Exchange News & Articles

Enterprise guinea pigs will soon be getting hold of the next big update to Microsoft's Office Suite, with the public promised beta access in the near future.

Microsoft is showering Office 365 with upgrades, wider device support and new markets, plus a new Lync app for smartphones is likely to increase its unified communications play.

Microsoft's (news, site) Exchange Online service has been hit by an outage, leaving a rather large backlog of unsent mail.

With email one of the principal culprits in the proliferation of unstructured content, document management vendor DocuLex (news, site) has spent considerable money and effort chasing after that content. This week, it has announced that the WebSearch component of its ArchiveStudio document management suite can now pull email out of Exchange 2010.

GRC this week is dominated by compliance and risk and moves in the compliance market, including the acquisition of e-Discovery vendor PSS by IBM. Oracle has also been busy looking at risk and data management, while Varonis offers Exchange audit and monitoring.

Microsoft (news, site) has announced the beta version of its web-based Office services, including SharePoint, Exchange and Lync (formerly Communications Server), as well as a subscription version of Office that it hopes will bolster Office Web Apps.

Varonis (news, site)  has been dealing with unstructured data for a long time, so the extension of its DatAdvantage software to Microsoft Exchange is a logical move given the spread of Exchange deployments globally and the growing evidence that email management is still being neglected across most enterprises.

Maybe it got lost in all the excitement around the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, but another date worth noting will be in June when Microsoft launches a beta of its Exchange Server 2010 service pack, with general release expected by the end of the year.

Apple (news, site) unveiled the main features for its forthcoming update to the iPhone software with some big news for enterprise.

This week, Facebook takes more SMBs into more advertising markets in more cities, while HyperOffice finally releases its “no geek required” suite of collaboration tools for business users.

This week we turn back to social media and a new report that shows most companies are still only dabbling with social media as a business tool, while the Parallels 2010 conference confirms what most of us suspect: the SMB cloud market is going to be huge over the next five years.

Open Text is expanding its ECM portfolio by announcing a new solution for e-mail management targeted at law firms.

The solution — Open Text E-mail Lifecycle Management for Law Firms — combines such features as e-mail filing and archiving and aims to help firms to define, secure and control the e-mail management and retention processes according to compliance mandates and internal policies.

Quest Software today announced their latest migration tool, Quest Migrator, to help system administrators take their Public Folder data from Exchange 2003 Servers and pull it into SharePoint (MOSS) 2007. But why you ask? Because if you’re sticking with MS Exchange, there is little choice.