The federal Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (DITR) has detailed plans to implement at least three new customer relationship management (CRM) systems based on Microsoft software.
The Queensland state government has kicked off one of Australia's largest email and identity management projects, in a move that will see up to 80,000 email accounts consolidated into one overarching Microsoft Exchange 2007 system by mid-2010.
Tasmania's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has flagged plans to rollout a comprehensive identity and access management solution to its 12,000 staff next year.
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One of Outlook's most useful features is the capability of providing you with free/busy information for everyone in your organisation. It appears to the user to be something that "just works.", however it's more complicated than that. Thankfully, Microsoft has improved free/busy handling in Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007 with the new Availability Service.
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