MS Office 365 Shared Mailbox connection limits
May 24th, 2013 by Andy
Many organisations use Shared Mailboxes. They allow a number of people to work from a single pot of Email and see which Email has been read or actioned, which reduces duplication. Our latest client had 22 users accessing a Shared Mailbox in MS Office 365. We know there are limits to the number of connections [...]
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You must pop off POP3 ASAP
September 27th, 2012 by Andy
There are many reasons why you shouldn’t use POP3 Email. 1. Risk of loosing historic email. Once you’ve downloaded the email to your computer its highly likely you don’t back it up 2. Inefficiencies. If you work as part of a team there you can’t shared your or a team mailbox, But the most important [...]
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Google Apps will not work with IE8 from Nov 15th. Act now
September 16th, 2012 by Andy
On 14th Sept Google announced that it is ending Google Apps support for Internet Explorer 8 on November 15th. Below is Googles post; http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/supporting-modern-browsers-internet.html What this means to you If any of your team use Windows XP it’s highly likely they have Internet Explorer 8 installed, if they use IE8 to access Google Apps they will not be able [...]
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Privacy issues with Google Calendar Resources
August 24th, 2012 by Andy
It was brought to our attention from Lee Ball about an issue with privacy settings when using Resources within Google Calendar. We’ve tested the scenario, confirmed the issue and have raised a query with Google Apps support. Issue With Calendar Resources, users are able to allocate them when creating an Invitation, or subscribe to the [...]
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What’s Coming in SharePoint Online 2013
August 23rd, 2012 by Andy
A few snippets about SharePoint Online 2013, not much detail from MS yet but a few highlights; 1. SharePoint Online is being renamed SkyDrive Pro. Confusing and unnecessary of you ask me. There are important performance restrictions when using SharePoint vs Skydrive and smaller organisations may pick the wrong version now they have the same [...]
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Microsoft’s focus for MS Office 2013 is on cloud storage, not apps
July 18th, 2012 by Andy
Take a look at MS Office 2013, all the new features are around integrating the locally installed applications of MS Office with file and folder storage in the cloud. That’s it. There’s very little else, apart from Metro, but even this has it’s problems, see the bottom of this post. Beyond this the following needs [...]
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MS Office 2013 & upgraded MS Office 365 brief testing results….
July 18th, 2012 by Andy
Over the past few hours we’ve been testing MS Office 2013 and it’s integration with the upgraded features of MS Office 365 (Exchange ’13′, Sharepoint ’13′ etc), here’s what we’ve found so far; Offline Files The biggest issue with the integration between MS Office 2010 and MS Office 365 was being able to open and [...]
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The challenges of migrating large PSTs to cloud Email
July 11th, 2012 by Andy
So you’ve got a client that desperate to get rid of their on premise Exchange server and move to Google Apps or MS Office 365. You do your assessment and each mailbox is large, 5Gb – 17Gb. They don’t want to delete anything and only have low upload bandwidth. What do you do? We come [...]
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Mimecast Email archive access from your mobile device – short term stop gap
March 2nd, 2012 by Andy
Being able to access your Email archive from your mobile device is very much a stop gap solution. Mailbox sizes are now so large as standard (25Gb for cloud and hosted , genuinely unlimited in some cases) that very few users will use archiving, and archiving will revert to a service that serves only a [...]
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Software Licensing in the Cloud — Now With More Flexibility | Cloudline | Wired.com
March 2nd, 2012 by Andy
http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/03/licensing-cloud/
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