Tag: Exchange Online
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Reasons not to move from on-premises Exchange to Office 365
Microsoft’s Greg Taylor and MVP Tony Redmond will debate the reasons why people don’t move on-premises mailboxes to Office 365 at the Ignite conference. Contribute to the list of reasons here.
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Introducing Office 365 for IT Pros – third edition – now available
The writing team is delighted to announce the immediate availability of our new eBook “Office 365 for IT Pros – Third Edition” at ExchangeServerPro.com. The PDF (for PCs) and EPUB for many eReaders, including the iPad, are available now and the Amazon Kindle version is available for pre-order, with a…
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Office 365 Exposed Podcast #3
As the gentle readers of my blog might remember, the esteemed Paul Robichaux and I often tape a podcast when we’re together. Unlike other podcasts about Exchange and/or Office 365, we try to take a strategic look rather than diving down into the weeds. Although we’re not always successful, we…
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Chasing down mailbox delegate access in Exchange Online
A recent question from a reader focuses on the need to determine the last logon time for Exchange users. The organization is in the middle of moving to Exchange Online and some management reporting scripts that are used do not deliver the same results when run against Exchange Online mailboxes.…
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Public folders to Office 365 Groups – Yes Please!
The last couple of weeks have brought forward news of two solutions to migrate public folders (aka “the cockroaches of Exchange”) to Office 365 Groups (aka “Microsoft’s new answer to collaboration in the cloud”). The two solutions differ in concept and implementation, but both are valuable in what they do.…
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The curious drop in mail items reported by Get-MailboxStatistics
Office 365 provides users with 50 GB mailbox quotas, so you’d expect that these mailboxes accumulate tens of thousands of items over time, especially as the default retention policy applied by Exchange Online does not clean out Deleted Items folders from user mailboxes (unless you change the policy). Users are…
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The automatic cleanup of old Exchange ActiveSync device partnerships
In 2012, I wrote about ActiveSync device partnerships some time ago to describe how partnerships are created and how they accumulate over time, which leads to the need to clean up partnerships belonging to old and obsolete devices, such as that HP iPAQ hw6515 that has long since been disconnected…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2016
The New Year brought the normal mix of events that needed to be covered in my Exchange Unwashed Blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month. Microsoft fails to communicate over Exchange Online IMAP4 outage (Jan 28): I wonder has any Microsoft executive ever read the text used to…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2015
Here is a digest of the posts that appeared on my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com during November 2015. The Thanksgiving holidays distracted some in the U.S., but we kept on trucking along… Building efficient keyword queries for eDiscovery searches in Exchange and SharePoint (Nov 26): These days it’s somewhat strange…
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How updates are provided for the Office 365 for Exchange Professionals eBook
One year after we started to write the book, several thousand people have copies of “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”. We are delighted at the feedback and positive comments that we have received. However, some questions have arisen as to how often we update the text and what right anyone…
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