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Exchange in the cloud or on the ground?
18 November 09 10:02 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Following the price cut on the desperately-in-need-of-renaming BPOS services recently, I’ve been talking with a few people about the where the tipping point might be for running Exchange in house vs using some form of hosted provision. There are plenty Read More...
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Outlook 2010 beta and E.164 number format updater
06 October 09 09:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Well hello again; it’s been a while. Normal service should now infrequently resume. I thought I’d update the instructions of a previous post, after I was showing someone how to use my old “ Contacts updater ” application to make all their Outlook contact Read More...
Office Web Apps complement, not replace, Office
04 August 09 11:54 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
The Office 2010 announcement a couple of weeks ago, (publicly) lifted the lid on the Office Web Applications, either as a set of web-based Office apps that a customer could host on their own metal (and expose to the outside world, perhaps), or as something Read More...
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Office 2007 SP2 now available
28 April 09 07:47 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I’ve been beta testing Office 2007 SP2 since the beginning of the year, and it’s been great – the single biggest reason to use it is the myriad improvements made to Outlook, in terms of stability & performance (particularly relating to search and Read More...
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Outlook Thread Compressor download now available
11 April 09 02:34 PM | Ewan | 7 Comments   
Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Thread Compressor on here – it’s an add-in to Outlook which removes unnecessary emails, on the assumption that most people reply to mail and leave the original intact, so you could keep the last mail in each branch of Read More...
Business continuity – it’s a people thing, not just a premises one
12 February 09 08:44 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I had a really interesting discussion with a customer last week, when we were musing over the effects that the snow had on UK businesses. It was another example – like the floods which have hit parts of the country over the last few years – of a threat Read More...
Border Lines in Word & Outlook
12 December 08 08:10 AM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
OK, I've been bad. Let my blog - which I used to update fairly frequently, though not the multi-posts-per-day, at-any-hour-of-the-day type thing that Steve Clayton does. Maybe that's why he wins awards and I don't :) - wither and dry up. I got a new job Read More...
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Tip for finding when an appointment was created
21 April 08 01:52 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
Here's a tip for when you suspect someone has magicked up an appointment to coincidentally collide with an Outlook meeting request you sent them... In your own calendar (and other people's), you can see when a meeting was scheduled (ie request was sent Read More...
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The lost art of the OOF
29 December 07 10:10 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
Some time ago, I posted about how the ".sig" has faded from grandeur. I'd like to add the somewhat terminal dryness of the OOF message to that list, and propose a solution. OOF is a Microsoft term for Out of Office. It should really be OOO, Read More...
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Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant
30 November 07 09:10 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
Here's a quick & dirty tool I put together for Outlook to be able to update all the phone numbers of contacts to make them E.164 compliant. It relates back to a post a while back around the challenges of formatting numbers 'correctly', particularly Read More...
Careful what names you give to Outlook Contacts when using UM!
05 November 07 09:45 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
This is a follow up to Friday's post about what happens if you have Exchange Unified Messaging set up to send you notifications on missed call alerts (and on voicemail), using caller-ID to reverse lookup against the personal contacts folder. Stephen Spence Read More...
I learned a cool thing about Exchange UM today
02 November 07 03:22 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
I've seen this behaviour in practice before, but I don't think it really clicked with me until Neil May from PostCTI (who was hosting our penultimate Exchange Unplugged event today) told me how pleased he was with it. This functionality concerns the "missed Read More...
The business case for Exchange 2007 - part IV
24 September 07 02:12 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
Another installment in a series of posts outlining the case for going to Exchange 2007. Previous articles can be found here . GOAL: Make flexible working easier "Flexible Working" might mean different things to differing organisations - some might think Read More...
Keep the Item count in your mailbox low!
09 August 07 11:05 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I've been doing a little digging today, following a query from a partner company who're helping out one of their customers with some performance problems on Exchange. Said customer is running Exchange 2000, and has some frankly amazing statistics... ... Read More...
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Plain text, RTF or HTML mail?
02 August 07 09:25 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Here's an interesting question that I was asked earlier today; I can't offer a definitive answer, but these are my thoughts. If you have any contradictory or complimentary comments, please comment or let me know. "Can RTF/HTML Mail be as safe as plain Read More...
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Ewan Dalton:: Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.

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