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Microsoft buys Whale Communications

Microsoft’s buying Whale Communications – maker of SSL VPN appliances. Having used Whale in a secure Outlook Web Access deployment, I have high regard for their technology. It locks down OWA pretty tightly, without ever touching your Exchange server. I’ve frequently recommended their appliances – which allowed integration of RSA SecurID authentication for OWA access, […]

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Zenprise in InfoWorld’s “Top 15 Tech Startups To Watch”

More news from the Zenprise front – we’re now one of the “Top 15 Tech Startups To Watch” according to InfoWorld magazine! In a cover feature in the magazine’s current issue, InfoWorld features the companies that they rate as “Top 15 Tech Startups To Watch”. In InfoWorld’s words, “Look closely, and you’ll notice that today’s […]

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New Exchange fixes change permissions model, may disrupt Blackberry, Goodlink, and other services

A recent change in the Exchange permissions model may disrupt Blackberry, Goodlink and other services. Many folks may have already applied hotfixes that changed the behavior of “Send As” and “Full Mailbox Access” permissions. Here’s a brief overview. What: Separation of “Full Mailbox Access” and “Send As” permissions.Why: Earlier, users with “Full Mailbox Access” permission […]

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Zenprise Named Finalist in Best of TechEd 2006 Awards

This just came in – Zenprise has been named a finalist in Windows IT Pro magazine’s Best of TechEd 2006 Awards in the Messaging category. Close on the heels of becoming a finalist in the “Software Newcomer of The Year” category for this year’s Codie Awards (read “Zenprise Named Finalist In Codie Awards 2006“) and […]

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And Monad is now Windows PowerShell…

Close on the heels of Exchange Server “12” getting its official product name – Exchange Server 2007, the cool new shell environment so far known as Monad got its official name. Yes, Monad (aka “MSH”) is now called Windows PowerShell. No comments on this renaming – I neither love nor hate it. On the brighter […]

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It’s Official – Exchange “12” is now Exchange Server 2007

While I was attending the Exchange “12” Ignite training at Microsoft (and cut off from the rest of the world – no internet access for visitors at Microsoft campus – wireless or otherwise) over the last 2 days, the upcoming version of Exchange that was known by its code-name Exchange “12” got its official name […]

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Zenprise 2.0 released

Yesterday was the dreaded tax day in the US when many tax-payers who wait for the last day (and some – myself included – who wait for the last few hours/minutes of the last day… ) scramble to get their tax returns filed. Extended by a couple of days (the last day is usually April […]

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IMF: How to exclude recipients from IMF filtering

Microsoft recently released a hotfix for Intelligent Message Filter that adds functionality to exclude certain recipients from IMF filtering using an exclusive list, or only apply IMF to certain users using an inclusive list. The latter should be great for limited testing in a production environment. You do need to call Microsoft PSS to get […]

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Changes to this blog

If you’ve visted this blog before, there’s a good likelihood you noticed the changes! – I have just moved to a 3-column format to be able to include more information/links/navigation.– I am trying categories, and this feature will change over time. If you have any input regarding this, please leave a comment!– The big changes: […]

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Zenprise Named Finalist In Codie Awards 2006

More Zenprise News – the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA – formerly the Software Publishers’ Association) has named Zenprise as a finalist for the Codie awards in the “Software Newcome Of The Year” category. The Software Newcomer Of The Year award is for a new software or company whose product or service has the […]

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