I have been trying to make sense of the integration between the Office Online applications and Dropbox announced on April 9. I suspect I am not the only one in this situation, at least not in the ranks of those who focus on enterprise computing...
One of the criticisms I have heard leveled against Office 365 is that its administrative interfaces are a confusing mash-up where the browser is the only common thread. In the vernacular of those who occupy the world of user interface design, many...
Despite the many column inches generated since Amazon announced its intention to bring a new managed email service called WorkMail to the world, this evolution leaves me cold, even if it promises to deliver a "secure, managed business email...
If you use Exchange Online, either as the standalone plan or as part of an Office 365 commercial plan, any inbound email sent to your tenant is cleansed by going through Exchange Online Protection (EOP), essentially a massive barrier of servers...
When I wrote asking whether backups are necessary for Exchange Online (or the rest of Office 365), some readers responded to say "yes – because we want our data to be under our control". This doesn't really mean that they don&...
It was gratifying to receive so many session submissions for IT/DEV Connections 2015, which takes place at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas on September 14-17. As you might know, this year the conference is organized around a set of tracks that we...
The March 30 announcement on the Office 365 blog that Microsoft is now making mobile device management (MDM) capabilities available within Office 365 has many attractive aspects for companies who are coping with the demands of BYOD, or Bring Y...
The Office 365 Admin app was refreshed by Microsoft on March 13 and I have spent some time playing around with it to understand how useful the app is in real life. As those of us who have been around for a while know to our peril, things that d...
Until Exchange 2010, control over Exchange objects was exercised by good 'ol Windows Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Access Control Entries (ACEs). The upside of this implementation was that it was shared with Windows so if you understood how A...
Much excitement was generated on March 16 when Microsoft announced the general availability of a preview version of Outlook 2016 (desktop) along with a rake of other Office 2016 announcements. The new version of Outlook won't be formally...
