UK business applications stagger towards the cloud
I spent today evaluating several competing vertical applications for a small business working in a particular niche – I am not going to identify it or the vendors involved. The market is formed by a...
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Disappearing items in Outlook and Exchange
I came across what looks to me like an unusual bug, most likely in Microsoft Outlook. Background: I have used the Notes folder in my Exchange mailbox for all sorts of information going back several...
View ArticleNotes from the field: migrating a small business to Microsoft BPOS
Today I assisted a (very) small company migrate from Small Business Server 2003 to BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), Microsoft’s hosted Exchange and SharePoint. Why BPOS, when Office 365...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office 365: the detail and the developer story
I attended the UK launch of Office 365 yesterday and found it a puzzling affair. The company chose to focus on small businesses, and what we got was several examples of customers who had discovered the...
View ArticleWindows Phone, Exchange, and self-signed certificates
I am setting up a Nokia Lumia phone, which runs Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”. I am impressed with the smoothness of the setup experience, though I had one slight hassle which I do not blame on Nokia or...
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Fixing a Small Business Server 2008 broken by updates
I had a call last night from a small business whose email no longer worked. They had applied updates to the server but Exchange had failed to restart. Looking at the services it was easy to see why....
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Email hassles with Android and Exchange: couldn’t open connection to server
I have an Asus/Google Nexus 7 which is set up to receive mail from Exchange 2010. At least, it was. Some time ago it stopped receiving mail. When the mail client tried to sync, I got this message:...
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Publishing Exchange with pfSense
pfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall which you can find here. I wanted to publish Exchange through pfSense. I installed the Squid plugin which includes specific reverse proxy support for Exchange. If...
View ArticleNotes from the field: Windows Time Service interrupts email delivery
A business with Exchange Server noticed that email was not flowing. The internet connection was fine, all the servers were up and running including Exchange 2016. Email has been fine just a few hours...
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Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2016/365: part brilliant, part perplexing, part...
I have just completed a test installation of Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM on-premises; it is now called Dynamics 365 but the name change is cosmetic, and in fact you begin by installing Dynamics CRM 2016...
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