Category: Exchange

In the last part of my series I will explore some more advanced options that can be applied or configured in the XML template that can be imported to Exchange 2013 / Office 365 for DLP. The additional values can be configured in the DLP matching criteria – Confidence, Proximity and Keywords. (See the TechNet…

So. Another update. Another bug. Another pulled update. More irate customers. More headaches for the IT guy/gal. Finally a re-posting of the Update (v2 of course). What do you do?

Exchange 2013 CU7, Exchange 2010 SP3 UR 8 and Exchange 2007 SP3 UR15 are now available from Microsoft today. Microsoft has also released a set of UM Language packs for Exchange 2013 CU7 as well. Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7 Download link for CU7 ** Note this update includes Security Update MS014-75 More information on…

When I began writing this blog article I was focused on automating just ActiveSync and OWA access for end users. It dawned on me that there are quite a few settings that need to automated since the removal of previous management features like System Policies. I have also address this in some previous blog articles…

One of my pet peeves when it comes to PowerShell is to write a good script that does what I need with the commands I have at my disposal, only to find the command deprecated in some future release of Exchange. Usually the only way to find out is run a proper query with the…

As a consultant I tend to perform more migrations in a year than most engineers will see in 10. Every few migrations I will run into something that is ‘not normal’ or expected. For Exchange 2013 I’ve run into a few more than in migrations to previous versions of Exchange and ActiveSync has seemly cause…

Brand new Exchange 2013 CU 6 server. Shiny. All URLs configured. OWA works? Not so much. “Something went wrong”.

Occasionally mailbox moves fail. There are many reasons why a move could fail. For this particular article I will concentrate on one failure that can occur if a mailbox is moved to an internal Exchange Server or to a server on Office 365. Simply put it is inheritable permissions:

In the first part of this series, I showed you how to create a basic DLP XML file to import manually. Now I want to cover how to do this with Powershell. The end goal is to create a usable rule XML file for DLP Rules. Keep in mind that this is a very basic…

Custom Data Loss Protection Rule (DLP) rules are useful for those wishing to block, report or otherwise work with messages that have data types other than what is built-in. These built-in DLP rules only cover the more generic situations. In part one of my series on Custom DLP rules I will cover the basic steps…