Article archive for 2007 – Page 3

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Your email address book: it’s not just for email anymore

Sometimes, it’s important to go back to the basics. In this interesting article by newcomer Brenda Coxe, we look at email address books and contact lists.

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Sunday, July 1, 2007

Organizing and sharing information with Outlook Public Folders

Every organization has the need to collect, organize, and share information. In Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server uses the Public Folders feature to share common-interest information among project teams and user groups. In this helpful article, Kathy Evans-Davis gives you an overview of how Public Folders work, and also how you can manage permissions for an active team.

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Friday, June 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: why does Karl Rove keep losing his BlackBerry?

Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, is one of the most powerful people in Washington. He conducts a vast amount of political and official business via his BlackBerry. He also apparently regularly loses his BlackBerry. Why do we here at ZATZ have this scoop when everyone else missed it? Read our special report to learn what else is disturbing about White House email in this latest article of our special report series.

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Friday, June 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: help us find those missing messages

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking a lot about the problems with email at the White House and what’s broken. We’ve talked very little about possible solutions to the problem. Between our OutlookPower and DominoPower magazines, we probably reach more active Notes/Domino and Outlook/Exchange experts than any other organization. In this article, we’re calling on you, asking for your help in coming up with some possible solutions to the many problems we’ve uncovered.

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Friday, June 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: migrating from Notes to Outlook

We continue our analysis of the White House email controversy by looking at the what might have happened to the alleged 5 million missing messages. A key factor may have been a migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook in 2002 or 2003. Read this article for our technical analysis and to learn about some of the freaky questions we’ve turned up in the process.

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Friday, June 1, 2007

Outlook Mobile Service: a low-bandwidth connection to your mobile life

We have a problem. Ok, maybe not you personally, but we, the users of Outlook, collectively have a problem. That problem is how to maintain access to our Outlook data when we’re mobile. Outlook Mobile Service (OMS) is one possible solution to that problem. It’s an inexpensive, low-bandwidth way to get access to crucial Outlook data on virtually any mobile phone that can send and receive text (SMS) messages.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: can email messages just disappear?

We continue our analysis of the White House email controversy by looking at the what might have happened to the alleged 5 million missing messages. In this article, we’re going to look at how many messages may be missing and then deconstruct some of the damning statements made by the loyal opposition. Don’t worry, though. While this week it’ll look like we’re mostly picking on the Democrats, fear not. Next week, we’ll be asking tough questions of the White House about why they chose to migrate email systems in the middle of a build-up to war.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: an archiving plan only FEMA could love

We continue our exploration into the missing White House emails we’ve all been hearing about. Aren’t these emails archived? How do they manage their mail flow? Do they have an archiving system? For that, we turn to the White House itself. In this article, we’ll learn what White House spokesfolk Dana Perino and Tony Snow have been saying about the topic. After listening to them and reading the transcripts of press briefings in-depth, we’ve got with even more questions than we started with. And the shakes.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: the nightmare scenario

Since we’ve been following the path of the GWB43.COM domain name through SMARTech, and we know that Karl Rove and 21 other White House officials, abiding by the Hatch Act, run political email through GWB43.COM and SMARTech, we thought it best to look at the national security implications of this practice. In this article, we’ll also look at questions of BlackBerry security with a security expert and the nightmare scenario compliance with the Hatch Act might inadvertently cause.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The White House email controversy: a detour into mob journalism

We continue our technical analysis of the White House missing email controversy. Earlier, we learned that the President’s staff uses at least two domains for email: EOP.GOV for official business and GWB43.COM for political business. Last week, we explored GWB43.COM for clues into the White House email infrastructure and came up with some disturbing questions. This week, we take a strange detour into mob journalism as we continue to dig for the truth.

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