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  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2015

    Here is a digest of the posts that appeared on my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com during November 2015. The Thanksgiving holidays distracted some in the U.S., but we kept on trucking along… Building efficient keyword queries for eDiscovery searches in Exchange and SharePoint (Nov 26): These days it’s somewhat strange…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest – June 2015

    Sorry for the delay in publishing the June 2015 digest for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Travel and the need to crank up the organization of updates for the 2nd edition of the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook (available in PDF and EPUB formats on ExchangeServerPro.com and for Kindle…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft’s PST capture tool appears… eventually!

    A collective sigh settled upon the worldwide Exchange community after Microsoft’s much-anticipated but late release of their free-to-use PST Capture tool occurred today. The tool was originally announced in July 2011 for delivery by the end of the year. Essential testing, especially through a restricted external test by some members…

  • Do PSTs contain anything of value?

    In musing about the news of the PST Capture tool that Microsoft plans to release soon, I started to consider the question of whether tools like this can actually find and recover any useful information. The worry of executives and lawyers is that PSTs contain all manner of corporate secrets and…

  • On PST ingestion: Microsoft brings a new tool to the table but…

    Today’s announcement that the Microsoft Exchange development group plans to release a tool to allow administrators to discover Personal Storage (PST) files on a network and then import the data into Exchange 2010 on-premises servers or Exchange Online (Office 365) left a couple of unanswered questions floating. Don’t get me…