Tag Archives: Exchange Online

Exchange Online and Native Data Protection – No Backups Baby!

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

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, … Continue reading →

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Selecting the right compliance framework to use with Exchange

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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A brief history of Exchange Time Management

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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Creating a new address list for Exchange Online (Office 365)

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft introduced the rather useful cmdlet set of Set-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration and Get-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration a long time ago (Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4 – August 2012). As you might recall, these cmdlets allow an administrator to exert control over where Exchange stores copies of messages sent by delegates. What’s … Continue reading →

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Reporting delegate access to Exchange mailboxes

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Tony Redmond

All current versions of Exchange 2013 (up to and including CU6) and Exchange Online (Office 365) contain a bug that can compromise the ability of companies to comply with discovery orders. The bug means that a user can remove items … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – August 2014

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I spent a lot of August in France but that didn’t stop the constant demand for new content to appear in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what was published during the month. Exchange 2013 CU6 hybrid and co-existence … Continue reading →

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