Category: Writing
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Walking the Gettysburg Battlefield
A brief trip to America allowed me to visit the Gettysburg battlefield and walk part of the ground fought over by Union and Confederate troops in July 1863.
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Visiting Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael is a small island off the coast of Kerry in Ireland. The monastic settlement on the island has been a world heritage site since 1996. It’s easy to see why.
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Office 365 for IT Pros, 5th Edition (2019)
A New Edition We launched the first edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago in May 2015. At that time, the book was called Office 365 for Exchange Professionals and it was some 600 pages long. Indeed, it was short enough…
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Galapagos Photo Experiences
We recently visited the Galapagos islands. This blog post is a collection of photos from the trip, where I proved to fail to get anywhere close to capturing the Big 15 of Galapagos species.
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Podcasts and Flights at Ignite 2017
Ignite Wind-down After a busy week in Orlando, I am in full wind-down mode and recovering from the Ignite 2017 conference. The event itself was excellent, but there were many complaints about how far attendees had to walk between the West and South halls of the Orange County Conference Center.…
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Announcing Office 365 for IT Pros Fourth Edition
The writing team is thrilled to announce that the fourth edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook is now available. We have been working on this book for the last three months and it is great to see everything come together. You can’t simply announce a new edition…
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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out – Lost in Updates?
Microsoft Press seems to have delayed the second edition of Office 365 Administration Inside Out. Perhaps it’s because they have discovered just how hard it is to write about a service that is constantly changing.
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The curse of badly written blogs
As a frequent blogger, I take great interest in other blogs, especially those who offer coverage of topics that interest me, such as Exchange and Office 365, or even military history, if it comes to that. Recently, it seems that many of the blogs that cover Exchange (in particular) are…
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Visiting Omaha Beach (WN62 and the American Military Cemetery)
For anyone interested in military history, a visit to Normandy provides an excuse to visit some of the World War II sites in the area. I have been visiting the area on and off since 1973 and think I have seen most of what is available to see (like St…
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Slipping standards in how Office 365 is reported and analyzed in the technology press
Those who observe the way that news is reported about developments in the Office 365 space might be uncomfortably aware that standards are slipping. The basic problem is that once Microsoft posts some information about a product announcement or other development on the Office 365 blog, it is recycled over…
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