OK so I have to admit I am a little late with my post, but I have been buried in Exchange migrations all week so cut me some slack J. It is official as of a few days ago that the Blackberry beta has been opened up to the public: http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5261 While I am not [...]
As everyone knows Office 365 protects its users from spam and viruses by the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange suite or FOPE. FOPE is also offered as a standalone option for customers looking to host their scanning in the Cloud. For those of you not familiar with FOPE and its features I’d like to review [...]
In a recent discussion I had with a colleague I uncovered some information about how passwords are handled in a non-SSO environment that I was unaware of. As everyone already knows Office 365 can work with SSO or can continue to function as BPOS did with a separate password and password policy than your Active [...]
I recently worked with an Educational institution to upgrade their existing exchange infrastructure to Exchange 2010. Their internal Exchange solution provided mailboxes for all faculty/staff. Their students all use Google mail…something that was unfortunately done before I was introduced to the client. In order to maintain a single namespace there are thousands of mail contacts [...]
Migration, how hard can it be, right? Well, there’s always the chance you get a smooth run and everything works, so you could certainly give it a go, but here’s a high-level whitepaper which talks about the advantages of using a partner to help with your migrations to Office 365. Planning, preparation, testing, validation and [...]
