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AudioPill — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:04:50 -0000

Computer Beginners by AudioPill Podcast

AudioPill — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:09:51 -0000

Everything is virtually possib by Episode 18 ESX Server 3.1

AudioPill — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:02:06 -0000

Oracle vs MS-SQL

AudioPill — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:10:45 -0000

Guest: Shlomi Fanan

Music: Crying Is Done by Melodrome

Short comparison of the two main databases today using medium and large companies.

Including some new features, strengths and weaknesses.

Guest appearance of Shlomi with “The Database at the Core of Exchange 2007″.

Sigal”s link

"Features,
strengths and weaknesses comparison between MS SQL 2005 (Yukon) and Oracle 10g
databases"

SQL

Download
SQL Server 2008

Sharing Microsoft
SQL server 2005 Database in the LAN network

Download SQL

SQL Backup Checklist

Moving the
Tempdb and Master Database in SQL Server

SQL podcast http://www.sswug.org/sswugradio/

video podcast SQL Server basics

Oracle

Oracle 11g is expected to be released later in 2007

the, major reason for the upgrade appears to be better security features and
compliance management.

The two main features: Audit vault and
Information lifecycle management

Oracle Podcast

Exchange Database

Exchange
Transactions and the Exchange Database Overview

Oracle Vs SQL by AudioPill Podcasts

AudioPill — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:59:02 -0000

Email comparison by AudioPill

AudioPill — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:32:32 -0000

Exchange 2007 by AudioPill

AudioPill — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:36:30 -0000

Exchange 2007

AudioPill — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:43:56 -0000

Episode 16

Exchange 2007 overview and Google email migration tool

Join us when we talk about Microsoft Exchange 2007 with our Special guest Shlomi Fanan

Also include listener questions.

Enjoy …

For the Hebrew Guide: here

Episode 16 Exchange 2007 (Hebrew guide).Listen to the podcast: hereSpecial guest: Shlomi Fanan from “We”Promo: Sarcastic gamer Microsoft Surface Parody Song : Sarcastic gamer PS3 Song

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 Overview- Hebrew articleExchange 2007 FAQ Exchange Server 2007 pricing

Shlomi links:

Demo for OWA Demo for additional features Evaluation guide Why upgrade?Systems requirements Supported clients Version comparison Exchange 2007 VHD Exchange Virtual Labs

Exchange 2007 was Design for 64 bit / 32 bit is a taste

64bit only: there are 32-bit version of Exchange 2007 but only the 64-bit version on Windows Server 2003 x64 will be supported.

SBS: if
you want to incorporate Exchange 2007 into your SBS organization, you
will need to have a standalone 64bit Windows Server 2003 as a member
server in your SBS domain.

Custom Exchange installation

Exchange 2007 Setup (Nice GUI)Mailbox Role: Email storage, Public foldersClient Access Role: (Front end server) blue OWA, POP, IMAPHub Transport Role: Active Directory Security PoliciesEdge Transport Role: Anti spam & Antivirus policiesUnified Messaging Rule: communication between Telephony systems to Exchange serverReadiness Checks Management ToolsMailbox, PST File and Public Folder Management

Microsoft wanted to stop supporting Public Folder to push for SharePoint

Exchange 2007 rules Video

edge transport role (DMZ).hub transport role (simple install).unified messaging role (Voice,fax).mailbox role (simple install).client access role (simple install, Front End).

Upgrade Info
No
In place upgrade – Install New Exchange server, Move Mailboxes and
remove old Exchange 2003 Server / you have to remove the connectors
before you can move the member
Move mailbox can be scheduled
Then you can uninstall the old server (You’ll need the Exchange CD in order to UN install)
You’ll need to Display Routing Group in order to see it

Exchange 2007 Videos

Part 1 - Introduction to all of the new features that will be covered in the reviews (3.5 minutes)
Part 2 - disaster recovery features (13 minutes)
Part 3 - Unified Messaging (12 minutes)
Part 4 - Outlook Web Access 2007 (27 minutes)
Part 5 - Mobility features (13 minutes)
Part 6 - 64-bit technology (11 minutes)
Part 7 - management features (21 minutes)
Part 8 - compliance features (17 minutes)
Part 9 - edge services (6.5 minutes)

Exchange Podcasts:

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Overview (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Key Exchange Server 2007 Scenarios (Level 300)

Google

Announced support for the Imap protocol

We are able now to export all of the e-mail account out of any IMAP compatible server

How?

A new email migration tool
by Google, self-service wizard which uses the IMAP protocol to suck all
the e-mail out of an IMAP compatible server like Microsoft’s Exchange
and import it into an organization’s instance

of Google Apps.

After the migration process we should be able to access Gmail's new address book by clicking on "choose from contacts" link.

Articles and podcasts from Zdnet

Thanks Zimbra, Hello Google Apps

More articles: Google BlogSpot

The first question is what substitute do we move to and why?

Why should we consider moving off from Exchange Server to a substitute Server?

All are available today for free of charge.

Otherwise we have to purchase a license from Microsoft, both for the OS and for the Exchange.

Pricing

700$ for Exchange 2007 630$ for Windows 2003 Server Standard $3,999 for Exchange enterprise Plus ,You will still have to buy hardware for the server.

What is Google Apps? Intro

Google Apps is a hosted “office Service” but mostly a hosted email service, for organizations. Google Apps page the email migration tool is listed under the Google Apps Premier EditionFeaturesOffers 2 GB / account (Premier Edition offers 10 GB). Costs $50 per user and offers 10 GB in email storage. Google Claims, they have improved Google AppsDocs & Spreadsheets suppose to be much easier for users with better way for document search and organize. Google promises a completely new layout for the document management interface of Google Docs (June 27), GMail uses a tagging system - emails can be tagged with multiple tags sort of like being able to store one e-mail in multiple folders. Google Talk Based on Adobe’s Flash technology among other updates, you'll be able to add more gadgets to your start page, including the Google Talk Gadget.

The biggest problem with the Google Apps service is that it can’t go into an offline mode.

But now that Google has introduced Google Gears

See Migration to Google Apps article for more info

Conclusions

we don’t think google can offer a real alternative for Ms Exchange

Though for small business it can be much chipper solution (up to 30 uses).

But!

Maybe something will change in the near future…

Upcoming episode (17): For all who find the Databases world interesting:

Next episode we will be focusing on “Databases
Exchange Databases

What is a database?

What are the types?

How to choose the correct database for your needs?

Shlomi will be joining us again to talk about the Exchange Databases aspects.

Mail Services Comparison

AudioPill — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:24:58 -0000

AudioPill Episode 15

Email services, Antivirus &
Firewall Comparison

Which Antivirus product is really
working?

Which Web based Email should you
use?

How can I check if my Firewall is any good?

What is the deal
with Torrentspy?

What is Web Scraping?

Listen to the podcast: Here

For the Hebrew guide: here

For the English guide: here

Song Track: Jagged Love- Melodrome

Check out Tags: Here

News… Torrentspy
Warning!

Begin tracking its users TorrentSpy will be required
to keep server log files detailing its users’ activities while on site,
including IP addresses and torrent files downloaded TorrentSpy has to Spy…

What to do? Browse Anonymously
more...here (BitTorrent
clients: uTorrent,
BitComet).

Antivirus & Firewall Comparison Avira antivirus and Comodo firewall scored the best results in the comparison
and leak tests performed by independent Internet security Matousec and AV-Comparatives Avira Comparatives Test Comodo
Personal
Firewall Analysis Leak-tests

Mail Services -Comparison
Hotmail
Live Vs
Gmail Vs YahooMail The
next-generation editions of Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and Hotmall Webmail
services- Free email comparison Hotmail
Live ,Office
live Currently in beta

Windows Live Hotmail Info, Video,2 sign-up , download
the latest build New version of Outlook
Connector, replaces Outlook express & windows mail on Vista Online E-mail
client, No ads & Free! Looks like Outlook, Offers 2 GB storage Replaces
Outlook express & windows mail on Vista

Microsoft Statistics: According to Microsoft Hotmail have 280 million
users and 47 Million already using Hotmail live. New Features: new version of
outlook connector Competitions on the market: Gmail
& YahooMail
& Office Live Comparison Chart

General Statistics: Windows Live Search saw its searches drop nearly 10
percent from a year ago, while Google’s rose more than 22 percent, according to
figures released this week from Nielsen/NetRatings. Google has 50.8 percent
market share, followed by Yahoo at 23.6 percent and Microsoft with only 8.4
percent.

Google Vs
Microsoft Google
Docs & Spreadsheets vs Microsoft Office Google
Apps

Includes Web-based calendar, e-mail, chat, word processing and spreadsheet
software.

Microsoft has already offline products like” outlook but they are not free
Google Gears offer a browser extension which Microsoft doesn’t.

Google Apps are more lightweights as for the security, web applications will
run JavaScript in a Sandboxie mode
Trust No Program Wikipedia

Other products: zoho Google also has an office suite Zoho Office in their Google
Apps Premier Edition

Video
Demo

zimbra
Overview,

Flash Demo So How will it look
like when Google office goes offline?

Scrybe –Video
demo (Office Apps and a new kind of online/Offline orgnazer).

I’ll say that again: it’s a Web
application, but when you’re not online, it still works.

Other
web-based office products

In Overall
we
prefer Gmail (and Google Apps ) over
all other webmail applications because performance (speed) is consistently
fast, and emails can be tagged making search much more effective.

Web
Scraping is essentially reverse engineering of HTML pages. It can also
be thought of as parsing out chunks of information from a page. Web pages are
coded in HTML, which uses a tree-like structure to represent the information.
The actual data is mingled with layout and rendering information and is not
readily available to a computer. Scrapers are the programs that “know” how to
get the data back from a given HTML page. They work by learning the details of
the particular markup and figuring out where the actual data is. For example,
in the illustration below the scraper extracts URLs from the del.icio.us page.
By applying such a scraper, it is possible to discover what URLs are tagged
with any given tag.

Related topics: Exchange 2007, Silverlight, Silverlight
& co, Online &
Offline Wars, Web-Mail
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Online & Offline Wars

AudioPill — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:48:54 -0000

Google Gears a new browser plug-in for Firefox and Internet
Explorer that helps developers disconnect their wares from the Web. I click an
offline icon, and RTM temporarily stores my to-dos on my PC and uses bits of
Javascript code stored locally to let me add, delete, and edit tasks. I can add
items to my list while on a plane or in a car. Once I'm online again, it syncs
everything back to the Web.

Listen
to the podcast: Here

Song Track: Hey Mary- Sky Line Dive

Check out Tags: Here

Opening promo: Robot Chicken -Star Wars Special

Mail
Services Comparison

Mail Services Comparison

Podcast Topics:
Main topic: Online & Offline Applications (Google Gear, Adobe’s AIR
and Firefox 3).

Google have required Microsoft to make changes to Vista due to its limited
API for the Desktop search.
Is It OK that
Google Owns Us? ,check out this lite Firefox Add-ons, CustomizeGoogle

Yahoo shutdown Yahoo Photos

Microsoft Back to the Future Video

Apple Leopard’s
new prominent feature is named: Time Machine

Apple Leopard Boot
Camp fast switching” disappears

code name “Gran Paradiso” Look Like this

Upcoming Microsoft products : Vista SP1,
Office 14,
IE8, Windows XP SP3

And more tools like: Google
Reader,Google Street View, MyLiveSearch, Alternative
search engines, Songbird

Related topics:

Silverlight, Silverlight & co, Online
& Offline Wars, Webmail based services Comparison

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