Here some short article for today… In the morning an IT admin was asking me if it is possible to configure the out of Office message daily. When a user (let’s call him John) is on vacation, normally he sets an Out of Office message in his Outlook or OWA. If a user (let’s say Sofia) […]
19/02/2018
Almost everyone is using Cloud services, there are a lot of them like Azure, Office 365, G-Suite, Dropbox, AWS. Some of them we are using for private, but the most of it for our daily business. There is a smooth way Microsoft offers us to be able to use single sign-on (SSO) on the most […]
13/02/2018
When I studied at the Technical University in Chur, there was a generational gap Type between our professors who learned the program with punch cards and us, students who were using keyboards. Recently, when I spoke with a student who works with me in the same company, I got there is a similar gap today […]
09/02/2018
One of my customers is running an exchange environment with multiple Accepted Domains. The reason for that is that this company is a Holding and it has a bulk of sub companies. Normally the sub companies are using the Mail service from the Holding environment. Now one of the sub companies wants to use an […]
06/02/2018
Last week I had to update a customers Exchange server envoriment with the new CU Pack. It’s an Exchange 2016 environment, so I needed to install the CU8 from Microsoft. If you want to know when, which Exchange version is released and you also need to know the build number, simply follow this Link to […]
05/02/2018
Sometimes the simplest things need the most time to find out. There are many different versions of Exchange servers installed worldwide. Unfortunately not all of them are running with the newest updates. The reasons for that can be different. Time by time, I as a Messaging Engineer have to troubleshoot, administer, or change things in […]
30/01/2018
The basic scenario in hybrid Exchange environments is that we have to create an Exchange mailbox on-premise, which has to be synced to Exchange Online (O365). Note: In this graphic I didn’t differ between on-premise or EOP mailflow, thats why I show both solutions. The game plan is mostly the one where you create […]
29/01/2018
There are different reasons to have a hybrid infrastructure. One of them can be that the HR is, for legal reasons, not allowed to move their mailboxes to the cloud. But in this article I will not write about reasons why a hybrid mail environment could make sence. I want to present a solution how […]
25/01/2018
At the Ignite 2017 Microsoft presented a bulk of new features which are waiting for us in 2018. One of them is the message encryption in Office 365. In this article I want to tell you more about that: Till today, or lets say till +/- 2016 most of us had this kind of […]
18/01/2018
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
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
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