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You can now download the full Exchange help file in CHM format. In previous versions there were a number of large Word documents that needed to be downloaded to get all the operations guides, so this compact help would be very convenient to anyone who will working with Exchange 2007 in the future. Link here: […]

Microsoft’s new homepage which was previously available through a beta link is now live – www.microsoft.com. It’s very impressive from a technological point-of-view, but I don’t think it’s actually that functional. More like a case of excessive ,unnecessary AJAX that doesn’t ease the use of the site. Still it’s quite nice to look at and […]

I was told by Microsoft last week that the RTM version of Exchange would only be made available in 64bit versions – even for evaluation purposes. This came as a bit of a shock as I’ve always been under the impression that there would be a 32bit version of the software available for use in […]

 Just picked this up via the TechNet blogs feed: Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available for download on Microsoft Connect http://connect.microsoft.com . BDD 2007 provides end-to-end guidance and automation for large scale deployment of Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System. BDD 2007 RC1 is feature complete and has […]

Great news… This just in from the EHLO blog:  This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you! We’ve bet the company on this product. Here at Microsoft, we have over 120,000 mailboxes running in production on Exchange 2007 – exceeding our SLA of 99.95% availability. Likewise, over 200 Technology Adoption Partners and Rapid […]

More Exchange 2007 stuff from Microsoft… Here’s a bunch of case studies for migrating to Exchange 2007 – they cover a wide range of businesses and scenarios, so they should be applicable to all sizes of environments. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/search.aspx?ProTaxID=1267

The latest edition of Microsoft’s free, downloadable, TechNet magazine is now available. There’s lots of good Exchange 2007 stuff in there so it’s worth checking out. December TechNet magazine Direct download link as CHM

Microsoft have just RTW’d (released to web) version 6.0 of the RDP client which can be installed on Windows XP SP2 machines. This new version supports all the new RDP features that have been introduced with Vista and Longhorn. You also get a lot of new performance options so that you can now disable many […]

I’ve just been reading a good blog post from the MS Exchange team (You had me at EHLO) detailing some recommendations for your Exchange 2007 hardware requirements. Here are the links: UPDATED: Exchange 2007 Processor and Memory Recommendations Performance Benchmarks for Computers Running Exchange Server 2003 CPU and memory scalability for Exchange Server 2003 and […]

Microsoft have recently created a new page on their Vista site that provides details on their new offering for Software Assurance customers. They’ve bundled up their recent purchases of Winternals, Softricity, and DesktopStandard into a free offering for those that sign up for Microsoft’s controversial licensing program. Here are some of the details from the site: Using the […]