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Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and the author of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out (Microsoft Press) He blogs about Exchange and related topics at Tony Redmond's Exchange Unwashed and also at thoughtsofanidlemind.wordpress.com.

Email: tony.redmond@windowsitpro.com

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New version of MFCMAPI available

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 ...

Top Six things to know about Exchange 2010 archive mailboxes

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 ...

Learn about Microsoft Certified Master accreditation

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) ...

RIM launches BlackBerry service for Office 365 users

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 ...

Some problems with the MVP program

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 ...

Brazil requires overtime for out-of-hours email

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 ...

Free online Exchange 2010 training

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 ...

Migrating PST data to Office 365

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 ...

The future of Exchange administration

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: ...

Who Are the Exchange MVPs?

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 ...

Microsoft boosts Office 365 Plan K capabilities

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” ...

The Sharing of Exchange MVPs

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 ...

Predicting the World of Exchange in 2012

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 ...

Reporting Exchange Server 2010 Client Access Licenses

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 ...

Learning how to master PowerShell with Exchange as your tutor

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 ...

Finding confidential user information with Exchange Search

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 ...

Planning for Exchange Server 2010 Personal Archives

By Tony Redmond, 12/15/2011

Plan ahead to successfully deploy archive mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1.

Office 365 Advisor: what plan's for me?

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 ...

Exchange 2010 SP2: don't forget the rest of the ecosystem

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 ...

Litigation hold updates in Exchange 2010 SP2

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 ...



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