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My Exchange 2013 Upgrade to SP1 This is my journey in upgrading our on premises Exchange 2013 server running CU1 to SP1. Since my install of CU1 was a little bumpy I made sure to do all the initial preparation. SP1 has Schema/Ad/Domain changes so make sure deal with them first. Download SP1 and extract …

Thoughts on Office 365’s Spam Settings Recently I have been looking into the Spam settings in Office 365 as I am more familiar with on-premises and services such as Trend. I just wanted to setup some basic BADWORDS like I was used to in Exchange 2013 and be able to modify them as needed. First …

According to this article from Microsoft, Office for the iPad is now available! http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/27/announcing-the-office-you-love-now-on-the-ipad/ All you iPad users out there can finally rejoice. 

In a previous post I discussed the process of setting up and configuring Storage Spaces.  Since I made that post I have done some more work with Storage Spaces and have learned more so I thought I’d share some more with you. Storage Spaces expects to see “raw” disk drives which you then configure in …

This is just a quick post to highlight a quirk I found with the Sonicwall DHCP server (built-in DHCP server in Sonicwall firewalls). I had an issue at a customer this past weekend where we had Cisco Access Points sitting behind a Cisco wireless controller and Cisco switch that pull their IP address from a …

The driver for many businesses to go to O365 is email, specifically Exchange Online, and there is nothing wrong with that.  As I noted in an earlier post, the combination of O365 and Windows Server Essentials is a damn fine successor to SBS and that is all based on the premise that your email is …

One of the big things that seems to trip up a lot of people when they attempt to move to Office 365 are the DNS requirements that Microsoft expects you to have in place.  If you are not used to messing about with DNS the requirements can look a bit daunting.  And if your present …

​Quite often you need to be able to send email out of a device (printer, mfp, fax machine, whatever) or a program and you have to “relay” it off your email server.  We all knew how to do this with our own on-premise Exchange but there seems to be some confusion about using Office 365 …

Warning:  What follows is a rant from the grumpy, old curmudgeon.  If hard truths make you squirm then you should go elsewhere … //START RANT I was out walking The Beagle this morning (Samantha, if you must know) and I passed a car from an IT firm from another town.  Their tagline was “Taking the …

I need to tell you about my nemesis for the past 10 years. I will call him Roger because it’s a good idea to give your enemies a name. Roger is a fax machine. When we first moved back to Victoria in 2003, we got a new phone number. Whoever had the number before us …