Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

Office 365: Launch on June 28

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The invitations have been printed and Steve Ballmer is making the final touches to the PowerPoint that he’s scheduled to present at Microsoft’s formal launch of Office 365. The grand event takes place in New York City on June 28 … Continue reading →

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Filers verus Pilers

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Many moons ago, good filing habits were deemed to be an important part of office life. Documents had to be correctly placed in the right folder and carefully deposited in a file cabinet to allow the office to operate properly. … Continue reading →

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Musing on searching

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The publication of the post by the Exchange team to reveal the secret registry instruction to allow multi-mailbox searches to interrogate more than 25,000 mailboxes got me thinking. First,  I thought that the era of registry hacks was over for … Continue reading →

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HP releases videos about E5000 messaging system

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last February, Paul Robichaux, Brian Desmond and I were invited by HP to come to Cupertino to look over the HP E5000 messaging system. Over two days we had the chance to quiz Dean Steadman, the HP product manager, and … Continue reading →

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Managing Office 365 with the one true shell

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Exchange administrators have known since the release of Exchange 2007 that only wimps seek the soft comfort of the GUI-rich Exchange Management Console (EMC) when they attempt to manage servers, mailboxes, or other objects. Exchange Online, part of Office 365, … Continue reading →

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Excluding disclaimers for encrypted or signed messages

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In a recent post, I described the basic approach to building an Exchange 2010 transport rule to build corporate disclaimers containing Active Directory data and formatted nicely with HTML that are then appended to all outgoing messages. The approach works … Continue reading →

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Free Exchange 2010 Seminar in Dublin

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Tony Redmond

If you’re interested in Exchange 2010 and are in Dublin on May 11, you can register for a free seminar that I will be speaking at on the topic of practical and economic issues that influence the decision to deploy … Continue reading →

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Office 365 reaches public beta

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On April 18, Microsoft announced that Office 365 is now in public beta. This is a big thing because it marks the last major hurdle before Office 365 becomes publicly available, an event that is expected later on this summer, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft reveals the truth about single-role servers

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In the April 8 post on the Exchange team’s blog, a clear direction is given that single-role Exchange servers are not the preferred starting point for designs. In fact, a rather bold statement is made: “… always start design discussions … Continue reading →

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The spectrum of technical writing

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I am often asked what is the difference between writing a blog post and an article that’s published in a magazine such as Windows IT Pro. In response, I think that a spectrum of technical writing exists that goes something … Continue reading →

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