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Category: Exchange

  • April 2012 articles published on WindowsITPro.com

    Here’s the digest of articles published on my WindowsITPro.com blog in April 2012. FAST searching coming to Office 15 server applications (April 26) reports that the Office 15 wave of server applications (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013) will share a common enterprise search capability powered by the FAST technology acquired…

  • Exchange 2010 SP2 RU2: Deep-dive into what’s in this roll-up update

    On Monday, April 16, Microsoft released roll-up update 2 (RU2) for Exchange 2010 SP2. There was nothing strange or unusual in this process because it follows Microsoft’s practice of issuing cumulative roll-up updates for Exchange at regular intervals. On the same day, Microsoft (or rather, the splendidly named Customer Experience…

  • Exchange Connections 2012 – Your chance to present

    Following on from my recent post about the three major U.S.-based conferences that feature a lot of content about Microsoft Exchange Server, I note that the nice people at Penton Media have issued a call for papers for the Exchange Connections 2012 event, which is due to take place in…

  • First Exchange 2013 training course appears

    December update: Now that Exchange 2013 is generally available, I want to make it quite clear that I neither endorse nor recommend the training mentioned below. This entry was posted to demonstrate the foolishness of launching a training course for a product some six months before it was actually available. If you…

  • To MEC or not to TEC, where are my Connections?

    I think that there’s a fair chance that I am the only person to have presented keynote sessions at each of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), The Experts Conference (TEC), and the Exchange Connections conference. As such I might be in a reasonable position to offer some guidance as to…

  • March 2012 articles posted on WindowsITPro.com

    Here is the digest of articles that I posted to March 2012 during March 2012: iPhone meet Exchange 2010 posted on March 29 is a review of Steve Goodman’s new book iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 – Business Integration and Deployment, which describes how administrators can take on the…

  • Reverting to Outlook’s AutoArchive feature

    A question arising from my post about some things to consider when you enable Exchange 2010 archive mailboxes asked how a user could revert back to Outlook’s AutoArchive feature if they decided that they really didn’t want to use the archive mailbox. The answer proved a little harder to discover, so here…

  • Exchange ActiveSync books – one coming, one in production

    There’s no doubt that ActiveSync has been an enormous success for Microsoft. Every important mobile device vendor has licensed ActiveSync and although the implementation of the features enabled by ActiveSync varies from vendor to vendor, it’s still true to say that ActiveSync has now become a premier protocol when it…

  • Enterprise Vault, ALL-IN-1, and all that

    My recent post about the origins of Symantec’s Enterprise Vault product provoked a flurry of email conversations with many people, including the redoubtable Nigel Dutt, ex-CTO of KVS, the creators of Enterprise Vault. Nigel and I have butted heads over the year, mostly because he believes that English rugby is…

  • February 2012 articles posted on WindowsITPro.com

    Understanding the bug fix for OAB downloads in Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 (February 28): This is a fun article that pokes a gentle amount of fun at the wonderful turn of phrase exhibited by Greg Taylor when he explained a bug fix to improve OAB downloads in an article posted…