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New User Provisioning App for AD, Lync and Exchange
Z-Hire makes user provisioning easy
Submitted by Alex Lewis on Mon, 09/19/11 - 10:22pm.
This is a guest post from my friend, Zeya Oo. You can reach him and ask questions about Z-Hire at zeyaoo1@gmail.com. Read more
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Doing e-Discovery / Message Retention / Legal Recovery in Exchange 2010 - Office 365
Native in the Box (Journaling), Lookup, and Recovery
Submitted by Rand Morimoto on Fri, 07/29/11 - 12:12am.
The topic has come up many times recently on how organizations can leverage Microsoft Exchange 2010 (on-premise) or Microsoft Office 365 (in the cloud) to retain messages, legally hold and recover messages, and successfully perform eDiscovery tasks as required by legal counsel, by law, and/or as needed.
This document clarifies what’s included “in the box” in Exchange 2010 and Office 365, and goes through the step by step procedures for setting up what is necessary to retain content and detailed procedures on how to query and look up information. Read more
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Making screen savers and finding leaks
By Mark Gibbs on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 12:00am.
Microsoft Hyper-V Is Ready For Tier-1 Application Workloads
ESG lab test demonstrate scale, but server virtualization maturity goes beyond technology alone
Submitted by joltsik on Mon, 03/28/11 - 12:50pm.
Large and small organization have embraced server virtualization technology as a way to consolidate workloads like web applications and file/print services but what about Tier-1 application workloads? You know, transactional applications that depend upon high performance and multi-tier application communications? Virtualizing these types of applications is just beginning, even at organizations with lots of server virtualization experience. Read more
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Best Practices at Configuring Applications for IPv6 in a Microsoft Windows Environment
Getting Apps like Exchange, SharePoint, Web Servers on IPv6
Submitted by Rand Morimoto on Fri, 02/11/11 - 1:09am.
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover: Read more
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Google "fixes" another Microsoft product
Google brings Internet Explorer strategy to Microsoft Exchange
Submitted by Jon Brodkin on Thu, 12/09/10 - 3:52pm.
Google has a habit of cleaning up after Microsoft's mess. At least, that's what Sergey, Larry and Eric would like you to believe. Read more
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Answers to your questions about Office 365
Microsoft puts Office apps and collaboration tools in the cloud
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Tue, 10/19/10 - 5:17pm.
Microsoft made a big splash today with the launch of Office 365, it’s cloud offering combining Office applications with programs such as Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. But we felt the 30-minute Web cast left a number of questions unanswered that we’d like to try to tackle.
Here’s what we know: Read more
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Microsoft refuses to reveal cloud e-mail customer numbers
Microsoft claims 40 million cloud customers, but few adopt Exchange Online
Submitted by Jon Brodkin on Fri, 10/08/10 - 11:25am.
Tech companies love to play games with numbers - especially when they don't want to admit that a product isn't being adopted by as many customers as they'd like.
That's an essential truth to keep in mind when trying to figure out how many people actually use the cloud e-mail services offered by Microsoft and Google.
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Getting Pictures and other Contact Info Into Outlook, AD, SharePoint, Exchange, OC 2010
Adding and Synchronizing Contact Info Manually and Automatically through Active Directory
Submitted by Rand Morimoto on Mon, 09/06/10 - 2:34am.
One of the new features in Outlook 2010 is the ability to add a picture of your contacts into their contact record. You can also add a picture to your SharePoint MySite profile and see pictures of others. And with Communications Server 2010 coming out, it too has the ability of showing pictures of the individuals you are communicating with. Read more
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It's time to virtualize Microsoft Exchange (but not with Hyper-V)
Hyper-V missing critical disaster recovery feature
Submitted by Jon Brodkin on Thu, 07/29/10 - 6:51pm.
Microsoft isn't accustomed to being in second place in any market, but that's the situation it has had to accept as it challenges VMware for supremacy in the x86 virtualization world.
Microsoft has undoubtedly made significant progress in the last couple of years, bolstering its virtualization and management capabilities with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Microsoft thinks it offers enterprises everything they need to virtualize mission-critical workloads, but not everyone agrees. Read more
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Nearly half of enterprises will migrate to Exchange 2010 soon
Survey shows 44% of enterprise organizations plan to migrate to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in the next 18 months.
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 04/29/10 - 3:03pm.
It's starting to look like Microsoft Exchange 2010 could almost rival Windows 7 for most popular upgrade this year. According to a recent survey of approximately 150 enterprise companies, the plan for nearly half of them is to migrate to the new e-mail platform within the next 18 months. Read more
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Bigger is better when it comes to mailboxes, Microsoft says
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 promises to let end users store more e-mail content locally, thanks to smarter use of storage on the back-end.
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 04/08/10 - 3:19pm.
The key to happy e-mail end users, according to Microsoft, is more local storage, which the software giant says it is able to offer with Exchange Server 2010 because it provides improved performance and reliability of large mailboxes at lower costs.
Tech Debate: Google Gmail vs. hosted Microsoft Exchange Read more
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Microsoft publishes Outlook PST files, but uses funky patent language
Microsoft had promised that patents would be would not be an issue, but then says its 'patents might cover your implementation.'
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 02/22/10 - 8:20pm.
Microsoft today published the technical specifications for its Outlook 2010PST files. Microsoft had promised in October that it would do so.
Added 02/23 per comment below: The document can be found here. Read more
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Cisco Unity Support for Exchange 2010
Better late than never
Submitted by Alex Lewis on Thu, 01/14/10 - 4:02pm.
Thanks to ASPOC (A single point of contact) for breaking this news. Apparently it originally came from MS MVP Dustin Smith.
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Unified Communications 2009 - A year in review
A look at the successes and challenges for Microsoft and partners in the unified communications marketplace.
Submitted by jschurman on Sun, 12/27/09 - 9:36pm.
As we wind down 2009 and prepare for 2010, I think it's best to take a look back at this year to see what has worked and what has not worked so well in order to strategize on the future on unified communications in the marketplace moving forward. Read more
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About that "extra fee" Verizon is charging for Droid users to access Exchange email...
It would be bad, if it was true.
Submitted by John Cox on Wed, 11/04/09 - 10:01am.
Verizon yesterday got kicked around the Internet for allegedly planning to charge business users of Motorola's Droid smartphone extra to access Exchange email behind the corporate firewall.
The only problem with that meme is that it's not true. Read more
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Exchange 2010 Prerequisites Made Easy
Here's how to knock out the prereqs for Exchange 2010
Submitted by Alex Lewis on Wed, 10/28/09 - 1:16pm.
I do a LOT of Exchange implementations and even at that it's hard to remember the exact prerequisites for every combination of roles and services for Eaxchange. With Exchange 2010, Microsoft has included a scripts directory with XML files for pretty much any scenario.
You'll still need to do a handful of manual tasks, like ensuring the NetTCPPortSharing service is set to automatic (it's manual by default), but XML files in the scripts directory will take care of all the roles and features you'd usually install through server manager. There are options for: Read more
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Microsoft ActiveSync to Gmail
It's not just for Exchange anymore!
Submitted by Alex Lewis on Thu, 10/01/09 - 12:38am.
When Microsoft announced it would license ActiveSync it had wide-eyed plans to take over the world... and it just got one step closer.
You'd think Microsoft would downright loathe Apple and Google. And, on some fronts I'm sure they do. However they are the two highest profile licensees of Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol. If you've been living under a rock for the last few years ActiveSync is a mobile sync technology for email, calendaring, contacts and other data. ActiveSync has been available on the iPhone for awhile. However it still only sync'd to Microsoft Exchange. Read more
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Lotus says Microsoft's numbers are 'ridiculous and fabricated'
Lotus strikes back at Microsoft's claims of migrations from Notes to Exchange.
Submitted by Jeff Caruso on Tue, 09/22/09 - 3:43pm.
Network World's John Fontana writes:
Lotus Software GM Bob Picciano has grown tired of the "hot wind" blowing out of Redmond carrying claims that Exchange is displacing Notes and is singling out CEO Steve Ballmer and COO Kevin Turner as the main culprits spreading "ridiculous and fabricated" information.
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When to Use Public Folders in Exchange 2010
I wish the answer were never, but life aint that easy
Submitted by Alex Lewis on Fri, 09/11/09 - 1:37pm.
I was having a good discussion on Twitter earlier this week on the role of public folders in Exchange 2010 and ongoing. I came across a post from the Microsoft Exchange team that clears the muddy waters a bit.
When I visit a new client to talk Exchange 2010, or even Exchange 2007, the topic of public folders inevitably comes up. Here's my matrix:
If you use public folders now and absolutely need them, keep using them. Preferably on a dedicated PF server
If you don't use them now, then just forget they even exist. Read more
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