Category: Cloud
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Fast track Office 365 migrations by Microsoft pose some challenges for partners
Microsoft’s announcement that they intended to accelerate the on-boarding (migration) of customer seats to Office 365 through the “FastTrack” program surprised some attending the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month. Apparently the idea is that Microsoft will hire (or has already hired) between 250 and 600 new employees to take…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – July 2014
Another month has gone by and it was a busy one for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. I published thirteen posts covering everything from the thorny question of just how many paid subscribers Microsoft has for Office 365 to some lingering system registry entries for long-departed Exchange 2013 servers. Here’s…
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Why it is easier for Microsoft to innovate inside Office 365
My last post discussed the fact that an increasing level of integration to create new features by the Office server products creates some issues for hosting companies (other than Office 365) and on-premises customers. At least in the case of Exchange, Microsoft uses the same code base for its cloud…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – June 2014
June 2014 was an interesting month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com as the material covered was pretty diverse as we went from platforms like Azure to storage firmware and all points in between. See what you think! Why running Exchange on Azure is an unattractive proposition (June 26): Quite…
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Increasing Office 365 integration poses challenges for hosters and on-premises customers
It seems to me that a fundamental transformation is occurring within the Office 365 datacenters that has some consequences for those who offer alternate hosted services as well as on-premises customers. And it’s all to do with the level of integration that Microsoft is now building into their Office servers.…
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My top 10 Office 365 Roadmap features
As I discussed in an “Exchange Unwashed” post about Office 365 change management, Microsoft has adopted new methods to keep customers informed about new developments in the rapidly-changing world of Office 365. This is a necessary step not only because the cadence of change is much faster in cloud systems…
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Cloud services mean a very different support experience
My recent experience of working through a problem with Office 365 support confirmed once again just how fundamental the paradigm shift is for IT professionals tasked with resolving problems after workload moves to the cloud. Overall, the support experience was good. The problem was solved. The people I dealt with…
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GAMME – an unfortunate name for Google’s new migration utility
I know (because I have visited the Dublin Googleplex several times) that Google employs several thousand people in Ireland. Couldn’t one of them have looked at the acronym for their new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GAMME) service and raised a red flag that perhaps a second meaning can…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – May 2014
May 2014 brought a TechEd North America event and produced some interesting news from that conference. But there was lots of other stuff to discuss during the month. Here’s what I published on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com. Learning about DLP in SharePoint Online – a most unusual activity for…
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The odd case of Chrome and the disappearing Office 365 mailboxes
As some of you know, I use Office 365 for my production email service. I also use SharePoint and Lync, but email is often the reason why people move to a paid-for cloud service. You might be surprised that I use Office 365 as clearly I have a long history…
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