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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 Huberman) within HP Labs to investigate the impact of micro-blogging…
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Mailbox quarantining in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013
This is another article that was never published by WindowsITPro.com (possibly because I contribute so many posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on the site), so I make it available here with the caveat that this text has not been tech-edited or checked over in the same way that an…
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Email’s about to die? I think not
Ho hum: the recent Wired.com article “The Next Big Thing You Missed: Email’s About to Die, Argues Facebook Co-Founder” seemed to be one big advertisement for Asana, a startup based in San Francisco. Asana, led by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, wants to provide us with a replacement for regular email,…
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Managing Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships (in a world where we all use too many devices)
This is the text of an article that I wrote for Windows IT Pro magazine that was never published. It might be of some interest and use to folks grappling with ActiveSync partnerships, so I decided to publish it here. Enjoy! Update: See this post for information about how Microsoft…
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Upgrading the database schema within an Exchange 2013 DAG
In my conversation about life, the universe, and Exchange development (well, mostly the latter) with Microsoft’s VP for Exchange development, Perry Clarke, he said “There isn’t a part of the core Exchange Server that is not shipped to our on-premises customers. We don’t have a special Exchange that runs in…
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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 2013 – you might have missed the last few posts…
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The elimination of web bugs (well, for Gmail anyway)
I read Google’s post of December 12 announcing that Gmail would now display graphics in messages automatically with some interest. It seems like a very good idea to me to address the “web beacon” or “web bug” problem that has forced users to decide whether they want to download images…
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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 I’ve received since. I plan to look at some of…
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Motorola Mobility continues its losing streak in synchronization war with Microsoft
I spent a good part of 2012 helping Microsoft to defend a law suit in the UK High Court against Motorola Mobility. You’ll recall that Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2011 with the intention of exploiting the many patents that Motorola had accumulated in the telecommunications space…
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The dirty little secret about migration to modern public folders
Have you heard about a migration to modern public folders that has gone well? I haven’t. Apart that is from the demo migrations that appear at trade shows and conferences to show that all is well and that Microsoft hasn’t reneged on their promise to bring the cockroaches of Exchange…
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