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I came across a review of Exchange 2010 on my travels today and thought it worth sharing. Not least because there are already dozens of UK institutions using Exchange 2010 as part of their student email service where it is hosted by Microsoft in the Cloud
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Over the last few months, there have been a few occasions where universities have been falsely identified as spammers – either because their mail sending services inadvertently set of spam detectors, or because they were genuinely being used to re-route
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Do you want updates from this blog to arrive with you, instead of having to remember to visit this website? There are two ways to do this – either have updates delivered by email, or subscribe via your RSS reader. Get updates by email To get updates automatically
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“Ed the Fed” has written to me again. For those who are new to the blog, Ed’s a legend around here as the Microsoft UK Chief Cyber-Security Advisor. We call him “Ed the Fed”, because of his career history at the FBI and other places – which obviously
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For many students starting at university this year it will be their first experience of living independently and many will be feeling vulnerable and perhaps not always on their guard from potential scams. Email is a lifeline for millions of students
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In recent times it has been fashionable to talk about “cloud services”, and “Software plus Services”, and to consider how Internet-based services supplement, support or replace more conventional IT services provided on campus. And, lo and behold, the
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In my job, I know that I spend a lot of time in front of my computer reading and writing emails. But some tidying up of my Inbox today led me to some interesting observations Last year, I wrote 8,405 emails. That’s an awful lot - if I only worked 250
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If you join the MSDN blog community, using the "Join" link at the top right of the page, you get a couple of nice extra features. One is that you get the chance to comment on any of the blog articles. It's not because I want to know who you are - unless
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Just after the the OCS launch, the UC team in the UK embarked on the Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 that saw them travel to 9 venues during 3 weeks on the road seeing nearly 1000 attendees. Well, similar to any good rock and roll tour, they have decided
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The Microsoft showcase at the UCISA conference will be presented in partnership with Helen Fletcher from Buckinghamshire New University and Salford Software , one of Microsoft’s Gold partners in the education sector. The topic presented for discussion
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Salford Software is hosting an event on 2 nd April at the Microsoft offices in Reading to explore Microsoft Live @ edu (one of the services that's part of Collaborative Campus) The agenda presents an information packed half-day, offering you the opportunity
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My colleague Matt sends details of a Live Meeting event he's hosting online next Tuesday: Microsoft Live @ Edu is a secure, reliable infrastructure that provides educational institutions with a range of beneficial services that are consistent throughout
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We've been doing a lot of work with students recently, and from that I've learnt quite a bit about their ICT habits. Two years ago universities reported that three-quarters of students turn up with their own PC, with some reporting that 99% of students
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Okay, this doesn't happen every day (thank goodness), but let's suppose that you've got an important message, for all of your students, and which is time critical. It may represent part of your contingency planning, or it may be that there are certain
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I'm now quite comfortable with the thought of a 2GB inbox in the sky. In fact, I've now had this for quite some time but I've always been thinking about how on earth I'll ever get anywhere like close to filling it up and it's always been languishing in
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