Having password policies in a company is good! Very good! And important! Using on-premises active directory and GPO’s makes it very easy to handle password policies. If we have an Office 365 environment managed by Microsoft onboard tools such as ADFS and AAC we also don’t have to think to far how to handle password […]
27/03/2018
There are many cool scripts on the Technet about mailbox size and quota reporting. The same about searching for them on Bing or Google. Sometimes we just are searching for remembering a simple PowerShell command and not too much text to read in articles. For this reason I have created on my Blog the Technical […]
23/03/2018
The Exchange Team released the March updates for Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, and these Cumulative Updates contain a ton of fixes. Like the previous Cumulative Update for Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016, these Cumulative Updates support .NET Framework 4.7.1. Be advised that .NET Framework 4.7.1 will be required for the next cycle of quarterly […]
21/03/2018
Last weekend I had to work on a change request in a company. Our guys from the network team had to change some physical switches and the most of our physical servers which were connected to this specific switch where for around two hours north on a redundant network setting. At the same time I […]
21/03/2018
Before you install Exchange 2016, you need to review the topic to ensure that your network, hardware, software, clients, and other elements meet the requirements for Exchange 2016. In addition, make sure you understand the coexistence scenarios that are supported for Exchange 2016 and earlier versions of Exchange. There are different scenarios of supported […]
17/03/2018
Shared mailboxes are great. They can be used for a variety of scenarios within your environment. What is that for a feature? Emails can be sent as the shared mailbox itself or on behalf of it by member(s) of the mailbox, assuming proper permissions have been granted. This feature is designed to retain a […]
15/03/2018
Microsoft has been rapidly expanding its cloud infrastructure to meet increasing customer demand in Europe and today announced the availability of new cloud services in France and the expansion of cloud services from new datacenters in Germany and Switzerland. “As a company, we’re focused on empowering every organization and person on the planet to achieve […]
14/03/2018
After all the positive feedback to my article “10 Useful PowerShell cmdlets for Exchange” (thanks again to Steve Goodman), I have decided to write a second part of it with another 10 useful PowerShell commands for Exchange and Office 365. Same procedure as the last time. Some of you may already know the commands, but […]
09/03/2018
Your email account is a gold mine for hackers. And yet many people still aren’t taking basic precautions to secure their accounts. Here are five essential steps for safe email. Hacks are surprisingly commonplace. In 2014, for instance, nearly half of all American adults had some form of data stolen from corporate servers in a […]
06/03/2018
Last month one of our Junior Engineers got a task to move some outlook information’s to the O365 Mailbox. It was a restore from a PST backup which was made before this company has moved their mail infrastructure to exchange online. In this short article, I want to show you step by step how to […]
05/03/2018
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27/02/2018
In one of my last articles, I wrote about installing, customizing and about the functionality of the ADFS servers. Today I want to write about the ADFS / Azure Multi-Factor Authentication server (MFA). In Q2 of the last year Microsoft announced an app called “Microsoft Authenticator”. The functionality is similar to Google’s authentication App “Google […]
26/02/2018