Exchange 2016 Test Drive|Introduction Exchange 2016 has been released by Microsoft for a short while now. This blog post runs through an Exchange 2016 test drive of Microsoft’s newest email on-premise platform, Exchange 2016. I will focus on a simple Exchange 2016 install process, and then focus on some key […]
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This is the first in a series of blog posts where I summarise the current email migration activities we are involved in – to reflect the trends in the industry, based on our experiences. January 2016 sees us involved in migrations to Office 365, from both GroupWise and Domino. The […]
Introduction | CalCheck This post covers the scenario from a recent Domino email migration to Exchange 2013, whereby some Outlook users complained about their Calendar crashing Outlook. Migration Scenario | CalCheck The Domino to Exchange 2013 migration was sucessful, and covered 800 mailboxes, migrated via a pre-stage, and delta copy. […]
Exchange 2016, the next version of Microsoft’s on-premise messaging platform after Exchange 2013, is getting significant press coverage. Microsoft have released some great pre-release information on Exchange 2016 – check out the TechNet Blog article. This blog post looks at Exchange 2016 in terms of an email migration project, and […]
Exchange 2013 CU9 Due Exchange 2013 CU9 is due out next quarter. Apart from a Microsoft promised Shared Mailbox feature around recording Sent Items, we do not know what will be included in Exchange 2013 CU9 (Cumulative Update 9) . But it is evident that the number of major bug […]
It is good to see competition in the email platform market, with Novell releasing GroupWise 2014. Novell have published a comparison page putting GroupWise 2014 alongside Microsoft Exchange. Competition is always healthy, and also creates debate amongst IT professionals who all have their favourite email platform. I have no bias […]
Cross-Forest Microsoft Exchange to Exchange email migrations are the most common type of email migration project that I encounter as a consultant. The usual type is a migration from an existing Exchange platform (2007 or 2010) to the latest, such as Exchange 2013. There are plentiful Microsoft white papers on […]
Through my email consulting I am amazed at the number of customers who are still using Exchange 2003. Exchange 2003 has been out of support for nearly six months now, and these companies are running a business risk by remaining on Exchange 2003. Especially as the Exchange 2003 servers are […]
Introduction | Exchange 2013 CU6 Exchange 2013 CU6 has been out for a short while now, and many people will be considering a migration to Exchange 2013 off other platforms (eg: Exchange, Domino, GroupWise). Is this a good time to migrate ? Is Exchange 2013 sufficiently mature as a product […]
The Situation So you have moved (or use) a cloud email provider and they require SSL or authentication (or both) to work. You have an older style (or low featured) multifunction centre – read photocopier which doesn’t support either SSL or authentication. So no scan to email. No amount of […]