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.

Progress towards publication: Exchange 2010 SP1 “Inside Out” Book


My Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book is slowly taking shape. Now that Microsoft has released SP1 (August 25, 2010), the code is finalized, which makes things much easier all round. To give you an insight into the work … Continue reading

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Losing faith in HP laptops


My faith in HP laptops is going through a crisis of confidence due to a series of failures or faults experienced by the collection of laptops within the family as well as my top comparison gaming laptops. In the last … Continue reading

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Making salt from sea water


An article in the Irish Times (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2010/0703/1224273550711.html) provoked a thought that we should take advantage of being close to the Atlantic Ocean and bring some salt water home to see if we could make some sea salt. I duly went … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 Best Practices Book now available


Microsoft Press/O’Reilly have just published the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices (also available from Amazon.co.uk) book by Siegfried Jagott and Joel Stidley. I had some involvement in this book as I was the technical editor for roughly half the … Continue reading

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Ailebrack


Some folks from California arrived to visit us in Ireland and created the immediate question of “what to do”? As we live in Dublin, it’s an easy call to have them spend a day looking around the city but Dublin … Continue reading

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A small increase


As discussed in earlier posts, Microsoft Press had some concern about the size of my Exchange 2010 SP1 book as the submitted manuscript amounted to some 1,600 pages. They asked me to reduce the size to 1,100 pages and I … Continue reading

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Some good French restaurants


A number of excellent dinners in restaurants across France enlivened our trip as we meandered from Normandy to Paris to Chamonix to the Cote d’Azur and back again. In date order these were: Le Mascaret in Blainville –sur-Mer (Normandy): This … Continue reading

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VM machine requirements for Exchange 2010 training


Some people who have browsed the announcement of the Exchange 2010 training that Paul Robichaux and I are doing in Boston and Anaheim in October (http://events.left-brain.com/EssentialsWorkshops/Exchange2010.aspx?code=WP520XAT) have noted this small but very important section at the end of the page: … Continue reading

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Selecting a book about technology


Recently, a question was posed on the Exchange MVP mailing list about what books people would recommend to help technologists get up to speed with Exchange 2010. Clearly this is a topic that I am both interested in and have … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 (SP1) Training in Boston and Anaheim


The first Exchange training that I organized was held in Dublin in 1996. On behalf of Digital Equipment’s European Messaging Team, I asked Microsoft to send over their best trainer and they obliged. The training was not a happy event … Continue reading

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