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Category: Office 365

  • Exchange Unwashed Blog Digest September 2013

    September was quite an active month because some bad things happened (like the Microsoft Learning decision to cancel some accreditation programs) and preparations were in full swing for the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas (from where I write this post). On the other hand, some interesting technical points came…

  • Hello from 38,000 feet

    Welcome to a blog post facilitated by Aer Lingus Wi-Fi at 38,000 feet en route from Dublin to Boston, a service provided by T-Mobile. Apparently the connections didn’t work at all two weeks ago so it’s good to have progress. It’s also nice that Aer Lingus has joined the modern…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest: August 2013

    August proved to be quite an entertaining month in terms of the topics that were available to be covered in Exchange Unwashed. Here’s my take on the posts: The sad, curious, and brain-dead demise of TechNet subscriptions (August 1): While they are replacing CEOs and buying mobile phone companies with…

  • Exchange Unwashed digest for July 2013

    July – hot summer (or so it should be) – and vacations. But the need to publish posts on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com continues, so here’s what appeared in July. Interesting approach to public folder support in Outlook Web App 2013 (July 2): The month began with some…

  • Microsoft cloud revenues and investments

    Two recent reports attracted my attention. First, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer noted that Microsoft runs more than one million servers in its datacenters. Second, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said that Office 365 revenues are now running at $1.5 billion annually. Both figures are impressive but as always,…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest May 2013

    May 2013 produced some thoughts about site mailboxes, CU1 improvements, planning tools, and even a Windows Phone application in the Exchange Unwashed Blog. Here’s what happened in detail. Using an Office 365 free trial domain to test software (May 30): Sometimes it is just difficult to get all the parts…

  • Exchange Unwashed digest: April 2013

    April 2013 saw the appearance of Exchange 2013 CU1 to release the restrictions that had previously stopped anyone running a “legacy” version of Exchange from installing Exchange 2013 into an existing organization. More stuff happened during April too, and some was even discussed in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog, as explained…

  • Exchange Unwashed blog digest March 2013

    I have been remiss in updating this site with information about posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. All I can say is that WindowsITPro.com has been through the trauma of a content management system (CMS) upgrade. Like all technology migrations, people (like me) have been affected by user…

  • Upgrading Office 365 to Wave 15: My support experience to date

    One of the great promises held out by cloud-based services is that you do not have to worry about software upgrades and other common maintenance operations as the service operators will take care of these mundane operations. In the eyes of the marketing staff, all you have to do is…

  • Some side-effects of the Exchange 2013 cumulative update strategy

    Now that we have had a chance to digest the ramifications of the new cumulative update strategy for Exchange 2013 as laid out by Microsoft, it’s a good time to speculate how things will work in a practical sense. Three points deserve some debate. The first is the cadence for…