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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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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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SearchCIO.com: BlackBerry troubleshooting a breeze for retail chain

SearchCIO.com just published this article by Andrew Hickey, titled “BlackBerry troubleshooting a breeze for retail chain“, about how Zenprise for BlackBerry helps troubleshoot BlackBerry issues. The level of interest of BlackBerry (Enterprise Server for Exchange) customers in Zenprise amazes me – needless to say, it’s beyond my expectations… :)

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Drumroll: MAPI is now Outlook Exchange Transport Protocol

Messaging Application Programming Interface – or MAPI, the equally loved (overstatement?) and hated protocol used by Microsoft Outlook to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server, just got rechristened! It’s now called Outlook Exchange Transport Protocol. Found this little tidbit burried in Paul Robichaux’ blog. Saw it mentioned as such on a Microsoft licensing web page not […]

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Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 1 available to subscribers

Microsoft has released Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta1 to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Both the 32-bit (for test/lab use) and 64-bit versions are available on TechNet. MSDN shows only the 64-bit version. If you subscribe to TechNet or MSDN, head over to either site to download Beta1. (Charged up with enthusiasm as you may be […]

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Meet Linux: The worst ever spoof of an Apple ad – by Novell?

Just came across Novell’s Meet Linux ads – the worst ever spoof of Apple’s brilliant “Hi I’m a Mac… ” commercials. The production quality is poor, and the execution amateurish, imo. These look more like a a clip on YouTube put together by a bunch of teenagers with a camcorder, (and it probably is for […]

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Just released – Zenprise Connector for Ops Manager 2007

Earlier this morning, Zenprise announced general availability of Zenprise Connector for Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (the new version of the product formerly known as Microsoft Operations Manager or MOM). Now you can use Zenprise from within the Ops Manager console. Additionally, you can manage BlackBerry servers – using Zenprise for BlackBerry – from […]

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John Dvorak: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone

John Dvorak on the iPhone in his Second Opinion column titled “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone”: These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months. Interesting and opinionated, […]

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Internetnews.com: Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS!

Microsoft has no dearth of critics as far as security goes, particularly from the open source bandwagon. Apple’s commercials certainly show no mercy when talking about this issue, and frankly the commercials are quite funny and well-executed, imo (..but then isn’t marketing the art or science of being as far removed from the facts as […]

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Zenprise named Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Operations Management

Reputed analyst firm Gartner has just named Zenprise as a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Operations Management space! After winning a number of awards between last year and this – including InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology Of The Year award (Best Exchange Troubleshooting Solution), SearchExchange.com’s Product Of The Year award (Exchange Server Reporting & Management), and the […]

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