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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 Public Folders: Part 2

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Tony Redmond

This content comes from a chapter removed from my book Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, also available at Amazon.co.uk (including a Kindle edition). The first part of the chapter is available in this post. Now let’s get on with some … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 SP1: Protecting data with a BSOD

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In conversation with an administrator of one of the world’s largest Exchange 2010 deployments, we talked about new Store behaviour in Exchange 2010 SP1 that can lead to Exchange forcing an abrupt termination of the server (a blue screen of … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 Maestro training in San Diego, London, and Greenwich, CT

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

**** Registration now open **** See details below **** Paul Robichaux and I will be running three more Exchange 2010 Maestro seminars in San Diego, London (UK), and Greenwich, CT in May, June, and October. The site that we use … Continue reading →

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Lies, vile lies, and statistics

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I was in the middle of a perfectly pleasant briefing on some high availability solutions last week when a slide was presented that asserted that “32% of recovery operations fail”. The statistic apparently came from research done by a market … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 Public Folders: Part 1

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Tony Redmond

This content comes from a chapter removed from my book Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, also available at Amazon.co.uk (including a Kindle edition). For space reasons to keep the book to a reasonable size, the chapter on public folders was … Continue reading →

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Super deal: Exchange 2010 Best Practices and Inside Out bundle

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Amazon.com has released the Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Kit: Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out & Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices books priced at $56.69. This seems like a great price for two books covering Exchange 2010 in more … Continue reading →

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Using Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2010

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I like Outlook 2003 a lot, mostly because it was the client that liberated users from the tyranny of extended synchronization sessions, often over a spotty dial-up connection, just to collect some new messages. In the bad old days pre-Outlook … Continue reading →

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Predictions for 2011: The Exchange Market

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On Tuesday, I had an interesting call with Matt Gervais of TechTarget to discuss my views on what will happen for the Exchange market in 2011. Matt is busy talking to some other folks and will share his best assessment … Continue reading →

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First appearance of an Exchange 2010 Messaging Appliance

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On January 19, 2011 HP and Microsoft announced the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange. The name is a mouthful but the important point is the creation of a solution designed to make Exchange 2010 easier to deploy. This … Continue reading →

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Where’s the 32-bit version of Exchange 2010?

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One question that Exchange administrators often ask me is how they can get a 32-bit version of Exchange 2010. Microsoft first moved Exchange to a 64-bit platform in Exchange 2007 but they also issued a 32-bit version to be used … Continue reading →

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