Tag: Exchange 2013
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Tools to manage email and some PowerShell cheat sheets
It was interesting to see the launch of “Inbox Pause”, an add-in for Gmail from Baydin Software, the same folks who develop Boomerang for Gmail (and indeed, Boomerang for Outlook). These add-ins are designed to help manage the constant flow of email that most people have to process daily. Inbox…
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Enterprise Vault, stubbing, and competition
Last March I wrote a post about the early history of the product now sold as Symantec Enterprise Vault. I’m now delighted to see that Nigel Dutt has published a comprehensive account of the history of the Vault. The account is compelling reading as it wanders through corporate politics, a…
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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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Priorities for MEC 2012 attendees
With the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) just a month away, thoughts turn to the hot topics that will be discussed there. Of course, Exchange 2013 is the top order of business and Microsoft will dedicate the majority of their sessions to discussing the new server. Although I will pay attention…
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Lots of new cmdlets appear in Exchange 2013
Some people do an excellent job of tracking the details of new software releases. I’m not one of them, but I am very happy to learn of the results of their work. Thus we find that MVP Tom Arbuthnot (a Lync MVP, not Exchange) took the time to analyze the…
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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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Countdown accelerates to Microsoft Exchange Conference – worth attending?
As I write, there are 67 days to go before the new, improved, and so much better Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) returns after its ten-year hiatus. Even though I have attending far too many IT conferences in Orlando, I’ll be there when MEC swings into high gear on September 24,…
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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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May 2012 articles posted on WindowsITPro.com
Another month goes by, another set of articles have been posted to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here are the set for May 2012: The cloud is great, but what about Plan B? (May 31) discusses the need for companies who move applications to cloud services to have a…
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