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 | Get-MigrationUserStatistics I got the following […]
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
If you’re administrating an Exchange organisation there are different ways to do it. The simple way is to use the webbrowser for the ECP. But what about PowerShell? The most common ways are to connect remotley to the Exchange server and then start the Exchange Management Shell or to use the Import-PSSession cmdlet to use […]
28/09/2017
Earlier this month I had to make some cleanups in a customer’s Exchange infrastructure. On one side, I had to identify empty Distribution Groups and on the other side I had to clean up unused Mobile Devices (Active Sync) partnerships. The Exchange Organization contains more than 5’000 warm Body (User) Mailboxes from which almost everyone has […]
12/09/2017
In some situations we have to Export all the Distribution group and all the members of it to a CSV file. There is no command let available to retrieve the distribution group and distribution group members in bulk. Pipe line won’t work in this case. DisplayName Alias RecipientType Recipient OU Primary SMTP address Distribution Group […]
08/09/2017
I recently had a problem with an Exchange Online tenant. There was an external mail contact which was previously synchronised from Active Directory to Exchange Online. So I had deleted the on-premise active directory mail contact but it still existed in Exchange Online. When I tried to delete the contact it gave the following errror message. […]
31/08/2017