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 […]
Last week I had to update a customers Exchange server envoriment with the new CU Pack. It’s an Exchange 2016 environment, so I needed to install the CU8 from Microsoft. If you want to know when, which Exchange version is released and you also need to know the build number, simply follow this Link to […]
Sometimes the simplest things need the most time to find out. There are many different versions of Exchange servers installed worldwide. Unfortunately not all of them are running with the newest updates. The reasons for that can be different. Time by time, I as a Messaging Engineer have to troubleshoot, administer, or change things in […]
The basic scenario in hybrid Exchange environments is that we have to create an Exchange mailbox on-premise, which has to be synced to Exchange Online (O365). Note: In this graphic I didn’t differ between on-premise or EOP mailflow, thats why I show both solutions. The game plan is mostly the one where you create […]
There are different reasons to have a hybrid infrastructure. One of them can be that the HR is, for legal reasons, not allowed to move their mailboxes to the cloud. But in this article I will not write about reasons why a hybrid mail environment could make sence. I want to present a solution how […]
At the Ignite 2017 Microsoft presented a bulk of new features which are waiting for us in 2018. One of them is the message encryption in Office 365. In this article I want to tell you more about that: Till today, or lets say till +/- 2016 most of us had this kind of […]
In the end of September 2017 Microsoft has announced a significant update to the scalability guidance for Exchange 2016. If we knew till then that the maximum recommendation for memory was by 96 GB, Microsoft changed it now to 192 GB. This effects of corse the Exchange Sizing Guidance, which you can find here and […]
A few days ago I got a customer request about User photos. The company had just migrated from Exchange 2010 to Office 365 and was planing to demote the old onpremise Exchange server. The company policy says, that every user has to have a users photo in own profile. But there where around 20% of […]
On December 19th Microsoft has announced thr Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) for Exchange server 2016. With the CU8 Microsoft fixed the following problems: 4056329 Can’t access EWS from Outlook/OWA add-ins via makeEwsRequestAsync in Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013 4054516 “Your request can’t” error when accessing an archive mailbox via OWA in Exchange Server […]
This Days Microsoft announced that Office 365 will enable Email Address Internationalization (EAI) support in Q1 2018. This can have important implications for hybrid Exchange organisations. The announcement you can find in the Link or you simply read it here: “Out of 7.6 billion people in the world, only 360 million are native English speakers. […]
