The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Migrating to Exchange Server 2010

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Learn more Spotlight Story The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Migrating to Exchange Server 2010 Rand Morimoto writes in his Secrets of Exchange 2010 blog, "With the release of Exchange Server 2010, organizations that are on Exchange 2007 are weighing when they are going to shift to Exchange 2010 to take advantage of the new features or capabilities, and organizations who are on earlier versions (like Exchange 2003 or even Exchange 2000) are considering their options to leapfrog over Exchange 2007 and go straight to Exchange 2010." Also see what our Network World testers say about Exchange 2010. Read full story Related News: Microsoft to release six patches, three critical, on Nov. 10 The Microsoft Subnet blog: Microsoft plans to release six patches that address 15 vulnerabilities next week for its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday, three of which are labeled critical and three, important. 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