This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria.

This month we have a great session led by top speaker Gordon McKenna! Gordon will be going into depth about how we should be managing and monitoring Exchange using the System Center Operations Manager 2007 product.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday 8th July and runs from 18:30 – 21:00.

The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions.

To sign up and for more information see the link below:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/11411.aspx

We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest site VirtualizationAdmin.com - a site completely dedicated to Virtualization related topics such as desktop virtualization (VDI), hypervisors, storage virtualization, and application virtualization.

Enjoy!

You can get it here.

Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack (SP) 1 will be available for your installation pleasure this summer!

This Service Pack introduces new features and improved functionality for ISA Server 2006 Enterprise and Standard Editions. The new features focus primarily on enhanced troubleshooting mechanisms designed to help you identify and resolve ISA Server configuration issues.   Also included in this package are the updates we’ve promised for so long, such as SAN certificate support.

Read more here.

With the introduction of Exchange Web Services in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, we began to invest in a broadly capable developer interface.  Exchange Web Services is the first Exchange API to expose rich Microsoft Office Outlook interoperability to any application in a strongly-typed, Internet accessible (HTTP-based) programming model.  Because the Exchange Web Services interfaces are based on the HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL open standards, developers are free to use any platform they choose for Exchange development and application deployment.  Another great advantage of the open standards-based architecture of EWS is that there are many tools on various platforms available for creating programmatic interfaces for SOAP Web services, which makes developing against Exchange much easier than formatting and processing raw XML.  In the next version of Exchange, we will continue to invest in Web services by delivering new capabilities that provide a more efficient and optimized interface for Exchange and UC developers.

Continue here.

-Solution that Fully Synchronizes Microsoft^® Outlook^® and Gmail now being tested in early beta release-

San Mateo, Calif.—May 15, 2008—Cemaphore Systems has launched the first phase in its beta program for MailShadow® for Google Apps (MailShadowG) this week. MailShadowG provides real time synchronization between Outlook/Exchange email, calendars and contacts, and Gmail™. In all, more than 2000 respondents have registered to participate in the beta1 program, far exceeding the company’s expectations, with new participants registering each day.

As anticipated, Cemaphore has issued the initial beta1 release to a field of several hundred participants. Development is track for the public beta2 launch to happen next month. Cemaphore continues to invite interested users to register for that program.

As has been widely reported in industry press, MailShadowG is the first web services—based email continuity and disaster recovery solution to fully utilize the robust Google Apps cloud-based services. MailShadowG provides e-mail users with continuity, content management, and portability of their rich email.  MailShadow’s transaction-based architecture synchronizes all content bi-directionally in real-time.  Content is protected and can be viewed transparently from Outlook or via Google’s web interfaces for Gmail, contacts and Google Calendar™.

“It is clear that our focus on ‘Continuity in the Cloud’ is resonating strongly,” said Tyrone Pike, Cemaphore President and CEO.  “The ability to deliver the highest level of e-mail continuity in the cloud with zero infrastructure will have a major impact on the way that the entire market manages and archives e-mail content in the future. We see this having an impact on SMBs, consumers and even large enterprises, as validated by the types of customers who are responding to our beta request. We are seeing strong interest from all of these sectors.”

Company officials again confirmed that following this summer’s launch of MailShadowG for Gmail customers, Cemaphore is committed to providing additional web services—based MailShadow solutions for other key Email Service Providers as well.

About Cemaphore Systems, Inc.
Cemaphore Systems delivers unprecedented email continuity, disaster recovery and content management for enterprises that demand greater uptime for their email systems. Able to synchronize mail, calendars and contacts from disparate systems, Cemaphore’s flagship product, MailShadow, ensures the availability, integrity and reliability of email. A companion product, GeoShadow™, indexes and archives unstructured email content, enabling instant retrieval of email content and attachments from mobile devices. Cemaphore’s new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering lets companies link Microsoft Outlook to external email service providers like Google, eliminating the need for costly infrastructure. Global enterprises trust Cemaphore to keep business-critical systems running.

For additional information, please call (650) 227-5400 or visit the company’s Web site at www.cemaphore.com.

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Yesterday we finally implemented Advanced search features on MSExchange.org.

If you take a look at the search box at the top right of each page you will see that there is an advanced search link. Once you click on that you can search any section, for any keyword, and in any section of an article or tip. You can also search within the forums, within the white paper sections, etc. Everything is integrated.

You can also display results based on relevance, date, or title. This is something that many of you have been asking for a long time!

This new white paper is still hot and an absolutely “must read”.

Finally RU2 for Exchange 2007 SP1 has been released.

Download it here and read the associated KB article here.

Several of the authors here on MSExchange.org are as you already know also Exchange MVPs. MVPs are invited to a yearly MVP summit in Seattle, Redmond.

Below you see a picture of the MSExchange.org authors who attended this years MVP summit. From the left: Shaji Firoz, Nathan Winters, Anderson Patricio, Rui Silva and finally Neil Hobson.

Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to attend the summit this year