Analyzing Exchange Transaction Log Generation Statistics – Revisited
Almost 4 years ago, I wrote a script called GetTransactionLogStats.ps1, and originally blogged about it here. At the original time of writing, the primary purpose of the script was to collect...
View ArticleExchange 2007 reaches end of life on April 11th. What’s your plan to move?
On April 11, 2017, Exchange Server 2007 will reach End of Life. If you haven’t already begun your migration from Exchange 2007 to Office 365 or Exchange 2016, you need to start planning now. End of...
View ArticleMulti-Factor Authentication for the Hybrid Configuration Wizard and Remote...
You can now use an Administrator account that is enabled for Multi-Factor Authentication to sign in to Exchange Online PowerShell and the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW). In case you are...
View ArticleAnnouncing the availability of modern public folder migration to Exchange Online
We are happy to announce the availability of public folder migration from Exchange Server 2013/2016 on-premises to Exchange Online! Many of our customers asked us for this, and the full documentation...
View ArticleReleased: March 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates
With this month’s quarterly release we bid a fond farewell to Exchange Server 2007. Support for Exchange Server 2007 expires on 4/11/2017. Update Rollup 23 for Service Pack 3 will be the last update...
View ArticleExchange Server Edge Support on Windows Server 2016 Update
Today we are announcing an update to our support policy for Windows Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2016. At this time we do not recommend customers install the Exchange Edge role on Windows Server...
View ArticleHelp us test Cloud Attachments in Outlook 2016 with SharePoint Server 2016
My name is Steven Lepofsky, and I’m an engineer on the Outlook for Windows team. We have released (to Insiders) support for Outlook 2016’s Cloud Attachment experience with SharePoint Server 2016. We...
View ArticleSent Items behavior control comes to Exchange Online user mailboxes
It has been a while since we blogged about the ability to control the behavior of Sent Items for shared mailboxes when users either send as or on behalf of shared mailboxes. Today, we are glad to share...
View ArticleAccessing public folder favorites
Introduction Seeing that Outlook desktop and Outlook on the web (or OWA, depending on version) do not support the same types of public folders (or folders added to Favorites) we wanted to talk about...
View Article2nd call for public folders to O365 Groups migrations
We got some replies to our previous post on the subject, but wanted to reach out again as we want to make sure we validate this scenario well. Therefore, here is an updated request: If you are using...
View ArticleDemystifying Certificate Based Authentication with ActiveSync in Exchange...
Some of the more complicated support calls we see are related to Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) with ActiveSync. This post is intended to provide some clarifications of this topic and give you...
View ArticleOffice 365 Directory Based Edge Blocking support for on-premises Mail Enabled...
Until now, our on-premises customers who use Mail Enabled Public Folders (MEPF) could not use services like Directory Based Edge Blocking (DBEB). If DBEB is enabled, any mails sent to Mail Enabled...
View ArticleDeep Dive: How Hybrid Authentication Really Works
A hybrid deployment offers organizations the ability to extend the feature-rich experience and administrative control they have with their existing on-premises Microsoft Exchange organization to the...
View ArticleTooManyBadItemsPermanentException error when migrating to Exchange Online?
Some of you may have noticed that more migrations might be failing due to encountering ‘too many bad items’. Upon closer review, you may notice that the migration report contains entries referencing...
View ArticleAnnouncing Original Folder Item Recovery
Cumulative Update 6 (CU6) for Exchange Server 2016 will be released soonTM, but before that happens, I wanted to make you aware of a behavior change in item recovery that is shipping in CU6. Hopefully...
View Article.NET Framework 4.7 and Exchange Server
We wanted to post a quick note to call out that our friends in .NET are releasing .NET Framework 4.7 to Windows Update for client and server operating systems it supports. At this time, .NET Framework...
View ArticleReleased: June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates
The latest set of Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013 are now available on the download center. These releases include fixes to customer reported issues, all previously...
View ArticleDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online...
In July 2018, we will no longer support the use of Session Border Controllers (SBC) to connect 3rd Party PBX systems to Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM). We’re making this change to provide a...
View ArticleModern public folders logging and when to use it
Hello again! In our last article, we discussed recommendations for deployment of public folders and public folder mailboxes. In this post, we will be discussing methods and tips for monitoring...
View ArticleAnnouncing availability of 250,000 public folder Exchange 2010 hierarchy...
Last September, we announced a beta program to validate onboarding of public folder data from Exchange 2010 on-premises to Exchange Online with large public folder hierarchies (100K – 250K public...
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