Symantec made an early release available of the Enterprise Vault client 9.0.1. This version works against server 8.0.4 and 9.0 and is supported for Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 (x86 & x64). The full set (client and server) is scheduled for December.
You can read the announcement here. You can download the Vault 9.0.1 client from Symantec File Connect.
Update: It seems there’s a trial located here. Also, don’t forget to check for hotfixes which can be downloaded here.
In case you missed it, Microsoft today announced Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s next-gen cloud offering, successor to BPOS. It contains Microsoft Office Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync online. You can watch the announcement on-demand here. Office 365, which is expected early 2011, will initially run Exchange 2010 at SP1 level.
For more information consult the Office 365’s website, consult the FAQ or follow Office 365 via Facebook (office365) or Twitter (@Office365).
You can sign up for the beta here. Note that the beta is limited and available in 13 countries only.
Finally, the long awaited Exchange Server 2010 Architecture Poster is here!
This is similar to the Exchange 2007 Component Architecture poster and contains the architecture highlights and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This architecture poster is additional to the already published Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams which you could already get here.
You can download the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Architecture poster here.
The Exchange 2010 SP1 help file has been updated (October 14th, 2010). You can download it here.
The offline reference material is nice to take with you when you can’t access online resources.
Exchange fellow Jetze Mellema reported something interesting, which he blogged about here. Since you’re not all fluent in Dutch, I’ll blog about it too since it’s important to know when planning your upgrade to Exchange 2010 / Outlook 2010 or during customer engagements.
Until now, blogs mention Exchange 2010’s Personal Archive feature as something for which you’d only need an Exchange 2010 mailbox server (with an archive enabled mailbox)Â in combination with Outlook WebApp (OWA) or Outlook 2010 with an Enterprise CAL.
Now, by mentioning “Outlook 2010” it sounds like you can use any version of Outlook 2010 for accessing Personal Archives. Unfortunately this isn’t true. The footnote of this article of the Office 2010 Resource Kit states the following:
Personal Archive is available only when you use Outlook 2010 as part of Microsoft Office Professional 2010 or Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 with a volume license.
This poses the question if this will be of influence on current Office 2007 users. As you probably know, the update to enable Personal Archives for Outlook 2007 users is expected 1st half of 2011. Does the above statement imply that only Office 2007 Professional users will be able to use Personal Archives after the update and are Office 2007 Standard users – like Office 2010 Standard users – left in the cold?
I’m afraid I don’t have an answer to that question yet, since there’s no information on that subject. I’ll keep you posted.
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