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

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

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

Individual fix for Exchange soft delete problem proves worth of support contracts

Microsoft now has individual fixes for the soft-delete bug that affects Outlook clients configured in online mode for certain items that contain....More

Microsoft announces MEC 2014 will be in Austin

Building on their original teaser that announced the next iteration of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) would be held in 2014 rather than a....More

Managing groups with groups in Exchange 2013 CU1

  One of the small but very welcome changes made in Exchange 2013 CU1 is the reintroduction of support for “groups managing groups....More

Installing Exchange 2013 CU1 on DAG member servers - some care and maintenance mode required

Installing a cumulative update for Exchange 2013 can't be all that difficult - or can it? Well, it depends if mailbox servers are deployed inside a....More

Exchange 2013 CU1: The software that RTM could have been

  The first cumulative update for Exchange 2013 (CU1) has arrived. The new release can be installed using a “build to build” (....More

Microsoft replaces OCAT with OffCAT (Office Configuration Analysis Tool)

After proving that analyzing and comparing Outlook's configuration on a PC against "well-known" problems and other issues with OCAT, the same team....More

Preserving mailboxes when employees leave

If employees leave your company, you should think about preserving the content held in their mailboxes. You might just be glad that you do this if....More