Microsoft has announced that Skype for Business will be retired on July 31st, 2021. At the Ignite 2019 in Orlando FL were many sessions about Microsoft Teams and it was kind of clear, that Microsoft Teams will replace Skype for business in the nearest future. Now it is clear when that will happen. In […]
I am proud to announce that I was awarded today by Microsoft, with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2019–2020 for Office Apps & Services. Thank You! I want to give a special shout-out to everyone who supports this Blog. Your comments, your follows, your likes and your shares–they have all brought […]
I am working many years in IT, most ot the time with the messaging and emailing. My first steps I have made with postfix, Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2003. However, let us have a short look about Messaging, Emailing and communication. The definition of Emailing is: An e-mail is a message in the form of […]
Prolog Recently I had a small project by one of my customers. This customer company has bought another company and one part of the project was to bring this two companies closer to each other step by step. However, one of the project points was to create a federation between both Organizations. One company – […]
Each of us has had issues with Outlook OneDrive or other Office 365 themes in the past. Microsoft has provided some time ago a new tool, which they have named SaRA. In this article, I’d like to talk a bit more about this very helpful tool. SaRA stays for Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for […]
The last part of my trilogy is about the weakest link, our employees. Some of the things you will read in this article, you already know from one of the previous two articles. When I write that our employees are the weakest link in a security concept we do not have to take this personally. […]
In the first part of my small trilogy we have learned about the risks, which are waiting over the Emails. In this article we will have a closer look about most common types of attacks against a company in general. We only can get prepared to defence ourselves against crime methods and attacks we know. […]
Working in IT shows us that one of the main things we must think about is to defend our organization from several types of cyber attacks. In this and next two articles I am writing about what we must think to stay successful out there in the world wide web. When we talk about […]
Time by time customers are asking me if it is possible, to move sent mails from shared mailboxes, to the sent items folder of the shared Mailbox. Here is a small Desmond and Alexios example from the Marketing department of Contoso are responsible for the shared Mailbox [email protected]. However, customers are writing emails to this […]
On March 14th 2017 in New York, Microsoft has announced that MS Teams will be released worldwide. Not sure if at this time it was clear, what MS Teams would become until today (and in the future). Today, every day more and more people are joining Teams. The thing that was missing was a […]
Thanks to the globalization, companies worldwide are working closer with each other. However, not all companies are using the same messaging solution. In this article, I want to show, how to be able, that Exchange users are able to see the availability (free/busy) of G Suite users. Preparation on G Suite The first thing […]
In the first part of this series, I described how you can add and remove members to and from Active Directory groups in PowerShell, without using the ActiveDirectory module, but just by using the .Net namespace System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. In this part I want to show how you can work with the members of a group, as […]
