Microsoft is really careful with new software territories. Like a giant who is too strong they try not to annoy the little customers in the china shop. Like other companies, Microsoft is afraid of regulations and of course faces constant litigation.

Sometimes, Microsoft executives decide that new products should not be indirect competition with other successful products. For example, the first Windows CE devices were really expensive high end ones and for a while, not really that succesful compared with Palm’s offerings. But things moved on and suddenly Microsoft had the better product. Microsoft can afford to lose money on products, patiently waiting for the right time to strike.

DPM is such a product, favoring backup to disk drives over the ancient yet still popular tape. Now it is at version two and is still considered a really high end product though Microsoft does want to broaden the audience a bit. will things move on again and everyone will want a version of DPM instead of Arcserver and BackupExec?

Read more here:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/13/429197.aspx

Microsoft has been toying for a while with various search, crawl and index mechanisms with varying degrees of success.

We already can tell that everything with Exchange 2007 is re-written or upgraded and so is the new search engine. Will it make everything go faster without killing your CPU? The Microsoft Exchange team claims so.

For more information:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/11/429163.aspx

If you wondered how co-existence would work, it’s pretty much as you would expect. Management would best be made using the new Exchange 2007 console.

More information here:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/09/429135.aspx

This new Vista component, replacing ActiveSync is now widely available to the public which is probably for the best as many Vista evangelists also have Windows Pocket devices.

It looks very much like Windows Media Center!

For more information and download:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx

Microsoft has some diverse Exchange 2007 webcasts available in October. They also now maintain a separate Exchange webcast page with its own RSS feed as well.

Register here:

 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/e...s.mspx

This months’ list:

As you recall the last release of Exchange 2007’s help file was far from being complete.

Now, much of the missing bits have been added in. It seems interesting to note that the help file looks sort of like the standard Microsoft support knowledge base and technet articles. 

Get it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en