IST did maintenance to the Microsoft EXCHANGE environment over the weekend to improve performance. One side effect of this maintenance is the need to accept a new security certificate on iOS devices and the addition of the "ad" domain name in your email configuration for the UofM EXCHANGE account. See the image below for where to add the "ad" domain in your configuration.
The Exchange Maintenance has been completed successfully. We have tested and verified that everything is working as expected.
Due to the change there will be one item to note:
On the iPhone/iPad (possibly other Activesync devices as well) you will need to enter the domain name now which is "ad" if you have not already done so (see image below) in SETTINGS > MAIL, CONTACTS, CALENDARS > ad.umanitoba.ca<http://ad.umanitoba.ca> (or whatever you've called your EXCHANGE account).
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Wayne Billing
Classroom Technology Support
Audio Visual and Classroom Technology Support
130 Machray Hall Building
474-6649
474-7625 (fax)
Wayne_Billing(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Wayne_Billing@umanitoba.ca>
…from:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-06/google-ordered-by-judge-to-give-ap…
Google, Motorola Mobility Must Give Android Data to Apple
By Andrew Harris - Mar 5, 2012 11:36 PM CT
Google Inc. and a Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI)<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/MMI:US> unit were ordered by the U.S. judge presiding over an Apple Inc. (AAPL)<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AAPL:US> patent lawsuit to turn over information about the development of Google’s Android operating system.
The Motorola Mobility unit and Google must also hand over to Apple information about Google’s pending $12.5 billion acquisition of the mobile-phone maker, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner in Chicago<http://topics.bloomberg.com/chicago/> ruled yesterday.
Posner’s decision came in a patent lawsuit filed in 2010 by Cupertino, California-based Apple against Motorola Mobility, which has countersued.
“The Android/Motorola acquisition discovery is highly relevant to Apple’s claims and defenses,” Apple’s attorneys’ said in a March 2 filing requesting the judge’s order.
Apple, maker of the iPhone, has been waging a global fight with the former Motorola Inc. unit that sells phones using Google Inc. (GOOG)<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GOOG:US>’s Android operating system.
Posner, a federal appeals court judge who is presiding over the trial court-level case, has scheduled back-to-back trials before separate juries starting June 11. The first will address six Apple patents, and the second will cover three Motorola patents.
“Motorola shall be expected to obtain full and immediate compliance by Google with Apple’s liability discovery demands,” the judge said in a February order.
Motorola’s Opposition
Motorola Mobility opposed Apple’s request, arguing that Google, the operator of the world’s most-visited Internet search portal, isn’t a party to the lawsuit.
“Google’s employees and documents are not within the ‘possession, custody, or control’ of Motorola, and Motorola cannot force Google to produce documents or witnesses over Google’s objections,” lawyers for the mobile phone maker said in a court filing earlier yesterday.
Motorola Mobility was spun off from Motorola Inc. -- now Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI)<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/MSI:US> Jennifer Erickson<http://topics.bloomberg.com/jennifer-erickson/>, a spokeswoman for the Libertyville, Illinois-based company, declined to comment on the ruling.
Niki Fenwick, a spokeswoman at Google, said in an e-mail that the company wouldn’t comment beyond what was submitted in court papers.
The case is Apple Inc. v. Motorola Inc., 11-cv-08540, U.S. District Court, Northern District ofIllinois<http://topics.bloomberg.com/illinois/> (Chicago).
Today saw the end of the Mobile World Congress 2012 (MWC - http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/virtualtour.html) taking place in Barcelona, Spain. With 67,000 attendees which include all of the major mobile technology manufacturers, the description of the MWC is not far wrong:
No longer limited only to communications, mobile is now a force transforming our world in an unprecedented way. Mobile connects, entertains, informs and inspires us, ultimately changing how we live and who we are. Mobile World Congress is the global epicenter of this redefinition as our participants enable, lead and accelerate it.
One of the major events at MWC was Microsoft's Consumer Preview for Windows 8
(http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview?ocid=O_MSC_W8…).
…from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Consumer_Preview_.28The_Public_Beta.…
Metro UI
Windows 8 will employ a new user interface based on Microsoft's Metro design language. The Metro environment will feature a new tile-based Start screen similar to the Windows Phone operating system. Each tile will represent an application, and will be able to display relevant information such as the number of unread messages on the tile for an email app or the current temperature on a weather application.
For the first time since Windows 95, the trademark Windows "Start" button will no longer appear - instead being replaced by a sliding panel-based menu.
…from:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/03/windows-8-mail-client-gets-ra…
E-mail shines in Windows 8 with radical overhaul of mail client
By Jon Brodkin | Published about an hour ago
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with a pre-installed e-mail client for webmail and Exchange. While it's designed with the touch-friendly Metro interface in mind, it's quite usable even in traditional desktop mode, at least for the basic tasks of reading and writing messages.
Windows 8 Mail is an alternative to the mail client in Windows Live Essentials, a free productivity suite for download on the stable versions of Windows in use today. Microsoft has not yet released a Windows 8-specific version of Outlook, the fee-based, business-class e-mail client that is part of Office. A beta version of "Office 15" is expected this summer, Office President Kurt DelBene said this week.
For now, we have the free, consumer Mail client to look at, and it's one of the highlights of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It's not as fully functional as Windows Live Mail, yet it outshines much of the rest of this experimental version of the operating system.
So far, I have a hard time picturing myself using the Metro interface as my regular desktop. One reason for that is it so clearly geared toward touch usage. Peter Bright explains just how to use Windows 8 with a mouse and keyboard, including the proper use of those pesky "hot corners," but many of the operating system's applications are still in a proof-of-concept phase. The Mail app stands out in Windows 8 because it is quite usable for daily e-mailing, even with a mouse and keyboard.
Let's take a look at Windows Live Mail running in Windows 7:
Windows Live Mail in Windows 7
And now, here is the Mail client that comes with Windows 8:
Mail in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
As you can see, there is a big difference. Windows Live Mail looks a lot like Outlook, with the familiar ribbon interface offering tons of options for reading, sorting, and flagging e-mail. Windows 8 Mail is far more basic, yet perfectly usable and (to my eyes) easy to look at. If I could separate the Mail application from the rest of the operating system, I'd probably have no trouble using it today despite its status as a beta product. That's not a criticism of Windows 8—this is a preview version of the operating system that Microsoft does not intend for daily use.
I set up the Windows 8 Mail client with Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft Exchange, and all three accounts loaded perfectly with no hassle or extra configuration required—just type in your e-mail address and password. The available options are the basic ones, with the ability to move e-mails to folders, mark as unread, search through mail, and more.
One limitation arises from Microsoft's decision to create separate Windows 8 clients for Mail and Calendar. Windows Live puts your e-mail accounts and calendars into the same program, making it easy to add events from your inbox. In the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, there's no integration between the separate Mail and Calendar applications. Both work fine, they just don't work together.
Early screenshots of Office 15 show a fusion of the ribbon and Metro interfaces, and an integrated mail/calendar client. Outlook for Windows 8 will be the premier mail client, but it will cost money, and many people—particularly those tablet buyers Microsoft wants to court—will be satisfied with an easy-to-use, free mail application. While it will be months until we see a final version, Microsoft looks set to deliver just that.