One of my customers has bought another company, so they needed to add the new company domain to their environment. This company has a hybrid exchange organization and I had to do some simple steps. As a first step I recommend you to start the PowerShell documentation as I have described in one of my […]
Having password policies in a company is good! Very good! And important! Using on-premises active directory and GPO’s makes it very easy to handle password policies. If we have an Office 365 environment managed by Microsoft onboard tools such as ADFS and AAC we also don’t have to think to far how to handle password […]
There are many cool scripts on the Technet about mailbox size and quota reporting. The same about searching for them on Bing or Google. Sometimes we just are searching for remembering a simple PowerShell command and not too much text to read in articles. For this reason I have created on my Blog the Technical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
Almost everyone is using Cloud services, there are a lot of them like Azure, Office 365, G-Suite, Dropbox, AWS. Some of them we are using for private, but the most of it for our daily business. There is a smooth way Microsoft offers us to be able to use single sign-on (SSO) on the most […]
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 […]