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Email 101
The flow of email on the Internet is both surprisingly simple and surprisingly complex. It is simple because the basic email protocols are decades-old plain-text protocols with very simple definitions. It is complex because many tiny details can have a profound influence on how mail flows and on how to interpret message headers. This paper will teach how email flows on the Internet, and how to interpret message headers to determine the history of a piece of email. These are valuable skills for troubleshooting the email setup or even just for figuring out how a particular email arrived in one's inbox.
6 days ago by Roaring Penguin SoftwareConstruction Group Finds Microsoft Solution Better for Business Than Google Apps
VINCI PLC, the largest British subsidiary of VINCI, needed to decide how to integrate the messaging system from recently acquired company Taylor Woodrow Construction into its communications infrastructure, in a way that would allow the company to be agile and efficient. After considering several possible solutions, and carefully investigating the currently-used Google Apps offering, VINCI PLC chose to migrate its new users to Microsoft Outlook Web Access. VINCI PLC users now have a common e-mail and calendaring solution that interoperates with existing applications, and that provides the VINCI PLC IT team greater manageability, improved user satisfaction, simplified IT management, and increased flexibility compared to Google Apps.
49 days ago by MicrosoftMomentum Webcast: Top Five Reasons to Upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 and Why You Should Care (Level 200)
Organizations want their communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps the attendee achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify the administration, help protect the communications, and delight the users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. Microsoft Exchange is the cornerstone of the Microsoft unified communications solution, and it has long been the choice of organizations that want to enable rich and productive collaboration among their users.
69 days ago by MicrosoftMicrosoft Office System Webcast: Managing E-Mail Overload (Level 100)
E-mail is a powerful business tool in a fast paced, always-on environment. E-mail allows to quickly and effectively communicating to a broad audience. That's the good news. The bad news is that many people are being managed by e-mail instead of them managing it. The presenter will explore how to reduce e-mail; how to be crystal clear on how to ensure that things are not slipping through the cracks; how to quickly find and file information; and how to write e-mail that helps to get what one want.
137 days ago by MicrosoftDynamic, Reliable Email Platforms on Exchange
Virtualize the business-critical Exchange environments to cut costs, increase availability and transform email into a dynamic IT service. The attendee will learn how VMware can benefit the Exchange environment. All the barriers to virtualizing Exchange have been removed. In fact, a virtualized Exchange deployment will not only match, but exceed the performance achieved on physical servers.
179 days ago by VMwareWriting Emails That Sell
In these challenging economic times email needs to remain the go-to tool in one's marketing toolbox. Why? Because it has got the best ROI out there. According to the Direct Marketing Association, email returns over $40 for every dollar spent - that's twice the ROI as the next best medium, non-email Internet marketing. Still, the trick is to get the most out of the email marketing efforts.
228 days ago by Genius.comScaling Microsoft Exchange in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment
This paper describes the performance and scaling of an industry-standard Exchange application, Microsoft Load Generator (LoadGen), running in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 guests under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 using the KVM hypervisor. The host system was deployed on a Dell PowerEdge R710 G6 server equipped with 72 GB of RAM and comprising dual sockets each with a 2.53 GHz Intel Xeon E5540 (Nehalem) processor with support for hyper-threading technology, totaling 8 cores and 16 threads. This paper illustrates the ability of Red Hat virtualization to virtualize disk and network IO in both scale-up and scale-out scenarios.
233 days ago by Red HatRetailer Speeds Decisions and Cuts Costs With Desktop Communications Software
France-based L'Occitane manufactures beauty and skincare products for men and women. To keep up with rapid growth and support its strong brand identity, L'Occitane needed more than telephone and e-mail communications. So it outfitted every employee's computer with Microsoft communications software that enables employees to communicate with one another and with partners and ingredient growers quickly, flexibly, and easily. Using a combination of software-based telephony, e-mail messaging, instant messaging, audio and video conferencing, and presence, L'Occitane employees can get answers immediately and stay in touch with partners and suppliers without the cost and environmental impact of constant travel.
269 days ago by MicrosoftSelecting a Microsoft Hosted Exchange Service Provider
When it comes to the decision to outsource the delivery of your organisation's messaging solution, the task of selecting the most appropriate service provider can be daunting This whitepaper from Cobweb Solutions, Europe's leading Microsoft Hosted Exchange provider, is designed to help simplify that task for you, by arming you with the important questions to ask prospective providers.
279 days ago byStudents Welcome Collaboration Services in College's Web-Based E-Mail Offering
St. Louis Community College is the largest community college district in Missouri, serving more than 100,000 students through credit courses, continuing education, and workforce development programs. St. Louis Community College (STLCC) did not offer students a standard e-mail service, so students used their own - and the college never knew whether they received campus communications. STLCC standardized on Microsoft Live@edu, hosted collaboration services that include Windows Live SkyDrive for password-protected online storage and Windows Live Spaces for personal spaces. Now students can share documents and work productively, anytime, anywhere.
294 days ago by Microsoft
