Month: March 2012

Exchange, Groupware One comment

Thoughts on “VMware Zimbra vs. Microsoft Exchange”

Reading Time: 12 minutes This is a blog post co-authored with Michel de Rooij, his (mirror) post can be found here. In a blog post by Christopher Wells, alias vSamurai, the author positions VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS 7.x) as an enterprise-ready drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments of all sizes. He also suggests Zimbra is a better multi-tenant solution for ISPs. The author does this by comparing both products in a feature comparison. These reviews are helpful in order for companies

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Exchange 2010, Management, Migration/Transition, Office 365, Question of the day Leave a comment

Exchange 2010 calendar publishing URLs are not updated after migrating to Office 365

Reading Time: < 1 minute With Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 it became possible to share your calendar with anyone outside of you organization, depending on the Sharing Policy implemented by your Exchange Administrator. Users can then share their calendar via an obfuscated or an relatively public URL without the need for authentication (and SSL for that matter). For more information on how to prepare your environment if you want to enable it, see this blog post. However, if an user has this enabled on

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ActiveSync, Exchange 2010, Management, Windows 8/10 Leave a comment

More about Windows 8 CP and ActiveSync

Reading Time: 5 minutes Since yesterday’s blog post “Yes, there is ActiveSync in Windows 8!”, I have fiddled some more with the Windows 8 Mail app. So, which other ActiveSync settings do work within Windows 8? There are quite a few, and some aren’t supported by all devices. So, which are important and could I use as a baseline? Well, Microsoft already made a baseline: Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program The Exchange ActiveSync Logo program was created to easily identify devices which had a certain

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ActiveSync, Exchange 2010, Preview/Beta, Windows 8/10 Leave a comment

Yes, there is ActiveSync in Windows 8!

Reading Time: 4 minutes *** updated: Also read the followup blog post: More about Windows 8 CP and ActiveSync I think it was already present in the Developer Preview, but it is definitely present in the Consumer Preview. Chris Brownie has blogged about it and has some screenshots. Go ahead and read his blog! As can be seen in his screenshots, ActiveSync policies are applied to the device (or computer) and it is listed in the Exchange Control Panel. But how should we treat

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