Category Archives: Email

Exchange Unwashed Digest – April 2014

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Tony Redmond

If only because it started with the last two days of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), April 2014 was quite a month for the Exchange community. Here’s what I discussed during the month in my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. … Continue reading →

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What Microsoft needs to do to fix modern public folders

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The amiable Kanika Ramji, program manager for Exchange public folders, might have gulped a little when she saw the packed crowd at the “Experts Unplugged” session covering Exchange’s longest-lasting and most-persistent collaboration technology at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) on … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest: March 2014

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Tony Redmond

March 2014 saw a lot of preparatory effort for the Microsoft Exchange Conference in Austin, which took place at the end of the month. However, before we got to MEC, we had to cope with a late breaking bug for … Continue reading →

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The colorful side of MEC 2014: All the stuff that makes a conference

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Tony Redmond

What can I say about the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) that recently finished in Austin? Lots of blogs and other comments have already been posted, including my assessment of the messages contained in the day 1 keynote, the splendor of … Continue reading →

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SQL 2014’s link to Exchange 4.0

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Tony Redmond

It was nice to read the memories of ex-Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Hal Berenson in a post about SQL 2014’s delayed durability feature. Like me, Hal used to work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he specialized on database engineering. He tells … Continue reading →

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User interfaces are no way to assess Google vs Office 365

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I’m always interested when companies put their technologists forward as the public face of the company’s expertise in different areas. The idea is that the technologist will wow the readership with deep insights into technology that causes the readers to … Continue reading →

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Talking Exchange 2013 on RunAs Radio

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Last week I chatted with Richard Campbell, the genial host of RunAs Radio, about the release of Exchange 2013 SP1, why companies wait for the first service pack to appear before they consider deploying a Microsoft server application, the best … Continue reading →

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Tony Redmond’s Guide to MEC 2014 sessions

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Happy St. Patrick’s Day… Some of you have been kind enough to ask what sessions I will be attending at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC). I assume this is because you don’t want to bump into me, which is totally … Continue reading →

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Twenty-five years chasing the dream of enterprise social networking

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The fuss around Microsoft’s announcement of “the enterprise network and the future of work” at the SharePoint Conference (SPC14) in Las Vegas this week reminded me that we have been seeking to extract better information about the complex interconnections that … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2014

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The big news in February 2014 was the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (build 847.32), the much-awaited version long deemed as “the” software worthy for deployment in many corporate environments. SP1 includes many new features and … Continue reading →

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