Infrastructure

howto://display photos in Office365

2012-05-08

Here’s how to get thumbnail photos to show in Outlook 2010 and OWA when using O365.

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Six Reasons to Consider Hosted Email Security

2012-03-06

Hosted email security is a great alternative to traditional anti-spam software for many reasons – this article outlines six of them.

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Why’s my EMS soooo slooowww?

2012-01-24

Does it seem to take forever for your Exchange Management Shell to get you to an actual prompt? Try this.

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howto://disable epa in adfs for o365

2012-01-22

Trying to use non IE browsers with Office 365 and getting shown the hand by your ADFS? Here’s how to fix that schizzle.

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Exchange versions

2012-01-10

Quick reference table for Exchange versions with build numbers, release dates, and links to product support lifecycle pages.

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How Email Archiving Software Helps Businesses

2011-12-27

In this post I explain how email archiving software solves many of the inherent problems that exist with the current email servers and email server setups. As you will see, storage space, the need to use PST files, performance and compliance are big issues for companies that do not invest in email archiving software. When [...]

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howto://fix “the interface is misconfigured” with nlb

2011-12-13

If you get an interface is misconfigured error trying to add a node to an NLB cluster, take a look at this before you spend too much time chasing your tail.

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howto://send from an alias in Office 365

2011-11-10

Want to use one of your SMTP aliases as your send from/reply to address with your Office 365 account? It’s not as easy as just clicking that “from” drop down, but this post will fix you up right.

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howto://improve your Exchange performance

2011-10-29

Generally speaking, the most important application running on most enterprise’s networks is email. While LOB applications may be needed to run the primary manufacturing line, or a CRM application is vital to the sales department, and the accounting system is crucial to, well, the accountants…everyone relies upon email. This mission critical application that is used [...]

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howto://change UPN suffixes with PowerShell

2011-10-10

Need to change the UPN suffix on a bunch of users, and don’t want to do it by hand? Here’s a simple PowerShell script to do the heavy lifting for you.

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howto://make Windows 7 file transfers fly

2011-10-04

Speed up SMB transfers over the WAN with this little reghack/performance tuning trick.

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howto://customise Lync 2010 status messages

2011-09-23

Want to customise Lync 2010′s status messages, or enable the secret “appear offline mode?” Me too! Here’s how.

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