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		<title>MacBook trackpad problems in Boot Camp and OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Apple laptops since about 2002 when I bought my first 1GHz Titanium PowerBook G4. At the time, my needs were very small and I fell in love with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. Following my TiBook, I had a couple different Aluminum PowerBook G4s and finally got my first C2D (Core [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=80</link>
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		<title>Outlook Anywhere Bug with Windows Server 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an IT admin it will happen to all of us at some point; there will be that problem that seems like you are 10 minutes away from fixing that quickly turns into 10 hours and then 2, 3, even 5+ days.  Before you know it, you have spent a week with nearly zero sleep and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X Server 10.5 Open Directory Integration with Active Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I’ve been swamped with work for the last 10 months and haven’t even come close to having a chance to sit down and write any well thought out blog entries.  I was compelled though a couple weeks ago to write a new entry about the coolest new feature that I stumbled across in Apple’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=56</link>
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		<title>D5: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the videos from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the WSJ D5 conference. &#8220;To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different, it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Windows XP Life-Cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been running Windows Vista for over 6 months now, and I have to report that overall I think it is a great product. Microsoft has already sold over 20 million copies of Vista in just a couple months and it is looking like sales are going to keep moving forward at a steady pace. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Upgrade from Exchange 2007 Beta 2 to RTM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fortunately for Microsoft there was a lot of excitement around the prereleases of Exchange 2007 Beta 2, and many of us liked it so much more than Exchange 2003 or our previous solutions that we upgraded to it early.  Luckily for all of us who did this, Microsoft left a way for us to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.9 Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple finally released their 10.4.9 update today after about 4 or 5 developer releases. I&#8217;m currently downloading these updates onto my local software update server to deploy to my Apple servers and workstations. I&#8217;ll be looking forward to testing the previous authentication problems that I have had in the past, but I can already see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=49</link>
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		<title>Non-domain Joined Outlook/Exchange Users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This topic is rarely addresssed because most Outlook/Exchange users tend to be domain joined, but in my testing I ran into a few issues that are worth making a public note of. First off, I want to say that I only tested this scenario with Exchange 2007, but this may be relevant to Exchange 2003 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Accessing Exchange from Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, in a Windows centric environment, such as an Exchange organization, the Macs often get left behind. The Macs can play nicely with the PCs in terms of collaboration, but we can probably never expect them to have all the same features that Outlook and Exchange are capable of achieving. On a Mac there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Microsoft TechNet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft TechNet is Microsoft&#8217;s information technology professional service.  In my experience TechNet has done an excellent job of just &#8220;being there&#8221; when it comes to most support and testing issues. TechNet is a Microsoft service for IT Professionals that can be purchased at a few different levels. TechNet Plus Direct is the least expensive level, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Exchange 2007 and SSL Certificates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Security is a huge concern when it comes to email. Email is the primary communication mechanism for many businesses and sensitive information is passed both externally and internally via email everyday. Since we cannot leave it to chance that a hacker might intercept an email, we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates to encrypt the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Exchange Activesync with Direct Push</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why I love Microsoft Exchange, but Exchange Activesync with Direct Push is possibly my favorite feature. Microsoft Exchange Activesync was introduced with Exchange 2003 and for the first time Windows CE devices were able to synchronize directly with an Exchange server. Before Microsoft Activesync some form of middleware was required to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Transitioning from Exchange 2000/2003 to 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to move your organizations 2000/2003 Exchange Server to 2007 then you&#8217;ll have to read up on Microsoft&#8217;s transition process. This is pretty much the method for moving to Exchange 2007. Part of the beauty in Exchange 2007&#8242;s separate roles is that Exchange 2000/2003 and 2007 can be installed in coexistence. Once an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Migrating from IMAP to Exchange 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Exchange 2003 and Small Business Server 2003 moving from IMAP to Exchange used to be fairly simple task. With Exchange 2007 though, Microsoft left out the Exchange Migration Tool that had the capabilities of downloading IMAP folders directly into the Exchange Mailboxes. Fortunately enough for those of us that want to move from IMAP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I still run across businesses every few months that to my amazement are running Exchange 5.5 even though it was released almost 10 years ago in November of 1997. For these businesses I cannot think of a better way to celebrate their mail servers 10th anniversary than throwing it in the dumpster out back. Honestly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 28, 2003 was a great day for the Windows IT world. With the introduction of Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft had released one of their finest and most widely accepted server products to date. Exchange 2003 through its two service packs brought us some amazing features such as the Intelligent Message Filter and Direct Push [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purchasing a server as a small business can often be a daunting task, and it is one that most business will hopefully be able to view their IT Consultant as a partner and trust their decision. The factors for a Small Business to use when evaluating a server fall into four main categories; labor cost, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=34</link>
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		<title>AD/OD Integration with Mac OS X 10.4.8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons for why a company would want to integrate an Apple Open Directory server with a Microsoft Active Directory server, but the most common scenario is that a company already has a Windows centric IT environment. In this post we will explore this scenario along with an Apple centric environment that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=33</link>
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		<title>The Apple IMAP Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of places to start when discussing IMAP email. I could start with its technical aspects, postives, negatives, supported platforms, etc. I think that it makes the most sense to start by discussing IMAP&#8217;s history. IMAP was originally conceived at Stanford in 1986 by Mark Crispin who was later hired by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Open Directory Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Apple designed its directory service, simplicity was the likely the central focus. Open Directory is easy to configure and easy to administer, when it is working. Apple’s Open Directory quickly became the single most frustrating point of my research. Although Apple has created Open Directory from the solid foundation of Kerberos and OpenLDAP, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Open Directory Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Open Directory is Apple’s answer to Microsoft’s enterprise directory standard, Active Directory. Open Directory is the directory service and network authentication architecture at the core of Mac OS X Server starting with OS X Server 10.3 “Panther”. As with most of Apple’s technologies Open Directory is based on an open source technology, OpenLDAP, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a company, Apple has a very long history but Mac OS X&#8217;s history is actually more closely tied to its current CEO, Steven P. Jobs. Although Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers, now Apple Inc., with his friend Steve &#8220;Woz&#8221; Wozniak, he was demoted from his executive position on May 31, 1985 and then resigned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4 Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An incredible product for businesses looking into purchasing a server on a budget. The biggest difference between Mac OS X Server and its competitors is the licensing model Apple has chosen to use. Mac OS X Server 10.4 offers a wallop of features at its $499 price point for 10-clients. If there is a need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aaronmarks.com/?p=28</link>
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