The Exchange Team released the March updates for Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, and these Cumulative Updates contain a ton of fixes. Like the previous Cumulative Update for Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016, these Cumulative Updates support .NET Framework 4.7.1. Be advised that .NET Framework 4.7.1 will be required for the next cycle of quarterly […]
Last weekend I had to work on a change request in a company. Our guys from the network team had to change some physical switches and the most of our physical servers which were connected to this specific switch where for around two hours north on a redundant network setting. At the same time I […]
Before you install Exchange 2016, you need to review the topic to ensure that your network, hardware, software, clients, and other elements meet the requirements for Exchange 2016. In addition, make sure you understand the coexistence scenarios that are supported for Exchange 2016 and earlier versions of Exchange. There are different scenarios of supported […]
Shared mailboxes are great. They can be used for a variety of scenarios within your environment. What is that for a feature? Emails can be sent as the shared mailbox itself or on behalf of it by member(s) of the mailbox, assuming proper permissions have been granted. This feature is designed to retain a […]
After all the positive feedback to my article “10 Useful PowerShell cmdlets for Exchange” (thanks again to Steve Goodman), I have decided to write a second part of it with another 10 useful PowerShell commands for Exchange and Office 365. Same procedure as the last time. Some of you may already know the commands, but […]
Your email account is a gold mine for hackers. And yet many people still aren’t taking basic precautions to secure their accounts. Here are five essential steps for safe email. Hacks are surprisingly commonplace. In 2014, for instance, nearly half of all American adults had some form of data stolen from corporate servers in a […]
Last month one of our Junior Engineers got a task to move some outlook information’s to the O365 Mailbox. It was a restore from a PST backup which was made before this company has moved their mail infrastructure to exchange online. In this short article, I want to show you step by step how to […]
In one of my last articles, I wrote about installing, customizing and about the functionality of the ADFS servers. Today I want to write about the ADFS / Azure Multi-Factor Authentication server (MFA). In Q2 of the last year Microsoft announced an app called “Microsoft Authenticator”. The functionality is similar to Google’s authentication App “Google […]
On the Ignite 2017 Steve Goodman held a very good session about 10 useful PowerShell commands, which are important to know as an Exchange admin. I am going to present you these 10 commands here, with a little explanation for each of it. Some of the commands are more known that others, but I hope you […]
Today I want to write about some small issue one of my customers just had.This customer has installed an exchange server in a new forest.The installation went quite smoothly and after the setup was done, my customer wanted to start the exchange management shell. When he started the Shell there where a lot of error […]
Here some short article for today… In the morning an IT admin was asking me if it is possible to configure the out of Office message daily. When a user (let’s call him John) is on vacation, normally he sets an Out of Office message in his Outlook or OWA. If a user (let’s say Sofia) […]
One of my customers is running an exchange environment with multiple Accepted Domains. The reason for that is that this company is a Holding and it has a bulk of sub companies. Normally the sub companies are using the Mail service from the Holding environment. Now one of the sub companies wants to use an […]
