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Tag: Exchange 2010

  • 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%…

  • Decision time: into the cloud or stay on-premises

    HP and Penton Media recently asked me to write a paper outlining the critical issues that surround the decision that many companies are currently considering whether they should continue to run Exchange on-premises, move into the cloud with Office 365, or deploy a hybrid solution. I think the decision is…

  • Exploring Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3

    On May 29, 2012, the Exchange Customer Experience Team (CXP) released Roll-up Update 3 (RU3) for Exchange 2010 SP2. RU3 comes some six weeks after its RU2 predecessor (April 16) and as always among the 42 individual fixes, this update contains an eclectic mixture of ho-hum and important fixes. My…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Monday miscellany

    Some random thoughts to fill in the vacuum of a boring Monday afternoon in January… First, why doesn’t the Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7.5 display a status bar to show the current state of the battery, wireless connectivity, and so on? You can reveal the status bar, but…

  • Installing Exchange 2010 SP2

    By now you’ll have read the news that Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Exchange 2010. If not, you can read my article on WindowsITPro.com and then go and fetch the necessary bits from the Microsoft Download Center. Installing SP2 is a relatively straightforward affair and Exchange 2010…

  • November posts on WindowsITPro.com

    I know that many of the readers of this fine blog don’t have the chance or the time to keep up to date with the “Exchange Unwashed” blog that I contribute to on WindowsITPro.com (of course, you could subscribe to Twitter and follow me there), so here’s a brief recap…