Category: Email
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User interfaces are no way to assess Google vs Office 365
I’m always interested when companies put their technologists forward as the public face of the company’s expertise in different areas. The idea is that the technologist will wow the readership with deep insights into technology that causes the readers to instantly make contact with the company to request their services/product/help/whatever’s…
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Talking Exchange 2013 on RunAs Radio
Last week I chatted with Richard Campbell, the genial host of RunAs Radio, about the release of Exchange 2013 SP1, why companies wait for the first service pack to appear before they consider deploying a Microsoft server application, the best features of SP1, how technology developed to help Microsoft succeed…
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Tony Redmond’s Guide to MEC 2014 sessions
Happy St. Patrick’s Day… Some of you have been kind enough to ask what sessions I will be attending at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC). I assume this is because you don’t want to bump into me, which is totally understandable. With up to nine sessions to select for an…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2014
The big news in February 2014 was the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (build 847.32), the much-awaited version long deemed as “the” software worthy for deployment in many corporate environments. SP1 includes many new features and enhancements that are worthy of debate and I’ll be covering…
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On-premises Exchange and OWA for Devices
Everyone got all excited yesterday with the announcement that Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was available for download together with updates for Exchange 2010 SP3 and Exchange 2007 SP3 to allow those versions to play nicely with (but not be installed on) Windows 2012 R2 DCs and GCs. Microsoft…
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Outlook Web App 2013 and mail public folders
Following up the post about migrating public folders to the modern version introduced in Exchange 2013, an entry in a TechNet forum asked whether Outlook Web App (OWA) supported shared calendars held in public folders. This came as a kind of throwback to me as it’s a long time since…
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Adapting Exchange on-premises scripts for Exchange Online
Since the introduction of PowerShell in the form of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) in Exchange 2007, many scripts have been written to ease the burden of Exchange administration by automating common operations. Microsoft has broadened the scope and depth of EMS in every release by enabling management of more…
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Do LinkedIn smartphone apps harvest contact data from Gmail?
Is anyone else irritated by the way LinkedIn appears to harvest email addresses in an attempt to persuade you to transform correspondents into LinkedIn contacts? I’ve often wondered where LinkedIn got its information about people that I might like to contact but things came to a head yesterday when it…
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Mailbox quarantining in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013
This is another article that was never published by WindowsITPro.com (possibly because I contribute so many posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on the site), so I make it available here with the caveat that this text has not been tech-edited or checked over in the same way that an…
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