Category Archives: Office 365

Microsoft increases prices for Office products – time to chat with your sales rep

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft customers probably didn’t enjoy reading about the new prices for Office 2013 products that are reportedly on the way from December 1. The date is important because that’s when the Office 2013 versions of applications like Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Tony Redmond

October 2012 was quite a busy month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsItPro.com with 11 articles appearing. Here’s the regular monthly digest: Exchange 2013 reduces number of mounted databases to 50 (October 30). I wonder how many companies run … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013, Facebook, malfunctioning ActiveSync clients, modern public folders and more at TEC Barcelona

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Tony Redmond

The European edition of The Experts Conference (TEC) rolled around in Barcelona this week. As a location, the conference center was fine, if just a tad remote from the delights of Barcelona’s city center.  The conference center is co-located with … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed September 2012 Digest

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Tony Redmond

September 2012 was the month of MEC and many articles appeared to cover the happenings at the conference. I tried, but failed, to stay away from too many mentions of MEC in the “Exchange Unwashed” blog because there were many … Continue reading →

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Searching, iFilters, and attachments

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Ireland in October is definitely different to Florida in September. Although I didn’t see much of the outside weather during last week’s MEC in Orlando, heat and humidity has been replaced with Dublin’s ongoing mixture of rain and wind. Some … Continue reading →

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MEC 2012 Wrap-up

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Day 3 of MEC delivered another set of sessions containing lots of interesting information about different Exchange topics, the most interesting of which was named “Ask an Exchange Dev (because program managers and marketing lie)”. This session was announced late … Continue reading →

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MEC launches with insults, edgy humour, but lots of good technical content too

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Tony Redmond

MEC swung into action on Monday with two keynotes followed by a set of technical sessions covering different aspects of Exchange 2013. Overall, it was a highly productive day where a lot of interesting content was shared. It all started … Continue reading →

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Some color problems as MEC swings into action

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Tony Redmond

The first full day of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) swings into play this morning with the normal menu of an opening non-technical keynote followed by a technical keynote. The difference of course is that the first is for marketing … Continue reading →

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The consequences of Microsoft’s new cloud-centric security product strategy

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Tony Redmond

If you haven’t read the news about Microsoft’s new direction for its on-premises security products, you might not be aware that offerings such as Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE) and Threat Management Gateway (TMG) will not be carried forward into … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2013, swelling OSTs, and retention policies

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Speaking about OST sizes and the change made in Outlook 2013 to drive down the amount of data cached by users, another thought came into my mind (I know, a very unusual occurrence). Just how big can an OST grow … Continue reading →

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