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How Small is Too Small for a Database Availability Group?
A question from a Twitter following: Is it not overkill for an organization with fewer than 100 mailboxes and a single site to have a DAG implemented? Database availability groups are the high...
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Is a Domain Controller Required When Using Azure to Host the File Share...
I received a question in my mailbox overnight from a reader of the 70-345 exam reference. I figured it would be helpful to post the answer here as well, since it is probably a question that many people...
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Recovering a Failed Exchange 2016 Database Availability Group Member
If you're running an Exchange 2016 database availability group, and one of the DAG members fails, you can recover the DAG member to restore the high availability of your Exchange mailbox databases....
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Using Test-ReplicationHealth to Troubleshoot Database Availability Groups
Database availability groups are reasonably smart and robust systems, but they do need monitoring, or else you might find one day they are not providing the HA that you need them to. One of the useful...
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New DAG Activation Preference Behavior in Exchange 2016 CU2 is Good News for...
In Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2), Microsoft is changing the behavior of database availability groups. Starting with CU2 (which will be releasing soon), the Primary Active Manager in...
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Using Activation Policies to Prevent Database Copies Mounting in Other Sites
A lot of organizations that deploy multi-site database availability groups do so with the intention of using one site for normal production operations, and one for disaster recovery. This design...
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Server Component States During Cumulative Update Installation
If you've performed maintenance on a database availability group member before, then you're likely already familiar with the procedures for putting DAG members in and out of maintenance mode. If this...
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Installing an Exchange Server 2016 Database Availability Group
In this tutorial I will walk you through the installation of an Exchange Server 2016 database availability group. For this example a DAG with two members in the same site is being created, with a third...
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Can Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 Servers Be Added to the Same Database...
Q: Can a Database Availability Group have a mix of Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 members? A: No. When information about Windows Server 10 began to emerge one of the interesting items...
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PowerShell Scripts for Balancing Database Availability Groups
One of the recommendations in Microsoft's Preferred Architecture for Exchange Server 2013 is to distribute active database copies evenly across all members of a database availability group. As with the...
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What to look out for at Microsoft Ignite 2019?
This blog is based on the transcript from this video with MVPs Sigi Jagott & Tom Arbuthnot. So, what you should look out for at Ignite? There’s going to be lots of focus on Microsoft Teams and...
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Migrating SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
This article is a chapter from Quadrotech's popular eBook, ‘Everything You Need To Know About Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migrations'. You can download the complete guide for free here. SharePoint...
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The Azure Ink Recognizer: How it works and integrates into Sharepoint – Part 2
This is a two-part article series on the Azure Ink Recognizer, you can find Part One here. If you’re looking to integrate handwriting, shapes and inked documents into your Office 365 applications, and...
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Exchange and Skype for Business 2019? What discussions we have on the market
This article is a rough transcript of what was discussed in the above video with Sigi Jagott and Tom Arbuthnot. Microsoft MVP’s Sigi Jagott, a specialist in Exchange, and Tom Arbuthnot, a specialist...
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An overview of Tenant to Tenant Migration – eBook Teaser!
The below article is a teaser from MVP Jeff Guillet's chapter “Overview of Tenant to Tenant Migrations” in “Everything you need to know about Tenant to Tenant Migrations”, you can download the eBook...
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Overcoming problems performing a Hybrid Configuration on Exchange 2010 servers
If you are running Exchange Server 2010, then you've already got everything you need to be able to perform a Hybrid Configuration and move mailboxes. Microsoft announced this week that support for...
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Evolve Conference on Tour – Teams in Two Days
In July, myself and the Evolve Conference organizer team put on a two-day event at Microsoft’s Reactor in London – Teams in Two Days. If you haven’t heard of the Evolve Conference, let me give you a...
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How to run PowerShell scripts to automate manual processes in Office 365
Automation is centric to our role as IT professionals in order to make manual tasks such as managing servers, endpoints or processes, more streamlined and efficient. However, since the proliferation...
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Outlook Updates 2019
It’s been a while since we last looked at Outlook clients, so in this article, I’m providing a rundown of the most noteworthy updates from the past few months. New OWA experience is GA Announced over...
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Office 365 for IT Pros (2020 Edition) – a missing reference and notes from...
Tony Redmond and team provide an unparalleled level of depth in a book that makes essential reading for anyone managing Office 365 for their company Sitting down to read a Tony Redmond led book is...
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