By B. K. Winstead, 05/24/2012
Growth in smartphone and mobile device use and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend in corporate IT is now having a backward effect on PCs.
By B. K. Winstead, 03/29/2012
It's time to talk about carrier bloatware on smartphones. Actually, it's long past timed. You know what I'm talking about: It's all those apps that come pre-loaded on your new ...
By B. K. Winstead, 03/22/2012
Archiving email to the cloud is a good choice for many organizations, but choosing which provider is not a decision to be taken lightly.
By B. K. Winstead, 03/15/2012
Have you ever had to respond to an e-discovery request for your company? Sometimes just the thought of facing a legal action can make seasoned Exchange Server administrators want ...
By B. K. Winstead, 02/17/2012
I learned a new word this week: nomophobia. It's a made-up word, but then all words were made up at some point. When I first saw it, I thought it might be the fear of baseball ...
By B. K. Winstead, 02/16/2012
At the Cloud Fest 1-day conference in Denver last week, one of the first things Microsoft's David Chow said during his opening keynote was, "There's no glory in running email ...
By B. K. Winstead, 02/14/2012
How is your Microsoft Lync 2010 deployment going? Are you even looking at Lync? I recently ran a poll about Lync adoption on the Exchange & Outlook page of WindowsITPro.com, and I ...
By B. K. Winstead, 02/07/2012
It's been a while since I've written anything about my life as a smartphone addict. The reason is simple: It's a little embarrassing to claim the moniker of "smartphone addict" ...
By B. K. Winstead, 01/30/2012
Microsoft didn't quite make the predicted end-of-year 2011 release for its PST Capture tool that was originally announced last summer. But the good news is, as of today you can ...
By B. K. Winstead, 12/22/2011
Messageware’s OWA Desktop offers an efficient, cost-effective option for users who want desktop-client Outlook access without the associated costs.
By B. K. Winstead, 12/15/2011
It took a year after the release of Microsoft Lync 2010, but this week Microsoft finally released mobile clients for its real-time communications server. That means you can access ...
By B. K. Winstead, 11/11/2011
It's always exciting when a new Motorola Droid smartphone hits the streets, as with today's release of the Droid Razr on Verizon. Of course, it's much the same with Apple's ...
By B. K. Winstead, 11/10/2011
At last week's Microsoft Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas, Exchange General Manager Kevin Allison gave a keynote entitled "Moving Into the Future with Microsoft ...
By B. K. Winstead, 10/27/2011
I've been spending some time with an old friend of late, a friend we call OWA. When Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 launched about two years ago, improvements to Outlook Web App ...
By B. K. Winstead, 10/25/2011
It's so rare these days to hear any good news about the BlackBerry ecosystem. As one of my colleagues put it in conversation yesterday, RIM seems to be circling the drain on its ...
By B. K. Winstead, 10/20/2011
I've been wondering whatever happened to that next service pack for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 that was announced way back at TechEd 2011 in May. The lack of information ...
By B. K. Winstead, 10/06/2011
How important is mobile device management to your business? We've gone beyond the days when organizations could simply standardize on a single device, or even platform, such as ...
By B. K. Winstead, 08/30/2011
Microsoft Exchange Server expert and author Michael B. Smith has a technology career spanning almost 30 years. His first job in IT was while he was in college in the early 1980s ...
By B. K. Winstead, 08/25/2011
The fall tech conference season is just about upon us, and it's not too early to make your plans for the shows you plan to attend. There's nothing like getting away from the ...
By Winstead, B. K., 08/04/2011
What good is a smartphone? I'm sure if you ask most smartphone users that question—whether they're loyal to Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, or something else—they'll have no ...