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.

The dirty little secret about migration to modern public folders

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Have you heard about a migration to modern public folders that has gone well? I haven’t. Apart that is from the demo migrations that appear at trade shows and conferences to show that all is well and that Microsoft hasn’t … Continue reading →

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Improve Exchange – voice your ideas now

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Following up the request for input for an interview with Perry Clarke, Microsoft VP for Exchange development (the interview is this coming Friday, and I will publish the result on my Exchange Unwashed blog), a number of the Exchange MVPs … Continue reading →

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Security updates for Exchange December 2013

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Updated: 10 December. As anticipated, Microsoft released a set of security bulletins on Tuesday, December 10. Among the set, MS13-105 addresses a number of vulnerabilities in Exchange 2007, 2010, and 2013. The following updates have been released: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2013

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Tony Redmond

November 2013 was quite a month for me. I was all set to go to the annual Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond when I had a sudden and so far unexplained collapse (kind of like a personal reboot) on November … Continue reading →

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Using an intelligent Twitter stream to keep up to date

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I am often asked how I track new developments and information about Exchange, Office 365, Windows or the other technologies in which I am interested. My response is “by using Twitter intelligently”. There’s no doubt that an extraordinary amount of … Continue reading →

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Contemplating Yammer

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft’s $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer in June 2012 is now starting to get traction as the technology becomes more integrated with the rest of the Office suite. Officially described as an internal social network, Yammer is sometimes compared to … Continue reading →

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Review of the bug fixes included in Exchange 2013 CU3

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Now that Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) has made its appearance (a little delayed to make sure that quality is high), it seems appropriate to review the set of bug fixes included in the update as reported by Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Evolving Office 365 monitoring tools

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been playing around with the Office 365 Admin app, now available for Windows Phone 8 and due to be available “soon” for Android and Apple iPhone. Think of the Windows Phone users like myself as the advanced beta testers … Continue reading →

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Best-ever Exchange Unified Messaging book now available

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I see that Paul Robichaux’s “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out: Connectivity, Clients, and UM (Unified Messaging)” has finally made an appearance on Amazon.com. This is the companion volume to my “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High … Continue reading →

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The dubious value of LinkedIn endorsements

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Allow me to pose a simple question: what value does anyone get from the endorsements lovingly gathered and displayed (with no little amount of pride) by LinkedIn? I ask myself this in light of some of the endorsements given to … Continue reading →

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