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Private Label Hosted Exchange is a perfect way to resell hosted Exchange to your customers without the need of having to host a complex exchange infrastructure. Some providers offer Fully Managed Private label Exchange hosting, which allows you to offer Exchange service to your client’s .Your customers will never know that you & private label hosting providers are involved each other. You can buy Exchange hosting at low prices and sell it to your customers at a profit without the hassle of managing Exchange infrastructure.
Businesses from small scale to large scale are exploring ways to drive efficiencies and hosted exchange is becoming its preferred option. Radicati has predicted that Microsoft Exchange will continue to increase its market share of the global messaging software with 200 million users by 2009. So exchange hosting companies are equipping them to tap this opportunity by increasing revenues from existing & new clients.Read more here..
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Leader in Business Email Supports Hosted Microsoft Exchange on iPhone
with the Addition of ActiveSync
New York, NY-June 9, 2008-Intermedia, the worldwide leader in business email services, today announced immediate support for business email and collaboration features on the iPhone 2.0 software, through the addition of ActiveSync capability. Available upon the launch of iPhone 2.0, iPhone users, with Intermedia’s cost effective and hassle-free hosting services, will be able to access all of Microsoft Exchange’s rich, productive and secure mobile features through the iPhone, including always-synced email, calendars, contacts and more.
For businesses, the addition of ActiveSync to the iPhone means increased security. iPhone users, eager to use just one device for work and home, have previously accessed their corporate email through IMAP/POP3 functionality and by doing so have compromised corporate security through an insecure connection. By instead accessing corporate email via Exchange through ActiveSync capability, businesses can rest assured that their information is synced securely. In addition, ActiveSync enables remote wiping, which allows the administrator to remotely erase all corporate email or data should the device be lost or stolen.
“Data security is a serious concern for all businesses,” said Danny Essner, Director of Marketing for Intermedia. “Our extreme focus on protecting our clients from any email security risks is a primary reason why customers choose Intermedia, and we are happy that we can now also provide a secure solution for iPhone users through hosted Exchange and ActiveSync.”
While Apple products have traditionally been considered consumer-oriented, Apple enthusiasts have always been eager to integrate products such as the iPhone into their business lives. According to leading IT analyst firm IDC, the sale of converged mobile devices, such as smartphones with entertainment-oriented features, will grow from 7.3 million units in 2005 to 63 million in 2010 - a 763% increase in just five years. Now, with hosted access to Microsoft Exchange from Intermedia, and the addition of ActiveSync to the iPhone 2.0, users can easily set up just one device for work and play.
Intermedia offers hosted Microsoft Exchange plans, now completely compatible with the iPhone, for small to midsized business with 3 to 1,000 employees. Users can quickly and easily access full Exchange collaboration capabilities on the iPhone by activating ActiveSync through their HostPilot™ control panel. To learn more about Exchange access on the iPhone, please visit http://www.Intermedia.net/iPhone.
Businesses looking for a more cost-effective and manageable solution for enterprise-class email and collaboration solutions through Microsoft Exchange, should visit Intermedia’s Web site at http://www.Intermedia.net/Exchange.
About Intermedia
Intermedia is the worldwide leader in business email services. More than 25,000 small and medium-sized businesses trust Intermedia to manage their email, calendars and address books. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Intermedia is committed to best-in-class service and ease of management for businesses that depend on MS Exchange. Intermedia is headquartered in New York, NY with offices in Sunnyvale, California and St. Petersburg, Russia. For more information, visit www.intermedia.net.
GULF BREEZE, FL, June 2, 2008 - AppRiver, a leader in managed email security and messaging collaboration services, today announced that it has partnered with Florida Chamber of Commerce to help businesses in the state avoid the loss of critical email messages because of hurricanes or other natural disasters. This is the fourth consecutive year that AppRiver and the Chamber have teamed up to offer this service in conjunction with the arrival of hurricane season.
Since it first became available in 2005, the “Digital Disaster Preparedness” program has become an essential item on many companies’ disaster preparation checklist. “The Digital Disaster program allows businesses in harm’s way to quickly reroute their inbound messages to AppRiver servers where they will be securely held. Once the danger passes, or communications are restored, all held messages can be released and delivered to the corporate mail servers,” said Blake Gehres, Chief Technology Officer for the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
Registrations is very simple, it lakes less than 10 minutes, and once completed will enable AppRiver to monitor a company’s email server activity. If the receiving server is affected by a hurricane, AppRiver will begin queuing the business’ incoming email messages in one of its own securely located data centers until that company’s email servers are up and running again. Additionally, the company can also request for its email to be redirected elsewhere or made available online, so the business can remain functional during the storm and the post-storm recovery period.
According to CEO Michael Murdoch, AppRiver’s own experience during Hurricane Ivan was a key reason why the company developed the program.
“When a hurricane is headed your way, there are a lot of things business owners need to worry about” said Murdoch. “Our goal is to let them quickly and effectively protect their email - and still have time to take care of their families and employees.”
To access the free service, businesses need only visit the Florida Chamber web site (www.floridachamber.com) or the AppRiver web site (www.appriver.com) and click the button marked “Digital Disaster Preparedness.” Users will be guided through a simple process from that point or they can call AppRiver at 1-866-223-4645.
About AppRiver
Founded in April 2002, AppRiver - based in Gulf Breeze, Florida - is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider offering secure messaging solutions to businesses of all sizes. In addition to spam and virus protection, the company provides a complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange. With more than 30,000 customers around the world - and an impressive 97 percent customer retention rate since its inception - AppRiver is one of the largest email security managed service providers worldwide. In 2008, Red Herring magazine named AppRiver one of its top 100 companies to watch. The company was also named to CRN Magazine’s 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamos list. For more information, visit www.appriver.com.
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REDMOND, Wash. - May 27, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. is adding no-cost Microsoft Exchange Labs e-mail for students and alumni to its Live@edu online communication and collaboration applications tailored for educational institutions. Live@edu with Exchange Labs gives students and alumni access to a reliable and security-enhanced e-mail experience similar to what they may use in the workplace, while university IT administrators can benefit from additional security features and simplified deployment. By bringing proven technologies to current education systems, Microsoft is helping IT administrators build closely connected infrastructures and create exceptional experiences for students and educators.
Microsoft Exchange Labs Benefits IT Administrators, Students and Alumni Alike
Live@edu now offers institutions the option of giving their students and alumni an Exchange Labs inbox. Live@edu offers the following benefits to universities and students:
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Reliable communications. Universities can provide students with hosted e-mail, featuring up to 10 GB inboxes and 20 MB attachments. Students can also access their e-mail, contacts and calendar from Outlook Web Access and Microsoft Office Outlook, as well as from Web-enabled mobile phones, similar to what they may experience in the work force.
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Building blocks for collaboration. Additional Live@edu services that can be used for on-campus collaboration include shared calendars with free/busy lookup between students, student directories with administrative control to create distribution lists, and the ability to add faculty and staff who are using Exchange on-premise to student directories.
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Additional security. Live@edu with Exchange Labs also now allows message tracking to confirm urgent e-mail was delivered, and content filtering, which gives administrators the ability to block e-mail with objectionable content.
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Institution identity. Schools can deepen the relationship with students and alumni through an e-mail inbox with the school’s logo, a custom theme created by the institution and a school-branded e-mail address that students can keep after they graduate.
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“Having secure and reliable communications with our students is important to us,” said Russell Wood, IT director at Hinds Community College. “Microsoft Live@edu gives students an e-mail experience similar to what they will use when they graduate and gives the IT administrators more control over message security.”
Worldwide Momentum for Microsoft Live@edu Increases
Microsoft Live@edu, which also includes Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Office Live Workspace and Windows Live SkyDrive online storage, helps students manage their studies, share information and photos, collaborate with other students and faculty on projects, and stay connected easily with friends and family on campus and after they graduate.
As Microsoft continues to assist universities in better meeting their technology demands in an increasingly Web-connected world, institutions are signing up for Microsoft Live@edu around the world, from Japan to South Africa to Brazil to the United States. Since the launch of Live@edu in March 2005, thousands of universities, colleges and schools in 86 countries have enrolled in the program, and momentum continues to grow as universities discover the numerous benefits of deploying Live@edu.
“Providing our students with communication services marked by the UNINOVE brand and identity has been a dream and aspiration for us for a long time,” said Jorge Luis Romano, IT infrastructure manager at UNINOVE, a large university in Brazil, where more than 70,000 students now benefit from Microsoft Live@edu. “We considered several options and chose Microsoft’s Live@edu solution because it overachieved all of our expectations at zero cost. We now have the tools to develop a collaborative community with our own identity without having to worry about infrastructure.”
Another advantage universities have found with Live@edu is the ability to keep up with discerning students’ technology needs. Because students are more technologically savvy than ever before, they expect their school environments to have rich, high-quality communications capabilities, like those they use in their social lives. Limited budgets and prolonged deployment cycles, however, have made it difficult and time-consuming for colleges and universities to provide students with innovative communications. With Live@edu’s no-cost, Web-based technology, universities can now easily meet students’ technology expectations and, in turn, focus on providing students with the education and experience they need to learn and grow. Universities’ needs are as diverse as the students they attract, and Live@edu offers everything from basic e-mail to more sophisticated collaborative applications.
“Kagoshima University deployed Live@edu for its 16,000 users because of its operational excellence for managing large scales of e-mail and the value of comprehensive services, including SkyDrive,” said Professor Masato Masuya at Kagoshima University in Japan.
“The way students use technology is constantly evolving. E-mail, social networking, IM and texting are now all part of their digital experience,” said Anna Kinney, group product manager for Microsoft Live@edu. “Universities want to adapt to these changing e-learning dynamics, and Microsoft Live@edu innovations help ensure they are prepared for that challenge.”
Representatives from schools around the world will visit the Microsoft campus June 23-24 for Live@edu World, a gathering for Live@edu customers and technology leaders to discuss how they are utilizing the Web-based applications in the Live@edu suite to connect their students, faculty, staff and alumni for greater communication and collaboration.
“We are excited to partner with educators from around the world who are bringing the power of the Web to their campuses; Live@edu gets better year after year because of their input,” said Bruce Gabrielle, senior product manager for Microsoft Live@edu.
More information about Microsoft Live@edu can be found at http://get.liveatedu.com.
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Once you have selected your Exchange Hosting provider, give some time on analyzing your hardware desing, though this part is done by your hoster. One of the key design elements which ultimately can improve the efficiency of Exchange is by isolating the Exchange database and the Exchange logs onto a different hard drive volume. This is because logs does write operation & databases read mostly. Hence separating these elements onto different volumes increases server performance substantially. This best practise should be followed even in smallest Exchange server implementations.Below figures shows some examples of how the database and log volumes can be configured.
On Server1, the OS and logs are located on the same mirrored C:\ volume and the data base is located on a separate RAID-5 drive set, although in a different channel. OS partition is cornerstone, doing many type of operations and consume more processing power. Putting Exchange logs along with it is not a good idea. Read More here
Exchange hosting providers are now offering hosting services based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 to its customers. Most of the customers have been waiting for SP1 before considering a complete move to Exchange 2007 from its previous versions (Exchange 2000/2003).
So what does the customer get as new features? Isn’t it the same old email, outlook web access, and mobile messaging? What else?
More or less the same as far as the basic user is concerned - the same old email, calendar, outlook web access but with a greater level of user experience. To those who run the business rather, IT managers, I would particularly highlight those features in terms of Disaster Recovery, Security and other aspects which could improve business functions. We will get into these new features & enhancements now. Read more
Most of the organizations, no matter how large they are, moderate size or SMBs understand the value of achieving effectiveness in parallel with saving dollars. This could be easy to say or put this into white paper as a best practice for business models to follow; how to get there is actually challenging as it takes enormous energy and effort to implement this with proper plan. Where to begin? Most of them starts from their network infrastructure. Read more here
Good news for digwin as the new year started. I noticed Google Analytics that digwin now crossed 100K pageviews with 65K unique visitors during the last month. Here is alexa details..
We have more ideas lined up to make the user interface more friendly and useful for Microsoft communities.
Its always time consuming to check multiple mails using multiple interface. In gmail, I was able to consolidate most of my mails to one interface and using send as feature, I literally did not use other email application interface to send/receive. So cool!
Now with Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts for free! Here is the download link.
Outlook Connector Beta enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:
- Read and send your Office Live Mail or Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
- You can manage your Live Mail Contacts.
- Able to use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
- You can manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
What is not free are the following additional features:
- Manage, share, and synchronize your Windows Live Calendar in Outlook.
- Access your Tasks and Notes.
I just now downloaded and installed it within my Outlook 2007. Locate the Outlook Connector from the Menu, and simply add your Windows Live Account.
In a nutshell, If you’re already using Outlook, especially with multiple e-mail accounts, the Outlook Connector is a great way to manage your accounts together with powerful tools.
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This is what I heard from Microsoft circle. Please spread the word out.TechEd discounted price for any MVP at 799 RM. If you’re selected for .NET University training and re-delivery, the price is then discounted to 599 RM.Read on to know more about .NET University.
What is .NET University http://www.dotnet-u.com/
The .NET University is an Instructor Led Lab (ILL) that gives TechEd SEA delegates a good technical overview of what is new in .NET 3.0. Through the lecture and lab sessions, the delegates will be able to gain knowledge of .NET 3.0, which includes WPF, WCF, WF and Cardspace. Besides that, selected delegates will get a chance to re-deliver the topics after attending any of the .NET University sessions.
How does it work
The ultimate objective of .NET University is to “Train The Trainer”. i.e. attendees should leave the sessions equipped with the ability to redeliver the presentations to their own audiences, e.g. at technical events, to user and special interest groups, internal company audiences and other interested parties. The attendees should leave the sessions equipped with .NET 3.0 knowledge and they are able to redeliver the presentations to their own audience at technical events, such as the special interest groups, internal company audiences and other interested parties. Experts from the US (Doug Turnure, Todd Fine and Mark Dunn) will conduct the sessions on the first day. On subsequent days, the sessions will be re-delivered by the volunteers amongst the delegates who attended the 1st day session. Doug, Todd and Mark will be available throughout the duration of the conference to facilitate and assist those who are in the learning environment to ensure their success. Of course, anyone can attend the sessions in order to learn and need not necessarily be a presenter on subsequent days, but we do encourage this.
Who should participate
.NET University is designed for anyone who is interested to learn .NET 3.0 technologies. We will
definitely be more than happy to see as many of our MVPs, community or academic influencers to participate in the .NET University, especially on the first day, which is a great opportunity to be trained by our internal .NET experts. Apart from that, we would also like to encourage the MVPs and influencers to re-deliver the sessions to TechEd delegates.
if you want to know more about this visit Microsoft Tech-Ed site here
