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  • 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…

  • 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 – 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…

  • Microsoft Cloud Roadshows use “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”

    I’m pleased to let you know that Microsoft has selected the “Office 365 for Professionals (2nd edition)” eBook for distribution to select attendees who attend the Exchange sessions at the Microsoft Cloud Roadshows that begun in Dallas on November 2 and will terminate in Hong Kong on March 10-11. Microsoft…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest October 2015

    October 2015 started with the launch of Exchange 2016, included a fight about a report issued by a security company to show how user credentials might be exposed by OWA and ended at yet another conference in Las Vegas. Lots of things to discuss… Here’s what happened during the month…

  • Exchange’s underappreciated single-page patching capability

    I really like single page patching, the facility first introduced in Exchange 2010 to enable a database to detect that a database page is corrupt and to retrieve replacement data from another database copy. It’s one of those elegant pieces of functionality that have been introduced as Microsoft improves levels of automated…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – September 2015

    September 2015 included a visit to Las Vegas for IT/DEV Connections, a conference that I value greatly because of the quality of the speakers, the content, and the audience. One of the things that happened this year is that the agenda emphasized the holistic nature of Office 365. By this I…

  • Launching “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” (2nd edition)

    Yesterday, we seized the opportunity of having the three authors and our esteemed technical editor together for the IT/DEV Connections conference in Las Vegas to launch the second edition of “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”. Binary Tree kindly sponsored a reception and once the 50 or so folks who came…