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Category: Office 365

  • 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…

  • G-Mailman video from Microsoft

    In my post about the positioning and marketing wars between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps, I discussed the fact that the battle between Microsoft and Google is likely to be a tad dirty at times. I therefore wasn’t surprised in the least to see Mary Jo Foley blog about…

  • 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…

  • Avoiding outdated addresses during a migration to the cloud

    One of my current projects is to help a large multinational move from Exchange 2007 to a dedicated instance of Microsoft BPOS running Exchange 2010. BPOS is having some woes of its own with yet another outage causing disruption to customers around the world. Let’s hope that Office 365 provides…

  • Microsoft embarrassed by Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4

    On July 13, Microsoft took the decision to withdraw Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 (the fourth roll-up update for SP1). As you’re aware, a roll-up update (RU) is a regular release of the patches and other fixes that Microsoft has accumulated for a version of Exchange. RU4 was released on June 22, 2011…

  • On PST ingestion: Microsoft brings a new tool to the table but…

    Today’s announcement that the Microsoft Exchange development group plans to release a tool to allow administrators to discover Personal Storage (PST) files on a network and then import the data into Exchange 2010 on-premises servers or Exchange Online (Office 365) left a couple of unanswered questions floating. Don’t get me…

  • European Office 365 datacenters exposed to U.S. authorities?

    After the razzmatazz of the corporate Office 365 launch in NYC faded, local Microsoft subsidiaries around the world did their own thing to brief journalists and introduce details of local offerings, such as link-ups with telcos to deliver Office 365 packaged with voice and other services. I doubt that any Microsoft…

  • Ballmer launches Office 365

    For the fun of it and because I had some spare time, I tuned into the Microsoft launch of Office 365 in NYC via the web. The content was pretty much as you’d expect from a Microsoft event: Marketing person welcomes everyone Steve Ballmer comes on and makes some introductory…

  • Interesting price differences for Office 365 accounts

    Due to be formally launched in NYC on Tuesday, June 28, there’s no doubt that Microsoft has had enormous success with its Office 365 beta program. Depending on whom you talk to, tens of millions of people signed up to use Office 365 to have the opportunity of trying out…

  • “The Register” runs ESEUTIL to rescue an Exchange 2003 server

    It’s nice to see that “The Register” continues to support Exchange 2003 administrators with advice such as that offered in the article “Help my Exchange server just rebooted” posted on June 18, 2011.I’m assuming that the article was about Exchange 2003 because the screen shot displayed system files dated from…