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Blog Post: Thread Compressor for Outlook - do you want it?

EwanD

Here's an appeal - nearly 8 years ago, I wrote* a little COM addin for the-then new Outlook 2000, which "compressed threads". The idea was that it could take an email thread (eg a discussion over a period of time and a number of responses, from any number of people, and typically sent to a distribution...

on 24 Apr 2007
Blog Post: i-Mate device updates support direct push email from Exchange

EwanD

If you have Exchange 2003 and have SP2 installed, and you're already publishing Outlook Web Access to the internet then you've probably got everything you need to enable push email to a suitable mobile device. If your mobile device happens to be an i-mate SP5, SP5m, JAMin, K-JAM or JASJAR (otherwise...

on 30 Mar 2006
Blog Post: The business case for Exchange 2007 - part IV

EwanD

Another installment in a series of posts outlining the case for going to Exchange 2007. Previous articles can be found here . GOAL: Make flexible working easier "Flexible Working" might mean different things to differing organisations - some might think of mobile staff who turn up at any office with...

on 24 Sep 2007
Blog Post: Tip o’ the Week #9: Delay sending email

EwanD

Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it. But we hae meat, and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thankit. – R. Burns If you’ve become a regular reader of these Tips, you may have spotted that we’ve skipped a few from the numerical sequence. That’s because they...

on 28 Jan 2011
Blog Post: Microsoft Online Services prices cut

EwanD

The snappily-titled Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) offering, announced some price cuts the other day… I heard from someone internally that the price cuts were driven by increased economy of scale – ie. as more customers signed up for BPOS, the cost per customer of providing the...

on 6 Nov 2009
Blog Post: Tip for finding when an appointment was created

EwanD

Here's a tip for when you suspect someone has magicked up an appointment to coincidentally collide with an Outlook meeting request you sent them... In your own calendar (and other people's), you can see when a meeting was scheduled (ie request was sent or created), as well as other facts (like when you...

on 21 Apr 2008
Blog Post: Transporter Suite 2007 for Lotus Domino

EwanD

Exciting news if you're looking to migrate from Lotus Domino to Exchange 2007: the development group has recently released the first wave of the new " Transporter Suite " for Domino (be sure to check out the release notes ). Exchange 2007 no longer needs a "Notes Connector" per se, since it uses SMTP...

on 22 Feb 2007
Blog Post: The business case for Exchange 2007 - part II

EwanD

(This is a follow on to the previous post on measuring business impact , and the first post on the business case for Exchange 2007 , and are my own thoughts on the case for moving to Exchange 2007). It's part of a series of posts which I'm trying to keep succinct, though they tend to be a bit longer...

on 23 Jul 2007
Blog Post: Tip o' the Week #46 - Reduce your influx of Corporate Spam

EwanD

We’ve all had unwanted emails from external sources – so-called “Spam”, after the famous Python sketch that featured a café with Spam in every dish on the menu. A further menace is “Corporate Spam”, or stuff that you don’t want, but which originates from within the corporate network. Usually, C-Spam...

on 15 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Is your email compliant with the (UK) Companies Act?

EwanD

A semi little-known fact... as of the 1st January 2007, the rules for UK companies regarding business stationery changed. Just like every registered company is bound to include certain information (the registered office, the geography of registration (eg England & Wales) and its company registration...

on 22 Mar 2007
Blog Post: Blackberry outage - worrying for mobile mail junkies

EwanD

I just read news of an 11-hour outage in RIM's Blackberry infrastructure on ZDNet - ouch. Not only did email stop flowing to the devices during the outage, but the backlog of mail which built up is taking time to clear. Without wishing to gloat (really), users of Windows Mobile devices for push email...

on 18 Apr 2007
Blog Post: Nice new calendaring features in Exchange 2007

EwanD

There's so much new stuff in Exchange 2007, that it's easy to forget just how useful some of it is... like the calendaring improvements both in the UI of Outlook and OWA, but in some server-side cleverness too. In Exchange 2003 and earlier, when someone sends you a meeting request, it will just sit in...

on 11 Jan 2007
Blog Post: Sizing Exchange 2007 environments

EwanD

I've had a couple of conversations with customers lately, looking for advice in figuring how to plan and size their Exchange 2007 design. In planning for something as potentially complex as a large messaging system, it's easy to get dragged into deep technical discussions around the number of spindles...

on 8 Jun 2007
Blog Post: Can your phone system talk to Exchange 2007?

EwanD

It's been online for a little while - I only really noticed recently, but there is a matrix of telecom PBX systems and VoIP gateways which can sit in front of them, in order to enable Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. The Telephony Advisor for Exchange 2007 goes into some detail around what needs to be...

on 5 Feb 2007
Blog Post: Exchange 2007 clustering advice

EwanD

I appreciate it's been a while since I blogged last - a combination of "not much to talk about, really" with even more "no time to talk about it"... :( Anyway, a few questions came in the other day from a reader: - SCR and CCR seems to work with SAN and DAS. When DAS (direct attached...

on 15 Apr 2008
Blog Post: Outlook Thread Compressor download now available

EwanD

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Thread Compressor on here – it’s an add-in to Outlook which removes unnecessary emails, on the assumption that most people reply to mail and leave the original intact, so you could keep the last mail in each branch of a thread, and remove all the others. Way back...

on 11 Apr 2009