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The notion of “best practice” has long been an elastic commodity when applied to Exchange architecture and design. Consultants and consulting companies have professed to have their own magic method to ensure the successful deployment...
Microsoft released their Q1 FY16 results on October 22 and I took a look at what they reported. Not because I like pouring over financial documents but in an attempt to figure out the health of the technology that I cover, meaning Office 365, E...
In September, I wrote about how features included in Office 365 undermine the case advanced by vendors who seek to convince customers of the need for off-site backups. In a nutshell, my advice is to make sure that you exploit all the standard...
In most cases, Exchange is the easiest workload to move to Office 365, which is why many companies have moved mailboxes to the cloud over the last four years. And when those mailboxes are in the cloud, Exchange’s range of native data protection...
Some weeks ago, I wrote about the question that many people have when they consider what collaboration platform to use within Office 365. Essentially, the choice is between Yammer and Office 365 Groups. The solutions use very different platforms...
The news that Microsoft is about to make Outlook Web Access (OWA, or if you work for marketing, Outlook on the web) and Outlook 2016 behave like Facebook filled me with distaste. I guess it’s because I consider Outlook to be a working tool...
Last week, I wrote about a report issued by security company Cybereason that reported how an attacker had gathered 11,000 sets of user credentials after planting a compromised OWAAUTH.DLL file on an Exchange server. A spirited debate duly resul...
On June 11, Jim Lundy contributed an article titled “Office 365 Groups versus Yammer: Is Microsoft Pulling the Plug on Yammer?” and speculated that Microsoft’s focus on Office 365 Groups at May’s Ignite conference contained...
The recent Cybereason report titled “A new persistent attack methodology targeting Microsoft Outlook Web Application (OWA)” probably caused some heart flutters for Exchange administrators who might have imagined that the client had...
When Microsoft announced the Office 365 Import Service at Ignite, it all looked set fair for an offering intended that provided Office 365 tenants with two immediate benefits: First, the new service provides a way to mass import user PSTs into...