Author Archives: Tony Redmond

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About Tony Redmond

Lead author for the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook and writer about all aspects of the Office 365 ecosystem.

Creating a new address list for Exchange Online (Office 365)

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Tony Redmond

A question was posed in the Exchange IT Pro group of Microsoft’s Office 365 Network: “Is there any way I can add folders to directory on Outlook for example add a folder “staff” for users to click it and all … Continue reading →

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Should we spend less time discussing software bugs?

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Is there a vague possibility that the technical community spends too much time complaining about software bugs? This rather startling proposition came up during a discussion with Paul Cunningham, of ExchangeServerPro fame. Paul remarked that we seem to spend a … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2013 and site mailboxes

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Although the new-and-interesting Office 365 Groups have taken some of the shine and luster off site mailboxes in terms of the collaboration options that are now available in Office 365, some companies have site mailboxes deployed because they like the way that … Continue reading →

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Good and bad in the new Outlook for Mac

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Being an Office for Mac 2011 user is sometimes hard. Really hard. And not just because Office for Mac 2011 is so far behind its Windows counterpart in terms of functionality, it’s also because its applications like Outlook for Mac … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – October 2014

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Tony Redmond

October 2014 was an interesting month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. I had the chance to write about some new technology (Delve), old technology (Exchange 2003 mega-clusters), bad technology (Chrome bugs), and current technology (various posts). All in all, … Continue reading →

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How to report spam that arrives in Office 365 to Microsoft

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Ten years ago, Bill Gates told the World Economic Forum that the problem of spam would be solved within two years (by 2006). To be fair to Gates, he also noted that his predictions have not always been on the … Continue reading →

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AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 uses AQS (Advanced Search Syntax) to construct its discovery searches. Exchange 2013 takes a difference approach and uses KQL (keyword query language). Why the change? AQS is shared with other Windows search components such as Windows Desktop Search. … Continue reading →

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Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Tony Redmond

A question from a reader is often a good start to a useful discussion or to probe into a topic. Tim Read contacted me to discuss some problems he had with using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet (available in cloud and on-premises … Continue reading →

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The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft introduced the rather useful cmdlet set of Set-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration and Get-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration a long time ago (Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4 – August 2012). As you might recall, these cmdlets allow an administrator to exert control over where Exchange stores copies of messages sent by delegates. What’s … Continue reading →

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Recoverable Items and Calendar Versioning

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Keeping track of calendar items such as meetings to ensure that a definitive version of the item is available is sometimes hard to do, especially when multiple clients or multiple users access a calendar. Exchange 2010 made architectural changes in … Continue reading →

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