A lot of migration projects start off with testing a couple of main components in addition to making sure the environment is secure, we need to make sure email flows to and from all users and free busy works between Exchange and Exchange Online. For this blog post we will explore some blockers when it…
Outbound Mail Routing Issues Exchange Online Hybrid
Recently I was working with a client and we experienced some strange mail flow issues. These issues included old transport rules on Exchange 2010 as well as delayed and VERY slow emails from on-premises mailboxes to mailboxes in Exchange Online. First, the setup: Multiple Exchange 2016 servers Multiple Exchange 2010 Servers – Internet mail in…
HCW – MRS proxy cannot be established
As a consultant I perform a lot of migrations and as such I wanted to continue to share the issues that I see and the fixes that I have found. For this post I have a brief but common issue that I have seen twice in the past two months of migrations. Specifically this has…
HCW – Adding Federated Domain Hangs – Again!
A couple of years ago I wrote a post on how the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) hung on adding a Federated Domain to an Office 365 tenant. You can read the old post HERE. Since then the HCW has been rather trouble free from this perspective. However, I recently had a case where this…
New PowerShell Tips Posts
As part of my contributions to the PowerShell / Exchange / Office 365 communities I post PowerShell Tips to my Practical PowerShell site. You can go there by clicking HERE. In the past three months I have written up these posts: Output Files – Keep Track! PowerShell, Delimiters and Building CSVs Get Out! (-GridView) What…
PowerShell and Web Interface Reference for Office 365
I won’t claim that this blog post is the end all of all references for connections points to Office 365, however I wanted to start a post that shows the extensive ways that can connect to various services. First, the web interfaces for various workloads in Office 365: Web Interfaces Microsoft 365 Administration Portal –…
Office 365 Hybrid Configuration – Organization Configuration Transfer
Last year I published a blog post on this same topic. In this post I wanted to dive a bit deeper into what exactly is going on and possibly suggest some ‘upgrades’ to the wizard to make it easier to understand the process. I recently ran the wizard with a client to see all the…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 32
For this Quick PowerShell post I wanted to share a little deep dive into Modern Public Folders (Exchange 2013 – 2019). In sharing this, I wanted to expose some of the properties of Public Folders that you may not have known were exposed with PowerShell and can only be seen in the GUI. Finding the…
Quick Powershell Stuff 31
After Microsoft switched over to Modern Public Folders, I never thought I would have to worry or dig into the underworkings as much as we did in Exchange 2010 and before. I have been proven wrong twice now. My current issue is a corruption issue where I am unable to currently move certain mailboxes, even…
Unlimited, Auto Expanding Archiving (or is it?)
Microsoft recently made a change to their documentation on this Office 365 feature. The documentation can be found here Ironic pic of the day: So. The Auto-Expanding Archive part is true, it’s just not the unlimited buffet of storage that it used to be. Did you see an announcement on this? I doubt it. Tony…
