The Four Parts of Managing Your Domain
Many small businesses buy all-in-one domain service from a single company. While that can be an easy solution, it’s important to understand that there are actually four separate services involved. …
Using Google Apps for E-mail Filtering Only
I have a small client with an in-house mail server. Their cloud-based spam filter just wasn’t keeping up—too much spam was making it through. I wanted to try Google Apps …
Secure Email Signatures in Outlook 2010
I don’t come across Secure MIME (S/MIME) signed emails very often so I thought it might be interesting to post a few screenshots of what happens when you receive a …
Using Office 365 in an SBS 2008 Environment, Take 2
After working with a very helpful Microsoft Support manager, here are some updated suggestions to the problems identified in the first version of this article.
Office 365 Service Request Error
Office 365 allows creating service requests through the online portal. Yesterday, after typing in all the details on my issue, when I clicked to Submit the service request, I got …
Forefront Login Errors
As I was setting up Office 365, when I clicked on the link to load the Forefront Online Protection admin panel, I sometimes got this error:
Using Office 365 in an SBS 2008 Environment
Here are a couple gotchas that I discovered as I migrated Exchange 2007 under SBS 2008 to Office 365, and how I got around them. Update August 26, 2011 There …
Send Mail from SBS 2008 When Port 25 Blocked
All of my email is now delivered to the cloud (Office 365). But my SBS 2008 still sends a daily report, and other services (like the APC PowerChute UPS agent) …
Office 365: Is Exchange Migration Active?
Are you migrating Exchange to Office 365? Are you waiting on your mailboxes to show up in Office 365 but it seems like nothing is happening? Support suggested a PowerShell …
Go Daddy Email Too Smart for the Cloud
A small customer has an in-house mail server. After some recent DSL connection woes, I’m getting nervous about this single point of failure for their email service. The customer’s Go …