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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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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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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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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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Exchange 2010 SP1: The Troubleshooters has been released

by Mahmoud Magdy 19 January 2011 Exchange

Today, Exchange PG team announced on msexchangeteam.com as set of troubleshooting scripts that will help you aiding common errors in your Exchange organization, the set of scripts include: Content Index Troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-CI.ps1) Database Latency Troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-DatabaseLatancy.ps1) Database Disk Space troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1)grab your version and read more here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2011/01/18/457713.aspx Share this post:

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PHP Manager for IIS 7

by Nicolas Blank 13 January 2011 IIS

No you didn’t read wrong, the title is correct – PHP manager will work with IIS 7 and 7.5 The official IIS site now features a very cool download allowing you to:   Register PHP with IIS; Validate and properly configure existing PHP installations; Run multiple PHP versions side by side on the same server [...]

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10 Best Things Microsoft Did in 2010

by Nicolas Blank 12 January 2011 Feedback

According to Redmond Magazine who released an article by the same name here. A few surprises – Exchange 2010 and Office 2010 aren’t on the list – but then they were released in 2009. Things that aren’t surprises are the number 1 and the things that aren’t number one – but don’t let me spoil [...]

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Microsoft P2V tool released

by Nicolas Blank 10 November 2010 Desktop

This week is a time to talk about most things virtual. Microsoft recently released it’s own P2V, i.e. Physical to Virtual Migration tool to assist with Windows 7 deployment, allowing you to P2V your old Windows XP environment into your new Windows 7 deployment, should you need to run a critical app that would only [...]

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Build your own cloud

by Nicolas Blank 9 November 2010 Cloud

Why build your own? Do you need your own? What if you do? And you want to build it on Hyper-V ? If you don’t think that Hyper-V is that mature, then consider that Hyper-V adoption is up by 12%. Virtualisation is the cornerstone to rapid provisioning of cloud based systems, and the talk on [...]

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