Ask Perry

Running a Secure Service

The Ask Perry blog is alive! In this edition I spend time discussing a topic I frequently hear from...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 02/10/2014

Smart Indexing in the New Exchange

One of the big shifts that continues to reshape the software industry is the rapid drop in the cost...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 12/19/2012

New Exchange Architecture

Well the new version of Exchange is almost ready to be released and the first MEC in a decade is...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 09/20/2012

Managing Access to the Exchange Online Service

In this installment we talk a little bit about how we have built on the underlying RBAC...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 05/16/2012

Moving Mailboxes with the Mailbox Replication Service

Welcome back to lovely sunny Seattle/Redmond, figuratively speaking of course. This video is a...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 03/12/2012

Immutability in Exchange

In this video we spend some time talking about an aspect of our archiving and compliance story for...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 02/03/2012

Running a Service with Large, Low Cost Mailboxes

This video provides some answers to the question we’ve heard a lot – How can you provide...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 12/19/2011

Shifting to a Services Culture

In my last Geek Out video we talked about the interesting technical differences in building a...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 10/26/2011

Special Edition Geek Out with Perry – TechEd North America 2011

During TechEd North America in Atlanta earlier this year, Ann Vu invited attendees to record the...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 09/14/2011

High Availability for the Exchange Service

It has been a while since my last posting. We have been pretty busy dotting the i's on the new...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 06/13/2011

New Scalable Exchange Server 2010 Solution from HP

It is pretty exciting to see HP release a new hardware solution that provides a simple scalable...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 03/04/2011

Multi-Release Strategies and Role Based Access Control

Following the ‘why we built Exchange the way we did’ theme, I wanted to take some time...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 01/28/2011

Special Edition Geek Out with Perry – TechEd Europe 2010

While Ann was at TechEd Europe in Berlin last month,  she asked attendees about the questions...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 12/30/2010

Responding to Migration vs In-place Upgrade comments

There were some interesting comments from the last video entry, and they distilled into a few...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 11/16/2010

Why Migrations Instead of In-Place Upgrades?

After a brief break from blogging, I was back in the studio recently recording more videos to answer...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 10/29/2010

Archiving Questions: Do Tiered Storage and Stubbing make sense?

This blog business has been turning out to be more fun than I expected - maybe I should be nicer and...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 08/13/2010

Archiving and Large Mailboxes

The last blog post generated some great questions, and I wanted to address some of them in a little...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 07/28/2010

Exchange Archiving

So far we have spent some time talking about how Exchange has been engineered to take advantage of...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 07/09/2010

More Exchange Data Protection – Beyond Replication

So far there have been some great comments and questions in response to the first couple of blogs....

Author: Ask Perry Date: 06/04/2010

Exchange Mailbox Storage Bricks

This time I wanted to respond to one of the comments from my last blog post " ... apart...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 05/19/2010

Exchange Data Protection

Well, dealing with the creative responses of my co-workers after the first video was so much fun --...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 04/28/2010

Storage performance and my take on virtual storage

There were some good questions raised from my first blog post which I'll answer here. First, yes...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 04/14/2010

Getting the conversation started

Well, I guess I really am joining the blogging bandwagon. Although, I suppose blogging has been...

Author: Ask Perry Date: 03/30/2010