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Migration challenges await in City of Boston's transition to Gmail

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft lost its most recent fight with Google as the City of Boston decided to move from Exchange to Gmail and Google Docs. I see some challenges ahead to migrate Microsoft Office documents to Google Docs but the most interesting question that arises from this situation is why Microsoft failed to win with Office 365. After all, when you are the incumbent, it's hard to lose. Isn't it?

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Management Pack for Exchange 2013 Released

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:30:00 +0000

Have you noticed Microsoft's new Download Center UI, lately? Here's your chance to check out the new interface by downloading the release of the Management Pack for Exchange Server 2013.

New email features from Microsoft and Google prove the worth of competition

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Apropos to my recent post about the importance of the competition that has occurred between Google and Microsoft in the evolution of email since the introduction of Gmail in April 2004, two other recent developments by Google seem worthy of positive comment.

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Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Front End Maintenance

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:34:00 +0000

Learn some basics related to patching and maintenance of Lync 2013 Front End servers

Byron Spurlock discusses some basics of Lync Server 2013 Front End maintenance, including pool quorum, upgrade domains, and best practices.

Configuring site mailboxes: a candidate for automation

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Exchange 2013 supports site mailboxes, a new way of document-centric collaboration that bridges the gap between Exchange and SharePoint. To use site mailboxes, you need to deploy SharePoint 2013 alongside Exchange 2013 and use Outlook 2013 as the client. Outlook is clever enough to mask the join marks between the email items stored and managed by Exchange and the documents held in SharePoint, with each site mailbox using a form of shared mailbox in Exchange and a SharePoint site. So good so far and we’re off to a new era of collaborative bliss – or maybe not.

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The curious lack of Exchange 2013 hardware planning tools

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:56:00 +0000

Exchange 2010 has a great mailbox server role calculator available to help plan server configurations. Yet eight months after its release, Microsoft still has not updated its tools to support Exchange 2013. What's going on and why might this be so? Perhaps it's the nature of the changes that have been made to Exchange 2013. What's for sure is that you will need to equip servers with more memory...

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Microsoft Infographic: The Enormity of What We Just Did

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:09:00 +0000

To help celebrate the completion of their Hotmail migration project, Microsoft has released an Infographic to help you get a sense of their accomplishment – well, and to make you aware of Outlook.com.

Exchange Connections - Calling all speakers

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:10:00 +0000

Las Vegas in October - conference time again. But with a difference - Exchange Connections is back and it's going to be packed with insightful and practical information about Exchange and its surrounding ecosystem. Opportunities exist for speakers and you can submit session ideas until May 14. It should be great fun!

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Why Exchange 2013 asks you to restart the Information Store after creating a new database

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

You might be surprised when the Exchange Administration Center or the Exchange Management Shell prompt to restart the Information Store service after you create a new mailbox database. It's a side effect of the new memory management model used by Exchange 2013's Managed Store.

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Microsoft Releases PST Import Tool Update for Microsoft Exchange Online

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:08:00 +0000

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0 adds the ability to import PST content into either Exchange Server (on-premise) or Exchange Online (in the Cloud). It will also inventory the owners and locations of the PST files with an optional agent installation.