Desktop outlook support

Google Desktop is een zoektool en doet zijn werk op Windows 2000, XP en Vista. Het kan onder andere zoeken naar informatie in e-mails, chats, webhistorie en verschillende soorten documenten en mediabestanden. Daarnaast indexeert deze zoektool verwijderde bestanden en verschillende versies van bestanden zodat wanneer een bestand per ongeluk gewist wordt de informatie via Google Desktop in veel gevallen kan worden teruggehaald. Het bevat tevens een sidebar waar zogenoemde gadgets ingezet kunnen worden zonder deze apart te installeren. De gadgets bestaan uit onder meer een nieuwslezer, weerberichtmelder, rss- en atom-reader, kladblok en een mediaspeler. Ook kunnen aparte gadgets worden binnengehaald waarmee de functionaliteit van de sidebar uitgebreid wordt. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben enkele dagen geleden versie 5.8.809.8522 uitgebracht en voorzien van de volgende blogpost:

Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows: increased performance

We love getting your feedback, and one of the themes that has cropped up in the Google Desktop Help group is that you want a lighter, faster product. We heard the message loud and clear and decided that the Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows release would be based entirely on performance.

In true Google fashion, we took a data-driven approach: Measure, then analyze, fix the most important issues and lowest hanging fruit, then rinse, lather and repeat.

First, we built performance tests that simulate a typical user's behavior when using Google Desktop and measure the time spent on actions such as starting up, shutting down, searching, adding a gadget, adding a new document to the search index, and so forth. We then took a page from the Google Chrome playbook by running the performance tests automatically for every single change we made to the software, on dozens of machines each time so that an average of the time measurements from all of them would give us a reliable comparison against previous versions.

Next, we refined an option that helps us improve the product, with your agreement. To send us information about problems you might experience, you can opt in to our error reporting system. If you have opted in, the system will send us anonymous diagnostic information about such events as crashes. In the new version, we improved this system to also detect and report situations where our product could be making your computer slow to respond.

We've learned a lot from these two new sources of data. The performance measurement system enabled us to discover some seemingly small changes that had a major impact on performance. We've been able to immediately fix changes that decreased performance, and learn from changes that improved performance. For example:

• We found a way to cut memory usage during startup by about 50%.
• Shutdown now happens five times faster, and we were able to avoid a seemingly innocuous state that would have almost doubled startup time.

From automated error reports sent by our beta testers, we learned that while Google Desktop generally performs very well, certain types of usage and some interactions with 3rd party software can trigger problems. We've made dozens of improvements based on this data. Here are some examples of what we've been able to fix:

• A few obscure cases where interaction with third party software could slow the computer down when certain types of files were being added to the search index.
• A rare issue that could cause slower computers to become temporarily unresponsive during Google Desktop startup.

We still weren't satisfied, so we analyzed the design of our software to find ways to improve it. This led us to make a few more changes:

• We realized that with the hundreds of Google Desktop Gadgets available from third parties, there is always the possibility that one of them performs badly. To help you deal with this, we added a system that detects when a gadget is causing your computer to perform poorly, and asks you whether to remove the gadget. While we were at it, we added proactive security measures that prevent malicious gadgets from stealing information from other gadgets, and we made changes that allow Flash programs such as interactive games to be embedded in gadgets; for certain types of gadgets this can be a lighter weight approach than previously possible.
• To reduce memory usage, increase stability and reduce memory fragmentation, we reduced the number of different processes that Google Desktop runs, and we now recycle some of our processes frequently (just like Google Chrome).
• Microsoft Outlook users will be glad to hear that we've reduced memory usage while at the same time improving the coverage and increasing the stability of our Outlook support.

We've had a fun and rewarding time improving performance, because at every step of the way we were sure that you would enjoy our product even more. Please give our new lighter, faster version a try. We hope you'll enjoy it.

source: http://tweakers.net/meuktracker/18512/google-desktop-588098522.html

Avaya offers wide array of unified communications wares

The company offers a dizzying array of UC products that enterprises can piece together to craft customized systems grounded in the company's long, solid telephony history. That said, integrating all the pieces together takes a lot of effort and may require a great deal of assistance from Avaya and its resellers.

This Clear Choice Test is the first in a series of reviews that examine the facets comprising enterprise UC platforms.

Our hands-on evaluation of a 2,500-users Avaya UC deployment included an example of each of Avaya's one-X suite of UC endpoints including hard phones, softphone clients, smartphone clients and a Web portal interface. These clients were connected to redundant S8730 IP PBX/communications servers running a hardened version of Red Hat Linux and Communication Manager 5.1 software.

In the test bed's main office configuration, we employed Avaya's SES SIP server to perform standards-based SIP call set-up and routing, which worked in tandem with the S8730 servers. The servers were also connected to a G650 Media Gateway, which provided media translation (G248, H323 and SIP), SIP trunking and other voice gateway functions. According to Avaya, this configuration is capable of supporting up to 36,000 users, including 16,000 IP end points.

As our branch office UC link, we tested the Avaya G450 media gateway, equipped with embedded S8300 blade communication servers, also running Communications Manager 5.1. This configuration is capable of supporting up to 450 users

source : http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/090808-avaya-unified-communications.html

Azaleos Adds Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Server to Exchange E-Mail Management Services

OneServer Virtual Edition Uses Hyper-V to Reduce Hardware Requirements and Simplify High Availability/Disaster Recovery

Azaleos® Corporation, the managed Microsoft Exchange services company, today announced that its award winning OneServer™ Virtual Edition product now also supports Microsoft Hyper-V Server for virtualization of Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers. The immediate availability of Hyper-V support combined with existing support for VMware ESX, allows customers to choose either virtualization platform, or a physical server option, for their Exchange infrastructure with Azaleos OneStop™ Services.

Azaleos OneStop remotely managed services enable organizations to maintain an on-premise deployment of Exchange, while off-loading monitoring and administration to professionals in the Azaleos network operations center.

“Exchange Server 2007, and its multiple roles, requires organizations to deploy several hardware servers to take advantage of its full capabilities,” said Michael Osterman, President, Osterman Research. “Hyper-V Server allows organizations to reduce hardware costs, lower their power consumption, and streamline high availability and disaster recovery configurations for Exchange using virtualization technology that is fully supported by Microsoft.”

Since Microsoft Exchange Server typically does not require the full processing capabilities of an entire server, it is ideally suited for virtualization where its needs can be combined with other workloads. Although virtualization of Exchange can be used to consolidate server and storage resources, simplify administration, as well as streamline high availability and disaster recovery – it is not appropriate for all environments. Azaleos has published a free whitepaper that outlines the benefits, challenges, and disadvantages of deploying Exchange on a virtual machine.

The “Virtualizing Exchange” whitepaper is available at: http://www.azaleos.com/request_download.html?id=42.

Azaleos OneServer Virtual Edition now provides support for the leading virtualization platforms – Microsoft Hyper-V Server and VMware ESX server. Customers can choose either alternative based on their needs, preferences, or existing investments. OneServer Virtual Edition is an all-in-one service endpoint that integrates an optimized operating system and application software components to deliver highly available, scalable, and reliable Microsoft Exchange e-mail for today’s enterprises. It enables organizations to reduce from four to two the number of physical servers normally required for a highly available Exchange configuration.

“In our tests with Exchange Server, Microsoft Hyper-V Server performed on par with the much more mature VMware ESX Server, which is impressive,” said Scott Gode, Vice President of Product Management for Azaleos. “Adding support for Hyper-V to our OneServer portfolio allows customers to choose from a broader set of virtual and physical platform options for our OneStop services based on their technical and financial needs.”

Azaleos OneStop Managed Services

OneStop Managed Services available on OneServer Virtual Edition include:
ViewXchange, a real-time monitoring and reporting system for Exchange and its associated IT infrastructure.
ManageXchange, a remote command and control service that allows Azaleos technicians to monitor, manage, patch, troubleshoot and fix issues in a customer’s Exchange environment on a 24×7 basis.
MobileXchange, a turnkey mobile device management and monitoring solution for the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) that can be rapidly deployed to provide remotely managed 24×7 services.
ProtectXchange, a comprehensive anti-virus/anti-spam service powered by MessageLabs that prevents threats from penetrating the network and safeguards data from malicious interference.
RestoreXchange, a complete dual-site disaster recovery service that handles both dial tone and mail storage restoration to minimize the impact on employee productivity and business continuity.
ArchiveXchange, an automatic archival and storage service that moves e-mail from the Exchange server to secondary storage to improve performance and reduce costs. ArchiveXchange enables users to access older mail using Outlook, web browsers, or mobile devices.

About Azaleos

Azaleos Corporation provides 24X7 remotely managed messaging services for enterprises with on-premise installations of Microsoft Exchange Server and Blackberry Enterprise Server. Azaleos OneServer and OneStop Services offer remote monitoring, management, maintenance, and reporting, which enable an organization’s IT staff to focus on strategic technology initiatives. Azaleos solutions can be installed and up and running in less than one day. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, Azaleos was founded in 2004 and is led by senior executives from Microsoft, IBM, and Lotus. For more information visit us on the Web at www.azaleos.com.