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Why’s my EMS soooo slooowww?

2012-01-24

Does it seem to take forever for your Exchange Management Shell to get you to an actual prompt? Try this.

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Exchange versions

2012-01-10

Quick reference table for Exchange versions with build numbers, release dates, and links to product support lifecycle pages.

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How Email Archiving Software Helps Businesses

2011-12-27

In this post I explain how email archiving software solves many of the inherent problems that exist with the current email servers and email server setups. As you will see, storage space, the need to use PST files, performance and compliance are big issues for companies that do not invest in email archiving software. When [...]

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howto://send from an alias in Office 365

2011-11-10

Want to use one of your SMTP aliases as your send from/reply to address with your Office 365 account? It’s not as easy as just clicking that “from” drop down, but this post will fix you up right.

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howto://improve your Exchange performance

2011-10-29

Generally speaking, the most important application running on most enterprise’s networks is email. While LOB applications may be needed to run the primary manufacturing line, or a CRM application is vital to the sales department, and the accounting system is crucial to, well, the accountants…everyone relies upon email. This mission critical application that is used [...]

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Why does your organization need an email archiving solution?

2011-05-20

If your organization uses an in-house mail server, an email archiving solution is the only way to take full advantage of the information contained within company emails while simultaneously reducing the amount of storage space required to maintain the messages. Archiving the ingoing and outgoing emails and attachments being sent to and from your employees, [...]

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and you cannot handle (back) pressure

2011-05-15

You might think you have enough resources available, but Exchange 2010 may have other ideas.

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Message in an email…fail

2011-04-15

Got a client who suddenly cannot play voicemails from a Unified Communications system? Here’s the fix.

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Gmail Security Checklist

2011-04-08

I followed one of those little notifications Gmail sometimes puts at the top of the page to read about an upcoming feature, and tumbled across a five-step security checklist Google put together for better securing your account. There’s some great tips in there, and the whole thing can be adapted to your own email system [...]

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The Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer

2011-03-25

Over at TheEmailAdmin I go over yet another in a long string of tools that Microsoft has released, that do great things, and that no one seems to know about. For the architect or admin tasked with planning out a migration or deployment to Exchange 2010, the Pre-Deployment Analyzer is a great tool for dotting [...]

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IPv6 may make IP Blacklists unusable

2011-03-18

With the approach of World IPv6 day, I started thinking about things that moving to IPv6 will affect, and IP Blacklists are definitely one of them. In my post over at AllSpammedUp.com, I discuss this and propose a few alternatives to consider. If this seems relevant to your interests, I bet you know what to [...]

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howto://email enable your scripts

2011-03-11

This week over at TheEmailAdmin, I talk about an old friend of mine; blat. If you need to add some kind of email functionality to a script or scheduled task, this little tool is just the ticket. Read all about it by clicking the pretty picture below, and if you find it useful, feel free [...]

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