Today I had to install new Exchange 2016 CU on a customer’s exchange environment. Normally that is an easy going thing and I wouldn’t write an article about that. However, by this customer I came across an installation problem during the update. I was running like always my pre setup steps for suspending the […]
14/06/2018
Microsoft has announced that the Office 365 Portal will introduced in the new Microsoft 365 admin center. The new admin center will be generally released in the end of July. Admins previously using the Office 365 admin center to manage Office 365 will now use the Microsoft 365 admin Center. The Microsoft 365 admin […]
12/06/2018
Microsoft sunk a data center in the sea. The company wants to accelerate the development of self-sufficient underwater data centers with this pilot project, said Microsoft UK on Wednesday. The container-sized data center on the seabed is a prototype. According to Microsoft, approximately twelve-meter-long white cylinder full of computers can store and process data […]
11/06/2018
Time by time I am getting the same questions from customers, which I try to explai them. Lately one of the most asked question is about S/MIME. What is S/MIME? How it works? What about the encryption issues which was found out in May 2018? In this article, I will explain all about S/MIME what […]
08/06/2018
There are several ways how we can create email address policies for an Organization. In the companies where I consult, I have noticed, that one of the common ways, is not that much known, how it should be. That is the reason, why I want to write this article about creating E-Mail address policies by […]
05/06/2018
In all projects in which I am consulting with my customers, most of the questions are about the functionality of ADFS and the cloud identity. In one of my Articles I have described, how we have to configure ADFS for Office 365. In this article I have also shown the picture below, how the sign-on progress […]
04/06/2018
In one of my LAST articles I have described the MX-Records and the SPF-Records, how they work and why we need them. In this article I would like to tell you more about Autodiscover, CNAME and A-Records. Why we need them and which DNS category is needed for what. Note, there are more kind of […]
22/05/2018
It’s now already some years I am supporting companies with their journey to the cloud. Having read the Microsoft announcment about their plans to build two new Datacenters offering Microsoft Online Services in Geneva and Zurich, I am pretty sure that Engineers like me still will have enough to do for the coming years. So […]
17/05/2018
PGP and S / MIME encryption is not nearly as reliable as expected. Inadequate standards, outdated technology, and malicious programs could allow attackers to gain access to encrypted email. A research team around Sebastian Schinzel of the University of Applied Sciences Münster has taken a closer look at the standards and concrete implementations of email […]
15/05/2018
In the last general availability Microsoft has finally launched the Multi-Geo option for Exchange online. So, what that means for us and our customers using Exchange online? If we talk about Multi-Geo, that means we have a single Office 365 Tenant but our Company has Offices all around the world. As example, in the Office […]
08/05/2018
In the past I have described how we can delete old EAS devices from our Exchange on-premises and/or Exchange online environment. More about that you can find HERE. However, sometimes we just have to know how many and which devices are using ActiveSync on our Office 365 tenant. In this article I will show you […]
03/05/2018
If we want to use cloud services it is necessary to understand how DNS works. In this specific article I want to write about DNS records which are needed for the mail flow with Exchange online. Note: I focus in this article the way by using EOP, there are also other solutions we could go with, […]
01/05/2018