Mike Temporale
06-10-2005, 04:45 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/06/07/406035.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/06/07/406035.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"...we offered an always up-to-date (AUTD) solution based on text messaging at that time, but I wasn’t happy with what was required in terms of provisioning and the server-side enforcement of latency so as to mitigate the impact of AUTDv1 on server performance. What to do. Around this time, we had begun looking into what it would take to offer an up-to-date mobile email solution ("AUTD," from here on) that competed with the likes of RIM, Good, et al. I liked the up-to-date nature of their solutions but had not personally adopted them for reasons of device choice (again with the form factor), setup costs (in terms of money, deployment overhead, and operational overhead), or both. Being on the Exchange team, we’ve always got two sets of customers: the administrative staff and end users, and we wanted to build a solution that worked well for both."</i><br /><br />If you're administrating an Exchange server, or just plain interested in the technical details of Microsoft's new push email solution, you'll want to read this article. You might also want to check out <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=4638">Geekzone's</a> thoughts on Exchange push email. All in all, it's very interesting stuff, and I can't wait to see how it works in real life. 8)