February 2011

Exchange 2010 SP1 Prerequisites on 2008 R2 SP1

by Michel de Rooij 24 February 2011 Exchange

After Exchange 2010 SP1 became publicly available I wrote, apart from the SP1 changes, also on the prerequisites differences, comparing Windows Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 R2. Note that these prerequisites are additional to the server roles and features required to install Exchange 2010 server roles. With the recent release of Windows Server 2008 [...]

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Corporate mail users use any mail platforms to “get the job done”

by Nicolas Blank 23 February 2011 Anouncements

A new study shows that younger users will use any mail platform available – to the exclusion of the corporate platform provided – in order to get their work done. Mimecast have published a blog post and a press release with potential huge shock value to most companies with formalised email infrastructure. A demographic of [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange, Gmail, users

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Register for my Second Arabic Webinar about Microsoft Exchange Server

by Mahmoud Magdy 22 February 2011 Anouncements

Due to the demonstrations and revolution was running in Egypt last month we didn’t manage to do the second session, we are back and you can meet me in the second session, you can register here, registration is mandatory but takes less than 30 second. you can register here see you. Share this post:

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices, Book Review

by Mahmoud Magdy 20 February 2011 Book Reviews

as an Architect and technology lover, I rarely find a new interesting book to read, I have read a lot and that made my life harder now, I cannot find a book targeting experienced consultants/Architects those days. Most of the books explains the technology from scratch and overlooking the tricky parts since it assumes that [...]

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Tagged as: Best Practices, Book, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Review

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Nokia Adopts Windows Mobile as it’s Phone OS

by Nicolas Blank 11 February 2011 Anouncements

Nokia and Microsoft jointly announced today that Nokia will be using Windows Mobile as it’s smart phone OS. Nokia will add value to the Windows Mobile platforms in the area’s where Nokia did well, however this agreements narrows the phone market down to 4 major players, Specifically Microsoft, Apple, Blackberry and Android. Where’s this going? [...]

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Tagged as: Microsoft, Mobility, Nokia, Windows Mobile

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Operating Systems Wars are BACK – HP want’s to be your operating system

by Nicolas Blank 10 February 2011 Cloud

HP unveiled it’s operating system offering for phones, tablets, and….. PC’s So where is this going? Microsoft has been publicly chasing all things cloud for a while, so it may not come as a surprise that the folks who make the hardware may believe that the days for selling a device with an OS are [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, Commentary, HP, Microsoft, Operating System

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The BalanceNG Software Load Balancer

by Robby Pedrica 9 February 2011 Security

Seeing as Nic brought up the subject of LBs, I thought I would chime in with the BalanceNG product which is not currently certified for Exchange or any other MS products. However seeing as it’s probably one of the best LBs I’ve ever used ( and that includes Alteon and Zeus ZXTM ), it merits [...]

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Load Balancing Exchange 2010, how to find a supported/certified load balancer

by Nicolas Blank 8 February 2011 Anouncements

NOT spending money on a hardware load balancer when you have the requirement to do so will hurt you considerably in the long run, however most folks don’t know one from the other, and why one man’s load balancer is another man’s small fortune. Now it’s easy to find a hardware load balancer that has [...]

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Tagged as: A10, Barracuda, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Exchange 2010, F5, Kemp, Load Balancer, LoadMaster VLM, Microsoft tested

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Going to Cloud Based Exchange and don’t know where to start? Want to Compare Gmail and Exchange online side by side?

by Nicolas Blank 1 February 2011 Anouncements

Very common for most orgs to not know where to start, or understand where the benefits are. This morning I was made aware of a free tool from Quest, called the Quest Migration Assessment Tool, or QMAT for short. It’s a  browser-based application that provides guidance for evaluating Microsoft Exchange Online (BPOS/Office365), Google Gmail, and [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Free, Quest Software, Reporting

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