Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Office 365 Virtual Launch Event at Feb. 27th

The new Office 365 is launched tomorrow on Feb. 27th with an interactive webcast event at 8AM PST / 5PM PST. Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on Wednesday, Feb. 27, as we celebrate the availability of a major new release coming to Office 365 for businesses. Register for the event, read more and see the agenda on the Office 365 blog.

The Next Microsoft Exchange Conference has been Announced

Yesterday Microsoft announced the next Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) and started a teaser campaign for it, a little like they did with the last MEC. At the last MEC in 2012, Microsoft said, then next MEC will be held, next time they had something new to say about Exchange. That seems to be in April 2014. So far it is just scheduled for sometime in April 2014, there are no specific dates yet and there …

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Leaving for MVP Summit 2013

Today I’m leaving for the 2013 MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond. The MVP Summit is a great week with lots of technical breakout sessions and a variety of networking opportunities. The Summit is hosted in Bellevue and Redmond, WA. At the Summit I can connect with fellow MVPs, build relationships with Microsoft Program Managers, and be able to provide feedback on Microsoft products and technologies. What more can you ask for?  So expect …

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Exchange 2010 SP3 Released

Good news – Finally we see the release of one of the long awaited service packs for Exchange 2010, this service pack is required for Exchange 2013 co-existence with your Exchange 2010 environment. Along with the release, new updates for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 has also been made available: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 More about these two updated …

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Apple iOS 6.1 causing excessive transaction log growth on Exchange 2010

Updated Feb 13th with infomation from Apple on the issue. As many of you might already know, there is an issue (bug) with iOS 6.1 for iPhone and iPad. The bug with Apple iOS 6.1 causes excessive transaction log growth on the Exchange 2010 server. I have also seen a scenario where a users mailbox kept growing, because a meeting request kept retrying and was continuous added to the users mailbox. So a mailbox of …

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