Nexus: News

This is off my usual subject matter but I’m so excited by this amazing little computer that I had to write something about it. One of the project’s developers, Alan Mycroft, very kindly came over from Cambridge with a real … Continue reading →

One of the jobs that’s fallen to me is to report on the successes (or otherwise) of our mailbox migrations. The output needs to get to people who may not have access to any of the Exchange management tools. Now … Continue reading →

Way back in mid-December I wrote about how Service Pack 2 had been released. As a major update, appearing just before the Christmas holidays, it was an option that seemed a little too risky to try and squeeze in alongside … Continue reading →

To test the throughput we could expect from mailbox moves, ten members of OUCS volunteered to became migration guinea pigs. A ‘suspend when ready to complete’ move had been run and, a week later, that move was completed. This delay … Continue reading →

One of our key aims during this upgrade has been to minimise the period of coexistence between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. This is because our testing phase had revealed a number of potential areas in which we could expect … Continue reading →

We’ve done a fair few migrations now, with several colleges and units within the university deciding to retire their in-house email system and join Nexus. And as user accounts were migrated in from some of these other systems we had … Continue reading →

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 →