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Windows Search: Rebuilding the Index on Windows 7

When you use Outlook 2007 and later in Cached Exchange Mode, the Instant Search feature uses the content indexes created by Windows Search (formerly known as Windows Desktop Search). When searching in online mode, Outlook uses the content indexes created by Exchange Search on the Exchange server (Exchange 2007 and later). If the index created […]

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Another Gmail Outage

After a widespread outage earlier this month, Google’s Gmail web-based email service is reporting yet another outage today— this time affecting only “a small subset of users”. More from Stephen Shankland in Gmail outage hits ‘small subset of users’.

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iPhone OS 3.1 Security Changes and Exchange ActiveSync Policy

Apple implemented device encryption in the iPhone 3GS, improving its odds of being considered for enterprise deployment. However, users using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) to connect to their Exchange 2007 mailboxes couldn’t take advantage of it, even when encryption was required by an Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policy, because the device didn’t tell Exchange it can support […]

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Excellent e-Discovery Guide from Mimosa Systems

Are you involved with e-Discovery (aka “electronic discovery”) as a consequence of litigation, regulatory audit or perhaps an internal investigation? Whether you’ve been hit by litigation or not, it’s important for messaging professionals to know about e-Discovery, and be prepared for it. Mimosa Systems, the Santa Clara-based archiving software company, has an e-Discovery guide that’s […]

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Gmail Outages And Cloud Availability

Google’s Gmail service had yet another widespread outage on Tuesday at 12:30 PM which lasted more than 3 hours between 100 minutes (according to Google) to 2 ½ hours (according to PC World). News of the outage quickly spread like a wildfire on social media networks, where it quickly earned the epitaph of Gfail. A […]

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Exchange 2007 SP2 Released, Adds PowerShell v2 and Exchange 2010 Support

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 is now available for download. SP2 adds support for Windows Powershell v2, and allows coexistence with Exchange Server 2010. SP2 also adds support for VSS backups of Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008. More in Details of Exchange 2007 SP2 in-box backup when running on Windows Server 2008 on […]

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Released: Exchange 2010 Release Candidate

Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 Release Candidate— a feature-complete version of the next release of Exchange Server. It is available for download here. You will be able to upgrade from the Release Candidate to the RTM version, due later this year. Looking back, Exchange has come a long way in its 14-year history. Microsoft’s Michael […]

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The ‘Catastrophic’ Windows 7 bug and security vulnerability that never was

Perhaps I should’ve used a different headline for this post. Something like “InfoWorld’s conspiracy to derail the Windows 7 product launch”. But that would be giving in to exactly the temptation I want to highlight— the one many bloggers, writers, and editors fall victim to, or otherwise find hard to resist in the quest for […]

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Trust Thy Certificate? New SSL Vulnerabilities Revealed At BlackHat 2009

It’s BlackHat time in Vegas, and I was expecting some interesting security revelations to make headlines, but not as serious as the SSL vulnerability revealed by independent security researcher Moxie Marlinspike. Moxie showed a way to intercept SSL traffic using what he calls a null-termination certificate. Reportedly, some programs terminate processing of a certificate’s subject […]

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Ready, Set, 7: Windows 7 Released To Manufacturing

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were released to manufacturing (RTMed) today. These will become generally available on October 22nd. IT Pros and developers with TechNet or MSDN subscriptions will be able to download the English version on August 6th, with other languages following on October 1st. If you’ve been waiting to get a […]

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