Category Archives: Cloud

Exchange Unwashed Digest – June 2015

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Sorry for the delay in publishing the June 2015 digest for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Travel and the need to crank up the organization of updates for the 2nd edition of the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook … Continue reading →

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The scourge of autosignatures

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Have you ever wondered just how much valuable storage is occupied in email databases by totally useless autosignature content? You know, logos and other tasteful adornments to the bottom of email, repeated ad nausem on every message, internal and external, … Continue reading →

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Managing offline access for Outlook Web App

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Offline access is one of the premier new features offered by Outlook Web App (OWA) in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online. I have had the need to use OWA offline many times and think it is a very usable client, … Continue reading →

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Announcing a Kindle version of “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Tony Redmond

After a certain amount of struggle, mostly associated with the need to provide book files formatted in a certain manner, the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” team is happy to announce that we now have a Kindle version of the … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – May 2015

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

May was the month of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago. I’ve already provided my impressions of that event in another post, so I won’t rehash the topic here. There’s no doubt a lot of content was delivered at Ignite … Continue reading →

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Using PowerShell to convert Exchange Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Tony Redmond

At last week’s Microsoft Ignite conference, I had the chance of attending a session called “Evolving distribution lists with Office 365 Groups” (a recording of the session is available online). The session described the integration with Outlook 2016 (no plans … Continue reading →

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Ignite 2015 wrap-up: Very much a V1.0 product

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Tony Redmond

I’m just back from the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago. With over 23,000 people attending, it was a huge event and the central concourse reminded me of a very busy railway station from time to time. Microsoft has announced that … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – April 2015

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

April was a very busy month. First, Microsoft had a lot of conferences to attend and therefore had many announcements to make. It seemed like every marketing manager had something to say, so we had a blizzard of announcements that … Continue reading →

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Preparing to launch “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Tony Redmond

As you might know, we closed off the formal writing phase for “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” on April 15 to be sure that we would have books available for the first day of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago … Continue reading →

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The cloud means the demise of the traditional file server

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Tony Redmond

One of the most obvious aspects of the adoption of cloud technology over the last few years is the growing amount of storage available at little or no cost to end users. A good example is the way that Office … Continue reading →

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