Exchange 2010 SP2 rollup 4 delivers new retention policy support

The most recent Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 rollup update brings the total number of fixes in the two-year old product to 166 — a large number that could be related to cloud computing. Microsoft released rollup update 4 (RU4) for Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP) 2 this week with 23 new fixes Some say the relatively…

Posted on: August 24, 2012 9:00 am

A lesson on Exchange Server 2010 resource mailbox management

Exchange admins have been creating dedicated mailboxes to represent conference rooms for years.In previous versions of Exchange Server, administrators created standard mailboxes and assigneddelegates to manage meeting requests. In Exchange Server 2010, resource mailboxes include newfunctions that make life easier for admins and end users alike.1. Creating room mailboxes in…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

Microsoft Uses New Logo for First Time in 25 Years

Microsoft has spent the summer making announcements that represent a break from tradition, especially in terms of software design. (See Office 2013, Windows Phone 8, Outlook.com, Bing, and the Windows 8 Surface tablets.) Today the company is moving even farther away from the old Microsoft with a brand new company According to…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

The Path from Fileshare to SharePoint

One of the major complaints about SharePoint is that, while it contains the potential for expanded business productivity and automation, within many organizations it has become yet another file share. While that may be true, the primary difference is that, unlike those old file shares, SharePoint has the potential to…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

SharePoint 2013 Needs Less Features, Not More

Anyone interested in Microsoft SharePoint will have by now seen the new version. SharePoint 2013 is packed with lots of new and exciting features. Users can experience the revamped MySites, with FaceBook style activity feeds and the ability to ‘follow’ pretty much anything. Developers have ‘apps’ to get their teeth into,…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

Hotmail Still Ahead of Gmail in Europe, comScore Says

Email is often regarded as slightly old-fashioned compared with the multiplicity of messaging services now available for portable and desktop devices. But it remains important enough for Microsoft to invest in its entirely new Outlook service, which is currently being beta tested, before it eventually replaces Hotmail. But, according to…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

Top 100 Law Firm Lewis Silkin LLP Deploys BA Insight’s TotalView for Legal …

NEW YORK and LONDON, Aug. 23, 2012/PRNewswire/ — BA Insight, the leader in agile information integration, announced today that London-based law firm Lewis Silkin LLP has purchased and deployed its TotalView for Legalsolution, the first packaged search-based business application developed specifically for legal organizations using the Microsoft SharePoint environment. Lewis Silkin,…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

InstallFree Nexus brings Microsoft Office to iPads via the cloud

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Earlier this year, the Internet was abuzz with what appeared to be a version of Microsoft Word running on the iPad. Today, we’re no closer to seeing Word as a native iPad app than…

Posted on: August 23, 2012 9:00 am

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft …

With numerous buttons and options you may never use, Gmail’s rich interface can get in the way of actually reading email. To be fair, Google packs a lot of functionality into the interface, but no interface is perfect for 100% of its users. Gmelius is a simple Chrome extension and/or…

Posted on: August 22, 2012 9:00 am

Google Plans To Kill It’s Popular Postini Spam Filtering Service (GOOG, MSFT)

Google will soon be turning off its popular spam filtering and e-mail archiving product, Postini. It will shift Postini users to Google Apps, which also includes Postini’s features. At last count, Google had over 26 million Postini users, many of them at enterprises. They use this cloud service to filter Starting…

Posted on: August 22, 2012 9:00 am