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A new ransomware strain dubbed as “ransomcloud” has been developed and it can encrypt online email accounts like Office 365 and Gmail in real-time.   The new ransomware strain was reportedly developed by a white hat hacker associate of Kevin Mitnick, Chief Hacking Officer of cybersecurity company KnowBe4.   Similar to other methods of ransomware […]

17/01/2018

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Microsoft 365, VARIA

This day’s I spoke with on of our Junior Engineers about Microsoft certifiations an certification paths. He wasn’t sure which way he wanna go and where he wanna get the senior status. Microsoft changed in the end of the year 2016 the certification paths’s. Now it os more easy to find the own way to […]

17/01/2018

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VARIA

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 […]

16/01/2018

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MS Exchange

By using Office 365 you are syncing your local Active Directory with Azure AD which is comming together on Office 365. For best practise of Microsoft the way to sync the informations we should use AADConnect.   Office 365 creates new users automaticaly with Default Language settings of O365 Tenant. For multi Language companies this […]

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. […]

Today I received a Email from Microsoft that they began with the Rollout of Microsoft To-Do. But what is Microsoft To-Do? Microsoft To-Do is a new Office 365 feature which will help you, to organizate daily routine. After downloading the To-Do App for your Mobile Device, the App gives you every Morning a fresh start, […]

10/01/2018

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Microsoft 365, VARIA

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

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PowerShell, VARIA

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

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PowerShell, VARIA