Category Archives: Office 365

Cloud services: losing control over the small things

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Tony Redmond

A number of interesting UI changes occurred inside Office 365 in the recent past that caused discomfort to some people who don’t really like change. Cue a torrent of protest in places like the Office 365 IT Network, much to the … Continue reading →

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Announcing “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Tony Redmond

The world of technical book publishing is going through a transformation. More information is available than ever before online; software and hardware products evolve faster; people demand up to date knowledge that is also insightful and in-depth. These factors create … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2015

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Tony Redmond

February might be the shortest month but that’s no reason not to have lots to discuss on my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month – a lot about the new Outlooks apps and Delve, but … Continue reading →

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Why Clutter generates so many FAIs in user Inboxes

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Playing around with the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet the other day (as you do), I noticed that the number of items reported for the Inbox folder (8,443) didn’t match the number shown by Outlook (8,009). Of course, Outlook Web App has the … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online and Native Data Protection – No Backups Baby!

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Cloud-based email services such as Exchange Online bring a great deal of value to the table. A service delivered for a fixed known cost that is constantly refreshed with new features (“evergreen software”) and relieves administrators of the need to … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

January 2015 proved to be quite a varied month in my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com.  Everything from technology transfer from the cloud, new mobile clients, some issues I had with Delve, the new Office for Windows, and Azure witness servers, … Continue reading →

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Latest Office 365 SLA results prove robust performance

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Tony Redmond

A recent question raised the issue of how well Microsoft has done against their vaunted 99.9% availability goal for Office 365. It’s a good question to ask because clearly all cloud services need to keep on proving that they can … Continue reading →

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Selecting the right compliance framework to use with Exchange

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 upped Microsoft’s game when it came to the out-of-the-box compliance features available in the server. Exchange 2013 builds on that foundation to refine matters through features such as in-place holds and integration with SharePoint 2013; increased integration is available … Continue reading →

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A brief history of Exchange Time Management

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Tony Redmond

It might just be me, but the sounds of bitter complaints by users whose calendars have been thrown into confusion by some combination of user error, Exchange server bug, and client mess-up appear to have quietened recently. At least, my … Continue reading →

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