Email and Calendaring

Email stinks. It’s a cluttered, unfiltered mess that isn’t very useful when it comes to prioritizing your workflow or getting things done. This is why I’ve become such a fan of Google’s new take on an email app, Inbox. It goes far beyond Goo...

A recent message from a reader piqued my interest because it describes a problem that I think many people face today. Here’s what it said...

Microsoft’s January 14 post “Leading the way in the fight against dangerous email threats” to the Office blog recalled the discussion that ensued in September 2012 after they announced the cancelation of their on-premises...

Microsoft’s July 2 announcement of a “compliance toolset” for public folders appears to have fallen flat in terms of the excitement generated in the Exchange community.  At least, I never hear anyone talking about it or...

Mailbox auditing seems like a pretty good thing to have in an email product, if only to answer the eternal question of who deleted a particular message from the mailbox. Exchange 2010 was the first version of the product to include mailbox...

Javier Soltero joined Microsoft after Acompli, the mobile email start-up he led, was acquired in November 2014. Since then he has overseen the rebranding of the Acompli apps for iOS and Android as Outlook and then took responsibility for the...

Last week I looked back on what happened in the world of on-premises and cloud Exchange during 2015. This week it’s time to consider what might come along in 2016. Of course, I don’t work for Microsoft, so anything outlined here is...

On January 1, 2015, I published some predictions for 2015. Let’s see how well those predictions turned out...

Two previous posts describe why a self-monitoring and healing capability is useful in software applications and provide an overview of how the Managed Availability framework provides these capabilities in Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016. As in ...

1999 seems such a long time ago now, but that's when many of us first faced the need to deploy Active Directory (AD). For many companies, the need arose because Microsoft replaced the Exchange Directory Store (DS), used for Exchange 4.0 to 5.5...