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Category Archives: Technology
How not to request a product review
Like many of my fellow Microsoft MVPs, I regularly receive messages from software vendors requesting me to review their products. This is not unexpected as it’s perfectly reasonable for vendors to seek reaction and feedback about their work from people … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange, Technology
Tagged Microsoft MVP, Product review, Third-party software
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Noise-cancelling headphones and laptop woes
Reading the Forbes.com review of the Bose QuietComfort 20 in-ear headphones, I am reminded quite how good these headphones are. The review goes into a level of technical detail that audiophiles will enjoy. All I can say is that I … Continue reading
SQL 2014’s link to Exchange 4.0
It was nice to read the memories of ex-Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Hal Berenson in a post about SQL 2014’s delayed durability feature. Like me, Hal used to work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he specialized on database engineering. He tells … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange, Technology
Tagged Database technology, ESE, Exchange 2013, Exchange 4.0, High Availability, Information Store, Jet, SQL 2014
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OneNote suddenly got a lot more useful
The March 17 launch of OneNote for Mac received a lot of publicity, if only a fraction of what you can expect if Microsoft makes the expected announcement about the availability of Office for the iPad on March 27 (the same … Continue reading
Talking Exchange 2013 on RunAs Radio
Last week I chatted with Richard Campbell, the genial host of RunAs Radio, about the release of Exchange 2013 SP1, why companies wait for the first service pack to appear before they consider deploying a Microsoft server application, the best … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange 2013, Technology
Tagged Exchange 2013, Richard Campbell, RunAs Radio
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The tyranny of Flexbit’s five little lights
Like most people, I probably could do a better job of maintaining my personal level of fitness. It’s not so long ago that I refereed rugby professionally (for instance, check out this highly pixelated video from a 1999 European Challenge … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Fitbit Flex, Misfit Shine, Personal fitness monitor, Wearable technology
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Twenty-five years chasing the dream of enterprise social networking
The fuss around Microsoft’s announcement of “the enterprise network and the future of work” at the SharePoint Conference (SPC14) in Las Vegas this week reminded me that we have been seeking to extract better information about the complex interconnections that … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Technology
Tagged ALL-IN-1, DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation, Enterprise Graph, HP Labs, Jeff Teper, Knowledge Navigator, Office Graph, Oslo, SharePoint, Shock, Social networking, Yammer
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Pondering the effective use of Twitter
I ignored Twitter for the first couple of years of its existence. I was at HP at the time and was aware of the research done by the Social Computing Laboratory (led by by a very smart fellow named Bernardo … Continue reading
Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2013
Statistics show that 118 new posts appeared on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com during 2013. I was responsible for the good posts and am unsure as to the author of anything that was rubbish. Here’s what happened during December … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Cloud, Email, Exchange, Exchange 2013, Office 365, Outlook 2013, Technology
Tagged ActiveSync, ADSIEdit, Amazon Web Services, Apple, AWS, Azure, Exchange 2013 CU2, Exchange 2013 CU3, iPhone, Managed Availability, Office 365, Outlook 2013, Outlook Web App, OWA, Perry Clarke, PowerShell, UAG, Unified Access Gateway, Windows XP
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Did Exchange ActiveSync help Apple to beat RIM?
Now that the dust has settled down after the publication of my recent interview with Perry Clarke, Microsoft VP for Exchange development, it’s a good time to reflect on some of the statements made by Perry and the reaction that … Continue reading
Posted in Email, Exchange, Technology
Tagged ActiveSync, Apple, BES, BlackBerry, EAS, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange Online, iOS, iPhone, Microsoft, Office 365, Research in Motion, RIM
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