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I have been remiss in not commenting sooner on the usefulness of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator, an Excel spreadsheet that demonstrates the level of complexity that this application can reach. The current version of...
Ankur Kothari, the Microsoft program manager responsible for Exchange’s compliance features, talked up the PST capture tool that Microsoft announced last July at his session at the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas. Ankur said that the...
Exchange Connections started with a keynote by Kevin Allison, General Manager of the Exchange development group who has responsibility for both on-premises and cloud versions of the product. The conversation, which is what Kevin essentially had...
Gartner made some interesting comments about the relative lack of penetration of Google Apps at their recent symposium (see the full ZDNet report). Essentially, Gartner doesn’t believe that Google Apps is making much of an impact, at least not in...
More change rolls out at HP as the PC Systems Group (PSG) CTO, Phil McKinney, has announced his retirement from the company with an anticipated departure date of 31 December. This follows the horribly botched disclosure that HP was reviewing...
Microsoft has just released RU6 for Exchange 2010 SP1. You can head over to the download center to grab a copy. Just like any other updates, it’s important to install and test RU6 before you introduce it into production. I believe that Microsoft...
I sat through a veritable blizzard of PowerPoint at TEC 2011 EMEA in Frankfurt last week. I don’t think my own contribution to the slide festival was too bad until I read an article on the CIO Update web site entitled “Top 10 Reasons to Dump...
I wonder whether John Speare, one of Microsoft’s Senior Technical Writers, was overjoyed when he received the assignment to document the options that exist to move Exchange Public Folders to Office 365 in the form of a white paper that you can...
Shane Robison will step down and retire as HP’s Chief Strategy and Technology Officer effective November 1. According to HP’s news release, “in an effort to drive strategy, research and development closer to the company’s businesses, it will not...
One good thing came out of last week’s RIM outage. According to a report in “The National” newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, deaths of young men who insist on reading email on their BlackBerry devices dropped off while the service was...