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  • Managing Office 365 with the one true shell

    Exchange administrators have known since the release of Exchange 2007 that only wimps seek the soft comfort of the GUI-rich Exchange Management Console (EMC) when they attempt to manage servers, mailboxes, or other objects. Exchange Online, part of Office 365, doesn’t provide EMC as a management option. It’s possible to…

  • Free Exchange 2010 Seminar in Dublin

    If you’re interested in Exchange 2010 and are in Dublin on May 11, you can register for a free seminar that I will be speaking at on the topic of practical and economic issues that influence the decision to deploy on-premises or hosted Exchange 2010/Office 365. Click here for the…

  • A peek into the future from Exchange’s General Manager

    One of the joys of attending a conference as a speaker is the chance to listen to others once your session is over. My keynote at TEC was at 8AM on Monday morning so I had most of Monday and Tuesday to pick other sessions to attend before I had…

  • Office 365 reaches public beta

    On April 18, Microsoft announced that Office 365 is now in public beta. This is a big thing because it marks the last major hurdle before Office 365 becomes publicly available, an event that is expected later on this summer, just in time to become a huge factor in the…

  • Preparing for Spring Connections and first impressions of Office 365

    Earlier this week Brian K. Winstead, the author of the Exchange and Outlook blog on http://www.windowsitpro.com, contacted me to ask about the keynote that I’ll be giving at the Spring 2011 Exchange Connections event at the JW Marriott Resort hotel in Orlando from March 27 to 30. The resulting conversation…

  • Whoops! Where’s my Inbox?

    One of the weaknesses inherent in cloud-based services was displayed once again on February 28 when Gmail service was lost to some 500,000 users, or as Google expressed it, 0.29% of the total user base (I love the way that small percentages are used in an attempt to disguise the…

  • Using Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2010

    I like Outlook 2003 a lot, mostly because it was the client that liberated users from the tyranny of extended synchronization sessions, often over a spotty dial-up connection, just to collect some new messages. In the bad old days pre-Outlook 2003, receiving a graphic-intense presentation from our friends in marketing…

  • Predictions for 2011: The Exchange Market

    On Tuesday, I had an interesting call with Matt Gervais of TechTarget to discuss my views on what will happen for the Exchange market in 2011. Matt is busy talking to some other folks and will share his best assessment of the distilled wisdom of the oracles in an article…

  • Beware the effects of enabling an Exchange 2010 archive mailbox

    The introduction of archive mailboxes is one of the major new features offered by Exchange 2010. Matters are substantially improved in Exchange 2010 SP1 as it supports the separation of a user’s primary mailbox and their archive mailbox across different databases, giving administrators the ability to consider schemes such as…

  • Exchange in the Cloud

    I wrote this text as a “web-only chapter” for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, (also available at Amazon.co.uk and as a Kindle edition, with other e-book formats for the book are available from the O’Reilly web site). Unfortunately the chapter doesn’t seem to have appeared on the O’Reilly web site…