Security and Compliance Center (Office 365) For this meeting we’ll be meeting at the Microsoft Store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Microsoft offered this meeting place up to us as something cool and different. Make sure to come at 6:00 PM for networking and food. We have two presentations for the meeting: Security and Compliance…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Exchange 2016 – Hybrid Deployment Check – Invalid Credentials
Thought I would share a weird error I experience in a while with Exchange CU installations. First, let me provide a little background: Environment Exchange 2010 SP3 UR15 Hybrid configuration Office 365 tenant with E3 licenses The client is at the end of their migration of mailboxes to Office 365. We are cleaning up the…
Exchange 2013 Stuck CU Upgrade
During a routine update of an Exchange server, a client of mine had an issue with a Security Update for Exchange 2013 CU12. This patch, KB3184736, showed Status – Failed in the Windows Update History. After the install failed, Exchange Admin Console would not load, the Exchange Management Shell also could not connect to Exchange…
Exchange Online Hybrid Wizard Certificate Requirements
This will be a rather short blog post. With a lot of my clients connecting to cloud services I get to work with Hybrid configurations quite a bit. Typically setting up ADFS, Azure AD Connect and running the Exchange Hybrid wizard (if we are going to Exchange Online) are all relatively quick and generally the…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 18
A client approached me with a need for some mailbox statistics. They wanted a script or some sort of PowerShell code to examine a few mailbox details for a migration from one environment to another that was being processed with third party tools. The source environment was running Exchange Server 2010. This means PowerShell 2.0….
Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets
When I run into something in PowerShell that draws my curiosity, I usually go down a rabbit hole to further my knowledge of whatever that is. Sometimes this means digging into the text from the HELP for Exchange PowerShell cmdlets. For example, a while back I wrote a script to examine the text for the…
Book Available on Kindle and Kobo Now
As if there aren’t enough ways to enjoy reading about PowerShell on Exchange 2016, our book is now available via Amazon Kindle and Kobo! We had some missteps with or provider, but they quickly figured out a solution and now our book is available in more formats. So in case you need something to choose…
Moving Public Folders to Office 365 – Issue 2
I simply cannot wait until Public Folders are gone. Increasingly over the years my customers have abandoned them for greener pastures. Yet, I still run into the occasional customer that has Public Folders and insists on moving them to Office 365. Moving folders to Office 365 is almost exactly the same as moving Public Folders…
Moving Public Folders to Office 365 – Issue 1
Migrating to Office 365 can include migrating Public Folder objects, however just like mailboxes sometimes cleanup is necessary to get objects to replicate properly. For Public Folders, finding a mail enabled folder should be pretty easy. Reviewing the object in Public Folder Management and looking at the E-Mail Addresses or the folder we see the…
Scripting Agent and Exchange Server Woes
I recently worked with a client that we were working to move to Office 365. During the process we wanted to put in new Exchange 2016 servers which required upgrading the existing Exchange 2010 servers to a newer Update Rollup for Service Pack 3. Just trying to kick off an update resulted in an error:…
