Tag: ActiveSync
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Google loses ActiveSync patent case in London
On December 23, 2011 Microsoft sued Motorola Mobility in the High Court in London in an action (reference HC11C04536) that eventually came before Mr Justice Arnold on December 3, 2012. I first heard about the case in May when I was contacted by Bird & Bird, a firm of London…
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Google and Microsoft spat over ActiveSync: Hardly a war, more like a skirmish
January 30 Update: Just on the deadline, it seems like Google has acceded to a request from Microsoft to extend its support for ActiveSync connections to Gmail until July 31, 2013. The step simply makes sense as it reduces the number of users who would otherwise be mad at Google. …
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Microsoft increases prices for Office products – time to chat with your sales rep
Microsoft customers probably didn’t enjoy reading about the new prices for Office 2013 products that are reportedly on the way from December 1. The date is important because that’s when the Office 2013 versions of applications like Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and so on are added to Microsoft’s price list and…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest for October 2012
October 2012 was quite a busy month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsItPro.com with 11 articles appearing. Here’s the regular monthly digest: Exchange 2013 reduces number of mounted databases to 50 (October 30). I wonder how many companies run an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) with more than…
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HP’s BYOD dilemma, Google’s weak keys, and Apple’s PR mastery
A number of recent events have attracted my attention. Maybe they will interest you too. First, an HP executive made an interesting comment in an interview about BYOD when he said that HP wouldn’t introduce a bring-your-own-device to work anytime soon. The real meat was when he said “Why? It…
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Exchange 2013, Facebook, malfunctioning ActiveSync clients, modern public folders and more at TEC Barcelona
The European edition of The Experts Conference (TEC) rolled around in Barcelona this week. As a location, the conference center was fine, if just a tad remote from the delights of Barcelona’s city center. The conference center is co-located with the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos 1 that’s used by FC Barcelona to…
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Exchange ActiveSync books – one coming, one in production
There’s no doubt that ActiveSync has been an enormous success for Microsoft. Every important mobile device vendor has licensed ActiveSync and although the implementation of the features enabled by ActiveSync varies from vendor to vendor, it’s still true to say that ActiveSync has now become a premier protocol when it…
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Clients that support Exchange 2010 archive mailboxes
My post describing the issues that can arise when you enable an Exchange 2010 mailbox to have an archive is one of the most actively discussed on this blog. I think that this points to a certain lack of familiarity that still exists around archive mailboxes. People haven’t quite figured out…
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Hotmail’s ActiveSync support
For as long as I have been using an iPhone, I have been frustrated by the inability of Hotmail to support a modern email access protocol. Hotmail seemed to be fixed in the mists of time at a point where POP3 was deemed to be sufficient to meet the needs…
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An ActiveSync logo compliance program: How nice!
On April 13, Microsoft announced details of their ActiveSync logo compliance program. While it’s taken me a little while to comment (other things go in the way), I think this is a good idea because it should rein in the tendency for ActiveSync to rapidly degrade to become the wild…
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