Working as a consultant for multiple customers forces us to connect multiple times a day to different Exchange Online management shell’s. Everyone has his own way to save the connection command for the Exchange Online PowerShell. I had the command always saved in a ready to use Notepad document. However, since I am always using […]

Few weeks ago, I was working on a migration project between two independent domains. The project by itself was huge because there were multiple teams working on too. In this project, we had to migrate the Active Directory including the SID history, Exchange SAP Skype for business and much more other things.   However, because […]

The single biggest threat to our business’s online security is malicious emails. As responsible Messaging Administrators/Engineers/Architects, it’s up to us to require email security best practices among our users and institute a security-minded culture within our organization.   Contrary to popular myth, the most effective hacking techniques require almost no technical skill. A hacker needs […]

I just had to do some additional work in a project we have just finished. One of the main tasks has been adjusting some permissions for shared mailboxes. In this article, I wrote down some usefull PowerShell commands for managing shared mailboxes.   What is a shared mailbox? A shared mailbox is a type of […]

In the company I am working for, we have some multiple Exchange projects. To set them up in a standardized way, we are installing them with some PowerShell scripts.We can do the same for some configuration tasks. Dominic and I wrote a script, which will do some necessary configurations for us. This will save a […]

If we want to import PST files into an Exchange mailbox, we can use the PowerShell CMDlet New-MailboxImportRequest. The PST files that we want to import must be available through a file share, because the CMDlets only accept UNC paths. To import a PST file, we use the following command: New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox ‘Name of Mailbox’ […]

The story is often the same one: I get invited for a workshop from a customer about projects for messaging and/or Office 365 topics and one of the main questions is about on-premises Exchange, Hybrid Exchange and/or Exchange online. However, there is a confusion in the IT world out there about these topics. The question […]

Many companies are still using the on-premise version of Exchange Server. And the IT departments have faced the decision of migrating currently used variant. You ask yourself the question: is a migration to Exchange 2019 worthwhile? And if so, how much effort does a migration mean? Some days ago Microsoft has released the 2019 version […]