Tag: Exchange 2003
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GAMME – an unfortunate name for Google’s new migration utility
I know (because I have visited the Dublin Googleplex several times) that Google employs several thousand people in Ireland. Couldn’t one of them have looked at the acronym for their new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GAMME) service and raised a red flag that perhaps a second meaning can…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2014
January is often a time for reflection. In my “Exchange Unwashed” blog over the past month I reflected on topics such as the need to carefully count Client Access Licenses, the impending deadline for support for some well-known and still-used products and why Managed Availability exists. Lots more happened too……
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Did Exchange ActiveSync help Apple to beat RIM?
Now that the dust has settled down after the publication of my recent interview with Perry Clarke, Microsoft VP for Exchange development, it’s a good time to reflect on some of the statements made by Perry and the reaction that I’ve received since. I plan to look at some of…
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New Store, new memory tuning techniques required
One of the more interesting observations that we will soon be able to make is how well the thoroughly overhauled and rewritten Exchange 2013 Information Store functions in production environments. Of course, there’s the small matter of the rest of the deployment prerequisites to be met, such as co-existence with…
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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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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…
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Exchange Panel Session at TEC 2011
I participated in an interesting panel sessions at TEC 2011 EMEA in Frankfurt on Tuesday. Panel sessions can be an embarrassment for both panelists and audience if no one asks any questions or the questions don’t contain sufficient meat to warrant a good discussion – or even some controversy. In…
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Why Exchange Online Administrators need to understand PowerShell
In my recent review of the free Microsoft Press ebook “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and collaborate virtually anywhere, anytime”, I concluded that the book was a curate’s egg for Exchange administrators. I’m not sure if the analogy worked for readers outside Ireland and the U.K., so in the spirit of clarity,…
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“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…
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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…
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