Tag: Outlook 2013
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Symantec ships Enterprise Vault 10.0.3
When I wrote about some of the problems surrounding Exchange 2013 in “Exchange Unwashed” on January 17, I noted that “The signs are that the Exchange ecosystem is incomplete or not prepared for prime time.” Well, one of the important pieces of the Exchange ecosystem for many companies is now available…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012
October 2012 was quite a busy month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsItPro.com with 11 articles appearing. Here’s the regular monthly digest: Exchange 2013 reduces number of mounted databases to 50 (October 30). I wonder how many companies run an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) with more than…
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Exchange Unwashed September 2012 Digest
September 2012 was the month of MEC and many articles appeared to cover the happenings at the conference. I tried, but failed, to stay away from too many mentions of MEC in the “Exchange Unwashed” blog because there were many other topics to discuss, at least early on in the…
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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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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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What to do about Outlook’s synchronization logs?
Those of you who read my “other” blog (at WindowsITPro.com) are probably aware of my views on Outlook’s continuing failure to be able to suppress or otherwise deal with the generous number of synchronization logs that the client generates. Last May, I wrote about the fact that it is impossible…
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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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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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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…
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