Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

New IIS Modules

The Microsoft IIS Team has released a bunch of new modules for IIS 7.0. Here’s an overview of the newly released modules: URLRewrite module Web Playlists FTP 7 Update (x86) Installation Package  FTP 7 Update (x64) Installation Package WebDAV Update (x86) Installation Package WebDAV Update (x64) Installation Package

More ActiveSync support from Nokia

Last week Nokia announced that it has expanded it’s support for Microsoft ActiveSync to all Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices, before it was only supported on the E models. This means that 43 different Nokia models now has support for ActiveSync, by installing the Nokia application “Mail for Exchange”. Nokia plans to make the Mail for Exchange application available out-of-the-box for future releases of the Eseries and Nseries devices. When used with Exchange Server 2007, …

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Exchange Hosted Services Whitepaper

A new very interesting whitepaper has been release by Microsoft, about the Hosted Exchange Services solution deployed by Microsoft IT. Microsoft IT deployed the cloud-based Exchange Hosted Services. This solution enables Microsoft IT to implement a messaging environment that processes all messages in a perimeter before unwanted messages reach the corporate firewalls and Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport servers. Read the whitepaper here.

Next release of OCS

Microsoft has announced some news about the upcoming release of Office Communication Server (OCS), the next release will be 64-bit only, the same move with saw with Exchange 2007. The new version “Office Communication Server 2007 R2” has gone into beta. Some of the focus for the new version has been: Consolidate deployments Based on customer feedback, Microsoft’s goal with the next release of OCS is to simplify deployments by reducing the number of servers …

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Internet Explorer 8.0 – Beta 2

Yesterday Microsoft made Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 available for public download. While beta 1 was more a developer release, this beta 2 is a more public release for everyone to test the new version. Quote from the IE Team: We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform …

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