Recently I interviewed a couple IT pros I know to get their feedback on our products and our technical documentation (most of the questions are about Exchange, Exchange documentation, and Office 365, since I work on those products). My goal is to get...

Sometimes the support guys give me a heads up when they write new articles for Microsoft Support. Here are a couple regarding Exchange and Exchange Online Protection, which are in my wheelhouse, so I thought I would re-post them here: "Relay Access...

The Exchange team has been updating the Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant for the release of Exchange Server 2013 and the new Exchange Online, and it's ready to go! It's the best place for detailed instructions about deploying Exchange. A...

I haven't written a post in over a month! That's because I've been heads down on help content for the new Office 365. :-) We launched it this week, so I have a moment to give you links to a few resources: Personally, I work on the Exchange Online Protection...

I wanted to advertise this blog post by Timothy Heeney on the Exchange Team blog, Decommissioning your Exchange 2010 servers in a Hybrid Deployment , since Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), the product I write about ( FOPE User Guide )...

This is a follow up to Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Roadmap . In that post, I referred to a blog post on the Server and Cloud blog, Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps , which explained that future releases of FPE are being...

The Office 365 team recently completed Office 365 Preview Service Descriptions that you can access on TechNet. Most pertinent to this blog is the Exchange Online service description. This isn't help documentation, but rather these are documents that describe...

We've had some questions come through to the Exchange Server and Office 365 teams regarding which versions of Exchange Online can be configured to work in a hybrid environment (where you have some mailboxes online and some in the cloud) with Exchange...

I thought this article, The Virus Buster engine used in Forefront Protection, Forefront Server and Antigen is being retired , was worth calling out. September 30th 2012 will be the last day Forefront Server and Antigen products will receive updates...

With the launch of Exchange Server 2013 come some new hybrid-deployment features. (When I say "hybrid" I mean hosting a portion of your mailboxes in the cloud and a portion on premises.) I've been reading the preview documentation, Exchange Server 2013...

Since the Microsoft Exchange Conference I've seen several good articles and so on covering Exchange 2013. Here are a few: Exchange Server 2013 Moves Toward Simplicity - Blog post discussing the new UI and new features: For the architecture, the...

I got a chance to go to MEC this week. I'm happy to be here, because I get a chance to learn more about Microsoft Exchange and I get to visit Florida for the first time. Yesterday I listened to both keynote talks and went to a few breakout sessions...

Recently on the Server and Cloud blog they released new post that's of interest, Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps , if you use any of the Forefront email-protection products. The following are a few excerpts with my commentary added: ...

We just updated the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Support Service Description . A reference guide that describes the support included in a subscription of stand-alone FOPE.

I thought Jeff Mealiffe did a nice job on this Exchange Server presentation that he gave at TechEd: An Inside View of Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2 was recently posted on Channel 9. He covers the following: OWA mini for mobile browsers Hybrid...

This presentation by Robert Gillies, Understanding Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange , which was recently posted on Channel 9 , is a good introduction to the product for a system administrator or technical manager. It's helpful if you...

In a previous post, Microsoft Exchange SP2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard , I introduced the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) and discussed how it makes hybrid deployment (where you have a portion of your mailboxes on premises and a portion hosted...

This post is piggybacking on Where did that email go? In this podcast, Troubleshooting Mail Flow in Office 365 , Blain Barton and Scott Landry discuss how to troubleshoot mail flow in Office 365. Scott has a lot of experience, and brings to light a...

I want to share with you some helpful resources on Twitter. Firstly, my user assistance team (a group of technical writers who focus on Exchange and FOPE) started a Twitter account called FOPE_UA about five months ago. Feel free to ask us any technical...

A couple months ago I wrote a post, Microsoft Exchange SP2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard , that introduced Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard. The purpose of the HCW is to configure hybrid deployments, which...

I mentioned one of these links in my last post, but I wanted to call out these FOPE FAQs separately, since we have been updating them with new questions regularly. Office 365 Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) FAQ - Covers questions...

A guest post from my cohort on the Office content publishing team: Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) users commonly ask about creating a footer for outgoing email. You may want to add a disclaimer to your outbound email for HIPAA or other...

I thought these Exchange Demo Videos ("See how business-class email from Microsoft can help your organization be more productive") looked polished and helpful. Perhaps they can be of use if you want to explain Exchange features and benefits to a customer...

The following resources on the Office 365 community were pointed out to me recently and I think they are worth passing along: Service Updates for Office 365 for professionals and small businesses (English) Service Updates for Office 365 for enterprises...

The Directory Sync tool helps you automate the process for synchronizing your users with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE). I've written about it previously here at Directory Synchronization for FOPE , which is simply an introduction to...