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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.

MEC 2012 Agenda appears (eventually)

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Behind the scenes I have been critical of the folks organizing MEC as I consider them to have been too slow to publish the agenda listing speakers and session content for a conference that’s coming up very soon (49 days, according … Continue reading →

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Ferry to St-Tropez; the easiest way to get there during the summer months

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Tony Redmond

If you holiday on the French Riviera during the summer, you’ll know that the road from Ste-Maxime to St-Tropez can be one of life’s miseries as traffic moves at the pace of a diffident snail en route home from a … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed blog digest June-July 2012

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Tony Redmond

I was remiss in not posting a digest of June articles so here’s a bumper edition listing all of the articles posted to WindowsITPro.com during June and July. In passing, I should also point to my 4,000-word plus in-depth review … Continue reading →

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How much is your email worth?

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Tony Redmond

The nice people at Backupify have created a Gmail value calculator to help solve the question that I know has been keeping everyone awake at night: “Just how much is the email in my Gmail account worth?” Apparently the answer … Continue reading →

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Farewell EMC, welcome EAC – the end of Windows-based Exchange administration

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Tony Redmond

In a conference room in Redmond, WA last February, Microsoft revealed to a group of Exchange MVPs that Exchange 2013 would only include a browser-based administration client. The era of traditional Microsoft Management Console (MMC)-based UIs such as the Exchange … Continue reading →

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Countdown accelerates to Microsoft Exchange Conference – worth attending?

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Tony Redmond

As I write, there are 67 days to go before the new, improved, and so much better Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) returns after its ten-year hiatus. Even though I have attending far too many IT conferences in Orlando, I’ll be … Continue reading →

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The ALL-IN-1 Mail Filter: Forerunner of modern email rules processing

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Email systems had a different ebb and flow twenty-five years ago. An average mailbox received perhaps 10-15 messages daily and the messages were simpler with fewer attachments and properties. Most messages were in the order of one printed page or … Continue reading →

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Sanity slowing coming into focus in patent wars

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Tony Redmond

Patents have been a lucrative source of highly profitable income for the technology companies that have accumulated sizable portfolios over the years. Companies earn income by licensing their patents to other companies or by prosecuting others who are felt to … Continue reading →

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Computing survey reports on UK market – 2% still using Exchange 2000?

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Tony Redmond

The U.K. is Microsoft’s largest subsidiary and has always been an important and mature market for Exchange Server. The results of a survey about the pace of transition to Exchange 2010 reported by the well-respected Computing magazine are therefore interesting … Continue reading →

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Adieu Minitel

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Tony Redmond

France turned off its Minitel service on June 30, thirty years after the little beige boxes first appeared in French homes. Apparently almost 800,000 devices were still in use when the time came to flip the switch from the maximum … Continue reading →

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