Now available: Office 365 for IT Pros 2023 Edition (for Kindle)
Office 365 for IT Pros 2023 edition (EPUB/PDF edition)
-
Recent ramblings
- Safari on the Lower Zambezi
- Electric Storm Knocks Out e-Tron Charger
- Walking the Gettysburg Battlefield
- Driving to the South of France with an Audi e-tron
- Visiting Skellig Michael
- The BitCoin Sex Trap Email Extortion Scam
- Update Log for Office 365 for IT Pros (2019 Edition)
- Office 365 for IT Pros (2019 Edition) is Now Available
Top Posts
- Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date
- Visiting Omaha Beach (WN62 and the American Military Cemetery)
- Varying replication mode within a DAG
- Creating a new address list for Exchange Online (Office 365)
- The automatic cleanup of old Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships
- Why Exchange 2013 doesn't need the Microsoft Office Filter Pack
- The dirty little secret about migration to modern public folders
- Electric Storm Knocks Out e-Tron Charger
- Connecting to Exchange 2010 with PowerShell
- Managing Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships (in a world where we all use too many devices)
Category Archives: Email
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Email, Exchange, Exchange 2013
Tagged Android, Exchange 2013 SP1, Exchange Online, Office 365, Outlook Web App, OWA for Devices, Push notifications
4 Comments
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Office 365, Outlook
Tagged Enable-MailPublicFolder, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange Online, Get-PublicFolder, Legacy public folders, mail public folders, Migration, Modern public folders, New-PublicFolder, Outlook Web App, OWA, Set-PublicFolder, Shared calendar
5 Comments
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013
Tagged Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Mailbox quarantine, MFCMAPI, SCOM
10 Comments
Email’s about to die? I think not
Ho hum: the recent Wired.com article “The Next Big Thing You Missed: Email’s About to Die, Argues Facebook Co-Founder” seemed to be one big advertisement for Asana, a startup based in San Francisco. Asana, led by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, … Continue reading
Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2013
Statistics show that 118 new posts appeared on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com during 2013. I was responsible for the good posts and am unsure as to the author of anything that was rubbish. Here’s what happened during December … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Cloud, Email, Exchange, Exchange 2013, Office 365, Outlook 2013, Technology
Tagged ActiveSync, ADSIEdit, Amazon Web Services, Apple, AWS, Azure, Exchange 2013 CU2, Exchange 2013 CU3, iPhone, Managed Availability, Office 365, Outlook 2013, Outlook Web App, OWA, Perry Clarke, PowerShell, UAG, Unified Access Gateway, Windows XP
2 Comments
The elimination of web bugs (well, for Gmail anyway)
I read Google’s post of December 12 announcing that Gmail would now display graphics in messages automatically with some interest. It seems like a very good idea to me to address the “web beacon” or “web bug” problem that has … Continue reading
Did Exchange ActiveSync help Apple to beat RIM?
Now that the dust has settled down after the publication of my recent interview with Perry Clarke, Microsoft VP for Exchange development, it’s a good time to reflect on some of the statements made by Perry and the reaction that … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange, Technology
Tagged ActiveSync, Apple, BES, BlackBerry, EAS, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange Online, iOS, iPhone, Microsoft, Office 365, Research in Motion, RIM
Leave a comment
Motorola Mobility continues its losing streak in synchronization war with Microsoft
I spent a good part of 2012 helping Microsoft to defend a law suit in the UK High Court against Motorola Mobility. You’ll recall that Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2011 with the intention of exploiting the … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange, Technology
Tagged ActiveSync, EAS, Google, Law, Motorola Mobility, Patent law
Leave a comment
Thoughtsofanidlemind's Blog 