Microsoft Outlook for iOS doesn't live up to its name
If you've used Microsoft's Windows 8-style OWA app for iOS, you know how awkward it is. When Microsoft released its Outlook app yesterday for iOS (as well as a preview version for Android), based on...
View ArticleGet it right later? Microsoft Outlook needs to work now
The consumer press loves the new mobile version of Microsoft Outlook, but I and many IT folks strongly dislike mobile Outlook for being half-baked and not very compatible with Microsoft Exchange. What...
View ArticleGoogle wants to manage your work email with Inbox
Google's lnbox by Gmail, launched five months ago, was designed to help users manage -- instead of be inundated by -- their email.Now, Google is moving ahead with plans to roll out Inbox for Google...
View ArticleNow Office 365 lets you retain deleted emails longer
As an Office 365 MVP, I constantly scan the horizon for new features in Office 365. This week, I found a new fix for something I didn't even know was broken: How deleted items in Outlook are handled....
View ArticleDon't let the cloud become your next data prison
No one likes being in a prison. Yet the history of enterprise technology is a move to virtual prisons, whether by virtue of choosing to standardize on a vendor (so it's not a prison) or agreeing to...
View ArticleGmail's revised contacts page cuts down on clutter
While users wait with bated breath to see if Google Inbox ends up becoming the new Gmail, Google has unveiled an incremental change to Gmail: a newly redesigned contacts page. It hasn't yet been...
View ArticleEmail security hits the gold standard -- but not via Google or Yahoo
Have German Web mail providers beaten Google and Yahoo to the punch when it comes to protecting emails with end-to-end encryption based on the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) system? Google and Yahoo have...
View ArticleYahoo puts email encryption plug-in source code up for review
Yahoo released the source code for a plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption of email messages, a planned data-security improvement prompted by disclosures of U.S. National Security Agency...
View ArticleHow to migrate your Exchange server to Office 365
Office 365 has been touted as Microsoft's fastest growing business ever. Still, some organizations are stalling when it comes to moving mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Office 365's cloud...
View ArticleTransform your email server into a collaboration platform
I once ran a small Web development team at Byte magazine that became my laboratory for an experiment in group communication; that, in turn, became my 1999 book "Practical Internet Groupware." At the...
View ArticleExpired Google certificate temporarily disrupts Gmail service
Google forgot to renew one of its TLS certificates, leading to service disruption Saturday for people using Gmail through third-party email clients.The problem was fixed in a matter of hours, but...
View ArticleWidespread outages hit Windows 8/8.1 Metro Mail, Windows Live Mail, Windows...
Last night at about 12:30 a.m. EDT, Microsoft issued a bulletin warning of widespread outages for Windows 8 and 8.1 Metro Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Phone 8.1 mail. The bulletin stated:...
View ArticleOutlook.com partial outage stretches to 20 hours
Microsoft's Outlook.com email service has been inaccessible since early Wednesday for customers who use several Redmond-made email clients, including those bundled with Office 2003, 2007, and 2010.As...
View ArticleWhat we know about Exchange Server 2016
Microsoft has promised a new release of Exchange for on-premises admins. But numerous admins have questioned if it would really happen, given Microsoft's push to move customers to the cloud-hosted...
View ArticleLeaked Microsoft Build notes reveal plans for Outlook.com third-party apps
We expect some surprises from Microsoft during the Build 2015 developer conference that starts Wednesday. One has already slipped out: It appears the company plans to bring third-party apps to...
View ArticleWe need the Internet police now more than ever
Many years ago I received spam from a woman I did not know. It was the type of spam where I could tell that her computer was compromised by a bot. That is, the spammer wasn't simply using her email...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Office 365 push tramples partners -- and IT
On-premises Exchange was always aligned with third-party tools that extended and enhanced the core product. As Exchange moves to the cloud via Office 365 and Exchange Online, many IT admins fear that...
View Article6 best practices for email security
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct State Department business has left IT pros dumbfounded. They thought the days of executives acting autonomously were...
View ArticleEmail security and spear phishing secrets of an ex-hacker
The role of the chief information security officer (CISO) is evolving and expanding every day. What was once considered a side role of the CIO or the admin-focused CSO (who babysat firewalls and...
View Article6 innovations from Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference
Anticipation is high for Windows 10's formal release on July 29, but Windows 10 is not Microsoft's only project in the works. This week at its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft and third-party...
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