By Tony Redmond, 02/09/2012
Microsoft, or rather the program’s author Stephen Griffin, has published an updated version of the venerable MFCMAPI utility on Codeplex. The new version is dated January 2012 and ...
By Tony Redmond, 02/07/2012
A couple of recent questions about the exact nature of archive mailboxes prompted consideration of the topic. It’s the nature of software deployment that the finer points of ...
By Tony Redmond, 02/02/2012
Microsoft has scheduled a one-hour overview on Wednesday, February 15 at 9AM Pacific to brief interested parties in the training that leads to Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/30/2012
Some good news for both Office 365 and the embattled RIM company arrived today with the formal launch of RIM’s BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 (that’s ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/26/2012
I’ve written about the positive aspects of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program in the recent past. It’s time to address the balance and point out where some ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/24/2012
Reading the Financial Times report saying that Brazil has introduced a new law requiring companies to pay overtime to employees who make or receive work phone calls or email ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/19/2012
Paul Cunningham, a well-known member of the Exchange community from sunny Brisbane, Australia, has extended a most interesting offer to anyone who’s interested in learning about ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/17/2012
I know people who have tens of gigabytes of information squirrelled away in Personal Storage Files (PSTs). They have accumulated this information over the years and the data has ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/13/2012
David Cross is the Microsoft’s Director of Program Management in the Windows division. Recently, he wrote in the Server and Cloud Platform Blog on the topic of “Windows Server 8: ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/12/2012
My recent post about the sharing activities of some Exchange MVPs caused a flurry of comments. Most focused on the positive nature of the contributions such as writing code and ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/10/2012
Many reports have emerged recently to say that Microsoft will soon offer more capabilities to users of its Office 365 Plan K, which is the lowest-cost priced plan sold to “kiosk” ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/05/2012
One of the nice things about working with Exchange is that there’s lots of code floating around the Internet that can be browsed, contemplated, and then perhaps reused in your ...
By Tony Redmond, 01/03/2012
It’s normal at this time for commentators to turn their mind to what might happen in the new year. I don’t have a crystal ball but am reasonably opinionated, so here goes with my ...
By Tony Redmond, 12/29/2011
Exchange Server requires customers to purchase two types of licenses, server and client. There seems to be some doubt about how these licenses work. Let me see if I can cast some ...
By Tony Redmond, 12/27/2011
A recent survey in the Exchange and Outlook Update revealed that 16% of the respondents said that PowerShell remained a complete mystery to them no matter how hard they tried to ...
By Tony Redmond, 12/19/2011
The nature of advanced training is that the people who attend often pose some pretty thought-provoking and interesting questions. Paul Robichaux and I recently ran an Exchange ...
By Tony Redmond, 12/15/2011
Plan ahead to successfully deploy archive mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1.
By Tony Redmond, 12/15/2011
Microsoft has released a new advisor (a web-based wizard) to help companies figure out whether there’s a right Office 365 for them and if so, what is the recommended plan. The ...
By Tony Redmond, 12/13/2011
Now that Exchange 2010 SP2 is available in the wild I’m sure that you’re considering the issue of how and when to deploy the new update. Life would be easy if we only had to ...
By Tony Redmond, 12/09/2011
Browsing the contents of the TechNet article “What’s new in Exchange 2010 SP2”, I was interested to note something that received zero attention (as far as I can tell) from ...