Category Archives: Email

Exchange 2013 workload management controls how the Mailbox Replication service uses system resources

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Tony Redmond

One of the more important changes for the Mailbox Replication service (MRS) in Exchange 2013 that I discovered when researching content for “Microsoft Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability” is how the function of the MRS configuration file has … Continue reading →

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Setting server diagnostic levels in Exchange 2013

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The ability to set diagnostics at different levels for the various components that function on an Exchange server has always existed. From Exchange 4.0 to Exchange 2003 you set diagnostic levels through the management console by selecting the component (for example, … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 improves USG management through EAC and OWA

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 SP1 made a change to limit the ability to make changes to universal security groups (USGs) via the Exchange Management Console (EMC), which meant that administrators were no longer able to use EMC to amend USG membership, a side-effect … Continue reading →

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Reporting delegate access to Exchange mailboxes

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Tony Redmond

All current versions of Exchange 2013 (up to and including CU6) and Exchange Online (Office 365) contain a bug that can compromise the ability of companies to comply with discovery orders. The bug means that a user can remove items … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – August 2014

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I spent a lot of August in France but that didn’t stop the constant demand for new content to appear in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what was published during the month. Exchange 2013 CU6 hybrid and co-existence … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Inbox Clutter – with or without vacations

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The news that Daimler has decided to implement software that deletes email received by users when they are on vacation might make other companies believe that such a course is a very good thing. After all, you’re not supposed to … Continue reading →

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Retention policies: the fat-busters of the Exchange world

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange messaging records management (or MRM for those who deal in acronyms) has long been an interest of mine, if only because it seems to me that it makes a heap of sense to have some intelligence that processes user … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – July 2014

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Another month has gone by and it was a busy one for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. I published thirteen posts covering everything from the thorny question of just how many paid subscribers Microsoft has for Office 365 to some … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – June 2014

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Tony Redmond

June 2014 was an interesting month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com as the material covered was pretty diverse as we went from platforms like Azure to storage firmware and all points in between. See what you think! Why running … Continue reading →

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Increasing Office 365 integration poses challenges for hosters and on-premises customers

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Tony Redmond

It seems to me that a fundamental transformation is occurring within the Office 365 datacenters that has some consequences for those who offer alternate hosted services as well as on-premises customers. And it’s all to do with the level of … Continue reading →

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