Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
The most basic type of Exchange 2003 installation you can do is to simply install it on one server.
If that Exchange 2003 server experienced a higher load, you could split off to two or more Exchange 2003 servers, each running a separate mailbox stores and therefore “statically” splitting the load between these two or more […]
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Posted on April 26th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
If you’re an early adopter of new technology, you get the benefits of increased productivity from use of the new features, but you also sometimes have to put up with any initial bugs or performance issues found in this new software.
Outlook 2007 suffered sluggish performance under certain conditions, such as when you were using a […]
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Posted on April 24th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Most viruses and malware these days tend to spread the most by means of email.
Since almost everyone actively uses email these days, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if viruses use email as a transport/delivery mechanism, then infection can spread extremely quickly.
Virus and malware content in email is therefore […]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by Ron Bertino
We live in a world where compliance requirements keep getting more and more stringent.
From Sarbanes-Oxley in the USA through to CLERP9 in Australia, and the many other international standards such as ISO 9000 and Sarbanes-Oxley hybrids, it seems that compliance requirements are getting tougher as we go.
If you’re a multinational company, you could […]
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Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
When you talk about management features most people won’t get as excited about this as other new sexy features such as unified messaging or the new disaster recovery features available in Exchange 2007.
But considering that admins tend to spend 70% of their time maintaining existing systems, it becomes very important to try to maximise the […]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
New servers have been built with 64-bit capabilities for at least one year, yet we rarely see servers built with the 64-bit version of Windows Server.
Part of the reason for this is that there were never clear benefits of going down the 64-bit road. The performance improvements were marginal, yet we would have to […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Researchers have stated that “nearly 90% of professionals will carry mobile devices capable of receiving mobile messages by 2008″.
You may think that in order to be able to push email out from Exchange to mobile devices you need to purchase Blackberry devices and an expensive Blackberry server to sit next to your Exchange system…..but those […]
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Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Outlook Web Access just keeps getting better and better.
In this next video review, we’ll take a look at:
- how the user interface has changed
- calendaring improvements, and the new resource scheduler
- address book improvements
- new powerful search capabilities
- access to the improved Out of Office Assistant
- a new feature called “LinkAccess”, which allows Exchange to […]
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Posted on April 12th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
At the moment you will find yourself having to go to your email client on your computer to check emails, walk across the office to the corner fax machine to check on any incoming faxes, and punch a few numbers on your desk phone in order to check your voicemail.
Wouldn’t it be great if you […]
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Posted on April 11th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Today I stumbled up a large list of freeware programs (and some shareware), which seemed to be very useful.
There’s quite a few tools in there which I’ve used in the past, and wouldn’t have an issue recommending (eg MailWasher, Adaware, HijackThis, Spybot search and destroy, Avast, AVG, iTunes, WinAmp, Audacity, DVD Decrypter, WinRar, Winzip, CursorXP, […]
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