Category Archives: Exchange 2010

Exchange Panel Session at TEC 2011

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I participated in an interesting panel sessions at TEC 2011 EMEA in Frankfurt on Tuesday. Panel sessions can be an embarrassment for both panelists and audience if no one asks any questions or the questions don’t contain sufficient meat to … Continue reading →

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Answering questions from SearchExchange about Office 365 deployments

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last week I sat down (in virtual terms) with Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com to discuss some questions arising from a recent survey that they had done of Exchange customers to determine their attitude to Office 365.  You can download … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 8, Exchange, and Digital Command Language

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The IT industry has a habit of refreshing itself by reusing ideas from the past. The recent news that Windows Server 8 will boast a much-enhanced array of PowerShell cmdlets and the ability to log onto servers via the web … Continue reading →

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PowerShell books for Exchange Administrators

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Following my post on why I think every Exchange administrator needs to know PowerShell, I was challenged to say what books someone should read to get up to speed on the topic. So here goes (click here to see my … Continue reading →

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Why Exchange Online Administrators need to understand PowerShell

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In my recent review of the free Microsoft Press ebook “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and collaborate virtually anywhere, anytime”, I concluded that the book was a curate’s egg for Exchange administrators. I’m not sure if the analogy worked for readers outside … Continue reading →

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Some light appears at the end of the tunnel in the strange case of Exchange, IE9, and MMC

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Tony Redmond

There’s been lots of debate about the issue that appears on computers running the Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 management console (EMC) after the installation of IE9.  The symptoms are described in the EHLO post of 9 September. Interestingly, the … Continue reading →

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Another looming fiasco because IE9 doesn’t work with MMC

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Just posted this blog to express some frustration on behalf of the Exchange technical community that Microsoft hasn’t been able to fix the problem that IE9 introduces for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Essentially, once IE9 is on a server or … Continue reading →

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Office 365 sessions at Fall Exchange Connections

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the factors that drives the selection of sessions for a conference is the kind of information that the conference organizers want to offer to attendees. In the case of Exchange Connections, that information is linked to Exchange Server. … Continue reading →

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Preparation continues for (last) Exchange 2010 Maestro event in October

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Just posted on WindowsITPro.com, some idle thoughts about the Exchange 2010 Maestro training event that Paul Robichaux, Brian Desmond, and I will be running in Greenwich, CT on October 26-28. This will probably be the last such event – see … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Messaging Records Management strategy still evolving

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

New blog post on WindowsITPro.com. Basically sine comments about the evolution of MRM since Exchange 2007 and how the strategy changed in Exchange 2010 (with MRM 2.0) and Exchange 2010 SP1 (changes to the UI and how the Managed Folder … Continue reading →

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