Microsoft has announced that Skype for Business will be retired on July 31st, 2021. At the Ignite 2019 in Orlando FL were many sessions about Microsoft Teams and it was kind of clear, that Microsoft Teams will replace Skype for business in the nearest future. Now it is clear when that will happen. In […]
I am working many years in IT, most ot the time with the messaging and emailing. My first steps I have made with postfix, Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2003. However, let us have a short look about Messaging, Emailing and communication. The definition of Emailing is: An e-mail is a message in the form of […]
Prolog Recently I had a small project by one of my customers. This customer company has bought another company and one part of the project was to bring this two companies closer to each other step by step. However, one of the project points was to create a federation between both Organizations. One company – […]
Each of us has had issues with Outlook OneDrive or other Office 365 themes in the past. Microsoft has provided some time ago a new tool, which they have named SaRA. In this article, I’d like to talk a bit more about this very helpful tool. SaRA stays for Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for […]
Working in IT shows us that one of the main things we must think about is to defend our organization from several types of cyber attacks. In this and next two articles I am writing about what we must think to stay successful out there in the world wide web. When we talk about […]
Time by time customers are asking me if it is possible, to move sent mails from shared mailboxes, to the sent items folder of the shared Mailbox. Here is a small Desmond and Alexios example from the Marketing department of Contoso are responsible for the shared Mailbox [email protected]. However, customers are writing emails to this […]
Thanks to the globalization, companies worldwide are working closer with each other. However, not all companies are using the same messaging solution. In this article, I want to show, how to be able, that Exchange users are able to see the availability (free/busy) of G Suite users. Preparation on G Suite The first thing […]
Working as a consultant for multiple customers forces us to connect multiple times a day to different Exchange Online management shell’s. Everyone has his own way to save the connection command for the Exchange Online PowerShell. I had the command always saved in a ready to use Notepad document. However, since I am always using […]
Few weeks ago, I was working on a migration project between two independent domains. The project by itself was huge because there were multiple teams working on too. In this project, we had to migrate the Active Directory including the SID history, Exchange SAP Skype for business and much more other things. However, because […]
The single biggest threat to our business’s online security is malicious emails. As responsible Messaging Administrators/Engineers/Architects, it’s up to us to require email security best practices among our users and institute a security-minded culture within our organization. Contrary to popular myth, the most effective hacking techniques require almost no technical skill. A hacker needs […]
This short article is about a returning question about how to add or remove smtp alias addresses using the Exchange management shell. Before we start, we need to check how the mailbox is configured and which the mail address aliases we have already set are. To do that we can run the following PowerShell […]
If we want to import PST files into an Exchange mailbox, we can use the PowerShell CMDlet New-MailboxImportRequest. The PST files that we want to import must be available through a file share, because the CMDlets only accept UNC paths. To import a PST file, we use the following command: New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox ‘Name of Mailbox’ […]
