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Tag: Office 365

  • Exchange/Office 365 MVP sessions at Ignite

    Many people have asked me to recommend some sessions to go to at Microsoft Ignite (a good planning tool to build your own schedule is available online). With nearly 800 sessions to select from over five days, there’s enough going on to suit every one of the 15,000 or so…

  • Slipping standards in how Office 365 is reported and analyzed in the technology press

    Those who observe the way that news is reported about developments in the Office 365 space might be uncomfortably aware that standards are slipping. The basic problem is that once Microsoft posts some information about a product announcement or other development on the Office 365 blog, it is recycled over…

  • 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…

  • Cloud services: losing control over the small things

    A number of interesting UI changes occurred inside Office 365 in the recent past that caused discomfort to some people who don’t really like change. Cue a torrent of protest in places like the Office 365 IT Network, much to the amusement of those who run on-premises software who wondered why…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Latest Office 365 SLA results prove robust performance

    A recent question raised the issue of how well Microsoft has done against their vaunted 99.9% availability goal for Office 365. It’s a good question to ask because clearly all cloud services need to keep on proving that they can truly deliver a highly reliable and robust service if they…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2014

    The normal flow of new features, updates, and bugs flowed across the “Exchange Unwashed” desk during November. Some of the bugs were puzzling, others were infuriating, but everything was interesting – at least to me. A clash between S/MIME and transport rules (Nov 27): Data Loss Prevention (DLP) was a big…