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PowerShell Scripts for Balancing Database Availability Groups
One of the recommendations in Microsoft’s Preferred Architecture for Exchange Server 2013 is to distribute active database copies evenly across all members of a database availability group. As with the...
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Monitoring Office 365 with the Service Health Dashboard
This article is an excerpt from the book “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals“. Even though Office 365 and Exchange Online takes much of the support and maintenance responsibility out of your hands...
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Office 365 for Exchange Professionals is Now Available
I’m pleased to announce that our new ebook, Office 365 for Exchange Professionals, is now available. Co-authored by Exchange Server MVPs Tony Redmond, Michael Van Horenbeeck, and myself, Office 365 for...
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Managing Exchange Web Services in Office 365
In this excerpt from Office 365 for Exchange Professionals we look at the controls that are available to you for managing Exchange Web Services. Exchange Web Services (EWS) is an API that enables...
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Testing Exchange Server 2013 Client Access Server Health with PowerShell
One of the interesting features of Exchange Server 2013 is the way that Managed Availability communicates the health of individual Client Access protocols (eg OWA, ActiveSync, EWS) by rendering a...
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Message Tracking and Proxy Addresses
In a recent Reddit thread there was a question about message tracking and proxy addresses (or secondary email addresses). A fairly common scenario for companies that have rebranded or merged with...
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RSS Feed for Office 365 URLs and IP Address Changes has Moved
I use an IFTTT recipe to monitor the RSS feed for Office 365 URLs and IP addresses, so that I can receive an email alert when a change has been made. Today my recipe was automatically turned off after...
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How to Create or Convert Shared Mailboxes in Office 365
I participated in a Reddit thread about Office 365 shared mailboxes recently and thought it would be a good opportunity to write an article here as well, since this is a topic that comes up fairly...
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Add-SMTPAddresses.ps1 – Bulk Add SMTP Addresses to Office 365 Mailbox Users
Reading Tim McMichael’s blog post here reminded me of a script I’ve been meaning to tidy up and share. This script is used for bulk adding SMTP addresses to Office 365 mailboxes for a new SMTP domain....
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Get-MailboxReport.ps1 V1.03 is Now Available
It’s been a long time since I’ve updated Get-MailboxReport.ps1, a PowerShell script for generating reports about Exchange Server mailboxes statistics and other useful information. Recently some folks...
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FAQ: Configuring a Mailbox to Allow Only POP3 Access
Sometimes an organization has a requirement to only allow certain users to access their mailboxes using the POP3 protocol. Faced with this requirement the Exchange administrator needs to work out how...
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Use PowerShell to Quickly Check Multiple MX Records
Most of the customers I work with have just a small number of domain names used for email in their organization. But every now and then I do some work with a customer who has a very large number of...
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Amazon Kindle Edition of Office 365 for Exchange Professionals
Since the launch of Office 365 for Exchange Professionals back in May one of the most frequent requests we’ve received is for a Kindle version of the ebook. While we worked on writing and editing the...
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MS15-064 – Important Security Update for Exchange Server 2013
Microsoft has released an important security update for Exchange Server 2013. The bulletin MS15-064 states: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. The most severe...
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Microsoft Announces Exchange ActiveSync v16
When Exchange Server 2013 shipped it was noted by some (such as MVP Dave Stork) that there were no apparent changes to Exchange ActiveSync when compared to Exchange Server 2010. In fact, some had...
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How to Build an Exchange Server Test Environment
Every time a new Exchange Server update is released the topic of test environments is discussed. Naturally we always recommend testing updates before deploying them in production, but that advice tends...
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Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 9 Released
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 9 for Exchange Server 2013. From the Microsoft Exchange Team blog: Cumulative Update 9 contains the latest set of fixes and builds upon Exchange Server 2013...
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Managing Shared Mailbox Sent Items Behaviour in Exchange Server 2013 and...
With the recent release of Cumulative Update 9 for Exchange Server 2013, as well as updates to Exchange Online (Office 365), Microsoft has made it possible to control the sent items behaviour for...
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Azure AD Connect Has Been Released
Microsoft’s Azure AD Connect tool, which has been in public preview for some time now, is now generally available. We’re thrilled to announce that as of today Azure AD Connect is now generally...
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Upgrade Azure AD Sync to Azure AD Connect
With the release of Azure AD Connect for synchronizing on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, existing deployments of Azure AD Sync can consider performing an in-place upgrade of their...
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