November 6 , 2007
In this Issue:
- Perspective: Changing the Status Quo
- New on the Exchange & Outlook Pro VIP Forum
- October 2007 Exchange & Outlook Pro VIP Articles in PDF
- Coming this Month
Perspective: Changing the Status Quo
It’s human nature to get so used to a situation or routine that you miss signs that the status quo might be changing. For example: Many of us at Penton Media have for months endured a painful coexistence of our Lotus Notes environment and the Exchange Server 2003 environment of the organization that acquired Penton in early 2007. Forcing the two systems to coexist broke a Notes system that had worked, more or less, before the acquisition. As a result, the Notes side of the combined company—about 800 of us—started getting used to slow performance, lost messages, backed-up message queues, and the fairly regular loss of our email service. But after months of griping about email problems, this week IT is pulling the plug on Notes and moving us to Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2007—a transitional stage in preparation for a full-scale, companywide migration to Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007 at the end of the year. I’m looking forward to the change but can’t quite believe we’re finally going to Outlook. . . .
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