Making the Move to Microsoft Exchange 2010: The Inside Story is a webinar sponsored by HP that occurred in December 8th. The good news is that you can still watch the replay and the slide deck is available to download!

In this hour-long replay of the live webcast on December 8, three Microsoft experts share their knowledge and insights to help you in your evaluation and planning.

· Learn what business and technical benefits your organization can expect to realize with Exchange 2010—and how best to proceed with deployment.
Author and widely acclaimed Microsoft expert Tony Redmond of HP reviews the most significant technology changes—and explains how you can take advantage of them.

· Learn which hot new features can enhance the information worker experience at your organization.
Nicole Brown, Microsoft Unified Communications Senior Product Manager, takes you through key features that help you lower IT costs, increase productivity, and better manage risk.

· Learn the critical success factors for planning your move. HP Services Distinguished Technologist Donald Livengood covers the major planning considerations for moving to Exchange 2010. You’ll find out how you can be sure it’s the right time to migrate or upgrade and what services are available to sped and simplify your move.

The registration for Tech·Ed 2010 North America is now open and you can save $300 USD if you register until December 31.

The event will take place in New Orleans from June 7 to June 10, and here are the highlights:

• 17 Technical Tracks,
• Tons of experts that you can talk to and learn from,
• Hands-on Labs,
• Certifications,
• Discounted TechNet subscription
• Access to 4000+ peers/colleagues

Technical Tracks at Tech·Ed:

IT and networks

• Business Intelligence
• Cloud Computing & Online Services
• Database Platform
• Security, Identity, & Access
• Unified Communications
• Virtualization

Development

• Application Integration
• Architecture
• Developer Tools, Languages & Framework
• Development Practices
• Web Platforms

Microsoft Technologies

• Windows Client
• Windows Embedded
• Windows phone
• Windows Server
• Microsoft Office & Microsoft SharePoint

Are you an avid consumer of sponsored Exchange whitepapers, webcasts and case studies? If you are, look no further, SearchCIO.com has compiled a huge list of these kind of technical resources.

Here are some examples:

• Supercharging exchange with solid state without breaking the bank
• Exchange 2010 Roadmap Series: Virtualization - Vendor Webcast
• Exchange 2010 Roadmap Series: Performance And Sizing - Vendor Webcast
• Podcast: Exchange 2010 Roadmap Series: Backup and Recovery - Vendor Podcast
• Getting Exchange 2010 Archiving Right
• Exchange 2010 Roadmap Series: Transition And Migration - Vendor Webcast
• Focusing on Value-Added Services in a Hosted Messaging Environment
• Live Chat: Unified Messaging features of Exchange 2010 - Vendor Podcast

And many, many more!

The Windows Mobile plus Microsoft Online Services Datasheet describes the value proposition of Windows Mobile devices with Microsoft Online Services.

“In an increasingly mobile world, your employees need seamless access to more types of communications - including e-mail, voicemail, fax, calendar, and contacts - from virtually anywhere, at any time. In these demanding economic times, your business needs technology that enables flexibility and adds value to the organization without costly overhead. Hosted infrastructure (software as a service) can help you relieve the burden of planning, managing, and maintaining core business systems, freeing your IT department to focus on initiatives that can help achieve true competitive advantage while delivering cutting edge productivity tools to your mobile workforce. By the end of 2009, 76% of U.S. organizations will use at
least one software as a service application, according to IDC Research.

The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) + Windows phone is the flexible, cost effective end-to-end productivity solution for extending mobile e-mail, PIM, real-time communications, and powerful collaboration via SharePoint to mobile workers with exclusive client features that deliver the richest possible user experience on the device.”

The Microsoft Exchange Online Connector for Office Outlook 2003 is now available to download.

Brief Description
Use the Microsoft Exchange Online Connector to enable free/busy lookups and offline address book downloads.

Overview
Use the Microsoft Exchange Online Connector for Office Outlook 2003 application to enable Outlook 2003 to perform free/busy lookups and download the offline address book in conjunction with Exchange Online. This product intended for use with Microsoft Online Services only.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2

Requirements provided to subscribers via the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center or the My Company Portal. This product intended for use with Microsoft Online Services only.

Instructions
Instructions provided to subscribers via the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center or the My Company Portal. This product intended for use with Microsoft Online Services only.

The System Center DPM team recently released some Storage Calculators (DRAFT) for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 beta.

Overview
These DRAFT storage calculators are for use with those planning DPM 2010 (beta) deployments - with specific calculators for Hyper-V, SharePoint and Exchange environments.

There are 3 spreadsheets to download

• DPM 2010 Storage Calculator for Exchange DRAFT.xlsx
• DPM 2010 Storage Calculator for Hyper-V DRAFT.xlsx
• DPM 2010 Storage Calculator for SharePoint DRAFT.xlsx

The Microsoft Outlook Team recently announced the Beta release of Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 (previously called Outlook Connector) in parallel with the Outlook 2010 Beta.

• Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 for Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 32-bit
• Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 for Outlook 2010 64-bit

With Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 64-bit to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
Outlook Hotmail Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

• Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
• Manage your contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
• Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
• Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
• Manage, and synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Windows Live Calendar from Outlook.

Related Links:

• Announcing the Outlook Hotmail Connector Beta

Microsoft updated recently its Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1:

• Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 v6.5.8147.0 - CDO 1.2.1 (Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1) is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API. Using CDO, a program can connect to a MAPI store, and then perform operations against that store, including creating and processing calendar items, and resolving and handling mail recipients. Starting with Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007, Microsoft will distribute CDO 1.2.1 as a Web download, separated from the two products.
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 v6.5.8147.0 - The Messaging API is a COM-like API that provides access to the contents of messaging stores. CDO 1.2.1 (Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1) is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API. Using either CDO or MAPI, a program can connect to a MAPI store, and then perform operations against that store. Starting with Exchange 2007, Microsoft will distribute the MAPI client libraries and CDO 1.2.1 as a Web download.
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 Release Notes - The Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 Release Notes contain late-breaking information for Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1.
• Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 Release Notes - The Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 Release Notes contain late-breaking information for Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1.

11 Myths about Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery is a free white paper sponsored by AppAssure.

Overview: For as long as Microsoft Exchange Server has existed, so too, has the market seen its share of products for backup and recovery. Over the years there have been a number of products that have failed to come through when needed most - during an Exchange failure. Making proper backups is part of the process, ensuring that when you have an outage, it will be the shortest possible. But, with the large variety of products available for all types of businesses, it is no surprise that there are several misconceptions about backup and recovery software. Learn how to improve your backup process, reducing outage windows.

The latest Unified Communications technical rollup covers the following topics:

• News
• Documents
• Downloads
• Events/Webcasts
• New KB’s

As usual, this information is posted every month at the Technical Rollup blog.