Category: Office 365
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Public folders to Office 365 Groups – Yes Please!
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 and implementation, but both are valuable in what they do.…
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News about the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook
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 and the Kindle version through Amazon. The updated version is…
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Microsoft posts Q1 2016 SLA performance for Office 365. Unsurprisingly, it was good.
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 365 service recently. That’s not to say that Office 365…
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The curious drop in mail items reported by Get-MailboxStatistics
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 from user mailboxes (unless you change the policy). Users are…
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Virtual academies, odd questions, and MCSE recertification
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 to watch a number of Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) modules…
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New law might make Delve Analytics popular in France
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 network connectivity has created. The answer is probably “No”, on…
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The end of Exchange Unwashed
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 writing the blog. I enjoyed writing the 574 posts covering…
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The automatic cleanup of old Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships
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 that HP iPAQ hw6515 that has long since been disconnected…
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Third edition now in review
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 of MVPs who specialize in Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint, and…
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Comments from March 2016 Survey: Office 365 for Exchange Professionals
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 that people could see what came in and post further…
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