KC Lemson
By KC Lemson [MS]
Quickly view the internet headers of a message in Outlook
Just about anyone who runs mail servers needs to look at headers from time to time. This is...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2006
Idea: Monitors and sticky notes
During a 1:1 with one of my reports today, he brought a pad of post-it notes to the meeting and was...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/26/2006
I'm sorry but I just can't stop laughing
About this.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2006
Me Too!
Larry blogged a month ago about an "incident" we had internally in the vein of the infamous Bedlam...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/18/2006
This seems like a fear of commitment, but I swear it's not...
As I hinted a few weeks ago, I'm changing jobs again. My last role change was over a year ago,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/11/2006
Threepeat
Today is the third anniversary of my first blog post. A whole lot has happened (and been blogged) in...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2006
Great post on developing software
On the windows mobile team's blog. I hope that whoever is quoted in this eweek article saying that...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2006
Have your server delete your email for you... and LIKE it!
Exchange 2007 has a feature called messaging records management that helps organizations apply...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2006
Silence equals adoration?
Evan blogged today asking for feedback on the posts about systems management that have gone up on...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2006
Words to live by: "Start with the little dragons"
As I stepped off the elevator this morning, a coworker shared those words with me. "When you're...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2006
New Exchange PM joins the fray
Jason Mayans is the PM lead for many of the more end-user-oriented features in Exchange 12 such as...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2006
How to programatically mail-enable an Exchange public folder
I'm feeling guilty for not having posted regularly much[1] lately, so just going through an archive...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2006
Tons o' screenshots of E2K7 Setup, Admin & OWA
At BlackDigital. He must have spent a lot of time on that, very cool to see.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2006
More evidence that e12 rocks
Last week at Tech-Ed, I did demo duty for a series of meetings with various reviewers, showing off...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2006
Really, now...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose has a "last updated" of just a couple of weeks ago, June 3rd....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2006
Now why would I want to do that?
Sheesh, you might as well just not even display this dialog, or maybe put a picture of a boogie man...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 05/30/2006
Use LDIFDE to look up the distribution lists a user is a member of
I've blogged previously about using ldp, a handy tool: Look up a user in the AD using LDP Finding a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 05/19/2006
Telemarketing
I can only assume that I sound like a 12 year old girl. Every time a telemarketer calls, they...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2006
Show the count of all items in a folder in Outlook, not just unread
For certain types of folders, you may find it useful to have the folder list display the total...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2006
Surprise your users with an April Fool's Day OWA 2003 theme
Customizing OWA themes is quite simple to do. Here's an example of a theme I just put together, I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2006
Amazing chalk art
These are so cool. [via Nino]
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 03/10/2006
Someone at Amazon has a sense of humor
Check out the feature list for this cool Beaker doll: Features: The Beaker 18-inch Plush doll is a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/16/2006
Examples of how customer feedback shapes Exchange: Max Hop Count
I occasionally get requests for examples of how customer feedback changed something in Exchange. We...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2006
Give us your tired, your poor huddled limericks
We're looking for a few good limericks! Check out my post on the Exchange blog.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/09/2006
Where are all the women bloggers at?
(Just kiddin' :-) I just bought a ticket to BlogHer '06. Are any other softie bloggers or readers of...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/31/2006
Attention mathletes
This is fascinating. [Updated after Eric's comment to add something dorky: I pulled out all of the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2006
Recipe for chicago-style stuffed pizza
I grew up in the Chicago area and one of the delicacies of my childhood is stuffed pizza. I know...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2006
I suppose technically this would be a meme
While shopping for trains for a gift for my son (I think we've settled on this one - what do you...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/12/2005
Can't delete a folder in Outlook?
See if Raymond's tip works for you.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2005
Oh yeah, and if you're wondering about that five week old...
She's da bomb. And in preparation for my return to work in February, we've introduced her to the...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2005
Am I the only person...
Who regularly types "HEPA" instead of "HIPAA"? I can't help it, I've lived with HEPA a lot longer....
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2005
Say hello
to Audrey Julia Lemson, who joined our family this morning at 12:28 AM, weighing 8 lbs 12oz and...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2005
Pregnant geeks
A few years ago I lost a lot of weight, and I found that "The Hacker's Diet" was a very useful tool...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2005
A geek's freudian slip
At lunch the other day, someone asked me how far along I was, and I said "three weeks until RTM"...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/11/2005
I wish I could say I'll start posting more frequently soon...
But that wouldn't be very realistic of me, now would it? In a few days I will have what them fancy...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/06/2005
A free CHM compiler
I was pointed at this by the MSHelp MVP Lead, it's a sweet little freeware app, works great. Within...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/06/2005
Back on the wagon
It was only nine months ago that I blogged about a career change, and here I am again, blogging...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2005
Cheat Sheets
While ego surfing I just ran across this handy list of cheat sheets that I wanted to share. Covers...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2005
What's the real RTM date? C'mon, you can tell me...
With Exchange 2003 SP2 around the corner (check out the CTP!), the emails have started coming: "When...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2005
The Three Dastardly D's: Derailing a Discussion on a Distribution list
Over the last three or four years I've seen an increasing trend here at MS: complaints about...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2005
Finding a user with ldp.exe in a large container
A while back I posted on how to use ldp.exe to look up a user in the AD. I left out an important...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/05/2005