Hated to see this when it affected Exchange on-premises for what seemed like ages. Now we have a similar issue occurring with PowerShell in Exchange Online. If, for some reason, you need to check the Get-Help of a cmdlet in Exchange Online, you will get a grand ol’ error message like this: While this is…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Office / Office 365 Support Changes In 2020 – Update posted today!
As I was writing an article about Office support and Microsoft’s policy on its future, getting ready to Publish it, Microsoft moved the target. Office 2016 which had been slated to be an unsupported in October of 2020 has had its support officially extended to 2023. This is great news for those that are currently…
Exchange Server 2019 Preview
For those companies and organizations that are still deploying and maintaining Exchange on-premises, you may be aware of the newest version of Microsoft’s flagship messaging product is now in preview – Exchange Server 2019. This latest iteration does bring about some significant changes and one interesting feature. Here is a quick summary of the changes…
New-RemoteMailbox -Shared
I perform a lot of migrations to Exchange Online and do most of my work in PowerShell. As such, being able to work with all types of remote mailboxes for Exchange Online migrations is a boon to me as it is less time I have to spend in the GUI. Recently Microsoft added the ‘-Shared’…
Exchange 2019 Preview Prerequisite Script
Over the past six or so years I’ve worked on providing a PowerShell script to make the installation process for Exchange 2013 and 2016 easier. The scripts will install the prerequisites, instead of having you look them up, round them up and then install them one at a time. With Exchange 2019 Preview being released…
Exchange Online – Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer
One of the more interesting changes to the ever changing Hybrid wizard is the ‘Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer’ option that has appeared recently.
Slow mailbox moves in Exchange 2016
For the past few years most migrations (when I say most, I guess I mean 90%) are moving mailboxes to Office 365 and Exchange Online. This entails a bit of back work, some prep and migrations go relatively smoothly. In May of this year I worked with a company to move 4500 users in Europe…
Exchange Prerequisite Script Updates for Exchange 2013/2016
Another Cumulative Update and another chance to revisit a script I’ve maintained for many years. This time with Cumulative Update 21 (the last one?!) for Exchange 2013 and Cumulative Update 10 for Exchange 2016, Microsoft has changed the C++ requirement to be the 2013 version and not the 2012 version that is included in with…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 26
When I typically write one of these Quick PowerShell blog articles, I usually cover a topic in Exchange Server or Exchange Online. However, like my job, I also want to cover different topics and in this article we’ll delve into some quick PowerShell stuff related to Active Directory. Windows 2008 R2 does not have certain…
New Blog Posts and More
For those that read this blog on a regular basis you know that my posts can come in irregular bursts, usually with very few long breaks. However, as you can tell, my blog writing has slowed down quite a bit. I’m afraid I have been a bit busier than my normal in the real world….
