Category Archives: Cloud

Adapting Exchange on-premises scripts for Exchange Online

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Since the introduction of PowerShell in the form of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) in Exchange 2007, many scripts have been written to ease the burden of Exchange administration by automating common operations. Microsoft has broadened the scope and depth … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2013

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Statistics show that 118 new posts appeared on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com during 2013. I was responsible for the good posts and am unsure as to the author of anything that was rubbish. Here’s what happened during December … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2013

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Tony Redmond

November 2013 was quite a month for me. I was all set to go to the annual Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond when I had a sudden and so far unexplained collapse (kind of like a personal reboot) on November … Continue reading →

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Using an intelligent Twitter stream to keep up to date

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I am often asked how I track new developments and information about Exchange, Office 365, Windows or the other technologies in which I am interested. My response is “by using Twitter intelligently”. There’s no doubt that an extraordinary amount of … Continue reading →

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Evolving Office 365 monitoring tools

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been playing around with the Office 365 Admin app, now available for Windows Phone 8 and due to be available “soon” for Android and Apple iPhone. Think of the Windows Phone users like myself as the advanced beta testers … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed blog digest October 2013

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tony Redmond

October began with the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas and ended with some thoughts on whether to go to TechEd or MEC next year. In between, I contemplated some of the questions raised by attendees at Exchange Connections as … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest: August 2013

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Tony Redmond

August proved to be quite an entertaining month in terms of the topics that were available to be covered in Exchange Unwashed. Here’s my take on the posts: The sad, curious, and brain-dead demise of TechNet subscriptions (August 1): While … Continue reading →

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Why are people surprised when Google uses their data?

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Tony Redmond

I’m not sure that the degree of shock being expressed within the press about Google “reading” email is altogether justified. A good example is the London Guardian’s headline of “Don’t expect privacy when sending to Gmail”, arising from a defense … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed digest for July 2013

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Tony Redmond

July – hot summer (or so it should be) – and vacations. But the need to publish posts on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com continues, so here’s what appeared in July. Interesting approach to public folder support in Outlook … Continue reading →

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Microsoft cloud revenues and investments

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Two recent reports attracted my attention. First, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer noted that Microsoft runs more than one million servers in its datacenters. Second, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said that Office 365 revenues are now running at … Continue reading →

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