Tag Archives: Active Directory

The scourge of autosignatures

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Have you ever wondered just how much valuable storage is occupied in email databases by totally useless autosignature content? You know, logos and other tasteful adornments to the bottom of email, repeated ad nausem on every message, internal and external, … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – November 2014

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The normal flow of new features, updates, and bugs flowed across the “Exchange Unwashed” desk during November. Some of the bugs were puzzling, others were infuriating, but everything was interesting – at least to me. A clash between S/MIME and … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest for January 2013

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Tony Redmond

January seemed to go on forever, or maybe this was just because it was mostly cold, wet, and grey in Ireland (a distressingly usual state of affairs at this time of year). Nevertheless, “Exchange Unwashed” needed to be written, so … Continue reading →

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Forcing an Active Directory update with Exchange 2013 might not be such a good idea

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Tony Redmond

My post of May 4 exploring the question whether the upcoming Exchange 2013 release should force companies to upgrade their Active Directory infrastructures to a modern version generated a considerable number of messages. As you might recall, the question was … Continue reading →

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Should Exchange 2013 force an Active Directory upgrade?

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Tony Redmond

One of the interesting debates at the Exchange Q&A session at TEC 2012 was the question whether the upcoming release of Exchange 2013 should force companies who want to deploy the new software to upgrade their Active Directory infrastructure to … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 problems due to insufficient access to Active Directory

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Like every version since Exchange 2000, Exchange 2010 has a huge dependency on Active Directory. Essentially, if you don’t deploy and manage Active Directory in the right way, you have little or no chance of being successful with an Exchange … Continue reading →

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