Essential Exchange

So, yesterday I wrote an opinion-piece about Vista , and it appears that Bob Cringely did too . Completely unrelated, and I didn't read his piece before I wrote mine. Of course, his readership is more than mine. :-) His piece has generated lots of commentary - but I just flat out think he's wrong...

Next week, in Redmond/Seattle, Washington, those of us who Microsoft calls "Most Valuable Professionals" congregate in an annual event where Microsoft wines us, dines us, asks our opinions, and tells us theirs. Which, shockingly (not), often disagree! :-) If you aren't aware of the MVP...

In a move that was likely a surprise to no-one, last week Microsoft announced its offering for hosted Exchange 2007, hosted SharePoint (MOSS 2007, not WSS 3.0), and hosted LiveMeeting. This was the next logical progression from the Microsoft Office Live Small Business offering (where Microsoft offers...

In this article I reported on the fact (then) that single level domains were not supported in Exchange Server 2007 sp1. Microsoft, as of today (February 15, 2008) has changed their position on single-level domains and Exchange Server 2007. This is the Microsoft Exchange Team blog post on the topic. It's...

On January 31, in this post I reported that I had loaded 64-bit Vista on my laptop and that things were going well. As I reported then, I expected it to take several weeks to re-install all my applications, but that my main applications were already running and I didn't anticipate any issues. As...

In this post , I began talking about licensing of the various Unified Communications (UC) products, starting with Exchange Server. I followed that with this post discussing licensing for the next of the UC products - Office Communication Server. As part of that second post, I promised that if people...

Marc Maiffret and I recently had a conversation on an e-mail based discussion forum. Marc is one of the founders of eEye (who produce the Blink and Retina digital security products) and he has recently gone out on his own again. I asked Marc about reproducing that conversation and he said "ok"...

In this post I talked about licensing vs. features for Exchange Server 2007. In that article, I made the comment that Exchange licensing made my "head hurt". The licensing for other pieces of the "UC Wave" are just as convoluted. Exchange Server is just one piece of the "UC Wave"...

My head hurts. Microsoft licensing was messed up enough already. With the release of Exchange Server 2007, it got even more complicated. Now, Outlook CALs aren't included in Exchange licensing. Ugh. Oh, and then wait, to get Enterprise IM (which I had included as a part of Exchange 2000 Server),...

A new blog on technet appeared a few days ago, from the Hot Fix and KB content team. The intent is to publish weekly all of the KB articles and hotfixes that were released. If it happens, and is updated regularly, it will be a great resource! The blog is to include hotfixes and KBs for Windows Server...