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.

Exchange 2010 SP2: Not the headline release that SP1 was


As part of their announcements at TechEd, Microsoft revealed the worst secret in the Exchange world and told us that they’re working on Exchange 2010 SP2. The software is still in a restricted beta and won’t be available for some time … Continue reading

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Updated virtualization guidelines for Exchange 2010


On May 16, Microsoft took advantage of the start of TechEd North America (the marketing folks always like to have news to reveal at major conferences) to make a significant announcement about virtualization support for Exchange 2010. The two biggest … Continue reading

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Managing Office 365 with the one true shell


Exchange administrators have known since the release of Exchange 2007 that only wimps seek the soft comfort of the GUI-rich Exchange Management Console (EMC) when they attempt to manage servers, mailboxes, or other objects. Exchange Online, part of Office 365, … Continue reading

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Excluding disclaimers for encrypted or signed messages


In a recent post, I described the basic approach to building an Exchange 2010 transport rule to build corporate disclaimers containing Active Directory data and formatted nicely with HTML that are then appended to all outgoing messages. The approach works … Continue reading

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On email disclaimers


The April 7 article “Spare us the email yada-yada” published in The Economist provoked some consideration of how email disclaimers have evolved to a point where they have become one of the “minor nuisances of modern office life”, mostly because the … Continue reading

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San Diego Maestro


We’ve just wrapped up the Exchange 2010 Maestro seminar in San Diego and everyone is making their way home after a pretty exhausting three days. Wednesday was particularly tough with an early start at 8am finishing up with a presentation … Continue reading

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Rugby, weapons, and conferences


Lots has been happening over the past two weeks with trips to Las Vegas to speak at “The Experts Conference” (TEC), Flayosc (south of France) for some vacation, and England for rugby. It’s time to consider some of the incidents … Continue reading

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Free Exchange 2010 Seminar in Dublin


If you’re interested in Exchange 2010 and are in Dublin on May 11, you can register for a free seminar that I will be speaking at on the topic of practical and economic issues that influence the decision to deploy … Continue reading

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An ActiveSync logo compliance program: How nice!


On April 13, Microsoft announced details of their ActiveSync logo compliance program. While it’s taken me a little while to comment (other things go in the way), I think this is a good idea because it should rein in the … Continue reading

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Two conferences call for sessions for Fall 2011


The two conferences that cover topics of interest to Exchange, including Exchange itself, SharePoint, and Windows, have issued calls for sessions for their Fall conferences. TEC’s Fall event is in Frankfurt, Germany from 17-19 October while Fall Connections is in … Continue reading

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