At the end of April, Microsoft announced in its Message Center update that Microsoft Bookings, a self-service scheduling tool, will be available for Office 365 from mid-May. Read in this article what you should know about it. What is Microsoft Booking? Microsoft Bookings is an online and mobile app for small businesses who provide services […]
04/05/2020
The first Cloud8 virtual event will take place on May 22. Here in this article I describe briefly what it is all about… What is Cloud8? Cloud8 is a platform that offers summits at regular intervals. Due to the current COVID-19 threat, these are primarily virtual events. All sessions are hosted by Microsoft MVPs and […]
01/05/2020
Recently, one of my customers reported a problem that he was unable to delete a mailbox of a former employee. When trying to do this in the Exchange admin Center (EAC), he received the following error message: I tried to delete the mailbox via the Exchange Management Shell, but I knew that this probably […]
23/04/2020
What has been mentioned for a long time is now becoming a fact, Microsoft Kaizala will be integrated into Office 365. Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced that Kaizala will become a permanent part of Microsoft teams: “we will be bringing Kaizala capabilities into Microsoft Teams as an integrated offering. We expect […]
30/03/2020
Microsoft sees midsize businesses as users of Office 365 and is setting things in motion to facilitate the migration of a local Exchange environment to the online office. For example, the Microsoft Hybrid Wizard with the Hybrid Agent has received an update that has been available since last February and was updated in April 2019. […]
17/03/2020
Every Microsoft product is very complex in itself, depending on the role and functionality there are different communication channels and protocols which communicate with each other. The same is also true for Exchange. Although Exchange has been rolled out again as a multirole system since the 2013 version, we are thinking back briefly to the […]
25/02/2020
Prolog There are several ways to create a Certificate request (CSR) for SSL Certificates. There are a large number of tools that can help or assist you in this process. Personally, I like to use PowerShell for this. There is a module in my Exchange Suite which you can download HERE and create a CSR […]
11/02/2020
Prolog Recently, I have been getting inquiries from customers, who have the following scenario: The environment was originally an on-premises infrastructure. Then the customers have decided to switch to Office 365 and implemented this step as follow: The AAD was configured to sync the user accounts to the cloud, but without the Exchange attributes. […]
03/02/2020
With Intune you can manage devices and apps of your employees as well as their access to your company data. To use this Mobile Device Management (MDM) system, devices must first be registered for the Intune service. However, there are several ways to register your employee’s devices. Each method depends on the type of device […]
28/01/2020
Prolog At this point I am happy to present the third part of my series “Phishing attack simulation”. In this article we will focus on Brute force Password (Dictionary) attacks. A brute-force attack dictionary is an automated, trial-and-error method of generating multiple passwords guesses from a dictionary file against a user’s password. Identical to Spear […]
21/01/2020
Prolog In my last article about this topic I have described how you can perform simulated phishing attacks on your own infrastructure. This is all about raising the awareness of your own employees. If you haven’t read this article yet, I recommend you do that later. This article is based in many points of the […]
06/01/2020
In this article I have decided not to write a technical contribution. Here you can see a video of me thanking you for all your support in 2019. I look back a little bit what happened last year and also a little bit to see what will happen in 2020. I hope you enjoy the […]
30/12/2019