Microsoft Exchange News & Articles

Canada’s largest software company, OpenText said today it will significantly boost support for the Microsoft Exchange platform using its OpenText Email Management, promising improved provisions for huge or geographically dispersed environments, enhanced records management capabilities and easier and faster administration.  

EntropySoft (news, site) continues its mission to provide easy information access with a new connector for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010 that can connect to mailboxes and public folders and supports all items available through web services.

EMC and Microsoft can’t seem to get enough of each other. This time, EMC (news, site) is using a new API that came with Exchange 2010, extending the Exchange platform and offering back-up and disaster recovery for it.

Information access technology provider ZyLab (news, site) has just upgraded its email management software so that client companies will be able to archive directly from Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise.

Do Google's recent moves spell trouble for Microsoft? Google seems to think so, and they're doing absolutely nothing to hide that opinion. In fact, today the G team released a tool called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, which makes switching over a piece of cake.

Email management is difficult. Apart from the problem of unstructured enterprise information floating around in several systems, email is often used by staff as a collaboration tool rather than a method of  communication. 

The result can be chaos. However, there are many email management solutions on the market that can help you. But which one do you choose? AIIM's (news, site) email management  educational program, might be able to help you start the process of picking one.

Earlier this week Mimosa Systems (news, site) announced its NearPoint archiving solution would support Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (MES 2010). Now Open Text (news, site)  has upgraded its enterprise content management suite’s fax functionality so that it too works with MES 2010.

While there will be a lot of stick-in-the-mud document management software vendors who would argue that enterprises shouldn’t be using fax in the first place, the reality is that for most companies fax and faxing is still an important business tool.

In fact many companies who have invested considerable money in network-based fax capabilities could see their investments heading south with the launch of MES 2010 if the two cannot be integrated.

Some companies are so on the ball they’re nearly ahead of themselves. Such is the case with Mimosa Systems (news, site) which has just announced that as of the end of this month, NearPoint will support Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (MES 2010).

If you are familiar with MES then you might be a bit surprised with this as NearPoint for MES is a solution for capturing and archiving email, while MES 2010 on its own already has its own archiving function, which appears superficially at least, to be quite adequate.

Why is it that the fraught subject of e-mail management gets so much coverage? There are probably dozens of reasons anyone can think of, but at the core of all of them is the often weary acceptance that we just can’t live without it.

Love it or hate it, we are going to have to learn not just to live with, but also to manage our e-mail more effectively.

It was probably with this in mind that HyperOffice, a provider of SaaS solutions for online collaboration, issued its recent white paper with possible solutions to managing the e-mail overload.

Stanford University is working on developing a new enterprise 2.0 e-mail system based on semantics. Traditional e-mail centers need specific e-mail addresses, group lists, or the like. But SEAmail (Semantic E-mail Addressing) seeks to eliminate this need by pulling e-mail addresses from large databases based on search criteria and a semantic understanding of those criteria in comparison with the databases.

Oracle comes to rescue the Enterprise 2.0 corporate bees with its new solution dubbed Beehive that aims to allow employees to collaborate through electronic workspaces, calendar, IM, e-mail, voice mail and conferencing applications.

All of that is done in the name of collaboration and the ability to easily share and simultaneously work on documents, e-mails and multimedia files.

SharePoint Server 2007 has announced the Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint 1.0, better known as the AKS Solution.

Microsoft partnered with accessibility technology vendor HiSoftware to build the toolokit. It provides files, programs and utilities that enable SharePoint Server (MOSS) and SharePoint Services (WSS) sites to follow the accessibility guidelines put forth by the W3C (WCAG 1.0 AA).

The AKS Solution can also be used to address exceptions that have been identified in the Section 508 of the US Gov’s Rehabilitation Act Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) documents for MOSS 2007.

Meet Fortis Email Management, a solution that allows simpler Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes archiving. It plays nicely with one or the other, and permits the capture and archive of e-docs to Fortis’ document management software.

Brought to you by Fortis Document Management Software Teams (courtesy of Westbrook), in conjunction with Sherpa Software.