Category Archives: Office 365

Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2014

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The normal flow of new features, updates, and bugs flowed across the “Exchange Unwashed” desk during November. Some of the bugs were puzzling, others were infuriating, but everything was interesting – at least to me. A clash between S/MIME and … Continue reading →

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Creating a new address list for Exchange Online (Office 365)

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Tony Redmond

A question was posed in the Exchange IT Pro group of Microsoft’s Office 365 Network: “Is there any way I can add folders to directory on Outlook for example add a folder “staff” for users to click it and all … Continue reading →

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Good and bad in the new Outlook for Mac

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Being an Office for Mac 2011 user is sometimes hard. Really hard. And not just because Office for Mac 2011 is so far behind its Windows counterpart in terms of functionality, it’s also because its applications like Outlook for Mac … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – October 2014

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Tony Redmond

October 2014 was an interesting month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. I had the chance to write about some new technology (Delve), old technology (Exchange 2003 mega-clusters), bad technology (Chrome bugs), and current technology (various posts). All in all, … Continue reading →

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How to report spam that arrives in Office 365 to Microsoft

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Ten years ago, Bill Gates told the World Economic Forum that the problem of spam would be solved within two years (by 2006). To be fair to Gates, he also noted that his predictions have not always been on the … Continue reading →

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The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft introduced the rather useful cmdlet set of Set-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration and Get-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration a long time ago (Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4 – August 2012). As you might recall, these cmdlets allow an administrator to exert control over where Exchange stores copies of messages sent by delegates. What’s … Continue reading →

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Reporting delegate access to Exchange mailboxes

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Tony Redmond

All current versions of Exchange 2013 (up to and including CU6) and Exchange Online (Office 365) contain a bug that can compromise the ability of companies to comply with discovery orders. The bug means that a user can remove items … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – August 2014

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I spent a lot of August in France but that didn’t stop the constant demand for new content to appear in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what was published during the month. Exchange 2013 CU6 hybrid and co-existence … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Inbox Clutter – with or without vacations

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The news that Daimler has decided to implement software that deletes email received by users when they are on vacation might make other companies believe that such a course is a very good thing. After all, you’re not supposed to … Continue reading →

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The need for a cloud Plan B

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Tony Redmond

For most important decisions that you take in life it’s wise to have a Plan B. Something that you can do to reverse course should the unexpected occur and you need to revert to a previous position. And so it … Continue reading →

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