Released: Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer V2
We are happy to announce Organization Configuration Transfer (OCT) - V2, which includes updates to OCT-Phase 1 that was launched earlier this year. OCT-V2 further reduces the manual work that admins...
View ArticleImprovements in Public Folder Migration to Exchange Online
We have been working hard behind the scenes to improve the public folder migration experience and are very glad to announce even more improvements. These improvements will help you in faster onboarding...
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Introducing the Exchange Online Fiddler Extension
Working in support at Microsoft, you get to deal with a lot of organizations who are migrating to Exchange Online. This type of migration dramatically changes how web traffic flows in the organization...
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Contextualizing Attacker Activity within Sessions in Exchange Online
Overview The Exchange audit log is an important tool in the defender toolbox to understand the activity of users (or attackers masquerading as users) in an organization. Defenders can manually browse...
View ArticleExchange Server 2010 End of Support is (Still) Coming
In April 2018 we blogged about the coming End of Support date for Exchange Server 2010. It’s time for another reminder, but today’s post is extra special. Why? One year from today Exchange Server 2010...
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Troubleshooting IMAP Migrations to Office 365
During my day to day work as a part of support organization, I work with and help troubleshoot mailbox migrations very often. One type of migrations that we see quite often is IMAP migrations. I wanted...
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Monitoring Exchange Online User Client Access and Usage with Graph,...
Introduction As a Tenant Admin of an Office 365 Exchange Online organization, have you ever needed to monitor who, what, and where someone is connecting to your Exchange Online resources, like...
View ArticleHow to work with Inactive Mailboxes
It usually starts with the following question: Is there a way to release the license of an Exchange Online user that left the company, but at the same time, keep the mailbox content? To get this done,...
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New Outlook for iOS and Android App Config Policy Experience in Intune –...
At Microsoft Ignite, Outlook for iOS and Android announced support for deploying managed device account setup configuration settings for Office 365 mailboxes and on-premises mailboxes leveraging hybrid...
View ArticleGiving you more control over public folder migration requests
In our continued efforts to improve the reliability, speed and administration experience of public folder migration, we are very glad to announce the availability of...
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The Microsoft Hybrid Agent Public Preview
The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived! We are pleased to announce the Microsoft Hybrid Agent for Exchange Server is now available for preview! We talked in some depth about the Hybrid...
View ArticleRetiring Unified Messaging in Exchange Online
Microsoft is retiring Unified Messaging (UM) in Exchange Online and replacing it with Cloud Voicemail and Auto Attendant services. This impacts voicemail processing and Auto Attendant in Exchange...
View Article15 years!
Believe it or not – as of today, this blog has been around for 15 years! That’s right… the very First post was published on February 9, 2004, with How the M: Drive came about hot on its heels. Not too...
View ArticleReleased: February 2019 Quarterly Exchange Updates
Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing updates, cumulative and update rollups, for all supported versions of Exchange Server. Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 all...
View ArticleMeta Cache Database (MCDB) Setup Guide is available
At Ignite 2017 and 2018 we began telling you about the Meta Cache Database feature we’re using in the O365 cloud service to improve scenario performance and store more mailboxes on ever-growing hard...
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Advanced Office 365 Routing: Locking Down Exchange On-Premises when MX points...
We often get request from customers to control mail flow routing in a hybrid deployment, for various compliance requirements. Achieving the desired routing greatly depends on where the MX record is...
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Announcing the Public Folder Consistency Agent for Exchange Online
We are very glad to announce availability of the public folder consistency agent for public folders in Exchange Online. What is this, you ask? Read on! The agent currently works on two scenarios:...
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New Outlook for iOS and Android App Configuration Policy Experience – General...
At Microsoft Ignite, Outlook for iOS and Android announced support for deploying managed device general app configuration settings for Office 365 mailboxes and on-premises mailboxes leveraging hybrid...
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Investigating TLS usage for SMTP in Exchange Online
Microsoft is committed to enforcing the best security for our services. As a result, TLS1.0, TLS1.1, and 3DES were deprecated in the Office 365 service. While 3DES is currently in the process of being...
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Announcing the updated Exchange Deployment Assistant site
Today we’re announcing a new site for the Exchange Deployment Assistant – https://assistants.microsoft.com! Like the rest of the Exchange documentation, the Deployment Assistant has lived on TechNet...
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