Tag: Office 365
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Exchange General Manager speaks at DevConnections
Good technology conferences allow attendees to meet movers and shakers in the industry, specifically people who are relevant to the technical interests of the attendees. I think that the Exchange Connections conference has a good record in this respect and so it was that Kevin Allison, General Manager of Exchange…
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Exploring Office 365 recipient limits
Office 365 is available in a number of plans. Small business owners, like myself, find the low-cost entry point of Plan P1 very attractive while larger enterprises will find that the “E” plans better suit their needs (see this blog post for more information on the differences between Plans E…
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Exchange Panel Session at TEC 2011
I participated in an interesting panel sessions at TEC 2011 EMEA in Frankfurt on Tuesday. Panel sessions can be an embarrassment for both panelists and audience if no one asks any questions or the questions don’t contain sufficient meat to warrant a good discussion – or even some controversy. In…
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Answering questions from SearchExchange about Office 365 deployments
Last week I sat down (in virtual terms) with Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com to discuss some questions arising from a recent survey that they had done of Exchange customers to determine their attitude to Office 365. You can download the taped conversation at your leisure. The questions I was…
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Office 365 plans for small companies – unnatural limits?
Microsoft has unwittingly (or not) created a long term problem for me. Right now, I expend the grand sum of EUR6.35 monthly for a single Office 365 Plan P1 subscription. I think that this is terrific value but then again, I don’t have to buy Microsoft Office as Microsoft kindly…
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Office 365 dedicated subscriptions: service descriptions available now, service in 2012
Microsoft released the service definition documents for the dedicated versions of Office 365 on October 4, 2011. The dedicated subscription plans add to the existing range of “P” (professional and small business) and “E” (enterprise) plans that are available now. Dedicated subscriptions are typically taken up by large companies that…
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Gmail shows Office 365 how to meet a 99.9%+ SLA
The really bad thing about the Office 365 outages in August and September is that the accumulated 330 minutes of downtime means that Microsoft cannot meet its published Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.9%. To their credit, Microsoft has already acknowledged that they failed to meet their SLA in August…
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PowerShell books for Exchange Administrators
Following my post on why I think every Exchange administrator needs to know PowerShell, I was challenged to say what books someone should read to get up to speed on the topic. So here goes (click here to see my list of good technical books to read). To begin, the…
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Why Exchange Online Administrators need to understand PowerShell
In my recent review of the free Microsoft Press ebook “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and collaborate virtually anywhere, anytime”, I concluded that the book was a curate’s egg for Exchange administrators. I’m not sure if the analogy worked for readers outside Ireland and the U.K., so in the spirit of clarity,…
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