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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…

  • 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…

  • The automatic cleanup of old Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships

    The automatic cleanup of old Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships

    In 2012, I wrote about ActiveSync device partnerships some time ago to describe how partnerships are created and how they accumulate over time, which leads to the need to clean up partnerships belonging to old and obsolete devices, such as that HP iPAQ hw6515 that has long since been disconnected…

  • Third edition now in review

    The third edition of “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” has entered an important phase where we have released the text of the book to fellow MVPs and to Microsoft subject matter experts for their review and comment. A good bunch of MVPs who specialize in Exchange, Office 365,  SharePoint, and…

  • Comments from March 2016 Survey: Office 365 for Exchange Professionals

    We received over 1,000 responses to our survey about the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook and while we are still working through the details, I thought it would be interesting to post the comments that we received here so that people could see what came  in and post further…

  • Episode #2 of Office 365 Exposed Podcast

    As some of you know, Paul Robichaux and I get together to record an occasional podcast. Originally the podcast was called “Exchange Exposed” but our material has evolved to cover more of Office 365, so it’s now called “Office 365 Exposed”. In any case, last week we were together in…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2016

    February is the shortest month of the year so fewer posts usually appear. Here’s what happened last month in the Exchange Unwashed Blog on WindowsITPro.com. Dynamic Office 365 Groups might come with a big cost (Feb 25): I was very happy when Microsoft announced the preview of dynamic Office 365…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2016

    The New Year brought the normal mix of events that needed to be covered in my Exchange Unwashed Blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month. Microsoft fails to communicate over Exchange Online IMAP4 outage (Jan 28): I wonder has any Microsoft executive ever read the text used to…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2015

    Another month (and year) has gone by but the posts keep on flowing in my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during December 2015. My two favorites are the posts that describe the Office 365 Group Connectors and asking the question whether Azure Active Directory is becoming the Achilles…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2015

    Here is a digest of the posts that appeared on my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com during November 2015. The Thanksgiving holidays distracted some in the U.S., but we kept on trucking along… Building efficient keyword queries for eDiscovery searches in Exchange and SharePoint (Nov 26): These days it’s somewhat strange…