High Availability for the Exchange Service
It has been a while since my last posting. We have been pretty busy dotting the i’s on the new Office 365 service, and deploying the beta (which has gone very smoothly). The conversation this time is...
View ArticleSpecial Edition Geek Out with Perry – TechEd North America 2011
During TechEd North America in Atlanta earlier this year, Ann Vu invited attendees to record the questions they wanted me to answer. When she got back, she interrupted a meeting I was having in my...
View ArticleShifting to a Services Culture
In my last Geek Out video we talked about the interesting technical differences in building a service versus building software for companies to run on-premises. This time we spend some time talking...
View ArticleRunning a Service with Large, Low Cost Mailboxes
This video provides some answers to the question we’ve heard a lot – How can you provide large mailboxes in the service at such a low cost? In the video, I talk about some of the ways that enable us to...
View ArticleImmutability in Exchange
In this video we spend some time talking about an aspect of our archiving and compliance story for Exchange on-premises and the service. Specifically, if you do decide to take advantage of the...
View ArticleMoving Mailboxes with the Mailbox Replication Service
Welcome back to lovely sunny Seattle/Redmond, figuratively speaking of course. This video is a discussion about our approach to moving mailboxes—the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS). Starting with...
View ArticleManaging Access to the Exchange Online Service
In this installment we talk a little bit about how we have built on the underlying RBAC infrastructure and PowerShell to enable zero elevated access in the service. This is a very important part of...
View ArticleNew Exchange Architecture
Well the new version of Exchange is almost ready to be released and the first MEC in a decade is starting in a few days! So we can actually start talking about what is in the next version of Exchange...
View ArticleSmart Indexing in the New Exchange
One of the big shifts that continues to reshape the software industry is the rapid drop in the cost of storage. These costs are dropping so rapidly that in addition to the absolute costs dropping...
View ArticleRunning a Secure Service
The Ask Perry blog is alive! In this edition I spend time discussing a topic I frequently hear from customers, "how do we run a secure Office 365 service". I am joined by my new host Julia White to...
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