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It's Office 365 day, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) employees are no doubt dancing in the streets of Redmond. They'll be celebrating the launch -- after a long beta gestation -- of the company's latest cloud service for messaging, collaboration, and good-old Office documents. Which is nice, but please don't all rush at once -- there are a few reasons why you should think twice before signing. Here are five of those reasons, in The Long View...
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This pilot fish's IT shop has just migrated all the company's users to Microsoft Exchange 2010, and something is clearly wrong -- at least according to one user.

Google has announced a new migration tool for switching Microsoft Exchange Server users to its Google Apps email/calendar cloud hosting service. It's in addition to the existing Outlook sync and Lotus Notes/Domino migration tools. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers exchange Exchange. Not to mention a timelapse photography howto...
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Not so very long ago, there was a lot of talk in the market about Exchange alternatives -- software products that worked in a similar way to Microsoft Exchange. I was reminded of this by some news that crossed my desk yesterday. Is this still an interesting market, or is the battle long lost? Let's see, in The Long View...
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Last week, I offered you 5 reasons why you should avoid Office 365 -- the new cloud service from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). This week, I want to offer the flipside of the coin. Let's see the glass half-full in The Long View...
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Got Microsoft Exchange Server in your shop? Well listen up: last week, at its Tech-Ed IT fest, Microsoft offered some fascinating insights into its internal use of Exchange. Notably, from a storage and high-availability perspective. Microsoft IT's 'dogfood' projects often have important lessons for other users of the company's products, and Exchange is no exception. Read on to learn more...

Got Microsoft Exchange? Earlier, I started talking about how, at its Tech-Ed IT-fest, Microsoft last week offered some fascinating insights into its internal use of Exchange. Today, I'll talk about how Microsoft IT has ditched traditional tape-based backup, in favor of cheap disk arrays. Read on to learn more...

Got Microsoft Exchange? Earlier, I started talking about how, at its Tech-Ed IT-fest, Microsoft last week offered some fascinating insights into its internal use of Exchange. Today, I'll talk about how Microsoft IT has ditched traditional high availability: using no RAID or clustering. Read on to learn more...

This week saw Microsoft announce its Office 365 initiative. What does it mean for businesses, large and small? Let's survey the landscape, in The Long View...

One analyst firm says Microsoft Exchange's market share is growing. Another one says Exchange customers are jumping ship. Here's an alternative in case you're in the latter camp.

This is a followup post to last week's series about how Microsoft IT built an unusual Exchange message store architecture. Some folks are assuming that the SAS -- serial attached SCSI -- drives referred to in the first post are the relatively expensive, 2.5" 15K RPM type. They're not...

Greetings from Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference in New Orleans. Apparently, there's another big technology conference going on today, but I wouldn't know about that. I'm here as a guest of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, which has made some interesting announcements this morning.

A new Google Gadget adds business intelligence to the popular online messaging and collaboration tools.

Google Message Continuity is the latest Google service to tempt Microsoft Exchange shops into looking at Google Apps. Basically, it helps protect Exchange shops from downtime. Why would Google do that? Surely it wants people to experience Exchange pain? Let's look into it, in The Long View...