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Goodbye, Google+

Con te partirò , Google+ It’s been truly a fun ride, from private testing to the public launch. great hopes for Google+ as an alternative to other mainstream social media options.  Campaigning to get friends and family over to the social network,  but getting traction against those other platforms was next to impossible. This all comes to a […]

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Office 365: Self Service of Distribution Groups

The ability to self service the creation of distributions groups has been a feature for quite some time in my Exchange experiences.  Now that I am in Office 365 / Exchange Online this functionally is no longer available for synced groups. This now forces the enlistment of the support department to facilitate all mortification for […]

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Manually Remove Auto-Mapped Exchange Mailboxes

Beginning with Exchange 2010 then on to Exchange  2013. User who used the client Outlook 2007/2010/and 2013  had a new feature called automapping. Automapping takes advantage of Exchange auto-discovery services to map mailboxes in which a user has “Full Access” permissions granted. This is very helpful to the end-user as he or she is no […]

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Installing Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2013

Tonight’s “home work” Assignment: Update  Companies Exchange 2013 to Cumulative Update 3 Purpose Address many of the issues that existed in Cumulative Update 2. Bring additional value to the company Oh and some of the newly introduced features / enhancements should help also: Usability improvements when adding members to distribution groups in the Exchange Administration […]

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Microsoft updates Outlook app for Android

Back in November 2013 Microsoft released this app to the Android market. While still a good app it lacked several features and luster desired by us mobile users. So many voiced their thoughts and ideas and Microsoft has rolled out an update for its Outlook app for Android, adding fixes and features based on user feedback. […]

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Issue: Outlook Address Book Not Updating

Symptoms: New users added to Exchange 2010 do not show up in global address book Tests Performed: 1. Searched for new users from Outlook – This failed 2. Searched for new users from OWA – This works 3. Put Outlook in non-cached mode and searched – this worked Suspected Problem: Offline Address Book Generation is […]