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.

Windows Server 8, Exchange, and Digital Command Language

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The IT industry has a habit of refreshing itself by reusing ideas from the past. The recent news that Windows Server 8 will boast a much-enhanced array of PowerShell cmdlets and the ability to log onto servers via the web … Continue reading →

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PowerShell books for Exchange Administrators

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Following my post on why I think every Exchange administrator needs to know PowerShell, I was challenged to say what books someone should read to get up to speed on the topic. So here goes (click here to see my … Continue reading →

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Why Exchange Online Administrators need to understand PowerShell

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In my recent review of the free Microsoft Press ebook “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and collaborate virtually anywhere, anytime”, I concluded that the book was a curate’s egg for Exchange administrators. I’m not sure if the analogy worked for readers outside … Continue reading →

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Some light appears at the end of the tunnel in the strange case of Exchange, IE9, and MMC

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Tony Redmond

There’s been lots of debate about the issue that appears on computers running the Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 management console (EMC) after the installation of IE9.  The symptoms are described in the EHLO post of 9 September. Interestingly, the … Continue reading →

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Creaking Office 365 infrastructure caused by Microsoft success?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last April I was in sunny Las Vegas for “The Experts Conference” (TEC). While there, I reported on a keynote given by Kevin Allison, the General Manager for Exchange Customer Experience. Kevin discussed the challenges of developing a single product … Continue reading →

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Bad week for cloud services, but at least RWC 2011 has started!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Tony Redmond

It hasn’t been a great week all round for cloud services. On Wednesday, Google Docs had an outage that lasted anything from 30 minutes to an hour, frustrating users who couldn’t do any work because all their data was “in … Continue reading →

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Be careful when you use BCCs

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve just posted a mea cupla to WindowsITPro.com describing a recent embarrassing situation that I caused for myself by copying someone as a BCC recipient on a note sent to a confidential distribution list. That person then promptly sent a note … Continue reading →

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Have hosting companies a future competing against Office 365?

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft has a habit of introducing products that suddenly set a new price point for a market. The best example I can offer is SharePoint 2001. Prior to its launch, products that allowed enterprises to build portals that allowed users … Continue reading →

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I never knew that my thoughts on Exchange and Office 365 were quite so fluent in German

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The nice people from Quest have been kind enough to invite me to give a keynote at the European edition of “The Experts Conference” (TEC), which is scheduled for October 17-19 in Frankfurt. As part of the event, they asked … Continue reading →

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Offline Gmail returns but doesn’t make Microsoft quiver (too much)

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Yesterday Google relaunched offline access for Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. The new HTML5-based capability replaces the previous functionality built using Google Gears. Gmail is the first application to get an upgrade in the form of a Chrome application that can … Continue reading →

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