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Protecting against Rogue Administrators
Occasionally I am asked the following question – how can I protect the messaging environment from a rogue administrator? There are essentially two concerns being asked in this question:How do I protect...
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Take Advantage of EOPs new Bulk Mail Detection
Bulk mail is often mistaken for spam and is starting to become a larger problem for organizations. EOP is not very aggressive out of the box when it comes to bulk mail because this type of mail falls...
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Those pesky lazy indices
In Exchange 2013 there are indices within a given mailbox database. The indices are created, maintained, and deleted by the Information Store Worker Process associated with a given database. These...
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Be aware: October 26 2014 Russian time zone changes and Exchange
We wanted to give you a heads up that depending on the version of Exchange you are running, there might be some impact to either names of time zones that are changing on October 26, or the way that...
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Introducing Microsoft Ignite – meet us in Chicago
This morning on The Official Microsoft Blog, we revealed more details about our unified technology event for event for enterprises in May. The event will be known as Microsoft Ignite. If you are one of...
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Come get your Calculator Updates!
Today, we released updated versions of both the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator and the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator.The Exchange 2010 version is an incremental...
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OAB Improvements in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7
Note: Cumulative Update 7 (CU7) for Exchange Server 2013 will be released soonTM.Back in May, I discussed the changes we introduced in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5. Specifically with CU5 and...
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On-Premises Legacy Public Folder Coexistence for Exchange 2013 Cumulative...
What are we talking about today?In Exchange 2013 CU5 (yes 5, V, cinco, fem, and cinque) we started implementing changes to how Legacy Public Folder endpoint discovery will be performed by Outlook (for...
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Introducing the IMAP Migration Troubleshooter
SituationIf transitioning your organization from a non-Exchange system such as Google or Lotus Notes to Office 365, you typically need to follow the IMAP migration path. As diagnosing and remediating...
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November Exchange Releases delayed until December
We know that many of you are anxiously awaiting the release of our quarterly Exchange updates planned for November. Earlier today the Exchange Team decided to hold the release of these packages until...
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Exchange releases: December 2014
Editor's Note: Updates added below for important information related to Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 8.The Exchange team is announcing today a number of releases. Today’s releases include...
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How to Configure S/MIME in Office 365
S/MIME in Office 365S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard for public key encryption and digital signing of MIME data. Configuring S/MIME in Office 365 is a slightly...
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Concerning Trends Discovered During Several Critical Escalations
Over the last several months, I have been involved in several critical customer escalations (what we refer to as critsits) for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013. As a result of my involvement, I have...
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Using an Azure VM as a DAG Witness Server
I’m happy to announce support for use of an Azure virtual machine as an Exchange 2013 Database Availability Group witness server. Automatic datacenter failover in Exchange 2013 requires three physical...
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OWA Forms Based Auth Logoff Changes in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 8 –...
Back at the release of Exchange Server 2013 CU1 we made some necessary changes to the way OWA logoff works. Those changes had the unfortunate side-effect of breaking the way TMG spotted a user’s...
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A better way to recover a mailbox
The process of recovering deleted users or mailboxes in a hybrid or cloud-only organization can be frustrating. When dealing with these scenarios, customers would sometimes end up with multiple...
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Ask The Perf Guy: New Exchange 2013 Performance Guidance Available On TechNet
I’m happy to announce that the Exchange performance virtual team within Microsoft Support has produced some fantastic new performance guidance content for Exchange 2013 users, and it is now available...
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Get the inside scoop on Exchange at Microsoft Ignite
This morning we published the first look at the Ignite session catalog providing you a better view of what to expect at Ignite. Ignite brings together the Exchange Conference with TechEd and other...
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Single-Click Mailbox Conversion
Here’s a scenario that might be familiar to you: Sometimes, in support-focused organizations, the email account for external communications with customers is often managed by a single employee. When...
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Configuring Multiple OWA/ECP Virtual Directories on the Exchange 2013 Client...
We have previously published guidance for setting up multiple OWA and ECP virtual directories for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, and now it is the turn of Exchange Server 2013.The eagle eyed amongst...
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