Tag: Exchange Online
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Exchange Unwashed Digest March 2015
March 2015 was a busy month, if only because I was heads-down writing content for the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook that is scheduled for launch at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago next month. At this point it’s a matter of editing material and making sure that it kept updated…
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Announcing “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”
The world of technical book publishing is going through a transformation. More information is available than ever before online; software and hardware products evolve faster; people demand up to date knowledge that is also insightful and in-depth. These factors create enormous difficulties for the way that technical books were written,…
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Why Clutter generates so many FAIs in user Inboxes
Playing around with the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet the other day (as you do), I noticed that the number of items reported for the Inbox folder (8,443) didn’t match the number shown by Outlook (8,009). Of course, Outlook Web App has the good sense not to display the total number of items…
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Exchange Online and Native Data Protection – No Backups Baby!
Cloud-based email services such as Exchange Online bring a great deal of value to the table. A service delivered for a fixed known cost that is constantly refreshed with new features (“evergreen software”) and relieves administrators of the need to perform all the mundane tasks required for day-to-day server management.…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2015
January 2015 proved to be quite a varied month in my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com. Everything from technology transfer from the cloud, new mobile clients, some issues I had with Delve, the new Office for Windows, and Azure witness servers, all washed down with a good helping of opinion and…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2014
The last month of 2014 provided the time to look back on what’s happened since Microsoft released Exchange 2000 and how well Exchange 2013 has done in the market (acceptance and in terms of the new features). But we also discussed mobile email strategy, the horrible comparison made by Novell…
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Selecting the right compliance framework to use with Exchange
Exchange 2010 upped Microsoft’s game when it came to the out-of-the-box compliance features available in the server. Exchange 2013 builds on that foundation to refine matters through features such as in-place holds and integration with SharePoint 2013; increased integration is available within Office 365 as Exchange and SharePoint Online share features…
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A brief history of Exchange Time Management
It might just be me, but the sounds of bitter complaints by users whose calendars have been thrown into confusion by some combination of user error, Exchange server bug, and client mess-up appear to have quietened recently. At least, my mailbox is less full of sad tales of corrupted meetings…
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Creating a new address list for Exchange Online (Office 365)
A question was posed in the Exchange IT Pro group of Microsoft’s Office 365 Network: “Is there any way I can add folders to directory on Outlook for example add a folder “staff” for users to click it and all the staff come up. I have added a picture. Thanks…
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Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date
A question from a reader is often a good start to a useful discussion or to probe into a topic. Tim Read contacted me to discuss some problems he had with using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet (available in cloud and on-premises versions of Exchange). In this case, he was using Exchange…
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