Author: Tony Redmond
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Office 365 Advanced Security Management
This text is an extract from Chapter 19 of the eBook “Office 365 for IT Pros”. We’re commonly asked at what level the content of the book is pitched and how up to date it is. Well, this topic was announced by Microsoft on June 1 and you can judge…
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Introducing Office 365 for IT Pros – third edition – now available
The writing team is delighted to announce the immediate availability of our new eBook “Office 365 for IT Pros – Third Edition” at ExchangeServerPro.com. The PDF (for PCs) and EPUB for many eReaders, including the iPad, are available now and the Amazon Kindle version is available for pre-order, with a…
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Office 365 Exposed Podcast #3
As the gentle readers of my blog might remember, the esteemed Paul Robichaux and I often tape a podcast when we’re together. Unlike other podcasts about Exchange and/or Office 365, we try to take a strategic look rather than diving down into the weeds. Although we’re not always successful, we…
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Delve finds private Office 365 Groups and other ramblings
As the weekend draws thankfully nearer, some thoughts about recent developments that have come into my idle mind that need to be shared with the world. First, a question arose about the way that Microsoft’s Outlook for iOS and Android clients still store user data on Amazon Web Services. People…
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Chasing down mailbox delegate access in Exchange Online
A recent question from a reader focuses on the need to determine the last logon time for Exchange users. The organization is in the middle of moving to Exchange Online and some management reporting scripts that are used do not deliver the same results when run against Exchange Online mailboxes.…
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Public folders to Office 365 Groups – Yes Please!
The last couple of weeks have brought forward news of two solutions to migrate public folders (aka “the cockroaches of Exchange”) to Office 365 Groups (aka “Microsoft’s new answer to collaboration in the cloud”). The two solutions differ in concept and implementation, but both are valuable in what they do.…
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Microsoft posts Q1 2016 SLA performance for Office 365. Unsurprisingly, it was good.
Microsoft recently posted the Q1 2016 performance against SLA for Office 365 and reported a 99.98% outcome, which is the same number that they posted for the two previous quarters. Overall, things have been pretty consistent in terms of Office 365 service recently. That’s not to say that Office 365…
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The curious drop in mail items reported by Get-MailboxStatistics
Office 365 provides users with 50 GB mailbox quotas, so you’d expect that these mailboxes accumulate tens of thousands of items over time, especially as the default retention policy applied by Exchange Online does not clean out Deleted Items folders from user mailboxes (unless you change the policy). Users are…
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Virtual academies, odd questions, and MCSE recertification
The nice people at Microsoft Learning, previously famous for their decision to cancel the well-respected (but probably in need of reform) Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program, have scored another triumph with the MCSE recertification program. The recertification program allows MCSEs to watch a number of Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) modules…
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New law might make Delve Analytics popular in France
The news that France plans to ban work email out of hours creates a natural question whether other countries will invoke similar measures to help protect employees from the always-on environment that increasing access to capable mobile devices and ubiquitous network connectivity has created. The answer is probably “No”, on…
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