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Microsoft has revealed details of the first major update that will be made available to hosted Microsoft Exchange users later this year.

In a post on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog, it is explained that Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be released by the end of this year, although a beta version will be made available in June.

Among the features will be an enhancement of the software’s archiving functionality that will allow businesses to implement separate storage strategies for emails.

Other areas that will be improved include the user interface, the Outlook Web App and Exchange Active Sync. Read the rest of this entry »

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When Steve Derbyshire, IT operations director at NEC Philips Unified Solutions UK, decided to implement Exchange Server 2010, he says he did so for three primary reasons: to get everyone on the same level of server software, to improve resiliency and to reduce storage costs, if possible.

Migrating to Exchange Server 2010 — More bang for the buck

Since migrating to Exchange Server 2010 in July 2009 as part of the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program, the company has increased its email system storage capacity by a factor of eight through the use of serial ATA (SATA) disks, Derbyshire said. This comes at only 25% the cost of new Fibre Channel (FC) disks, which would have been required if the company had maintained its mixed Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2007 environment, he added.

While NEC Philips’ small Exchange Server 2003 system had been on a single direct-attached storage (DAS) server, its Exchange Server 2007 environment was backed by a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN). “We were nearing 80% or higher capacity on the SAN, and we would have had to extend it had we stayed with Exchange [Server] 2007,” said Matt Hawkins, consulting team leader at NEC Philips. Read the rest of this entry »

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Microsoft will be releasing the beta of Exchange Server 2010 in parallel with the TechEd conference in June. In a blog entry posted on The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog mid-week, team member Michael Atalla wrote that “SP1 will include fixes and tweaks in areas you’ve helped us identify, including a roll-up of the roll-ups we’ve released to date.”

In addition, Microsoft has also improved the Multi-Mailbox Search feature, which now comes with a new preview view to help estimate the number of items that will be recovered in the result-set, as well as a new management user interface (UI). Read the rest of this entry »

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Microsoft has introduced a new update for users of its mobile operating system related to Exchange.

The Outlook update is available for Windows Mobile 6.1 users and will prepare them for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

Among the features is the ability to group emails by conversations, meaning common actions can be quickly performed for an entire conversation.

The ability to quickly lookup whether someone else within the organisation is free or busy is introduced while SMS messages can also be synced with Microsoft Exchange so that they appear in Outlook or Outlook Web Access.

Enhanced voicemail also gives the users a text preview of a message so that there is no need to listen to it.

Writing on the Microsoft Exchange team blog, Michael Higashi said: “Now you can keep valuable information at hand with the new Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile Update and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.” Read the rest of this entry »

There is a sense of relief when a cruel joke is quickly followed by a wisecracking “April Fools!” But when consumers fall victim to software piracy, you can be sure a pirate won’t relieve their misery with humor.

Software piracy is an unfortunate outgrowth of the technical age, but what multiplies the risk is that many people view software piracy as a victimless crime. A recent survey conducted by the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)¹ revealed that some consumers perceived the counterfeit business to be harmless and not unethical because no one gets hurt. Right? Read the rest of this entry »