Category Archives: Outlook

Be careful when you use BCCs

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve just posted a mea cupla to WindowsITPro.com describing a recent embarrassing situation that I caused for myself by copying someone as a BCC recipient on a note sent to a confidential distribution list. That person then promptly sent a note … Continue reading →

Posted in Email, Outlook | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Cloud, Email, Exchange 2010, Office 365, Outlook, SharePoint 2010 | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Do PSTs contain anything of value?

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In musing about the news of the PST Capture tool that Microsoft plans to release soon, I started to consider the question of whether tools like this can actually find and recover any useful information. The worry of executives and lawyers … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange 2010, Outlook | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Measuring Outlook 2010 network latency

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the truths often overlooked by those who wish to rush into the cloud is that the characteristics of their network will change dramatically. Some of the traffic that is currently processed internally will have to be channeled out … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Office 365, Outlook | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Using Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2010

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I like Outlook 2003 a lot, mostly because it was the client that liberated users from the tyranny of extended synchronization sessions, often over a spotty dial-up connection, just to collect some new messages. In the bad old days pre-Outlook … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Outlook | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Beware the effects of enabling an Exchange 2010 archive mailbox

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The introduction of archive mailboxes is one of the major new features offered by Exchange 2010. Matters are substantially improved in Exchange 2010 SP1 as it supports the separation of a user’s primary mailbox and their archive mailbox across different … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Outlook, Outlook 2013 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 136 Comments

Arrest the “Reply All” scourge!

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Today, Microsoft Research published an interesting add-in that works with both Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 to help suppress the awful mess that users can get themselves into with the ‘Reply All’ button. As you probably know, “reply all” works … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Exchange 2010, Outlook | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Why bother with Outlook 2003?

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Tony Redmond

When Microsoft released Outlook 2003 in October 2003 (The history of Outlook is a good link to the history of Outlook), it marked several breakthroughs for Exchange clients. First, Outlook 2003 introduced RPC over HTTP and laid the foundation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Exchange 2010, Outlook | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments