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Month: June 2011

  • European Office 365 datacenters exposed to U.S. authorities?

    After the razzmatazz of the corporate Office 365 launch in NYC faded, local Microsoft subsidiaries around the world did their own thing to brief journalists and introduce details of local offerings, such as link-ups with telcos to deliver Office 365 packaged with voice and other services. I doubt that any Microsoft…

  • Ballmer launches Office 365

    For the fun of it and because I had some spare time, I tuned into the Microsoft launch of Office 365 in NYC via the web. The content was pretty much as you’d expect from a Microsoft event: Marketing person welcomes everyone Steve Ballmer comes on and makes some introductory…

  • Interesting price differences for Office 365 accounts

    Due to be formally launched in NYC on Tuesday, June 28, there’s no doubt that Microsoft has had enormous success with its Office 365 beta program. Depending on whom you talk to, tens of millions of people signed up to use Office 365 to have the opportunity of trying out…

  • Generating Exchange 2010 reports with PowerShell

    From time to time, someone in the Exchange community outside the Exchange development group comes up with a contribution that adds an enormous amount to many different deployments. I think that the PowerShell script posted by Steve Goodman on his blog may just be in that category. For years, I have…

  • “The Register” runs ESEUTIL to rescue an Exchange 2003 server

    It’s nice to see that “The Register” continues to support Exchange 2003 administrators with advice such as that offered in the article “Help my Exchange server just rebooted” posted on June 18, 2011.I’m assuming that the article was about Exchange 2003 because the screen shot displayed system files dated from…

  • Measuring Outlook 2010 network latency

    One of the truths often overlooked by those who wish to rush into the cloud is that the characteristics of their network will change dramatically. Some of the traffic that is currently processed internally will have to be channeled out across the Internet to the selected cloud provider. For example,…

  • Quick but important survey about Exchange 2010 licensing

    Paul Robichaux caused some ripples in the calm waters of Microsoft licensing when he wrote about a question that he had received from a Windows IT Pro Magazine reader. The reader was upgrading an Exchange 2003 deployment to Exchange 2010 gradually by introducing a new Client Access Server (CAS) only…

  • Chatting about Exchange 2010 SP2 and Office 365 with Matt Gervais

    Last week, Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com, tracked me down in France to chat about my views about Exchange 2010 SP2, Office 365, virtualizing Exchange, and whether Exchange administrators are threatened by the cloud. Matt captured our conversation in a podcast, which you can now download from SearchExchange.com. Now…

  • Wandering down through France

    It was time to head back from Ireland to France. This time we decided to take the ferry from Rosslare to Roscoff on the basis that the route was shorter and we’d spend less time cooped up on the boat being a captive audience for Irish Ferries. We’d also have…

  • Office 365: Launch on June 28

    The invitations have been printed and Steve Ballmer is making the final touches to the PowerPoint that he’s scheduled to present at Microsoft’s formal launch of Office 365. The grand event takes place in New York City on June 28 before a carefully-assembled audience of industry observers, journalists, and others.…