Many articles were written in the past about migrating environment to Office 365. In this article I don’t want to do through the same again. However, let us talk instead about what we have to think about before we go through this (project) way. How to start – Step 1: Inventory Microsoft has a […]
By most of the companies I know or I was working with, there are two scenarios when I was speaking with them about the cloud and Office 365. Number one: They have an existing business on-premise, which is working mostly well, but the lifecycle of the hardware and software version is reached. Number two: Startup […]
I guess many of you who are reading my blog are also working in the Messaging and/or Cloud area. That means that you also perform Exchange migrations or you are planning them. Earlier this week I was running a clean up after an Exchange migration and I have noticed many Mailboxes with “AvailableOnly” or “none” […]
Administrating and operating windows services can be done in different ways, one of the most useful ways is to do it with PowerShell. With PowerShell we can connect to remote server, to the Cloud and create scripts for automatization. On my Blog and all around the tech Blogs in the Internet you can find a […]
This week, I was on a technical board and had to explain to customers on the level of CTO (chief technical officer) how a hybrid Exchange environment works and how it has to be installed. That is why I cached the moment to write this article, which contains the main points of my presentation. The […]
Microsoft has announced a new major update that group members are able to receive group emails in their personal mailboxes. What that means to us? With this update, we are able to create new Office 365 groups in our Outlook. The default subscription option is now set in the way, that we receive emails sent […]
By using Office 365 we have a new horizon of opportunities and features we can go with. In the other hand we also need to think/talk about roles for managing our new horizon. Office 365 is coming with a bulk of new admin roles, which we can assign to our users in our organization. Microsoft […]
Today, more and more companies are moving their IT environment to the cloud. One of the main services, which is moving to Office 365 is messaging. Companies are mostly having their own Exchange environment on-premises, are using third party messaging systems (like Zimbra or UNIX solutions), or a Exchange solution hosted by a third company. […]
Archiving emails is a progress many of us knows. Let us have a look back how the scenario was couple of years ago: In the time, we were working with Exchange 2003, 2007 or 2010 a setup of a hosted Exchange I was operating looked like this: We had a few CAS servers, few Hub […]
End-to-end encryption is the most secure way to communicate privately and securely online. By encrypting messages at both ends of a conversation, end-to-end encryption prevents anyone in the middle from reading private communications. Microsoft has implemented Message Encryption in Office 365 that protects and controls sensitive emails. These enhancements are aimed squarely at helping by […]
This week I had the opportunity to review the Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery Tool. The background for this is, that in any Exchange Organization it can come to corrupt EDB files. There are many ways and tolls how we can handle them. I tried the tool from Stellar and my experience with it was […]
A couple of months ago, I was working on a project to reveal the power of Microsoft Intune for my company. One of the requests was to find out if we could apply Intune MAM policies on Outlook mobile used by on-premises mail box users. We kind of found out pretty soon that this was […]
