Category: Cloud
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Office 365 support case resolved – thankfully!
On April 29, I reported the poor support experience I had received as a result of the upgrade of my Office 365 tenant domain from the Wave 14 release to Wave 15. Essentially, a support call reported on April 8 had produced zero progress, despite many messages to and fro…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest February 2013
February was quite an interesting month, if you like tracking various bugs and arguing whether Exchange 2013 is fit for deployment. Here’s what happened in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com during the month: Exchange 2010 Datacenter switchover tool (February 26): It’s often difficult to decide on the best possible…
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Google and Microsoft spat over ActiveSync: Hardly a war, more like a skirmish
January 30 Update: Just on the deadline, it seems like Google has acceded to a request from Microsoft to extend its support for ActiveSync connections to Gmail until July 31, 2013. The step simply makes sense as it reduces the number of users who would otherwise be mad at Google. …
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Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012
October 2012 was quite a busy month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsItPro.com with 11 articles appearing. Here’s the regular monthly digest: Exchange 2013 reduces number of mounted databases to 50 (October 30). I wonder how many companies run an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) with more than…
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Exchange 2013, Facebook, malfunctioning ActiveSync clients, modern public folders and more at TEC Barcelona
The European edition of The Experts Conference (TEC) rolled around in Barcelona this week. As a location, the conference center was fine, if just a tad remote from the delights of Barcelona’s city center. The conference center is co-located with the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos 1 that’s used by FC Barcelona to…
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Exchange Unwashed September 2012 Digest
September 2012 was the month of MEC and many articles appeared to cover the happenings at the conference. I tried, but failed, to stay away from too many mentions of MEC in the “Exchange Unwashed” blog because there were many other topics to discuss, at least early on in the…
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Searching, iFilters, and attachments
Ireland in October is definitely different to Florida in September. Although I didn’t see much of the outside weather during last week’s MEC in Orlando, heat and humidity has been replaced with Dublin’s ongoing mixture of rain and wind. Some say that the weather doesn’t really matter as long as…
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Exchange community, UC architects, and engineers with a fashion sense
Back in Ireland after a week away in Orlando to take in MEC, the “forgotten conference”, I’ve had time to digest some of what happened in Florida and reflect on some topics that I didn’t get to cover in previous posts from MEC. It was great to be at an…
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HP: Once more into the smartphone breach?
Meg Whitman’s interview with Fox Business News where the CEO of HP revealed “My view is we have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world, that is your first computing device” is a little surprising (at least, to me). Not so much that HP would…
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The consequences of Microsoft’s new cloud-centric security product strategy
If you haven’t read the news about Microsoft’s new direction for its on-premises security products, you might not be aware that offerings such as Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE) and Threat Management Gateway (TMG) will not be carried forward into the future. FPE is being replaced by its cloud-based anti-malware…
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