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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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Outlook 2013, swelling OSTs, and retention policies
Speaking about OST sizes and the change made in Outlook 2013 to drive down the amount of data cached by users, another thought came into my mind (I know, a very unusual occurrence). Just how big can an OST grow to given that we’re in an era of 25GB-plus mailboxes?…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest August 2012
Another month has gone by so here’s the digest listing of posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. After a year or so of posting to WindowsITPro, I’ve settled into a routine of publication every Tuesday and Thursday. Given the imminent arrival of Exchange 2013, I’m trying to split…
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Exchange Unwashed blog digest June-July 2012
I was remiss in not posting a digest of June articles so here’s a bumper edition listing all of the articles posted to WindowsITPro.com during June and July. In passing, I should also point to my 4,000-word plus in-depth review of Exchange 2013 posted on WindowsITPro.com on July 23. This…
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Farewell EMC, welcome EAC – the end of Windows-based Exchange administration
In a conference room in Redmond, WA last February, Microsoft revealed to a group of Exchange MVPs that Exchange 2013 would only include a browser-based administration client. The era of traditional Microsoft Management Console (MMC)-based UIs such as the Exchange System Manager (ESM), used in Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003,…
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Computing survey reports on UK market – 2% still using Exchange 2000?
The U.K. is Microsoft’s largest subsidiary and has always been an important and mature market for Exchange Server. The results of a survey about the pace of transition to Exchange 2010 reported by the well-respected Computing magazine are therefore interesting and deserve some commentary. According to Computing, Exchange has 80%…
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