Recently a customer contacted me with an issue with one of their mail-enabled Security Groups. They were trying to set both the MemberJoin and MemberDepart settings to Closed per best practices. Well it turns out that the ‘Closed’ setting is actually a default for mail-enabled Security Groups. PowerShell options are available for changing these values…
Category: Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server
Practical PowerShell Exchange Online book is now available!
After working on this book for the past 9-12 month, the work is done. This book is basically taking the information from our first book, Practical PowerShell Exchange 2016, and translating it so the content would work for Exchange Online. Sounds simple right? Yup, that’s what I thought to. Until I started to dig in…
New Book Release Next Week
A year in the making, my next book from my Practical PowerShell series covers Exchange Online: This book is a complete redo of the Exchange 2016 book with all content revised, stripped, added and modified to be specifically cover Exchange Online. The new book is approximately 450 pages in length and it will be sold…
Improving the Outlook Signature Experience
Fellow Office Server and Services MVP, Jeff Guillet, has posted a good article on this over at his blog. Please go read it and then vote for this improved experience over at User Voice with his provided link. You are limited to one vote a day, but I think as a community we can get…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 25
Again while working in a lab environment, I needed to move some mailboxes (the default arbitration, system and more) mailboxes from the default databases to new standardly named databases. Instead of running Get-MoveRequest every 30 seconds or so, I wrote a quick PowerShell script to handle this process for me. The same script could be…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 24
While working in my Exchange labs, I like being able to automate whatever I can because I don’t always have time to spend doing testing in any sort of manual way. For this quick PowerShell article, I am going to discuss a script I call the ‘RandomEmailEmulator.ps1’. This is the first iteration of a script…
Office 365 Message Encryption – Transition to AIP
A typical part of the migrations I work on with my clients is enabling Encryption. The encryption for their emails could be a replacement for a current solution like Iron Mail or PGP. The clients typically want to encrypt confidential emails to their customers, partner organizations or clients. I am rather familiar with the process…
Book Topics
Last year Dave Stork and I released our first book Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2016. We even updated the book with 100 pages of new content in a Second Edition that was released on October. Now we are soon to release our book that has been completely retooled to focus on Exchange Online and its…
Exchange Install Disappears?
Just this week I was updating a client from Exchange 2013 CU6 to CU19. Yes, this is not a great idea and takes a bit of effort in order to do. However, I’ve done more upgrades and installs of Exchange CUs that I can count. This one was strange. One of three servers was up…
Office 365 Admin – Mobile App
Just under three years ago I wrote about the Office 365 Admin app and what I thought of its operation on my Windows phone. Since those days, the app has changed drastically and the UI operation is much different from it was back then: The newer one appears to be more in line with the…
