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Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012
October 2012 was quite a busy month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsItPro.com with 11 articles appearing. Here’s the regular monthly digest: Exchange 2013 reduces number of mounted databases to 50 (October 30). I wonder how many companies run an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) with more than…
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Outlook Anywhere coming to a CAS server near you soon
If you’re running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 today and want to introduce Exchange 2013 at some point in the future (subject to code being available to permit version interoperability – see below), you’re going to have to put Exchange 2013 Client Access Servers (CAS) into operation. Ideally, the Exchange…
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Exchange 2013, Facebook, malfunctioning ActiveSync clients, modern public folders and more at TEC Barcelona
The European edition of The Experts Conference (TEC) rolled around in Barcelona this week. As a location, the conference center was fine, if just a tad remote from the delights of Barcelona’s city center. The conference center is co-located with the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos 1 that’s used by FC Barcelona to…
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Exchange 2013 reaches RTM
The point at which a brand-new version of Exchange attains the necessary level of quality to allow the development group to sign the code off as being suitable for “Release to Engineering” (RTM) is a cause for celebration in Redmond. And so it was on October 11 when the Exchange…
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Exchange Unwashed September 2012 Digest
September 2012 was the month of MEC and many articles appeared to cover the happenings at the conference. I tried, but failed, to stay away from too many mentions of MEC in the “Exchange Unwashed” blog because there were many other topics to discuss, at least early on in the…
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Searching, iFilters, and attachments
Ireland in October is definitely different to Florida in September. Although I didn’t see much of the outside weather during last week’s MEC in Orlando, heat and humidity has been replaced with Dublin’s ongoing mixture of rain and wind. Some say that the weather doesn’t really matter as long as…
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MEC 2012 Wrap-up
Day 3 of MEC delivered another set of sessions containing lots of interesting information about different Exchange topics, the most interesting of which was named “Ask an Exchange Dev (because program managers and marketing lie)”. This session was announced late on, possibly because of its totally politically incorrect title and…
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MEC launches with insults, edgy humour, but lots of good technical content too
MEC swung into action on Monday with two keynotes followed by a set of technical sessions covering different aspects of Exchange 2013. Overall, it was a highly productive day where a lot of interesting content was shared. It all started with a video… Nice and all as it is to…
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Some color problems as MEC swings into action
The first full day of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) swings into play this morning with the normal menu of an opening non-technical keynote followed by a technical keynote. The difference of course is that the first is for marketing personnel, who will be forced to leave the room for…
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The consequences of Microsoft’s new cloud-centric security product strategy
If you haven’t read the news about Microsoft’s new direction for its on-premises security products, you might not be aware that offerings such as Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE) and Threat Management Gateway (TMG) will not be carried forward into the future. FPE is being replaced by its cloud-based anti-malware…
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