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DST 2007: Hotfix released for Exchange Server 2003 Message Tracking issue

Following DST 2007 patches, Exchange’s Message Tracking Center displayed times that were an hour off (though the actual times logged in the Message Tracking log were correctly logged in UTC), as noted in previous post titled “DST 2007: Exchange’s Message Tracking off by an hour“. Microsoft recently released a hotfix to correct this rendering issue […]

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RIM Reveals Cause of BlackBerry Outage

Research In Motion finally provided more details about the cause of its 14-hour outage starting Tuesday night. You can read more about it on Russell Shaw’s The BlackBerry Beat blog on ZDNet, or News.com (RIM offers explanation for massive outage), or the publication of your choice – it’s all over the place. Judging by the […]

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BlackBerry Outage Cause of a Break-up!

In an interesting twist on last night’s BlackBerry outage at RIM, Network World’s John Cox reports how the extended outage resulted in one user’s girlfriend breaking up with him. After a bad argument the couple had earlier in the day, user Rafael Paz’ girlfriend sent him a few emails. When she did not receive a […]

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Zenprise proactively detects BlackBerry N. America outage!

BlackBerry® users in North America were without email last night (Tuesday April 17th), thanks to an extended system-wide outage in Research In Motion’s network that handles email. Zenprise customers report that Zenprise for BlackBerry automatically detected this outage in the BlackBerry SRP network at 5:19 PM last night, and were able to pro actively inform […]

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Fixed: Outlook 2007 Performance issues with large mailboxes

If you’ve been frustrated with Outlook 2007’s performance when working with large mailboxes or PST files, Microsoft has a hotfix for you – KB 933943: Description of the update for Outlook 2007: April 13, 2007. The update also fixes a couple of other issues documented in this KBA. You won’t need to call Microsoft support […]

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Released: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 just got its first update. Update Rollup 1 (KB 930809) resolves the following issues: – KB 932487: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops unexpectedly when the Exchange Server 2007-based server replicates the Public folder (This happens when Event Logging level for Replication DS Updates is set to anything but Lowest).– KB […]

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Email Archiving and Compliance: Learning from email issues that plague the White House

Over the weekend, Wall Street Journal reported “White House Probes More Lost Emails” (external links do not work, WSJ.com requires subscription to read this article). The Journal’s John D. McKinnon reports, “The White House, already under pressure to explain missing emails from officials using a Republican Party system, says it is investigating reports that many […]

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The hilarious lingo of Exchange folks

The lingo used by most Exchange folks is hilarious – and I include myself in this. Just got an email from someone in the product team that goes “Sorry, I was OOF…. ” :) OOF stands for Out Of Office, derived from Microsoft Outlook/Exchange’s functionality of being able to set up Out Of Office messages. […]

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I’ve been tagged!

Last month, Clustering MVP Rod Fournier tagged me with a “5 things you don’t know about me” post – and I had no clue till this morning what this is all about till I got shamed by Rod! 5 things you don’t know about me: 1) My first introduction to this wonderful country (and the […]

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Exchange Hosted Services is not hosted Exchange

Like many folks out there, I believed – wrongly so, that Exchange Hosted Services is hosted Exchange, and competes with Microsoft/Exchange’s model of selling Exchange Server software licenses. Thanks to Paul Englis, PM, UC Services, for the clarification – EHS offerings include Exchange Hosted Filtering – an anti-spam/anti-virus filtering service, Exchange Hosted Archive – an […]

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