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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.

Does a suspended mailbox move request expire?

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Tony Redmond

A discussion on this point recently took place via the Exchange MVP mailing list. It doesn’t contain anything secret and I think it’s worth documenting for the benefit of others, so here goes… As you might know from this post … Continue reading →

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Spring Connections 2011

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been attending Connections events for years, mostly since the demise of the late lamented Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC). While MEC was an official Microsoft conference and so benefited from the Microsoft marketing muscle and access to engineers and program … Continue reading →

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Beware the effects of enabling an Exchange 2010 archive mailbox

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The introduction of archive mailboxes is one of the major new features offered by Exchange 2010. Matters are substantially improved in Exchange 2010 SP1 as it supports the separation of a user’s primary mailbox and their archive mailbox across different … Continue reading →

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Exchange in the Cloud

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I wrote this text as a “web-only chapter” for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, (also available at Amazon.co.uk and as a Kindle edition, with other e-book formats for the book are available from the O’Reilly web site). Unfortunately the chapter … Continue reading →

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Installing an Exchange 2010 Roll-up Update

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft announced roll-up update 2 (RU2) for Exchange 2010 SP1 amongst the set of updates for different versions of Exchange that the CXP team released in December 2010. I believe that CXP means “customer experience”; in previous times this team … Continue reading →

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On the naming of DAGs

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Most Exchange administrators, even those who don’t have much hands-on experience with Exchange 2010, are now aware that the Database Availability Group (DAG) feature is built on Windows 2008 failover clusters. Exchange 2010 does an excellent job of hiding the … Continue reading →

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Removing mailbox export and import requests

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 SP1 introduces a new cmdlet set to handle mailbox export requests to avoid the previous requirement to install Outlook on mailbox servers. With SP1 you can run the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet to create a request for the Mailbox Replication … Continue reading →

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Tales of the unproductive TMO

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Tony Redmond

I fear that I am the most unproductive TMO in rugby. The last six matches that I have been involved in have seen just one potential try decision referred to me (480 minutes for one decision, very low productivity). I … Continue reading →

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Cameras and the TMO

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Following on my post describing some of the challenges facing officials engaged in professional rugby, I received some notes asking me what kind of TV camera angles are available to a TMO when they are asked by a referee to give … Continue reading →

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One or two NICs?

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Tony Redmond

During the development of Exchange 2010, Microsoft originally required that any mailbox server participating in a Database Availability Group (DAG) had to be equipped with at least two NICs (Network Interface Controllers). One NIC handles “MAPI” or client traffic; the … Continue reading →

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