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December 2016 Updates Released For All Versions of Exchange Server
Microsoft has released new updates for all supported versions of Exchange Server, announcing: Cumulative Update 4 for Exchange Server 2016 (download | UM language packs) Cumulative Update 15 for...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Mail Flow Cutover
The mail flow cutover during an Exchange 2016 migration usually needs to be considered for three scenarios: Inbound internet mail flow Outbound internet mail flow Internal application relay For some...
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Office 365 Administration Portals and PowerShell Connections
Office 365 is a cloud service that is made up of many different underlying services that are integrated together, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Skype for Business Online. With so many...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Migrating Mailboxes
The Exchange 2016 migration project for Not Real University has reached the stage where they can begin their mailbox migration. When planning a mailbox migration it’s useful to review how much data...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Public Folder Migration
For an Exchange 2016 migration, the public folder migration options depend on which version of Exchange you’re migrating from: If you are migrating modern public folders from Exchange 2013 to Exchange...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Removing Legacy Servers
When all of the services and data have been migrated to Exchange Server 2016, you can begin to decommission the legacy Exchange servers from your environment. Exchange servers must be correctly removed...
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2016 Year in Review, and What’s Happening to Exchange Server Pro in 2017
As 2016 draws to an end it’s time to look back and reflect on another year, and also look forward to the future. It’s been another busy year for me here at Exchange Server Pro. Each year I like to pull...
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Managing Change in Office 365
In a traditional IT model, before cloud services came along, change control was something that many organizations relied on quite heavily. Any change to IT systems that could impact end users, whether...
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New Pluralsight Course – Designing & Deploying Exchange 2016 (70-345) Hybrid...
The final course in my series with Pluralsight for the Exchange 2016 certification exam (70-345) is now available. This course covers the “Implement and manage coexistence, hybrid scenarios, migration,...
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A Look at Using Microsoft StaffHub for Managing Team Rosters in Office 365
Microsoft has released StaffHub, an Office 365 application that is designed for managing rosters for staff workers. StaffHub is positioned as a solution for “deskless workers”, and uses examples such...
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Office 365 Message Center Email Digest
In my recent post about managing change in Office 365 I talked about the role of Message Center notifications in keeping you up to date with changes occurring in the cloud. One of the weaknesses of the...
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The Sun is Setting on Site Mailboxes in Office 365
Microsoft is notifying Office 365 customers that access to Site Mailboxes is being removed from SharePoint Online, and no more Site Mailboxes can be created from March 2017 onward. The functionality of...
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What’s New in Office 365 for January 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 3rd Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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New Service Health Dashboard for Office 365
The Service Health Dashboard in the Office 365 admin portal provides customers with a view of the health of the wide variety of services in Office 365. Microsoft uses the Service Health Dashboard to...
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Changing the OWA Reply All Default Setting to Reply
One of Microsoft’s interesting design decisions with Outlook on the web (OWA) for Exchange is the default setting of “Reply all” for replying to email messages. As any seasoned email admin will tell...
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Update to the Office 365 Message Center Digest Email Script
A couple of weeks ago I released my PowerShell script for generating an email report of Office 365 Message Center notifications. After it was released one reader, Ryan Mitchell, kindly sent me some...
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GitLab Data Loss Lessons for Office 365 Customers
In late January of this year GitLab, a Git repository and source-code management service similar to GitHub, suffered the permanent loss of some customer data. As reported by The Register: Behind the...
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First Steps: Securing Office 365 Administrator Accounts with Multi-Factor...
When you sign up a new Office 365 tenant a Global Admin account is created for you. This Global Admin account, and any other admin accounts you create later on, are highly privileged, powerful accounts...
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Exchange Server Error: An Incomplete Installation Was Detected
I ran into an interesting issue while I was removing an Exchange 2016 server from an environment. The uninstall process failed on step 5 of 13 and threw an error. The error itself is not all that...
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Migrating Azure AD Connect to a New Server
For organizations that are using synchronized identities for Office 365, the directory synchronization tool of choice these days is Azure AD Connect. To keep AAD Connect running you may eventually have...
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