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.

Do PSTs contain anything of value?

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In musing about the news of the PST Capture tool that Microsoft plans to release soon, I started to consider the question of whether tools like this can actually find and recover any useful information. The worry of executives and lawyers … Continue reading →

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Moving a database between DAGs

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

A recent email discussion between MVPs focused on a topic that I totally missed in my Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book (also available at Amazon.co.uk), so think of this as an update to chapter 7. The problem arises after you set … Continue reading →

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On PST ingestion: Microsoft brings a new tool to the table but…

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Today’s announcement that the Microsoft Exchange development group plans to release a tool to allow administrators to discover Personal Storage (PST) files on a network and then import the data into Exchange 2010 on-premises servers or Exchange Online (Office 365) … Continue reading →

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A day walking the Somme battlefields

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been interested in the battles that flowed across France in both World Wars for many years. My interest was partially awakened by spending time close to the D-Day beaches in Normandy but I also had the chance to live … Continue reading →

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European Office 365 datacenters exposed to U.S. authorities?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Tony Redmond

After the razzmatazz of the corporate Office 365 launch in NYC faded, local Microsoft subsidiaries around the world did their own thing to brief journalists and introduce details of local offerings, such as link-ups with telcos to deliver Office 365 packaged … Continue reading →

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Ballmer launches Office 365

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Tony Redmond

For the fun of it and because I had some spare time, I tuned into the Microsoft launch of Office 365 in NYC via the web. The content was pretty much as you’d expect from a Microsoft event: Marketing person … Continue reading →

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Interesting price differences for Office 365 accounts

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Due to be formally launched in NYC on Tuesday, June 28, there’s no doubt that Microsoft has had enormous success with its Office 365 beta program. Depending on whom you talk to, tens of millions of people signed up to … Continue reading →

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Generating Exchange 2010 reports with PowerShell

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Tony Redmond

From time to time, someone in the Exchange community outside the Exchange development group comes up with a contribution that adds an enormous amount to many different deployments. I think that the PowerShell script posted by Steve Goodman on his … Continue reading →

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“The Register” runs ESEUTIL to rescue an Exchange 2003 server

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Tony Redmond

It’s nice to see that “The Register” continues to support Exchange 2003 administrators with advice such as that offered in the article “Help my Exchange server just rebooted” posted on June 18, 2011.I’m assuming that the article was about Exchange … Continue reading →

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Measuring Outlook 2010 network latency

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the truths often overlooked by those who wish to rush into the cloud is that the characteristics of their network will change dramatically. Some of the traffic that is currently processed internally will have to be channeled out … Continue reading →

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