By setting up or configuring software it is always necessary to make documentations. To document the installation or configuration steps there are a lot of tools on the market. One of them is a Microsoft onboard tool, which is called “Steps Recorder”.To start it you simply hit the Windows Start Button on your keyboard and […]
09/01/2018
Meltdown is currently thought to primarily affect Intel processors manufactured since 1995, excluding the company’s Itanium server chips and Atom processors before 2013. It could allow hackers to bypass the hardware barrier between applications run by users and the computer’s core memory. Meltdown, therefore, requires a change to the way the operating system handles memory […]
08/01/2018
The online version of Exchange (Office 365) does not have the same EDB to PST conversion features that its on-premise version has. However, there are still a few ways that Office 365 mailbox items can be exported to PST. I ran into the odd situation today where a customer wanted to export away from Office […]
18/12/2017
Today one of my Customers contacted me that he is not able to start his Outlook Client after migrating his Windows profile. He received the following error Message: so, how to fix this isue? there are some multiple ways which could help you: 1. Run the /resetnavpane command The navigation pane is the […]
One of my customer runs a hybrid exchange environment. By the onboarding process of new employees he needs to create the AD user and Mailbox onpremise. After creating the Mailbox and if is needed (depends on Company Police) the Customer moves the Mailbox to the exchange online. Here it is important to be sure that […]
12/12/2017
Today Proton Technologies Ltd. presented a new feature in their portfolio. Proton is a know swiss company who created a full End-to-End Encryption Mail service and VPN service. The End-to-End Encrypted Mail service you can use for free and it is marked as open source. Now Proton presented the new feature “encrypted contact manager”. What is […]
21/11/2017
Background Some time ago I was on a very interesting project about on-premise infrastructure, Exchange online and 3rd party player for Skype for Business. This constellation had a couple of challenges to cope with. The Exchange organisation was set up in a hybrid mode. All warmbody Mailboxes where located on the Exchange online and all […]
07/11/2017
After the migration to Exchange online there are Users, which have language Issues. This kind of problem occurs mostly by not native speaking users, which have different languages for their Operating System (OS) and their Outlook. An example how that could look you can see here: In this example you see, that some menues are […]
03/11/2017
After migrating several users from Exchange 2010 to Exchange Online it can happen that some of the users are not able to receive e-mails from external senders. In a normal case, you would go and check the send/receive connector settings. You can find more info about this in the following article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms.exch.eac.connectorselection(v=exchg.150).aspx But this […]
27/10/2017
2018 is already knocking at the door and more and more of my customers find their way towards the cloud. On one hand to Office 365, but mostly towards Exchange Online. During the Ingnite 2017, besides the announcement of Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft finally approved the upcoming support for tenant to tenant migrations. This helps […]
09/10/2017
In a project I was running some time ago, one of the main Tasks was to move on-premise Mailboxes to Exchange online. The migration went more or less smooth, but there was one mailbox which I wasn’t able to migrate. By checking the migration status with Powershell: Get-MigrationUser -BatchId <BATCH ID> | Get-MigrationUserStatistics I got […]
05/10/2017
Usually my posts are all about server related topics. But from time to time some Outlook issues appear on my desk, too. They are not always easy to identify. (Server issue or client issue?) Therefore I’ll write a little post today about corrupt Outlook calendar entries and how I fixed it. A few days ago, […]
29/09/2017