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Office 365 Personal Archives limited to 100GB
There’s a bit of misinformation, or lack of information, floating around about the use of Office 365 Personal Archives. This feature, which is included in the higher-end Office 365 service plans...
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Getting ready for MEC 2014
Wow, it’s been nearly a month since my last post here. In general I am not a believer in posting stuff on a regular schedule, preferring instead to wait until I have something to say. All of my...
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MEC 2014 wrapup
BLUF: it was a fantastic conference, far and away the best MEC I’ve attended. The quality of the speakers and technical presentations was very high, and the degree of community interaction and...
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The value of lagged copies for Exchange 2013
Let’s talk about… lagged copies. For most Exchange administrators, the subject of lagged database copies falls somewhere between “the Kardashians’ shoe sizes” and “which of the 3 Stooges was the...
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Script to download MEC 2014 presentations
Yay for code reuse! Tom Arbuthnot wrote a nifty script to download all the Lync Conference 2014 presentations, and since Microsoft used the same event management system for MEC 2014, I grabbed his...
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Two-factor authentication for Outlook and Office 2013 clients
I don’t usually put on my old man hat, but indulge me for a second. Back in February 2000, in my long-forgotten column for TechNet, here’s what I said about single-factor passwords: I’m going to let...
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Microsoft updates Recoverable Items quota for Office 365 users
Remember when I posted about the 100GB limit for Personal Archive mailboxes in Office 365? It turns out that there was another limit that almost no one knew about, primarily because it involves mailbox...
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Speaking at Exchange Connections 2014
I’m excited to say that I’ll be presenting at Exchange Connections 2014, coming up this fall at the Aria in Las Vegas. Tony posted the complete list of speakers and session titles a couple of days ago....
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Exchange Server and Azure: “not now” vs “never”
Wow, look what I found in my drafts folder: an old post. Lots of Exchange admins have been wondering whether Windows Azure can be used to host Exchange. This is to be expected for two reasons. First,...
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Mailbox-level backups in Office 365
Executive summary: there aren’t any, so plan accordingly. Recently I was working with a customer (let’s call him Joe, as in “Joe Customer”) who was considering moving to Office 365. They went to our...
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Moving to Summit 7 Systems
It must be the season or something. Like several of my peers (e.g. Paul, Phoummala, and Michael, to name 3), I’m moving on from my current position to a unique new challenge. In my case, I’m taking the...
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The difference between supportability and patching
I’m at the annual MVP Summit this week, and everything we hear and see is pretty much NDA (except for pictures of Flat Tony). However, we just had a really interesting discussion that I think is safe...
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Microsoft, encryption, and Office 365
So the gloves are starting to come off: Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith wrote a long blog post this morning discussing how Microsoft plans to protect its customers’ data from unlawful interception...
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Microsoft rolls out Clutter admin improvements
Back in November, I wrote about my early experience with the Office 365 Clutter feature. I’ve been using it on and off– mostly off, due to a rare bug that surfaced because my mailbox is actually hosted...
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Microsoft Exchange engineering and cloud-scale
The Exchange team (or at least Perry Clarke, its fearless leader) has been known to describe Exchange Online as “the gateway drug to the cloud.” But how did that come to pass? This week at Ignite, I...
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