PowerShell Script for TroubleShooting Exchange ActiveSync Devices
On a recent case I was investigating a mobile device that couldn’t connect to a mailbox over ActiveSync. After spending a few minutes collecting information about the mailbox and its associated devices...
View ArticleAzure Active Directory Conditional Access Policies and the Office 365 Portal
Microsoft is rolling out a change from August 9th 2017 for Azure Active Directory conditional access policies. Before this change rolls out any user logins to the Office 365 portal are not subject to...
View ArticleSurprise! New Office 365 Sign-In Experience for End Users
Microsoft is releasing a new Office 365 sign in experience to end users, a change that has not been communicated on the roadmap, Office Blog, or in Message Center. Upon visiting the login page for...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Office 365 for July 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 4th Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
View ArticleUsing Exchange Shared Mailboxes for Help Desk and Customer Service Scenarios
Shared mailboxes in Exchange Server and Exchange Online are a great way for a team of your users to share the workload of reading and responding to emails. Shared mailboxes are often used in customer...
View ArticleDoes OneDrive for Business Prevent Ransomware Attacks?
I delivered a talk about ransomware risks for businesses at an industry event last year. Since then, awareness of ransomware has grown due to a number of high profile outbreaks around the world. This...
View ArticleRemoving On-Premises Exchange Servers after Migrating to Office 365
For some customers after a migration from on-premises Exchange Server to Exchange Online there is a desire to completely decommission the on-premises Exchange servers. Whether it can actually be done...
View ArticleReview of Mailscape 365 Office 365 Monitoring from ENow Software
During my career, I’ve worked in many internal operations teams. I've also worked alongside ops teams when I’ve been delivering projects to customers. Over the years I’ve seen a broad range of...
View ArticleManaging Adoption of Office 365 by Controlling Access to Apps
A reader asked me how to limit access to Office 365 services so that their organization can migrate to Exchange Online first, and then gradually adopt more services over a period of time. That's a...
View ArticleWhat Can Microsoft Intune See On Your Managed Mobile Devices?
When mobile device management is being used there are often concerns by end users about what the company can see on their mobile devices. For most people the concerns are around private information...
View ArticleToo Soon to Kill the Groove.exe OneDrive for Business Sync Client?
Over at the Microsoft Technical Community, a forums member asks: A colleague reported not being able to sync using OneDrive for Business using the older groove.exe app today. I tried myself and got the...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of LinkedIn Data Sharing with Microsoft Azure Active...
I have a long-standing gripe with LinkedIn for the aggressive harvesting of contacts from their users. I use LinkedIn to a limited extent for professional connections, but I'm always careful to keep it...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Office 365 for August 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 4th Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
View ArticleIs Outlook for iOS and Android a Free App?
A recent discussion among MVPs and Microsoft reminded me of a question I was asked back when Outlook for iOS and Android were first released – is the Outlook app for iOS and Android devices a free...
View ArticleHow to Decommission an Exchange Server After Office 365 Migration
In a recent article I discussed the requirement to retain an on-premises Exchange Server after migrating to Office 365 when directory synchronization is being used. That article addresses a very...
View ArticleDo You Really Need an SPF Record?
For some time now I've considered Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records an essential part of domain name ownership. As it turns out there's still some debate in tech forums as to whether SPF records...
View ArticleReview of Mailscape Exchange Server Monitoring from ENow Software
When I give conference talks about Exchange Server, there are two stories that I like to tell. The first story is about the company that hired me to join their IT ops team as an Exchange specialist....
View ArticleHow to Export Mailboxes with Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 introduced a new method for exporting mailboxes called Mailbox Export Requests. This new method replaces the previous Export-Mailbox command. Before we look at how...
View ArticleHow to Import PST Files into Mailboxes with Exchange 2010 SP1
In a recent article we looked at how to export mailboxes to PST file with Mailbox Export Requests for Exchange Server 2010 SP1. In this article we'll look at the process for importing PST files into...
View ArticleExchange Server 2010 Mailbox Import Request Logging
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has a useful feature for importing PST files into mailboxes. However if you've used this feature a few times you may start to encounter problems with the imports failing, such...
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