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.

Quick but important survey about Exchange 2010 licensing

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Paul Robichaux caused some ripples in the calm waters of Microsoft licensing when he wrote about a question that he had received from a Windows IT Pro Magazine reader. The reader was upgrading an Exchange 2003 deployment to Exchange 2010 … Continue reading →

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Chatting about Exchange 2010 SP2 and Office 365 with Matt Gervais

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last week, Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com, tracked me down in France to chat about my views about Exchange 2010 SP2, Office 365, virtualizing Exchange, and whether Exchange administrators are threatened by the cloud. Matt captured our conversation in … Continue reading →

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Wandering down through France

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Tony Redmond

It was time to head back from Ireland to France. This time we decided to take the ferry from Rosslare to Roscoff on the basis that the route was shorter and we’d spend less time cooped up on the boat … Continue reading →

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Office 365: Launch on June 28

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The invitations have been printed and Steve Ballmer is making the final touches to the PowerPoint that he’s scheduled to present at Microsoft’s formal launch of Office 365. The grand event takes place in New York City on June 28 … Continue reading →

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Has an email disclaimer any legal effect?

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On May 7, I posted about the Economist article “Spare us the email yada-yada” that asserted that email disclaimers have no legal effect. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway subsequently waded into the debate on June 5 with her column that … Continue reading →

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Filers verus Pilers

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Many moons ago, good filing habits were deemed to be an important part of office life. Documents had to be correctly placed in the right folder and carefully deposited in a file cabinet to allow the office to operate properly. … Continue reading →

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Hotmail’s ActiveSync support

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Tony Redmond

For as long as I have been using an iPhone, I have been frustrated by the inability of Hotmail to support a modern email access protocol. Hotmail seemed to be fixed in the mists of time at a point where … Continue reading →

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Musing on searching

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The publication of the post by the Exchange team to reveal the secret registry instruction to allow multi-mailbox searches to interrogate more than 25,000 mailboxes got me thinking. First,  I thought that the era of registry hacks was over for … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Microsoft Certified Master accreditation

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On May 16, Microsoft announced that the exams that lead to accreditation as a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Exchange 2010 will be available in centers worldwide. This development, similar to the announcement about MCM for SQL made in late … Continue reading →

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HP releases videos about E5000 messaging system

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last February, Paul Robichaux, Brian Desmond and I were invited by HP to come to Cupertino to look over the HP E5000 messaging system. Over two days we had the chance to quiz Dean Steadman, the HP product manager, and … Continue reading →

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