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    We all know Microsoft's servers like to aggravate @scottalanmiller just because they can.

  • O365 - managing calendars

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    @Dashrender said:

    Although I don't believe you are completely out of the woods just because you have a business Agreement (BA) with a provider you use that is housing Personal Health Information (PHI) - in fact I'm pretty sure that I'm suppose to request a result of their own audit to ensure they are doing what they are suppose to be doing.. only after collecting that yearly (though how I'm suppose to know it's valid is beyond me) would I be close to be indemnified.

    That's possible, back when I was doing HIPAA all the time that was not the case but it does get updated regularly.

    Knowing that it is valid is likely none of your concern. You can't know that audits are valid more or less by definition. You'd need the auditor to be audited and that auditor audited and so on and so forth.

  • Email Error .. my ip public blocked

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    Remember that "requesting email" is a completely illogical thing to do in a court if the goal was to see what had been said. Why would any court say "Show us all of the email communications that went through Exchange but don't show us the Lync messages, documents stored in other systems, contents of attachments, etc."

    Of course they don't do that. That would be incredibly silly. They request categories like "all external communications", "all internal" or whatever it is they are looking for.

  • Why Do People Still Text

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    @scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:

    @obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:

    @dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:

    they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.

    Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.

    That was definitely not my experience. I've had cell service continuously since 1992 and did not get access to texting until more like 2002 and never sent or received a text until I would guess after 2006. But I had email on my phone before that and talked with loads of people because it was common in business then, because of Blackberry devices, to have email on the phones. ANd because texting was costly and rarely available, they had Blackberry messenger instead of texting on the devices. We didn't use it, but it was there.

    Not my own experience. Texting was big for me and my circle back then, regardless of your experience. Besides the point though... Being a flip phone had nothing to do with SMS.

  • Microsoft Send

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    New client update available today.

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    I didn't even turn it on. From the description it sounds like a really bad idea. It's like autofiltering that takes more work than real filtering, isn't as reliable, is less predictable and then alerts you anyway completely defeating its own purpose.

  • Mailbox And Attachment Limits

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    @thecreativeone91 said:

    This is one of the first file extensions I always block on file servers. PST file can cause major network issues.

    Preach it brother

    We have folder redirection on for this client* so imagine the fun when they save a PST in mydocs

    *don't ask, it wasn't my idea 😞

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    odd, it was the link right off of the article site.

  • How Do I Set My Timezone in GMail?

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    @thanksajdotcom said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    @thanksajdotcom said:

    Everyone has a reason for what they do. I'm sure Google felt it made sense when they set that up, which was probably at least 10 years ago.

    Making sense often just means being lazy. Being lazy or not bothering are common, logical reasons for doing things. I just wish that the reasoning was better than that.

    I'm not disagreeing but remember that what may be totally illogical to us might make perfect sense to someone else.

    I never implied that laziness was illogical. It's perfectly logical. Their laziness outranked their desire for a good user experience. Extremely logical.

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    @dafyre said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    Okay, so if I Archive + Label, it will act like a folder, more or less?

    What happens if you Archive but don't Label?

    The message, for all intents just vanishes.... but you can get to mail that is archived with no labels on Gmail by searching for

    -label:inbox and has:nouserlabels

    That should get you there.

    Or just click all mail as noted above. No need for arcane search syntax.

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    Without reading everyone's posts, my guess is it sees the local Exchange server and tries to pull from that. You need to have the client migrate EVERYTHING to Office365 and get off that local server. I don't even want to try and figure out how you have all the MX records, etc setup.

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    I know Lavabit closed it's doors a year or so ago because they rather close than continue to give access to government subpoenas.

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    @thecreativeone91 said:

    @JaredBusch It's in the Repo's https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jaile/sogo/

    Fedora repos are neither the RHEL repos, not the EPEL repos nor SOGO's repos. Until it is all the way to in the OS or supported by the makers, it's not supported yet. Tons of things are RPM'd by third parties for things. But none that I would use in production.

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    @StrongBad said:

    Doesn't GMail just let you have domain aliases?

    Only if you pay for Google Apps. They used to have a free tier along with Outlook/Hotmail. But the only free custom domain one now (that I know of) is Zoho.

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    Great for everyone else, but I personally can't stand email notifications. I like a website to have a good built-in notification system, like Facebook or MangoLassi have.

  • Werner Kock: The Man Behind GPG

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    That is really nice that so many companies stepped in so quickly to remedy the situation. Kudos to them.

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    This could be devastating for Backspace Email. Amazon is such a huge player with so much visibility.

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    Don't worry too much. Lync sucks BUT Microsoft is addressing the situation by migrating people over to Skype and merging the two products.

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    You actually used a Commodore 64 as the server? Hard to imagine when that was possible.

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    @scottalanmiller said in Exchange Online Migration From POP3:

    @Carnival-Boy still looking to move Sharepoint? Any progress.

    I'd forgotten that Microsoft has killed Foundation (2013 will be the last version), so there is no longer a free version of Sharepoint. If you need it, you have to pay for it. I'd forgotten this even though I actually posted it on ML a year ago (I think my memory is going in my old age).

    Add that to the fact that it appears that migrating from on-premise to online is not a simple task (compared with say Exchange), and I'm coming round to thinking it would be foolish to further invest in Sharepoint Foundation 2013 and we're better off moving to Sharepoint online asap. It will mean extra cost in the short-term, because we'll have to buy a load of O365 subscriptions, but less cost in the long-term (as eventually we will have to migrate from on-premise to online since Foundation is the only product that makes financial sense on-premise and Foundation has been killed).