Tag: Exchange Online
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On-premises Exchange and OWA for Devices
Everyone got all excited yesterday with the announcement that Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was available for download together with updates for Exchange 2010 SP3 and Exchange 2007 SP3 to allow those versions to play nicely with (but not be installed on) Windows 2012 R2 DCs and GCs. Microsoft…
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Outlook Web App 2013 and mail public folders
Following up the post about migrating public folders to the modern version introduced in Exchange 2013, an entry in a TechNet forum asked whether Outlook Web App (OWA) supported shared calendars held in public folders. This came as a kind of throwback to me as it’s a long time since…
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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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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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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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Improve Exchange – voice your ideas now
Following up the request for input for an interview with Perry Clarke, Microsoft VP for Exchange development (the interview is this coming Friday, and I will publish the result on my Exchange Unwashed blog), a number of the Exchange MVPs have discussed how best to collect real-world user input for…
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Contemplating Yammer
Microsoft’s $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer in June 2012 is now starting to get traction as the technology becomes more integrated with the rest of the Office suite. Officially described as an internal social network, Yammer is sometimes compared to a company-specific version of Twitter or Facebook (perhaps because all…
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Evolving Office 365 monitoring tools
I’ve been playing around with the Office 365 Admin app, now available for Windows Phone 8 and due to be available “soon” for Android and Apple iPhone. Think of the Windows Phone users like myself as the advanced beta testers before the more popular devices get their teeth into the…
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Exchange Unwashed blog digest October 2013
October began with the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas and ended with some thoughts on whether to go to TechEd or MEC next year. In between, I contemplated some of the questions raised by attendees at Exchange Connections as well as some thoughts that came up in my own…
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