About Michel de Rooij

Michel de Rooij, with over 25 years of mixed consulting and automation experience with Exchange and related technologies, is a consultant for Rapid Circle. He assists organizations in their journey to and using Microsoft 365, primarily focusing on Exchange and associated technologies and automating processes using PowerShell or Graph. Michel's authorship of several Exchange books and role in the Office 365 for IT Pros author team are a testament to his knowledge. Besides writing for Practical365.com, he maintains a blog on eightwone.com with supporting scripts on GitHub. Michel has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013.

Exchange Toolkit

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

I did a write up on the Exchange toolkit, you can find it here or access it through the menu.

If you got feedback, want to report inaccuracies or think something must be added to the list, please send me an e-mail.

Enterprise Vault 9.0.1 early release client

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

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.

https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=35111

Office 365

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

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.

Exchange Server 2010 Architecture poster

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

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.