When it comes to messaging and Exchange, I’m always interested in new features or new innovations. Office 365’s Exchange Online is no different. Microsoft is constantly improving and experimenting with new features. Recently these new features were added to Office 365: Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection NDR backscatter protection Quarantine Message Body Preview Removal of…
ADFS – Certificates, Requests and WID Databases
When you do Federation work for a consulting firm that specializes in Microsoft Solutions you have a set design that works for federating companies with Office 365. Sometimes I get a project that does not involve federating to Microsoft, but instead to another company. In this case we used a relaying claim to a company…
New posts are coming
For the past 3 weeks or so I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus for writing new blog articles. For the curious, I was backpacking with my son in New Mexico at a place called Philmont. If you are or your kids were/are in Boy Scouts, then you have heard about it. We covered ‘officially’…
Office 365 – Windows Phone App
While I know I am in the minority when it comes to phones, I prefer using my Windows Phone to any other device out there. With this phone and OS, the choice Applications is a bit limited. However, Microsoft in their wisdom released the Office 365 Admin App for the Windows Phone. I believe we…
BYOD In a Cloud World
Over the course of the past year or two as my clients have transitioned to BYOD as their primary mode for providing smartphones to their employees, I’ve noticed a greater emphasis by them on trying to find out what Office 365 / Exchange provide natively for device security. As such, the conversations transition to what…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 17
In this latest installment, I am going to revisit a script I had written before that is now in it’s second major iteration. The first iteration was just to simply be able to scan all event logs for a list of servers that your typed in and look for Critical, Warning and Error messages in…
Thanks again Microsoft. MVP for my third year.
For my third year I’ve been honored to receive the Microsoft MVP award for Exchange Server. I’ll spare you the video from my post two years ago… I will just say thanks again and I hope to live up to the MVP ideals.
Tip for Moving Public Folders to Office 365
Much has been written about the demise of public folders and its eventual removal from Exchange Server 2xxx. Yet, here we are in 2015 with Exchange 2013 AND Office 365 supporting Public Folders. The purpose of this post is not to rehash old topics or anything of the sort. It is merely a quick tips…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 16
For this quick post on Powershell, I will tag a previous post for a complimenting pair of scripts. The script in this article will check to see who will be affected when databases are put back in order of Activation Preference. In a previous script – Quick PowerShell Stuff 13 – we were able to…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 15
In this next quick PowerShell post, I am going to cover a quick way to look at your database copies. This script will look for failed copies of the database. I wrote this because of a client I have that have over 150 databases and over 500 copies of all of their databases. This script…
