Category Archives: Office 365

I wish I’d spent more on redundant network components…

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The outfall from last week’s networking failure that stopped service to Exchange users of Microsoft’s Office 365 in North America rumbles on. My rambling on the topic is some reflections on just how much a network outage has cost Microsoft … Continue reading →

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BPOS and Office 365 cloud outages – not quite nirvana yet

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last night (my time) TweetDeck exploded with a mass of customer complaints, observations, witticisms, and moaning about the problems that afflicted the Exchange Online component of Office 365. On this occasion I wasn’t affected because the network problem that Microsoft … 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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Microsoft tells BPOS customers to wait until they can be migrated to Office 365

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I just made this blog post on WindowsITPro.com. It reflects on some issues raised by Microsoft’s August 7 post on TechNet that explains that basic steps required to migrate an organization manually from BPOS to Office 365. If you are … Continue reading →

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A move to WindowsITPro.com

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been associated with Windows IT Pro Magazine for many years – certainly as far back as 1997 and perhaps beforehand. My memory isn’t too good at this point and many articles have flowed under the bridge since. In any … Continue reading →

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G-Mailman video from Microsoft

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In my post about the positioning and marketing wars between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps, I discussed the fact that the battle between Microsoft and Google is likely to be a tad dirty at times. I therefore wasn’t surprised … Continue reading →

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An interesting ZDNet comparison between Google Apps and Office 365

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The guest commentary by Louis Naugès posted on ZDNet (July 25, 2011) that compares Google Apps and Office 365 poses some interesting questions that deserve attention. Louis is the co-founder and chief cloud evangelist of international Google Apps integrator Revevol and is an admitted Google … Continue reading →

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Avoiding outdated addresses during a migration to the cloud

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of my current projects is to help a large multinational move from Exchange 2007 to a dedicated instance of Microsoft BPOS running Exchange 2010. BPOS is having some woes of its own with yet another outage causing disruption to … Continue reading →

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Microsoft embarrassed by Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On July 13, Microsoft took the decision to withdraw Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 (the fourth roll-up update for SP1). As you’re aware, a roll-up update (RU) is a regular release of the patches and other fixes that Microsoft has accumulated for … Continue reading →

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On PST ingestion: Microsoft brings a new tool to the table but…

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Today’s announcement that the Microsoft Exchange development group plans to release a tool to allow administrators to discover Personal Storage (PST) files on a network and then import the data into Exchange 2010 on-premises servers or Exchange Online (Office 365) … Continue reading →

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