The anti-virus api isn't worth mentioning because it sucks. ESE based scanners like antigen and scanmail 3.6 - 3.7 are the way to go. They sit outside the IS and scan messages before they can cause harm. And AVAPI's reporting features are horrible.
Forgot to add The US Army Corps of Engineers has 35,000 employees in the US, Europe, Asia, Middle East and South America. And they don't have a full ATM backbone with unlimited bandwith. THe still use frame relay on a lot of circuits so local exchange servers are a must.
Back up software has a MS Exchange aware back up agent for online backups. We use Veritas Netback up datacenter. As for deleted item retention time it was introduced in SP3 and all you have to do is go to deleted items folder, click on tools menu and select restore deleted items. You then get a choice to restore a single message or multiple messages.
As for the GAL you can either create custom receipents or setup directory synchronization with other organizations. It's more a feature for government agencies and companies with thousands of employees.
In USASETAF we had thousands of users on each exchange server and except for running out of disk space because of no mailbox limits it worked well. But that was the admins and a political issue. My office in US Army Corps of Engineers we had 140 users on ours and only had one problem in the year I was there. But isinteg works very well. My present job we have a server with over 300 users and a ew other servers with 150 users each. All works well. I never touch exchange except to make new mailboxes or delete terminated employees.
The main thing is the hardware. You need a good SCSI adapter and plenty or RAM. 512MB is good enough for 140 users.
A networking group in my clec used to keep a calendar in an MDB database. Once they screwed it up and I had to restore from back up tape. I made them a calendar on our exchange server, they love it and I haven't heard from them in weeks.
Maybe they don't know what they are doing. The US Army Corps of Engineers runs a netowrk of almost 300 excahnge servers and barring any network related problems it's always up. I worked tech support there for a year and some sites went down because of earthquakes or other "events", but the entire system never went down.
U of Kansas needs to either hire some decent admins or put some policies in place. The Southern European Task Force deployed MS Exchange back in 1997 and we had problems for the first few years. But it was because there were no mailbox limits set and they kept running out of disk space. It's all in the admins.
You need a customer friendly attitude in this business. The user doesn't care about computers. He want to get his work done in the shortest amount of time and then surf the internet. He already has enough on his or her mind about their job and they don't want to remember a bunch of obscure ftp commands. They just want to point and click.
But that's for everything Windows. Sure the gui is nice and lets you easily do many tasks. But if you really want to get into the guts of windows you'll need to learn Perl, VB Script and all the command line tools that MS hides deep in some obscure books while the advertise the gui to death.
Exchange is actually one of Microsoft's best products. Unlike the NT registry and SAM database it's based on LDAP and a dumbed down SQL database engine. In addition to the workgroup features like calendars, team folders, public folders it has a ton of other great features.
One is called Deleted Item Retention Time. You set the number of days and when a user deletes an email it's not really deleted for the specified days. If he realizes he made a mistake restoration is from the Outlook client and takes seconds saving the admin time from going to the back up tapes. For businesses like law firms it's a life saver since they are required to keep records and emails for five years or so. They simply buy a lot of storage and set a deleted item retention item of 1600 days or so and it's a secondary back up.
A second feature is single instance storage. You send a file out to 50 people it gets stored once in the database saving you storage space.
Then third party back up programs have a feature called brick level back up's where you can back up individual mailboxes. If you delete on by accident restoration is simple. Exchange 2000 has this feature out of the box.
Exchange is scalable. It's overkill for small offices and I've supported it for a government agency with 35,000 employees and 300 Exchange servers. It scales very well.
A good Exchange anti-virus program like Trend Micro Scanmail 3.7 has file blocking features and greatly eases the management of your anti-virus strategy.
Since email is in a database searching for messages is easy.
And the global address book is great. Users don't have to keep their own huge address book and greatly minimizes the calls to the admin of I sent out this email but it came back returned and asking you to track down an email address.
Sure you can cobble together a few products for most of the functionality and perform some of the usability features manually, but you'll spend more time while the CEO is asking you to restore an email from a year ago.
What about designing or paying someone to create a MySQL or Postgres database and some client client software? I'm not 100% sure but I'd guess accounting software is just a low end database at it's heart.
Only playback glitches I had was on ST Armada and maybe another one or 2 older games. Life goes on. Technology moves on. Nothing is ever fully backwards compatible.
I've had it for a few months now and I think it's great. Games sound great and the MP3 encoding is great. I finally bought an MP3 player and encode all my music through Playcenter. I've run it on Windows XP and now running it on WIndows 2000. I'm waiting for Linksys to release XP drivers for my wireless USB network adapter so I can go back to XP.
Ebay is going there. For now Passport is an option. But I'm guessing it's only because Ebay first has to migrate some of their servers to Win2000 and IIS and get some other infrastructure into place. But don't you worry soon Ebay and Billpoint will be integrated into Passport.
There are plenty of places to get free email. And as far as playing games you know which online service it uses when you buy it. For example it says on the box that Diablo and Starcraft only use battlenet and Lucasarts games use MS Zone. If you don't like it don't buy the game or play on a LAN with friends.
What the hell does passport have to do with office suites? Passport started life as MS Wallet. And it's the movie theaters' property. Just like some people don't let friends eat and drink in their cars, movie theaters don't let others bring in food from the outside. It's their property. Selling food and bevarages are part of their business model. If you don't like it open your own movie theater or wait for the DVD.
Sun requires you register before downloading software. As well as Oracle. Yahoo requires you register for it's customized services. And virtually all message boards require you to register before posting. Some even to browse. So what is the big deal if MS wants to have one universal log in for all of it's online properties? Yahoo requires you to have 1 login for all of it's features.
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The anti-virus api isn't worth mentioning because it sucks. ESE based scanners like antigen and scanmail 3.6 - 3.7 are the way to go. They sit outside the IS and scan messages before they can cause harm. And AVAPI's reporting features are horrible.
Microsoft Certified Partners rape you? Never.
Forgot to add The US Army Corps of Engineers has 35,000 employees in the US, Europe, Asia, Middle East and South America. And they don't have a full ATM backbone with unlimited bandwith. THe still use frame relay on a lot of circuits so local exchange servers are a must.
Back up software has a MS Exchange aware back up agent for online backups. We use Veritas Netback up datacenter. As for deleted item retention time it was introduced in SP3 and all you have to do is go to deleted items folder, click on tools menu and select restore deleted items. You then get a choice to restore a single message or multiple messages.
As for the GAL you can either create custom receipents or setup directory synchronization with other organizations. It's more a feature for government agencies and companies with thousands of employees.
Only the client features are in Outlook. The Exchange server has the server side features for shared calendars, etc.
In USASETAF we had thousands of users on each exchange server and except for running out of disk space because of no mailbox limits it worked well. But that was the admins and a political issue. My office in US Army Corps of Engineers we had 140 users on ours and only had one problem in the year I was there. But isinteg works very well. My present job we have a server with over 300 users and a ew other servers with 150 users each. All works well. I never touch exchange except to make new mailboxes or delete terminated employees.
The main thing is the hardware. You need a good SCSI adapter and plenty or RAM. 512MB is good enough for 140 users.
A networking group in my clec used to keep a calendar in an MDB database. Once they screwed it up and I had to restore from back up tape. I made them a calendar on our exchange server, they love it and I haven't heard from them in weeks.
U of Kansas needs to either hire some decent admins or put some policies in place. The Southern European Task Force deployed MS Exchange back in 1997 and we had problems for the first few years. But it was because there were no mailbox limits set and they kept running out of disk space. It's all in the admins.
You need a customer friendly attitude in this business. The user doesn't care about computers. He want to get his work done in the shortest amount of time and then surf the internet. He already has enough on his or her mind about their job and they don't want to remember a bunch of obscure ftp commands. They just want to point and click.
But that's for everything Windows. Sure the gui is nice and lets you easily do many tasks. But if you really want to get into the guts of windows you'll need to learn Perl, VB Script and all the command line tools that MS hides deep in some obscure books while the advertise the gui to death.
Exchange is actually one of Microsoft's best products. Unlike the NT registry and SAM database it's based on LDAP and a dumbed down SQL database engine. In addition to the workgroup features like calendars, team folders, public folders it has a ton of other great features.
One is called Deleted Item Retention Time. You set the number of days and when a user deletes an email it's not really deleted for the specified days. If he realizes he made a mistake restoration is from the Outlook client and takes seconds saving the admin time from going to the back up tapes. For businesses like law firms it's a life saver since they are required to keep records and emails for five years or so. They simply buy a lot of storage and set a deleted item retention item of 1600 days or so and it's a secondary back up.
A second feature is single instance storage. You send a file out to 50 people it gets stored once in the database saving you storage space.
Then third party back up programs have a feature called brick level back up's where you can back up individual mailboxes. If you delete on by accident restoration is simple. Exchange 2000 has this feature out of the box.
Exchange is scalable. It's overkill for small offices and I've supported it for a government agency with 35,000 employees and 300 Exchange servers. It scales very well.
A good Exchange anti-virus program like Trend Micro Scanmail 3.7 has file blocking features and greatly eases the management of your anti-virus strategy.
Since email is in a database searching for messages is easy.
And the global address book is great. Users don't have to keep their own huge address book and greatly minimizes the calls to the admin of I sent out this email but it came back returned and asking you to track down an email address.
Sure you can cobble together a few products for most of the functionality and perform some of the usability features manually, but you'll spend more time while the CEO is asking you to restore an email from a year ago.
Exchange is LDAP. It was also the first version of active directory which in it's present form conforms to most of the standards.
What about designing or paying someone to create a MySQL or Postgres database and some client client software? I'm not 100% sure but I'd guess accounting software is just a low end database at it's heart.
That's weird. I have the wusb11 or wusb12 (forgot the exact model). It's a box with a usb connector and I just bought it a little while ago.
Only playback glitches I had was on ST Armada and maybe another one or 2 older games. Life goes on. Technology moves on. Nothing is ever fully backwards compatible.
I've had it for a few months now and I think it's great. Games sound great and the MP3 encoding is great. I finally bought an MP3 player and encode all my music through Playcenter. I've run it on Windows XP and now running it on WIndows 2000. I'm waiting for Linksys to release XP drivers for my wireless USB network adapter so I can go back to XP.
For some reason this reminds me of the movie Armageddon.
Like the corvettes are going to be of any use against an aicraft carrier 1000 miles away.
Here in NYC many apartment buildings offer RCN and AOL Time Warner cable.
Ebay is going there. For now Passport is an option. But I'm guessing it's only because Ebay first has to migrate some of their servers to Win2000 and IIS and get some other infrastructure into place. But don't you worry soon Ebay and Billpoint will be integrated into Passport.
I guess I have a different version of Office XP. Mine never asked for Passport. And I have the pro version.
If it plays on the zone then take a guess. If you're so anxious to know check out LucasArts .
There are plenty of places to get free email. And as far as playing games you know which online service it uses when you buy it. For example it says on the box that Diablo and Starcraft only use battlenet and Lucasarts games use MS Zone. If you don't like it don't buy the game or play on a LAN with friends.
What the hell does passport have to do with office suites? Passport started life as MS Wallet. And it's the movie theaters' property. Just like some people don't let friends eat and drink in their cars, movie theaters don't let others bring in food from the outside. It's their property. Selling food and bevarages are part of their business model. If you don't like it open your own movie theater or wait for the DVD.
Sun requires you register before downloading software. As well as Oracle. Yahoo requires you register for it's customized services. And virtually all message boards require you to register before posting. Some even to browse. So what is the big deal if MS wants to have one universal log in for all of it's online properties? Yahoo requires you to have 1 login for all of it's features.