At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week, Microsoft officials are trying to walk the tightrope when it comes to explaining Microsoft's plan to get into the managed services business in a major way.Microsoft officials have made no bones about the fact that Microsoft is planning to offer a...
Microsoft rolled out on June 28 the third rollup of fixes for Exchange Server 2007, a product introduced in December 2006.According to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on Rollup 3, Microsoft has fixed a number of Exchange issues, including: The addition of an integer to the end of the legacyExchangeDN attribute...
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have confirmed that the iPhone will work with Exchange Server. But The Times' David Pogue notes, at least for now, Apple is relying on IMAP, not Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, to provide iPhones with Exchange push-email functionality.My sources are still standing by claims...
Apple's iPhone is going to be compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server, after all.Earlier this month, a number of articles and analyst reports claimed that Apple's iPhone would not be compatible with Exchange Server, Research in Motion's Blackberry servers and Motorola's Good Technology e-mail servers.While I can't speak to Apple's...
Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...
Microsoft got its start by appealing to developers. Since its early days, the company has added more and more developer platforms to its line-up. And now it's building out another: An official developer platform for unified communications.Unified communications, in Microsoft parlance, refers primarily to Exchange Server and Office Communictions Server...
A few months back, I speculated on how/when Microsoft would field hosted SharePoint Server, hosted Exchange Serverand hosted Live Communications Server products. My best guess was Microsoft would launch Microsoft-managed versions of these services in the late 2007 or later timeframe.I was surprised to learn today at Microsoft's TechEd 2007...
Microsoft has made available for download Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 1, several performance and operational fixes for Exchange Server 2007.The download of Exchange Server 2007 Rollup 1 can be obtained here. Update Rollup 1 is not the same thing as Service Pack SP 1. Microsoft released to selected...
While Microsoft is attempting to distance itself from other software-as-a-service SaaS players, the Redmond software company is trying to help other software makers move to the SaaS distribution model. On April 16, Microsoft unveiled the Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center program -- an initiative designed to match up independent software...
Microsoft has begun rolling out the first beta of Service Pack SP 1 for Exchange Server 2007, according to a blog posting on Microsofts TechNet site. Microsoft launched Exchange Server 2007 a little over four months ago, in December 2006. The first beta is available to select Microsoft...
Microsoft is adding a new hotfix option for its SQL Server customers similar to the one it began phasing in for Exchange Server users earlier this year. Microsoft notified SQL Server users on April 5 of a new option -- known as the Incremental Servicing Model -- via which...
Speaking of Microsofts unified-communications strategy, former Softie Alec Saunders has an interesting post on how to "avoid becoming Microsoft roadkill" in the converging VOIP/conferencing/phone market. (Saunders spent nine years at Microsoft in a variety of product management and marketing roles, including the initial launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer. He...
Its going to be a busy weekend for IT administrators still struggling to get their systems patched to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time DST on March 11. On Friday afternoon, Microsofts DST online chat room, which was set to be staffed for 15 hours, had on average...
Thousands of Microsoft customers are running into problems understanding and applying the myriad Microsoft Daylight Saving Time DST patches required in order to keep their Windows, Exchange Server and other systems up-to-date when DST takes effect on March 11. Microsofts online DST chat room -- which Microsoft is currently...
Office Communications Server 2007 will hit public beta some time later this month, according to the Softies. OCS 2007 is Microsofts combined instant-messaging/VOIP/audio-video conferencing server, and the successor to Microsofts Live Communications Server product. OCS 2007 doesnt require Exchange Server to work, but Microsoft officials emphasizes the unified-messaging synergies...
Microsoft is continuing to roll out updates needed for a number of its products as a result of the early switch to Daylight Saving Time DST on March 11. The latest product to get the DST treatment is Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Microsoft made the DST CRM patch...
To disclose or not to disclose. Thats the Microsoft question thats rearing its head again this week. Softie and IT Pro Evangelist James oNeill -- in a February 28 blog post entitled "Brave and Stupid Posts" -- chastized an unnamed Microsoft employee for sharing last week information on Exchange...
March 11, the new date on which Daylight Saving Time DST will take effect in the U.S. and a growing number of other countries, is fast approaching. And Microsoft is working overtime to get the message out that users need to patch a bunch of their Microsoft products, from Exchange...
Microsofts Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack SP 1 now has an official due date: Same time as Longhorn Server, meaning the latter half of 2007. Microsoft went public with its Exchange Server 2007 SP1 plans on the Microsoft Exchange Team blog on February 23. Microsoft signed off...
Microsoft watchers know Anoop Gupta has been a fixture in Microsofts Business Division, and specifically, on the Unified Communications Group UCG side of the house, for some time now. But Guptas gone. Not gone from Microsoft all together, but gone from the Business Division and now working for Microsoft...
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