Email is one of the most important communications tools for businesses. When it stops working, people start to get nervous.

While there are many things that a user can do to mess up their email, many of these problems can be resolved with a restart of the software or the computer.

However when the old standby of restarting doesn’t work, it is time for the email administrator to start looking into the issue a bit more deeply.

Here are some of the more common errors found in Outlook 2007 along with some of the ways you can make things right again: Continue reading 5 Common Outlook Errors and How to Fix Them

There are many reasons why an organization would make the move to Exchange Server 2010. Features like email archiving, increased discovery capabilities, greater flexibility and the lure of anywhere access make this email solution a promising one.

However, these features are generally ones that are used to sell management on an upgrade or switch. For administrators, the PowerShell is usually a feature that gets them on board. Continue reading PowerShell Basics in Microsoft Exchange 2010

With another round of issues facing users of Microsoft’s Exchange Online service the launch of the Business Professional Online Services replacement, Office 365, is starting to face questions by consumers who are starting to think that Microsoft’s cloud based services may not have much of a silver lining.

Exchange Online is a hosted messaging solution, like Google’s Gmail for businesses, and is based on the same technologies that run the ever popular Exchange server. However as this is a hosted solution, the business does not need to dedicate the same resources towards messaging as they would if they were running their own email servers on-site. Since messages are stored in the cloud, Exchange Online users have “From virtually-anywhere” access to e-mail. Also touted by Microsoft’s website is:

• Improved email security
• Enhanced operations efficiency for a company’s IT staff
• 25-gigabyte mailbox storage size for the standard license

Most importantly, users who have become reliant on Microsoft Outlook and its tools can find the move to hosted email seamless unlike the issues that arise when using Outlook with other hosted email services.

Continue reading Is Microsoft Exchange Online Only Half-Baked?