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.

Microsoft tells BPOS customers to wait until they can be migrated to Office 365

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I just made this blog post on WindowsITPro.com. It reflects on some issues raised by Microsoft’s August 7 post on TechNet that explains that basic steps required to migrate an organization manually from BPOS to Office 365. If you are … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Messaging Records Management strategy still evolving

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

New blog post on WindowsITPro.com. Basically sine comments about the evolution of MRM since Exchange 2007 and how the strategy changed in Exchange 2010 (with MRM 2.0) and Exchange 2010 SP1 (changes to the UI and how the Managed Folder … Continue reading →

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Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Office Filter Pack 2010

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Tony Redmond

New blog entry posted on WindowsITPro.com – ramblings about the update that Microsoft has released for the Office Filter Pack 2010 and its importance to Exchange 2010 as a whole. The IFilters in the pack can obviously be used with … Continue reading →

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The plight of the mother bat

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the joys of a house in the country is the wildlife that occasionally make an appearance. Bats are common visitors as they roost under the eaves of the house and behind doors. I haven’t quite worked out what … Continue reading →

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A move to WindowsITPro.com

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been associated with Windows IT Pro Magazine for many years – certainly as far back as 1997 and perhaps beforehand. My memory isn’t too good at this point and many articles have flowed under the bridge since. In any … Continue reading →

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G-Mailman video from Microsoft

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In my post about the positioning and marketing wars between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps, I discussed the fact that the battle between Microsoft and Google is likely to be a tad dirty at times. I therefore wasn’t surprised … Continue reading →

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An interesting ZDNet comparison between Google Apps and Office 365

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The guest commentary by Louis Naugès posted on ZDNet (July 25, 2011) that compares Google Apps and Office 365 poses some interesting questions that deserve attention. Louis is the co-founder and chief cloud evangelist of international Google Apps integrator Revevol and is an admitted Google … Continue reading →

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Useful Visio stencil for Exchange 2010 SP1

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft has made an updated Microsoft Office Visio stencil for Exchange 2010 SP1 available for download. As you can see from the screen capture, a wide variety of shapes is available in the stencil including some for Windows components (Active Directory, … Continue reading →

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Avoiding outdated addresses during a migration to the cloud

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of my current projects is to help a large multinational move from Exchange 2007 to a dedicated instance of Microsoft BPOS running Exchange 2010. BPOS is having some woes of its own with yet another outage causing disruption to … Continue reading →

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Microsoft embarrassed by Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On July 13, Microsoft took the decision to withdraw Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 (the fourth roll-up update for SP1). As you’re aware, a roll-up update (RU) is a regular release of the patches and other fixes that Microsoft has accumulated for … Continue reading →

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