Email retention for deleted items in Office 365 is changing
If your organization has mailboxes in Office 365, you might want to know about this: there is a change coming to extended email retention period for deleted items in Office 365. Head over to Office...
View ArticleAutomated Hybrid Troubleshooting Experience
One of the more popular deployment options for Office 365, and more specifically Exchange Online, is the Exchange Hybrid Configuration. This deployment option gives customers a way to move some of...
View ArticleExchange On-Premises TAP accepting nominations (again)
It has been almost exactly two years now that we had a post about our Exchange On-Premises TAP program and how you can (and why you would want to) nominate yourself for the program. Well, the time is...
View ArticleManaged Availability Responders
Responders are the final critical part of Managed Availability. Recall that Probes are how Monitors obtain accurate information about the experience your users are receiving. Responders are what the...
View ArticleBe the first to learn what’s next for Exchange and Office 365 at Microsoft...
This morning we released the complete list of sessions offered at Microsoft Ignite, including the full list of Exchange sessions. Ignite is the premier event for the Exchange community, bringing...
View ArticleWant more control over Sent Items when using shared mailboxes?
Whether a mailbox is used by multiple users as a collaborative tool or a communication gateway to customers, retaining a record of emails sent from a shared mailbox remains an important business...
View ArticleNetwork Ports for Clients and Mail Flow in Exchange 2013
Once upon a time in a land far, far away I wrote an article that told our action packed supportability story about the relationship of firewalls and Exchange servers. While the majority of response was...
View ArticleNew Time Zone updates available for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of Update Rollup 16 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. This release adds support for Time Zone Updates released since Update Rollup 15. The...
View ArticleAnnouncing Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. Update Rollup 9 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server...
View ArticleAnnouncing Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2013
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2013. The Cumulative Update Package and UM Language Packs are now available on the Microsoft Download...
View ArticleExchange 2013 Monitoring Mailboxes
IntroductionExchange Server 2013 introduced a new feature called Managed Availability, which is a built-in monitoring system with self-recovery capabilities. Managed Availability performs continuous...
View ArticleExchange ActiveSync on-boarding to Office 365
IntroductionExchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) and Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Rollup Update 9 (RU9) introduced a new feature to provide a more seamless experience for ActiveSync-enabled users...
View ArticleVSSTester script updated – troubleshoot Exchange 2013 and 2010 database backups
It’s been a while since we talked about VSSTester script! Murali, who maintained the script before, asked me to take over the script maintenance and thus I’m releasing this updated version. This script...
View ArticleUsing RBAC to restrict Discovery Searches
IntroductioneDiscovery is a powerful feature available in Microsoft Exchange. It’s used by eDiscovery Managers for performing discovery searches across all mailboxes in the organization and is very...
View ArticleSupport Escalation Engineer - Exchange positions available!
The Support Escalation Engineer is a technical leader who will have the opportunity to solve technically complex problems for some of the world’s largest companies, as well as smaller companies on the...
View ArticleUpgrade to Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) version 2
It has been a little over a year since the OffCAT team shipped a new version, so I am very happy to tell you that we just released the very latest version (v2). As with any new version, there are new...
View ArticleComing soon: A first look at Exchange Server 2016
Less than three weeks to go until Microsoft Ignite kicks off in Chicago! Based on how many members of the sellout crowd have identified themselves as Microsoft Exchange Conference alumni, it looks like...
View ArticleA better way to collect logs from your Exchange servers
Do you dislike having to collect diagnostics logs manually from each server in order to troubleshoot an issue or establish a server performance baseline? Did it ever happen to you that you collected...
View ArticleLarger messages and Enhanced NDRs come to Office 365
I wanted to write a quick note to make sure that our Hybrid customers have seen the following two recent improvements made to transport in Office 365, as both of them could be something that you will...
View ArticleGenerating user message profiles for use with the Exchange Calculators
Greetings Exchange Community! My name is Dan Sheehan, and I work as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, specializing in Microsoft Exchange. As a long time Exchange engineer I am an avid PowerShell...
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