Matt Cain, vice president and lead e-mail analyst at Gartner, recently published the Gartner MarketScope for E-mail Systems, 2010 (Matt Cain, Gartner Research, Aug. 12, 2010), which evaluated the major e-mail vendors. Microsoft received a “strong positive” rating, and has purchased the reprint rights. To read the report, please click here: Gartner MarketScope for E-mail Systems, 2010.
The MarketScope included vendors such as Google, IBM, MiraPoint, Novell, Open X-change, VMware/Zimbra and Xandros/Scalix. It’s interesting to note that Microsoft is the only vendor that received a “strong positive” rating.
Microsoft Gulf is pleased to inform you that Microsoft’s global premier technical learning event, Microsoft Tech∙Ed will be returning to Dubai in March 2011.
Tech∙Ed made its debut appearance in the region in March this year and was extremely well received by the IT Professional and Developer community, with 96% of attendees expressing their overall satisfaction with the event.
For customers who have not yet been able to experience Tech∙Ed, this is a unique chance to access information about today’s cutting-edge trends, products and technologies. Tech∙Ed is Microsoft’s premier technical education forum for providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services.
Tech∙Ed Middle East 2011 will take place from March 8 – 10, 2011 at Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre. This unique 3-day event is a chance to explore our latest, ground-breaking products and technologies, access in-depth technical training and meet face-to-face with Microsoft executives, insiders, technology experts and industry peers.
Visit www.teched.ae to add your name to the mailing list to receive updated information as it becomes available.
We look forward to sharing this unforgettable IT experience with you.
In times of disaster, Microsoft helps increase resources available to humanitarian relief organizations by connecting citizens and their employees to donation opportunities. Microsoft invites you to consider supporting any of the following relief organizations providing support to flood relief efforts in Pakistan.
According to Microsoft:
“We have activated our disaster response protocol to monitor the situation in Pakistan and offer support as appropriate. We are taking a number of steps, including offering technical support to lead response organizations, promoting employee giving and volunteering and assessing where our resources can be most helpful for the impacted region and communities.”
You can now manage multiple servers running Forefront Protection for Exchange or SharePoint thanks to the multi-server management Script Kit.
You can download the script kit for free at the Microsoft Download Center, subject to acceptance of license terms.
In addition to the ability to manage multiple Forefront Protection Servers from a single location, this tool provides easily extensible command-line scripts that help enable server discovery, configuration deployment, and integration with existing management technologies. It also offers basic reporting capabilities to detect configuration drift and monitor server statistics.
Configuration Management and Reporting
- Capture server configuration snapshots and push snapshots to any number of servers
- Compare configuration of any number of servers or baselines
- Obtain statistics from one or many servers, including information about infected files, detected malware, server health, and more
- See summary and/or server detail views
Ease of Use
- Discover Forefront Protection Servers and export information to a .CSV file
- Use customizable Windows PowerShell™ scripts to enhance your existing automation
Outlook 2010 now features Social Networking Connector Provides for Windows Live Messenger, LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook. This brings in a whole new dimension in Outlook beyond plain old email.
For instance, when you receive an email from someone who is on your Facebook friends list, you instantly see his status updates, wall posts, etc in Outlook, just below his message. Here’s a screenshot:
The same goes for updates from LinkedIn, Windows Live Messenger and MySpace. You can also add people you email with to your Facebook right from Outlook by clicking on the Add button.
To enable the connectors, simply download and install them and restart Outlook. You will be prompted to enter your credentials to the social networking sites. If you are not prompted, go to View > People Pane > Account Settings.
You can enable the social media connectors as follows:
Watch the Outlook Social Connector Partners page to stay updated about other social networks that will have connectors for Outlook coming soon.
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta incorporates a number of feature updates including archiving and discovery enhancements, a faster Outlook Web App (OWA), upgraded mobility features, and several improvements in the management UI. The SP1 beta is available to the public and can be downloaded today.
Recently, Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 was also made available to customers in 11 languages for both 32 and 64 bit. As highlighted in the recent post on the Exchange Server Team Blog, this service pack was created in response to strong customer demand for Windows Server 2008 R2 supportability for Exchange Server 2007. In addition to the newly supported OS, this service pack also provides updates to a number of core components and the reintroduction of the password reset functionality within OWA for customers using Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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