Category: Exchange

In order to help troubleshoot connectivity issues an end-user might experience, Microsoft has released two walk-throughs for Outlook connecting to either an On-Premise Exchange or Office 365 Tenant. On-Premises Outlook Connectivity Walkthrough

Are you planning an upgrade to your messaging environment? Do you have Exchange 2003, 2007 or 2010? Do you need assistance getting to the next version of Exchange? Then look no further than the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant.

On Thursday, February 6th, 2014 from 6 to 9 PM the Chicago Office 365 User Group will be meeting in the AON building in downtown Chicago. Please go to our MEETUP page for more information. Our presentations that night will be on Azure RMS and Exchange Online Protection (EOP). Join us for some great content…

The next meeting for Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group (MMCUG) will be on January 31, 2014 at the Microsoft building in Downers Grove, IL. We will have food as well as prizes to go along with the great content from our 3 speakers. Topics to be covered will be Lync 2013, PowerShell and Hardware…

As a Microsoft Certified Professional, I visit the MCP page to get copies of my transcript, download my certificates and even check out the neat Certification planner tool that is now provided by Microsoft. If you’ve just taken an exam recently and logged into the site, you’ll notice that a lot has changed since the…

Security bulletin MS13-105 was released by Microsoft and it affects these products: Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Exchange Server 2010 RTM, SP1, SP2, and SP3 Exchange Server 2013 CU2 Exchange Server 2013 CU3 Exchange 2007 and 2010 get new Rollup Updates, while Exchange 2013 just gets a security patch.

Yesterday Microsoft announced the end of UAG. This brings to a close an era where Exchange was secured by ISA, then TMG and partially UAG. I’ve worked with many versions of Exchange and in a majority of cases, we would place ISA/TMG as a security proxy for their messaging environment. We would secure OWA, RPC…

Last week I attended the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Seattle, Washington. As part of the conference Microsoft allowed MVPs to purchase the Surface 2 device for a discount. For the past two years my family and I have used an iPad for home and game use. So I decided to take a spin on…

Currently the only certification for Office 365 is the MCITP: Office 365 Admin which requires you to take exams 70-323 and 70-321. If you are registering for a test on the Prometric site, you might have noticed some new BETA exams on the list of Microsoft Exams.