Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ross Edward Smith, Iv

Gregory Irving Thiel

Yogesh Bansal

Peter Byrne

Rikinkumar Ashwin Shah

Shuab Khan

Elias Kaplan

Marie Charlotte-Amalie Mélanie Clemessy

Leonard Ndubisi Osahor

Julien André Michel Yerma

Allie Jordan Shuldman

When composing an electronic message having at least one intended recipient, a contact manager provides contact information for one or more related recipients. The contact manager may receive an identifier associated with the intended recipient(s), which may be used to lookup and identify contact information for related recipient(s). The contact manager may access a contact database, and, using the identifier and relationship information, determine a contact for the related recipient. The contact manager may then populate the contact information for the contact in a recipient field or other compose surface.

Populating contact information within an electronic message based on contact relationship information

Techniques to leverage replication to provide rolling point in time backup are described. Some embodiments are directed to techniques to provide rolling point in time backup with simplified restoration through distributed transactional re-creation. In one embodiment, for example, a technique may comprise creating a plurality of availability copies of a primary set of data; designating at least one of the plurality of availability copies as a backup copy; creating a log file that indicates changes to the primary set of data; updating the plurality of availability copies from the log file in near real time, without updating the backup copy; and restoring at least one of: the primary set of data and an availability copy using the backup copy and content resubmitted from a content contributor when an error occurs in at least one of: the primary set of data and an availability copy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for leveraging replication to provide rolling point in time backup with simplified restoration through distributed transactional re-creation

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Ross Edward Smith, Iv