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Preparing for Spring Connections and first impressions of Office 365

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Earlier this week Brian K. Winstead, the author of the Exchange and Outlook blog on http://www.windowsitpro.com, contacted me to ask about the keynote that I’ll be giving at the Spring 2011 Exchange Connections event at the JW Marriott Resort hotel … Continue reading →

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Seat 25G to Seattle

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’m just back from spending the week in Bellevue and Redmond, where I attended Microsoft’s annual MVP Summit. MVP stands for “Most Valuable Professional” and essentially it’s a group of advocates for Microsoft technology organized by interest. I’m an Exchange … Continue reading →

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Whoops! Where’s my Inbox?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the weaknesses inherent in cloud-based services was displayed once again on February 28 when Gmail service was lost to some 500,000 users, or as Google expressed it, 0.29% of the total user base (I love the way that … Continue reading →

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Personal experience: the perils and pain of losing Internet access

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I thought that I was all set for the Exchange 2010 high availability webinar that I co-presented on behalf of Marathon Technologies on February 24 – or so I believed. The slides had been done, we had run through how … Continue reading →

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Some odd Google search results

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of my ex-colleagues at HP was doing some research into how Exchange 2010 performs replication. He plugged in a search request into Google and got some interesting results back, which he just had to share with me (below). I … Continue reading →

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First look: HP E5000 Messaging System

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On January 21, I blogged about the joint HP-Microsoft announcement of the HP E5000, the first messaging appliance-type system specifically designed to run Exchange 2010. This week I’ve had the chance to spend some time in Cupertino, CA working with … Continue reading →

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Lies, vile lies, and statistics

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I was in the middle of a perfectly pleasant briefing on some high availability solutions last week when a slide was presented that asserted that “32% of recovery operations fail”. The statistic apparently came from research done by a market … Continue reading →

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Predictions for 2011: The Exchange Market

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On Tuesday, I had an interesting call with Matt Gervais of TechTarget to discuss my views on what will happen for the Exchange market in 2011. Matt is busy talking to some other folks and will share his best assessment … Continue reading →

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First appearance of an Exchange 2010 Messaging Appliance

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On January 19, 2011 HP and Microsoft announced the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange. The name is a mouthful but the important point is the creation of a solution designed to make Exchange 2010 easier to deploy. This … Continue reading →

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Spring Connections 2011

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been attending Connections events for years, mostly since the demise of the late lamented Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC). While MEC was an official Microsoft conference and so benefited from the Microsoft marketing muscle and access to engineers and program … Continue reading →

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