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ITPRO Africa Event – Call for speakers

by Nicolas Blank 3 August 2011 Anouncements

ITPRO Africa is hosting an entitled, Debunking Cloud in the South African Context- What it is and what it isn’t The event is scheduled to be held in Cape Town on Thursday 1’st of September, at Microsoft’s offices in Pinelands. The event will run over the morning and end at lunch. Prospective speakers are hereby [...]

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Share your story and win an IPAD

by Nicolas Blank 3 August 2011 Anouncements

Mimecast are giving away an IPAD 2, based on entering a draw which you do very simply by sharing your migration story, good or bad. Flames, propaganda, it all counts and there could be a tablet in it for you. Rules are really simple, share your story, and if it’s re-tweeted the most it wins! [...]

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The Storage Calculator and Virtualization Support

by Nicolas Blank 7 June 2011 Anouncements

v17.2 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator was released yesterday with a number of bug fixes, however it’s not the bug fixes that I’d like to call out, it’s the virtualization support added two releases ago in case you missed it.   When designing for virtual workloads the general guidance has been [...]

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Exchange 2010 Live Migrations now supported

by Nicolas Blank 16 May 2011 Anouncements

  Microsoft now supports Live Migrations for Exchange 2010 SP1 as well as clustered VM hosts, while the below speaks specifically to Hyper-V everything on the approved list of hypervisors will be supported as well, quoting from the announcement: The updated support guidance applies to any hardware virtualization vendor participating in the Windows Server Virtualization [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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Exchange 2010, Outlook 2003 UDP notifications are back

by Nicolas Blank 29 January 2011 Anouncements

Exchange 2010 has been criticised for appearing to be slow for Outlook 2003 clients, that’s another way of saying that customers didn’t rush out and update Outlook to the latest versions as they became available. Outlook 2003 users would complain that messages would only appear on a minute boundary, and generally they hand held derives [...]

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