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Cloud Services

Connect to Office 365 Using a PowerShell Function

February 16, 2012

When you sign-up for Exchange Online (or Office 365, which includes Exchange Online), an Exchange organization is created for you in Microsoft’s datacenter. One of the really cool things about Exchange Online is that besides its easy-to-use web interface, you also have the ability to manage your cloud-based organization using PowerShell. Shell-savvy administrators can run [...]

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Cisco’s failure as a hosted email provider

February 24, 2011

Cisco entered the hosted email business thirteen months ago. Don’t blame yourself for not knowing about Cisco Mail — many experts were similarly unaware till earlier this week, when Cisco announced it’s quitting the business. Debra Chrapaty, Vice President of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group (formerly Corporate Vice President of Global Foundation Services at Microsoft), notes [...]

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Facebook, Welcome to Microsoft Outlook

July 13, 2010

When the Outlook team launched the Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010, LinkedIn and MySpace were the only 2 social network providers supported. Like most users my first reaction was “What about Facebook?” The Outlook Social Connector is a great addition to Outlook, but the lack of Facebook— without a doubt the most popular social [...]

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Released: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

June 21, 2010

Driving to the Silicon Valley Campus (SVC) this morning, I was thinking about about the possiblities of an iPhone version of Microsoft Office Communicator — the Instant Messaging and soft phone client for Office Communications Server. Microsoft already ships Microsoft Messenger, an OCS client for the Mac OS, so a mobile client for the iPhone [...]

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Office Web Apps on the iPad?

June 9, 2010

With yesterday’s launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, and the ability to access it on mobile web browsers, could the iPad be far behind? Viewing Office docs in Office Web Apps is possible on the iPad but CNET’s Ina Fried was able to trick it to allow creation of Excel spreadsheets in the iPad’s [...]

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Microsoft Office, Welcome to the cloud

June 8, 2010

Micrsoft Office is live in the cloud! In a blog post (read Office is now live on SkyDrive on the Windows blog), Microsoft’s Jason Moore announced the launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive— Microsoft’s free cloud-based storage service, which provides users up to 25 Gb. of storage space to store documents, photos and videos. [...]

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Microsoft goes open source with Outlook PST format

May 26, 2010

It seems with each passing day Microsoft gets closer to offering an openly documented and interoperable platform. Working with Exchange for a number of years, many customers notice that Exchange Server is a remarkably well-documented product, not only in terms of the feature documentation but also its protocols such as Exchange ActiveSync and Messaging Application [...]

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Google Calendar outage an excuse for missing meetings today?

May 6, 2010

News.com reports today: Users relying on Google Calendar have good excuse for missing meetings Thursday a.m., as company scrambles to fix widespread outage. The outage, reported by Google on its Google Apps Dashboard at 8:30 AM, is still being investigated as I write. Another reminder of how disruptive “cloud-only” services can be for an organization. [...]

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