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Tag: Outlook 2010

  • Predictions for 2011: The Exchange Market

    On Tuesday, I had an interesting call with Matt Gervais of TechTarget to discuss my views on what will happen for the Exchange market in 2011. Matt is busy talking to some other folks and will share his best assessment of the distilled wisdom of the oracles in an article…

  • Beware the effects of enabling an Exchange 2010 archive mailbox

    The introduction of archive mailboxes is one of the major new features offered by Exchange 2010. Matters are substantially improved in Exchange 2010 SP1 as it supports the separation of a user’s primary mailbox and their archive mailbox across different databases, giving administrators the ability to consider schemes such as…

  • Arrest the “Reply All” scourge!

    Today, Microsoft Research published an interesting add-in that works with both Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 to help suppress the awful mess that users can get themselves into with the ‘Reply All’ button. As you probably know, “reply all” works by creating a reply addressed to every TO: and CC:…

  • Second day of Exchange Maestro training in Boston

    We began day 2 of the Exchange 2010 Maestro seminar with a review of the topics covered in day 1. A spirited discussion occurred about the notion of “backupless” Exchange. In other words, some commentators have advanced the thought that the advent of the Database Availability Group (DAG) and the…

  • On email conversations

    The email gods have spoken and Google has listened: Gmail now allows you to turn off conversation mode and display items in folders in the same way that clients have done since the year dot. The announcement was made on September 29 and the ability to turn off conversation views…

  • Why bother with Outlook 2003?

    When Microsoft released Outlook 2003 in October 2003 (The history of Outlook is a good link to the history of Outlook), it marked several breakthroughs for Exchange clients. First, Outlook 2003 introduced RPC over HTTP and laid the foundation of the access enjoyed by many users enjoy as they connect…