Category Archives: Office 365

Public folders to Office 365 Groups – Yes Please!

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Tony Redmond

The last couple of weeks have brought forward news of two solutions to migrate public folders (aka “the cockroaches of Exchange”) to Office 365 Groups (aka “Microsoft’s new answer to collaboration in the cloud”). The two solutions differ in concept … Continue reading →

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News about the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Tony Redmond

Folks, A quick post to let you know that we have issued an update for the second edition of the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook. The updates are now available to those who purchased the PDF/EPUB versions through ExchangeServerPro.com … Continue reading →

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Microsoft posts Q1 2016 SLA performance for Office 365. Unsurprisingly, it was good.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft recently posted the Q1 2016 performance against SLA for Office 365 and reported a 99.98% outcome, which is the same number that they posted for the two previous quarters. Overall, things have been pretty consistent in terms of Office … Continue reading →

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The curious drop in mail items reported by Get-MailboxStatistics

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Tony Redmond

Office 365 provides users with 50 GB mailbox quotas, so you’d expect that these mailboxes accumulate tens of thousands of items over time, especially as the default retention policy applied by Exchange Online does not clean out Deleted Items folders … Continue reading →

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Virtual academies, odd questions, and MCSE recertification

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Tony Redmond

The nice people at Microsoft Learning, previously famous for their decision to cancel the well-respected (but probably in need of reform) Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program, have scored another triumph with the MCSE recertification program. The recertification program allows MCSEs … Continue reading →

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New law might make Delve Analytics popular in France

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Tony Redmond

The news that France plans to ban work email out of hours creates a natural question whether other countries will invoke similar measures to help protect employees from the always-on environment that increasing access to capable mobile devices and ubiquitous … Continue reading →

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The end of Exchange Unwashed

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Tony Redmond

As many of you know, I have written the Exchange Unwashed blog for WindowsITPro.com for about five years. Recently, as a result of a disagreement with Penton Media over the direction that the site is taking, I decided to cease … Continue reading →

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The automatic cleanup of old Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Tony Redmond

In 2012, I wrote about ActiveSync device partnerships some time ago to describe how partnerships are created and how they accumulate over time, which leads to the need to clean up partnerships belonging to old and obsolete devices, such as … Continue reading →

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Third edition now in review

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Tony Redmond

The third edition of “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” has entered an important phase where we have released the text of the book to fellow MVPs and to Microsoft subject matter experts for their review and comment. A good bunch … Continue reading →

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Comments from March 2016 Survey: Office 365 for Exchange Professionals

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Tony Redmond

We received over 1,000 responses to our survey about the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook and while we are still working through the details, I thought it would be interesting to post the comments that we received here so … Continue reading →

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