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Mostly Exchange Server and Office 365, but probably some other stuff too...
Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview Now – For Free!
If you have a Windows Phone 8 device, you can get your hands on the new Windows Phone 8.1 preview...
Date: 04/29/2014
Retiring the Microsoft Master certifications and training
I received this extremely sad news this morning. I have been a part of the MCM/MCSM community for 5...
Date: 08/30/2013
Outlook 2007 fails to connect to Outlook Anywhere via NTLM on Vista
So, firstly an apology for the lack of posts recently... I always said that if I didn't have...
Date: 06/26/2012
Microsoft Exchange Online Migration Performance Guide for Office 365
I guess it's pretty obvious by now that I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to Exchange and Outlook...
Date: 04/11/2012
Forcing a full OAB download in Outlook 2011
I want to start this blog by apologising for the lack of posts recently… this is mostly due to me...
Date: 03/23/2012
Using your iPad, iPhone or Windows Phone with Lync 2010 and Office 365
I have had a few recently from customers wanting to use Lync 2010 Mobile on their shiny mobile...
Date: 02/02/2012
Office 365 Proxy Server Exclusion List – Office 365 Service URL’s
I am just posting this here since it's a bit of information I regularly provide to customers and I...
Date: 01/26/2012
Outlook Performance Troubleshooting including Office 365
I have been involved in a number of discussions recently regarding Outlook performance...
Date: 01/23/2012
Performance Monitor Tips and Tricks with John Rodriguez
Hello everyone … My name is John Rodriguez, and I'm a Principal PFE based in Minneapolis, MN. I'm...
Date: 01/16/2012
Analysing Exchange Server 2010 Jetstress BLG Files By Hand
Quite often when I am working through Jetstress escalations I will ask to see the BLG files from the...
Date: 01/05/2012
Using Word 2010 with TechNet Blog Platform
This is obviously not a post about Exchange Server, but as a blogger I wanted to share this since...
Date: 12/20/2011
Database Maintenance in Exchange Server 2010
If there is one area of Exchange 2010 that was poorly documented and poorly understood it has to be...
Date: 12/14/2011
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack (SP2) is released!
Last week when the internal announcement was made to say that SP2 had been completed and was...
Date: 12/06/2011
Exchange Service Availability….For the greater good…
I recently authored a post over at the Exchange Team Blog about Exchange ESE and Windows Disk...
Date: 11/24/2011
Recommended Windows Hotfix for Database Availability Groups running Windows Server 2008 R2
Scott just posted this article up on the team blog.....
Date: 11/21/2011
Microsoft Lync 2011 for Mac and Office 365 Fix
Last month I wrote a blog about connecting Office 2011 for Mac to Office 365. This post...
Date: 10/21/2011
A fix for the interoperability issues between Exchange 2007 and 2010 EMC and IE9 is now available
This has been irritating me more and more recently – I am generally quite a tolerant person, but...
Date: 10/17/2011
Outlook Performance Counters are missing–take 2
Back in the summer (remember that?) I wrote an article about viewing the Outlook performance...
Date: 10/12/2011
Exchange Server 2010 Cross Forest Delegation
This has been an interesting bit of work for me. I have been working with a customer who...
Date: 10/12/2011
Exchange 2010 MCM–Rotation 10
MCM Rotation 10 has just completed and was the first rotation that I have been involved as an...
Date: 10/05/2011
Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac
Many of the customers I work with are currently making their way through an Office 365 technical...
Date: 09/15/2011
Office 365 User Community in the UK
Brett Johnson brought this to my attention last week – Way back at the beginning of this century I...
Date: 09/05/2011
Office 365 Service Accounts–How do I stop DIRSYNC from breaking every 90 days…
So, this is something I wanted to blog about a few months ago but it got pushed to the bottom of the...
Date: 09/05/2011
Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Certificate Planning–ADFS, Exchange Web Services, OWA, OA??
I recently wrote about configuring Office 365 hybrid to get cross premises availability working,...
Date: 08/25/2011
Office 365 Microsoft Office Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) Tool 3.2–With ADFS 2.0 Diagnostic tools
The Microsoft Office Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) tool has been around for a while,...
Date: 08/24/2011
Microsoft Certified Master Exchange Server –2 years later…
All the way back in May 2009 I had just completed my Exchange 2007 Microsoft Certified Master...
Date: 08/17/2011
Office 365 Hybrid Deployment / Exchange Rich Coexistence – Sharing Availability (Free/Busy)
** IMPORTANT: This blog includes old instructions for manual configuration of Exchange Hybrid. This...
Date: 08/14/2011
So.. Why Rock n Roll Nerd?
Since I started posting back to my own blog I have been asked by lots (ok 2!) people why I called it...
Date: 08/12/2011
JetstressCmd has an undocumented /report command
NOTE: This is reposted here from HMLee’s blog back in 2007 – he is no longer posting to the...
Date: 08/10/2011
User Profile Analysis for Exchange Server 2010 (Who needs the Exchange Profile Analyzer?)
NOTE: Thanks to Josh Bryant, this script has now been updated to collect data from Exchange 2007,...
Date: 08/09/2011
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice, is not worth noticing…
Ok, so this post is not exactly worth reading because I am just using it to test my feed burner and...
Date: 08/07/2011
Tony Redmond's “Thoughts of an idle mind” Blog Move..
For those that didn't know, I am a huge consumer of information, however I am also quite selective...
Date: 08/04/2011
Exchange User Profile Analysis for Exchange 2003 and 2007 (Exchange Server Profile Analyzer How to : EPA)
One thing that I often waffle on about is gathering good quality user profile data before beginning...
Date: 08/02/2011
Urgent: Exchange Server SP1 RU4 Removed from Download Centre
This has been steadily escalating this afternoon and the decision has finally been taken to remove...
Date: 07/13/2011
Coming Soon: PST Capture Tool
So, this is something we have all wanted (Expected?) to see in Exchange for years! It seems...
Date: 07/05/2011
Office 365 Service Descriptions Released!
So.. with all of the launch fuss I failed to notice that the service descriptions for Office 365 had...
Date: 06/29/2011
Throttling Policies and Exchange Online…
Throttling policies in Exchange Server 2010 have been an often discussed and much misunderstood part...
Date: 06/29/2011
Microsoft Office 365 is Open for Business!!
This great news just arrived in my inbox from Kurt DelBene… I have been working with the Beta...
Date: 06/28/2011
Office 365 Deployment Guide
I have been involved with a number of Office 365 deployments over the last 12 months, one thing that...
Date: 06/24/2011
Generate Exchange Reports using PowerShell
If there is one thing that has always been lacking in Exchange its a mechanism to inventory and...
Date: 06/24/2011
Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2509910) Released to Web…
I have just been told that RU4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has been released to web for… Download...
Date: 06/22/2011
Exchange Server 2010 Technical Video Series
One thing I often do when I am learning a new area of technology is look for webcasts or recordings...
Date: 06/22/2011
Jetstress Field Guide
Last Updated : 21/06/2011 The field guide is released at major intervals on the Exchange Team Blog,...
Date: 06/15/2011
Outlook 2010 - network latency test results
Over the past 18 months I have been dealing with more and more cloud engagements. One thing...
Date: 06/15/2011
Jetstress 2010 – Stress test problem
Recently one of our partner has highlighted an issue in the current version of Jetstress that means...
Date: 06/09/2011
Exchange 2010 High Availability Misconceptions Addressed
I don't usually like posting to other peoples blogs, but the one I will make an exception for is the...
Date: 06/08/2011
Exchange 2010 - active and passive database IOPS
I have been involved with a few escalations recently (I don't even work in support!), the cases have...
Date: 06/08/2011
Exchange 2010 – Exporting Mailboxes without EXMERGE
I often see customers struggle to make use of the export mailbox features in Exchange Server...
Date: 06/07/2011
Jetstress 2010 and Background Database Maintenance
Last week a colleague from the MCM Exchange 2010 community asked some questions about disabling...
Date: 06/06/2011
Outlook Performance Counters are missing…
I have been working on a number of Exchange projects recently with cloud integration. One...
Date: 05/31/2011