Microsoft announced that it has acquired ActiveViews, a small, privately held maker of a business-intelligence platform based in Provo, Utah. The motivation behind the sale was to satisfy enterprise demand for getting a simple-to-use reporting tool into the hands of end users.

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store may stop responding on a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server computer or a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 computer that uses multiple processors. This page on the Microsoft site has a fix for the problem.

INBOX, The Email Event, debuts on June 2-4 in San Jose, California with the most comprehensive, in-depth conference and show floor focusing on email.

Cloudmark Exchange Edition (CEE) is a server-side anti-spam solution developed specifically for small and medium business. CEE integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing easy installation and administration not requiring client-side software.

Operating system bugs do exist, but many system instabilities are preventable. There is a lot that administrators can do to improve the overall availability of their servers and workstations.

Three education portals remain the focus of the latest Netsky variant, which targets the sites for a distributed denial-of-service attack in early May. Antivirus experts are baffled as to why the three sites, located in Florida, Switzerland and Germany are the target of the worm writer.

Get a synopsis of the different steps and technologies that are involved when deploying Exchange 2000/2003 in different topologies with this webcast on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 from 10:00 AM-11:30 AM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada).

Working with the Exchange Server 2003 Store is an upcoming addition to the Exchange Server 2003 Technical Documentation Library. This chapter describes how Microsoft Exchange clients generate and retrieve free/busy data, and how Exchange stores the data.

MXtreme HALO is a carrier-grade failsafe clustering architecture for high availability that enables two or more MXtreme systems to act as a single logical unit for processing email messages. It supports high availability through its unique security, cluster management, load balancing and optimization, and patent-pending "stateful failover" capabilities, ensuring that mail messages are never lost due to security vulnerabilities or individual system failures.

MX-1000 is designed for large enterprises providing carrier-level throughput for 10,000 or more users per system, setting a new benchmark in performance and fault-tolerance for high availability in the mail firewall appliance market.