Nexus: News

Early last week an email was sent to all Nexus BlackBerry users whose devices had not made contact for at least three months. The responses (or non-delivery reports!) from those people have allowed a further clean-up of inactive users. Following this work … Continue reading →

All of the University’s domain names have to be added to Office 365 in order to use them with the service. This process has been hampered both by the sheer number of domains in use here and Microsoft’s decision to … Continue reading →

This message was appearing a little too often for my liking: In many cases this problem is caused by a feature known as Auto-Tuning. This is supposed to continually adjust TCP/IP receive window size based on the network conditions at any given moment. … Continue reading →

Microsoft have included spam-filtering in Exchange for many years, under the SmartScreen name. But from 1st November that will change: there’ll be no more updates and the feature won’t be included in new versions of Exchange Server. Updates for SmartScreen client-side spam-filtering … Continue reading →

This is some excellent advice on the subject of “When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?” https://twitter.com/bydanielvictor/status/771698039908

We have had a spate of spam making it into Nexus mailboxes recently, provoking a flurry of discourse on the ITSS-Discuss mailing list. To be able to stop spam more effectively there are some checks that IT Support Staff can … Continue reading →

Executive summary: Outlook 2016 users may find themselves disconnected when Autodiscover is not present for your  unit’s domain name. Over the last few months we have noticed a rise in the number of Outlook connectivity incidents reported to the helpdesk.  … Continue reading →

The Nexus team have maintained a BlackBerry Enterprise Server since the inception of the Nexus service. At its peak there were many hundreds of users for this service. For some time a BlackBerry handset was the mobile device of choice … Continue reading →

I’ve been setting up a new PC – a fresh installation of Windows 10 – and wanted to reconnect to my OneDrive for Business content. Windows 10 includes the client natively so there’s nothing to install. I pasted in the … Continue reading →

I needed to create a team calendar in SharePoint which, by default in SharePoint 2010, doesn’t give you an option for colour-coded categories. So, what follows is a workaround (and a bit of a faff, to be honest) but it … Continue reading →