Nexus: News

One of our next jobs is to make OWA look a bit more Oxford-y. To start off with, we need to tinker with the logon page. It’s actually made up of several components, carefully placed to work together and make … Continue reading →

Here’s what is supposed to happen when Outlook wants to connect, during coexistence of Exchange 2007 and 2010: On a domain-joined workstation Outlook (2007 or later) sends a query to Active Directory for the Autodiscover information. The directory returns a … Continue reading →

We now have all of our new servers running Exchange 2010. The number of CASs is now up to fourteen – to allay our fears about IMAP users with 100,000 items in their inboxes – and we’ve also now installed … Continue reading →

At the tail-end of last week we completed the basic operating system builds of our new servers, including all of those awkward and pernickety things like the activation process, making sure they’re fully patched and anti-virus enabled. I also presented … Continue reading →

As part of our upgrade plans we needed to have a better grasp of the numbers of mobile Nexus  users and, more importantly, what they’re using to connect up to our service. I have therefore started documenting monthly statistics of … Continue reading →

It is a prerequisite for Exchange 2010 that we upgrade the Active Directory schema. Quite simply, without a schema update we can’t install the product. But other maintenance work we’ve done in recent months, such as that taken to resolve … Continue reading →

The High-Level design has now been completed and is about to be approved – in principle – and we’ll then enter the Detailed Design phase. This is expected to be completed by mid September at which point it can then … Continue reading →