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EVENT: ITPRO Africa IDM Management Shootout

by Marlon Duminy 27 January 2012 Anouncements

ITPRO AFRICA is proud to announce our first event for 2012! ITPRO Africa IDM Management Shootout We’ve invited two guest speakers from Microsoft and Quest Softwareto give their viewpoints on the subject matter of Identity Management. You are invited to come along, listen and most of all interact with our guests. Make sure that you [...]

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PowerShell 3 previews available for download

by Nicolas Blank 21 September 2011 Anouncements

It’s a week of downloading goodness. First Windows 8 desktop downloads became available, now we have the PowerShell 3 community preview available. You may ask, why should you bother? PowerShell 1 fundamentally transformed the admin experience in terms of ease of scripting, debugging and discovery. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then checkout [...]

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Windows 8 preview–including download links

by Nicolas Blank 15 September 2011 News

The future of Windows was shown this week at the BUILD conference as we spoke about earlier this week. Stepping away from the marketing a bit, I’d like to call out two perspectives Windows 8 presented by Steven Bink, reviews the major new features and platforms Windows 8 will run on. Since we’ve recently reviewed [...]

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The Future of Windows

by Nicolas Blank 13 September 2011 Anouncements

The BUILD conference starts today,13 September 2011 and lasts until the 16’th of September 2011. .If you’re interested to know what’s going to be in the next versions of windows – Desktop, Server, Mobile, Slate, Embedded, Car, etc, then you’ll want to keep your eye’s peeled for announcements. Build traditionally is the place where most [...]

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Office 365–12 differences between the E1 and P1 plans

by Nicolas Blank 31 August 2011 Cloud

E1 and P1 share a number of similarities, and at face value you may this the two are the same product, and wonder why the difference in the sticker price. Let’s look at some of the features shared by both plans 25GB mailbox Invitations for 50 external users to SharePoint Online Invitations for 250 users [...]

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Windows 8 adds native support for ISO and VHD Files

by Nicolas Blank 31 August 2011 News

The support for features in Windows 8 is becoming richer, adding features natively for which we currently need to bolt software onto Windows 7 in order to achieve the same functionality. Let’s look at an excerpt of the Windows 8 blog: As you see in the figure below, we have three ISO files in a [...]

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The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

In a previous post I discussed where it looks like the Exchange product is headed for hosting companies. Today the Exchange product group published a statement which includes: We want to enable our hosting partners to offer the same rich feature set that our on-premises customers are used to. As such, with the release of [...]

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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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Celebrating a master, Roberts Rules gains recognition

by Nicolas Blank 17 May 2011 Commentary

Having had the privilege of sharing a class with Robert Gillies during my MCM 2010 rotation last year, I wanted to call out a blog entry which mentions Robert Gillies and comments on his writing on the Exchange team blog.   http://blog.mimecast.com/2011/05/robert%e2%80%99s-rules-and-challenging-complexity/   Robert is a consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, and since he’s been [...]

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Lync Client Virtualization the full story

by Mahmoud Magdy 27 April 2011 Citrix

if you have been reading carefully, Citrix released a document the article published here http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128831 . by that time, I knew internally that Microsoft didn’t support Client virtualization for OCS/Lync. although if you have been reading and even attended Citrix Xenapp 6 or Xendesktop training you will hear a lot about Lync/OCS client virtualization delivery [...]

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