by Nicolas Blank on 26/02/2012
I’m not religious about technology, and certainly not the tech I consume for personal use. Due to my travelling schedule, it HAS to work and be robust. With that in mind, I tend to be rather vocal about choosing technology on merit over brand loyalty. When I was given a Nokia Lumia 800 I was [...]
by Nicolas Blank on 07/02/2012
I worked with the nice folks over at Mimecast to build a series of Webinars, which include: Webinar 1 – Migration planning: where to start Webinar 2 – How to design your Exchange migration process Webinar 3 – Migration gotchas: real world examples Webinar 4 – Measuring migration success I really enjoyed building these webinars, [...]
by Nicolas Blank on 12/01/2012
Some of you may know that I own and operate a consultancy, however what isn’t so obvious, is that we have staff, which need to stay certified. With the new partner competencies in mind, getting your staff up to speed on their certs quickly is a concern. I’m not going to discuss the partner requirements [...]
by Nicolas Blank on 30/11/2011
Office 365 is now available to South African Customers. www.office365.co.za now resolves to the familiar Office 365 site we’ve become accustomed to while trialling the service, however, one crucial part of the site has been missing. The sign up screen now supports South Africa in the drop down list of available countries. There’s not much [...]
by Nicolas Blank on 27/09/2011
I’d like to call out a superb blog post from Tim McMichael on this topic. To quote Tim, this is a topic, which is commonly misunderstood, and the benefits include the understanding of: Why do you disable the MAPI network from log shipping activities? Remember that if no other network exists in a DAG to [...]
The Future of hosted Exchange
9 August 2011If you host Exchange or you’re thinking of hosting Exchange, then you live in interesting times. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference hosted a number of sessions which re-enforced the software giant’s view on cloud and why partners should move to all things cloud, however – if you’re an Exchange hosting shop – one session would have [...]