Tony Redmond

Senior Contributing Editor, Windows IT Pro

Tony Redmond is a senior 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.

Posts by Tony Redmond

May. 16, 2013

Migration challenges await in City of Boston's transition to Gmail

Microsoft lost its most recent fight with Google as the City of Boston decided to move from Exchange to Gmail and Google Docs. I see some challenges....More
May. 14, 2013

New email features from Microsoft and Google prove the worth of competition

  Apropos to my recent post about the importance of the competition that has occurred between Google and Microsoft in the evolution of email....More
May. 9, 2013

Configuring site mailboxes: a candidate for automation

Exchange 2013 supports site mailboxes, a new way of document-centric collaboration that bridges the gap between Exchange and SharePoint. To use site....More
May. 7, 2013

The curious lack of Exchange 2013 hardware planning tools

Exchange 2010 has a great mailbox server role calculator available to help plan server configurations. Yet eight months after its release, Microsoft....More
May. 2, 2013

Exchange Connections - Calling all speakers

Las Vegas in October - conference time again. But with a difference - Exchange Connections is back and it's going to be packed with insightful and....More
Apr. 30, 2013

Why Exchange 2013 asks you to restart the Information Store after creating a new database

You might be surprised when the Exchange Administration Center or the Exchange Management Shell prompt to restart the Information Store service after....More
Apr. 25, 2013

MRMAPI, the Little Brother of MFCMAPI

You've probably heard of MFCMAPI, a very useful program in the hands of any administrator who wants to learn just what's stored in an Exchange....More
Apr. 23, 2013

First tests of Exchange 2013 on Azure point to the future?

The first test deployments of Exchange 2013 on Windows Azure makes you think about just how far we have come with virtualized Exchange in the last....More
Apr. 18, 2013

Microsoft and Google War Over First Ajax Webmail

Google claims they were the first webmail client based on Ajax but Microsoft's Outlook Web Access was Ajax-based in Exchange 2003. But the....More
Apr. 16, 2013

Blocking OWA access for a user is a problem for Exchange 2013 CU1

Some people like to track the stream of knowledge base articles as they are released by Microsoft. I do not, possibly because there always seems to....More