Category Archives: Exchange

Managing offline access for Outlook Web App

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Offline access is one of the premier new features offered by Outlook Web App (OWA) in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online. I have had the need to use OWA offline many times and think it is a very usable client, … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – May 2015

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

May was the month of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago. I’ve already provided my impressions of that event in another post, so I won’t rehash the topic here. There’s no doubt a lot of content was delivered at Ignite … Continue reading →

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Write some code and you can influence DAG failovers (for now anyway…)

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Tony Redmond

A recent debate on the Exchange 2013 (unofficial) Facebook group started off with the question “can I built my own failover criteria in a DAG?” and pointed to the TechNet page on Active Manager. The debate began with sheer denials, … Continue reading →

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Using PowerShell to convert Exchange Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Tony Redmond

At last week’s Microsoft Ignite conference, I had the chance of attending a session called “Evolving distribution lists with Office 365 Groups” (a recording of the session is available online). The session described the integration with Outlook 2016 (no plans … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – April 2015

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

April was a very busy month. First, Microsoft had a lot of conferences to attend and therefore had many announcements to make. It seemed like every marketing manager had something to say, so we had a blizzard of announcements that … Continue reading →

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Fixing a “FailedAndSuspended” content index for an Exchange 2013 database

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Tony Redmond

For space reasons, this text is another bit that was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. FWIW, here it is… Imagine my annoyance when I ran the Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus cmdlet on a test Exchange 2013 server … Continue reading →

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Preparing to launch “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Tony Redmond

As you might know, we closed off the formal writing phase for “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” on April 15 to be sure that we would have books available for the first day of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago … Continue reading →

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Office 365 for Exchange Professionals: The book is built!

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been asked what exactly is in Office 365 for Exchange Professionals, the eBook designed to help Exchange on-premises administrators understand how to transition workload to the cloud. Well, as the eBook has been built to be ready for distribution … Continue reading →

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Exchange/Office 365 MVP sessions at Ignite

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Many people have asked me to recommend some sessions to go to at Microsoft Ignite (a good planning tool to build your own schedule is available online). With nearly 800 sessions to select from over five days, there’s enough going … Continue reading →

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Ignite sessions and after-hours events

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft’s Ignite conference takes place in Chicago from May 4-8. I will be presenting twice. During the first session, I’ll examine the path taken to move workload from Exchange on-premises deployments to Office 365, including a discussion about the bumps … Continue reading →

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