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Exchange Connections slides

As promised yesterday, here are the slides that Bill Smith and I presented at Exchange Connections.  Both of the presentations were quite heavy on demo, so the decks only capture a small portion of what we talked about.

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Exchange Connections slides coming

Today, I presented two sessions with Bill Smith at Exchange Connections: Administering Macs in Exchange and Outlook:Mac 101. Once I get back to a better network connection, I’ll post my slides here. For those of you who attended the conference, … Continue reading

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Thriller flash mob

To take a teensy break from Office:Mac, here’s a video of a Thriller flash mob that took place in the cafeteria last Friday.  One of the zombies is someone I mentored (and you can read into that what you will!), … Continue reading

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looking forward to Exchange Connections

Amongst everything else that’s going on in the past few weeks, I realise that I’ve completely forgotten to mention that I’m speaking at the Exchange Connections conference!  I roped Bill Smith, one of the Outlook:Mac MVPs, into giving two talks … Continue reading

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Q&A: does Outlook:Mac support multiple Exchange accounts?

Via mail, I got this question: Are multiple exchange accounts possible in Outlook 2011? Yes!  If you’re using Exchange 2007 or 2010, you can have multiple Exchange accounts.  I’ve currently got five Exchange accounts set up in my Outlook (my … Continue reading

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user research at MacBU

Inspired partially by yesterday’s post, which included a mention of how I imported all of my existing data into Outlook, I decided to clean up my oh-so-messy Documents folders. We won’t discuss how much stuff was in there that I … Continue reading

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Q&A: should I import my Entourage identity to Outlook:Mac?

Via mail, I got this question: I have Entourage EWS running now off Exchange Server 2010 and will be upgrading to Outlook. Do you recommend: a) doing a fresh download of all mail and other data from the server when … Continue reading

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Macworld’s review of Outlook:Mac 2011

On Friday, Macworld published John Welch‘s review of Outlook:Mac 2011.  It’s a big review, but then there’s quite a lot to say about an all-new application, and John’s never been anything short of verbose anyway.  John’s a hard guy to … Continue reading

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Q&A: does Outlook:Mac support server-side rules?

Steve asks: Can Outlook 2011 manage server side rules on an Exchange server? We didn’t get that into the initial release.  We’re well aware that it’s something our users would like, so hopefully I’ll be able to share more news … Continue reading

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PC Magazine reviews Office:Mac 2011

As I’m sure you can imagine, my team here in MacBU has been following the early reviews of Office:Mac 2011 quite closely.  Whenever a new one gets posted, there’s a flurry of mail, not to mention Facebook and Twitter posts. … Continue reading

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