Category: Exchange
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Support – a different cultural experience when you move into the cloud
One of the great joys of moving an application such as Exchange to a cloud provider is that they take on the responsibility of all of the mundane but necessary tasks that have to be performed to keep things going. No administrator will shed a tear to transition tasks such…
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BPOS and Office 365 cloud outages – not quite nirvana yet
Last night (my time) TweetDeck exploded with a mass of customer complaints, observations, witticisms, and moaning about the problems that afflicted the Exchange Online component of Office 365. On this occasion I wasn’t affected because the network problem that Microsoft reported as the root cause only caused problems for their…
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Another looming fiasco because IE9 doesn’t work with MMC
Just posted this blog to express some frustration on behalf of the Exchange technical community that Microsoft hasn’t been able to fix the problem that IE9 introduces for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Essentially, once IE9 is on a server or workstation that runs the Exchange Management Console (EMC), you end…
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Office 365 sessions at Fall Exchange Connections
One of the factors that drives the selection of sessions for a conference is the kind of information that the conference organizers want to offer to attendees. In the case of Exchange Connections, that information is linked to Exchange Server. And right now, the biggest influence on Exchange Server is…
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Preparation continues for (last) Exchange 2010 Maestro event in October
Just posted on WindowsITPro.com, some idle thoughts about the Exchange 2010 Maestro training event that Paul Robichaux, Brian Desmond, and I will be running in Greenwich, CT on October 26-28. This will probably be the last such event – see the post for the reasons why! – Tony
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Microsoft tells BPOS customers to wait until they can be migrated to Office 365
I just made this blog post on WindowsITPro.com. It reflects on some issues raised by Microsoft’s August 7 post on TechNet that explains that basic steps required to migrate an organization manually from BPOS to Office 365. If you are skilled with Exchange Server migrations and PowerShell scripts and can…
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Microsoft’s Messaging Records Management strategy still evolving
New blog post on WindowsITPro.com. Basically sine comments about the evolution of MRM since Exchange 2007 and how the strategy changed in Exchange 2010 (with MRM 2.0) and Exchange 2010 SP1 (changes to the UI and how the Managed Folder Assistant works). Plus a reference to an EHLO post today…
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Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Office Filter Pack 2010
New blog entry posted on WindowsITPro.com – ramblings about the update that Microsoft has released for the Office Filter Pack 2010 and its importance to Exchange 2010 as a whole. The IFilters in the pack can obviously be used with other products… find out what the situation is by clicking…
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A move to WindowsITPro.com
I’ve been associated with Windows IT Pro Magazine for many years – certainly as far back as 1997 and perhaps beforehand. My memory isn’t too good at this point and many articles have flowed under the bridge since. In any case, Penton Technology is the current owner of the magazine…
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An interesting ZDNet comparison between Google Apps and Office 365
The guest commentary by Louis Naugès posted on ZDNet (July 25, 2011) that compares Google Apps and Office 365 poses some interesting questions that deserve attention. Louis is the co-founder and chief cloud evangelist of international Google Apps integrator Revevol and is an admitted Google partisan. Although some of his points are debatable or just…
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