headaches, along with an unwarranted extra hour of
sleep.
Daylight saving time, which ordinarily would have kicked in last week, won't take place until next week. Congress is to
thank (or blame) for the change, which also meant daylight saving time started two weeks early. The thing is, computers weren't programmed with
legislative intent in mind. Many gadget and software makers have issued patches to adjust to the change, though not everyone has installed the
changes, and even people whose systems are now patched could see some calendar items showing up an hour off.
Here's a list of
some commonly asked questions and answers regarding the time shift.
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29.10.2007Q&A: Microsoft Helps Connect Apple iPhone Users to Microsofts Exchange Server
Terry Myerson, corporate vice president for Exchange, talks to PressPass about the importance of the new agreement between Microsoft and Apple to
offer built-in support for Exchange on the iPhone, and the increasing popularity of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 among mobile professionals...
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06.03.2008Exchange Server 2007 Goes Gold
Microsoft on Thursday released
to manufacturing Exchange
Server 2007, a product
developers say they "bet
the company on." According
to Exchange team lead Terry
Myerson, Microsoft has 120,000
mailboxes running on Exchange
2007, with 200 partners
utilizing the software for
another 55,000...
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08.12.2006Microsoft Releases New
Exchange Betas
Microsoft released second
betas of both its Exchange
Server 2007 and Forefront
Security for Exchange Server
products on Monday, including
several new enhancements and
better stability...
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24.07.2006Microsoft's worst run project: Windows 2000
Microsofts Iain McDonald,
director of project management
for Windows Server, says the
worst run project at the
software giant was Windows
2000.
That tidbit
comes from an
interview
Mary Jo Foley just posted.
To folks that arent
familiar with the intricacies
of Microsoft this revelation
is a bit of a stunner. Was
Windows 2000 really a worse
run project than Vista, which
had a do-over in the middle of
the project? Windows ME? That
couldnt have been so hot. When
you ponder all of Microsofts
worst hits“and the projects
behind them“Windows 2000
doesnt instantly register. In
fact, Ed Bott gave Windows
2000 a 9 on a 10 scale in his
rating of Windows versions...
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04.07.2007Three Steps to Certification for MS Partners
Get the lowdown on how Partner Skills Plus can help you achieve the latest certifications with this
2 page download - a great way to help you understand the new
generation of certifications from Microsoft and how to save money on training and certification. Highlights include:
- 60% savings
on Exam Coach
- 45% savings on MS Press Books
- 35% savings on MS E-Learning courses
- Free practice tests (selected
exams only)
- 32% savings on new generation MS exams
There's also a host of useful links to further information in this pdf.
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25.10.2007Time flies: DST ends Nov. 4 -- are your systems ready?
Remember all the patches, hassles and worries your IT department experienced at the start of daylight-saving time in March?
Well,
it's time to revisit some of that work -- particularly if your company has international partners or customers.
That's because
several other countries -- including Jordan, Egypt and New Zealand -- adopted their own specific daylight-saving time updates since the time change
took place in the U.S. last spring, meaning companies might want to update their patches again to ensure conformity when clocks spring forward next
year. But first, companies have to deal with the return to standard time in most parts of the U.S. Clocks roll back an hour on Sunday, Nov. 4.
Ray Wang, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., said that only companies with a large global presence need to
run daylight-saving time updates for their applications and systems again. "Forrester believes this is the safest approach for those with
international employees, especially those in Jordan, New Zealand, as well as Australia. It will apply to any person, device, or system that has
authentication requirements, time stamp scenarios
events in calendaring software like those in PDAs."
winbeta.org - 10.10.2007
Exchange 2007 Beta 2 Set for
July
As TechEd 2006 gets underway
in Boston Monday, Exchange
Server 2007 has taken center
stage as a primary enabler for
Microsoft's "People
Ready" vision for
businesses. The upcoming
release of Exchange will serve
to keep employees connected
when on the go, and act as a
unified messaging server...
betanews.com - 13.06.2006
Microsoft Backs Off Controversial Exchange 2007 Licensing Policy
Microsoft has backed off a
controversial licensing
provision introduced with
Exchange 2007 that forced
customers to spend more money
to get basic mailbox
management features.
Last month, Microsoft
issued a licensing advisory to
channel partners and customers
informing them that access to
the Managed Default Folders
feature in Exchange 2007 --
the functional equivalent of
the Mailbox Manager introduced
with Exchange 2003 -- would be
reinstated as part of the
Exchange 2007 Standard client
access license (CAL), or Core
CAL.
When the e-mail
system was launched in
December, Microsoft said the
renamed mailbox manager
feature would be available
only under the newly
introduced, and more
expensive, Exchange 2007
Enterprise CAL. Previously,
Microsoft offered only one CAL
for Exchange, and mailbox
management was included. ..
winbeta.org - 11.06.2007
Microsoft Preps 7 Security Bulletins
Microsoft on Tuesday will
issue seven security bulletins
that correct vulnerabilities
in products ranging from
Windows to Office and Exchange
Server to BizTalk. One of
these fixes will be for a
highly-publicized DNS flaw
affecting Windows 2000 and
Windows Server 2003...
betanews.com - 04.05.2007
