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Philips: Connect Mail performance ()

Dear Colleague,

Connect Mail users have been facing major e-mail performance issues in the last few days. Philips IT is fully aware of the impact this might be having as mail is a critical business application. Our service provider, HP, has set up a special crisis team which is working around the clock together with Microsoft to solve this as soon as possible. Please try and use webmail if you experience issues with the Outlook Client. This has proven to be an alternative to many users.

For more information and the latest news, please see the special Connect Mail status page.

Philips IT Communication

Philips migrated their mail environment to a hosted Exchange environment recently because..... because...., well someone must have thought it was a good idea ;)
Anyway, as we all know every change is not an improvement, all improvement is a change and that is exactly the problem with their current environment. It has a lot of the 'old' flaws (bad performance due to network problems) and introduced a whole set of new ones.
The biggest problem will be to find a scapegoat since pointing fingers to IBM/Lotus will not cut it this time.

And no I am not affiliated with Philips in any way, just an interested observer.