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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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Thoughts on why one company decided not to move to Google Apps

By Tony Redmond, 05/24/2012

A recent article on CIO.com asked the question “Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange?” Many similar articles are published to help advise CIOs and budding CIOs ...

Corrupted Items and Mailbox Moves in Exchange 2010

By Tony Redmond, 05/23/2012

Are your mailbox moves constantly disrupted by an excess of "bad" items? Find out how you can adjust Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) settings to mitigate this issue.

Office 365 mailbox statistics

By Tony Redmond, 05/22/2012

A recent tweet took me to a script repository for Office 365 maintained by Microsoft’s Thomas Ashworth. Now, despite the best efforts of Twinbox to integrate my Twitter feed into ...

MEC early bird discount closing

By Tony Redmond, 05/17/2012

Early-bird discounted registration for the much-anticipated relaunch of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) finishes on May 18, which is tomorrow for most people. This public ...

Managing Outlook synchronization logs

By Tony Redmond, 05/15/2012

Even in an era of massive quotas, it’s annoying to find that mailboxes are cluttered with extraneous logging messages that accumulate steadily and are never removed without manual ...

The idiot's (me) guide to writing ESE applications

By Tony Redmond, 05/10/2012

One of the more interesting (and esoteric) sessions at TEC 2012 in San Diego was given by ESE developer Brett Shirley on the topic of how to write ESE applications. ESE is, of ...

EMS tip of the day: love it or hate it?

By Tony Redmond, 05/09/2012

When you fire up a PowerShell session for the Exchange Management Shell (EMS), the banner for the new session displays a “tip of the day”. The tips are things like examples of ...

ECP Performance revealed and some thoughts on future Exchange management

By Tony Redmond, 05/08/2012

I was both interested and impressed at Nuno Mota’s article describing how to enable a hidden performance section for the Exchange Management Console (ECP): impressed because the ...

Microsoft updates the MCSE program for the cloud, but what about the other guys?

By Tony Redmond, 05/03/2012

I don’t want to seem to rain on Microsoft Learning’s recent announcement about the new cloud-based Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) accreditation program as there are ...

Will "Death to Outlook" follow "Death to Word"?

By Tony Redmond, 05/01/2012

A boring Tuesday in April brings me to contemplate the intriguing Slate.com article entitled “Death to Word” (the title, at least, got your attention). Basically the author’s ...

FAST searching coming to Office 15 server applications

By Tony Redmond, 04/26/2012

The canaries are really singing around Redmond to reveal details of the upcoming Office 15 product releases. At one level it’s kind of irritating to be bound by various ...

Offline access through IE10;maybe an OWA feature in Exchange 2013?

By Tony Redmond, 04/23/2012

With all the fuss and bother about the implementation of HTML5 in Internet Explorer 10 (as part of Windows 8), it’s interesting to reflect on how far we have come in terms of web ...

Using Shared Mailboxes with Office 365

By Tony Redmond, 04/22/2012

The version of the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) that is provided for Office 365 tenants doesn't support the creation of shared mailboxes. Luckily, you can easily use the Exchange ...

Does Microsoft Explain Cloud Outages Better Than Google?

By Tony Redmond, 04/19/2012

On October 3, I wrote about the success that Google was then enjoying at achieving stellar levels of performance against SLA for Gmail, which had delivered 99.984% availability ...

Exchange’s monopoly and its importance to Microsoft

By Tony Redmond, 04/17/2012

The key position that Exchange Server occupies in the Microsoft firmament and some of the challenges that it faces in the future are laid out in an interesting presentation called ...

Exchange 2013 to RTM in mid-November 2012?

By Tony Redmond, 04/13/2012

Well, if the information revealed by IDG and other publications is correct, Exchange 2013 (Exchange 15, don’t you know) will make its debut alongside the rest of the Office Wave ...

Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 enter the final two years

By Tony Redmond, 04/12/2012

There’s been some recent commentary about the fact that Windows XP will reach its formal end-of-life milestone in less than two years time. What might just have passed you by is ...

Dispelling myths and other half truths

By Tony Redmond, 04/10/2012

Don’t believe everything that you read on the Internet. This is good advice that more people should really follow considering the amount of sheer dross that one comes across in an ...

The Finer Details of Exchange High Availability

By Tony Redmond, 04/05/2012

The esteemed Scott Schnoll, famed speaker at many TechEd and other conferences around the world, recently tweeted a reminder about one of the most useful articles published about ...

Immutability, Perry, and Exchange

By Tony Redmond, 04/03/2012

Immutability is a word that trips elegantly off the tongue. It’s also a word that is used more often to describe an aspect of Exchange that receives increasing attention from the ...



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