KC on Exchange and OutlookBy KC Lemson [MS]Application scalability- May 26, 2008 Dare has some good points on the debate around the scalability of twitter, relating it to some similar challenges Exchange has faced over the years. Another related issue is that in a single-instance model where you have a pointer to the content, this increases the number of read IOs necessary to retrieve data - which could end up being net worse overall (running out of IOPs long before you run out of capacity) than if you just had multiple copies of each piece of data. We've focused a lot.http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/05/26/application-scalability.aspx $%%$%- May 10, 2008 I can't wait until the law against using cellphones while driving goes into effect in Washington state. Tomorrow is Mother's day. It was also a day on which I was planning to run my first half-marathon, which I have been training for for months. Yesterday I worked out in the morning, and at the end of the day David and I decided to go bike and pick up the kids from school in the trailer to squeeze in an extra workout. Like most pacific northwesterners, we actually pay attention to street...http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/05/10/3053316.aspx ....so, what's the difference, exactly- May 9, 2008 Saw this recently on a web signup form and it took me several seconds to figure out that it wasn't a mistake that the same thing got listed twice:http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/05/08/so-what-s-the-difference-exactly.aspx What contributes to information overload- May 7, 2008 Following on to my short rant yesterday, I wanted to share some information from a survey we did about a year ago. We surveyed 1400 people1 about their email management habits, how overloaded they felt, if they used conversation views, folders, filtersrules, sorting, etc as well as asking them to self-report on how much mail they receivesendhave filtered by rulesetc per day. We tried very hard to find some something different in the behaviors of the people who felt overloaded vs those who...http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/05/07/what-contributes-to-information-overl... It's information overload, not email overload- May 6, 2008 I am so tired of reading blog posts that point the finger at email and imply that the problem is that we have too much email and that the solution are other technology streams, 1:many communication, etc. Guess what folks, email has 1:many too, call them groups or mailing lists or distribution lists or whatever you want, but they are a contributor to the information overload, not a solution. What we have is a human problem, not anything inherent to email. The lower the barrier to entry for a..http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/05/06/it-s-information-overload-not-email-o... Son following in geek mom & dad's footsteps- May 2, 2008 That's right - Luke Skywalker. Or, as Jared describes it, "LUCK SKY WOKR". Not too freakin' bad for a four year old! &160; "An S the best I can try, R2D2, C3P0, TK-41, and Battle Droid" &160; "Lord Vader" (yes, he calls him Lord Vader. It drives me nuts. "Darth" would do, boy.)http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/05/01/son-following-in-geek-mom-dad-s-foots... Video y taco1- May 1, 2008 I helped put together a video for Interact that gives a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the Exchange team. Please don't be scared off by the high production videos and think we're corporate shills - it's just because we got the marketing team to pay for it (score!). Near the end of the video they have a few shots of various people including myself laughing. I've always wondered what they tell people to make them laugh on camera. So I went in for my interview and at the end, they said "OK we.http://blogs.technet.com/kclemson/archive/2008/04/30/video-y-taco-1.aspx |