Discontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online...
In July 2018, we will no longer support the use of Session Border Controllers (SBC) to connect 3rd Party PBX systems to Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM). We’re making this change to provide a...
View ArticleModern public folders logging and when to use it
Hello again! In our last article, we discussed recommendations for deployment of public folders and public folder mailboxes. In this post, we will be discussing methods and tips for monitoring...
View ArticleAnnouncing availability of 250,000 public folder Exchange 2010 hierarchy...
Last September, we announced a beta program to validate onboarding of public folder data from Exchange 2010 on-premises to Exchange Online with large public folder hierarchies (100K – 250K public...
View ArticleReleased: September 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates
The latest set of Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013 are now available on the download center. These releases include fixes to customer reported issues, all...
View ArticleMigrate your public folders to Office 365 Groups
Over the last few months, we ran a TAP Program where our customers tested the batch migration process to move their public folders (both online and on-premises) to Office 365 Groups. We want to thank...
View ArticleAsk the Perf Guy: Update to scalability guidance for Exchange 2016
I’m happy to announce a significant update to our scalability guidance for Exchange 2016. Effective immediately, we are increasing our maximum recommended memory for deployments of Exchange 2016 from...
View ArticleTAP: Outlook mobile support for Exchange on-premises with Microsoft...
As announced at Ignite 2017, Outlook for iOS & Android will soon be fully powered by the Microsoft Cloud for hybrid Exchange on-premises customers. These updates will also provide support for...
View ArticleExchange Server 2019
We wanted to post a quick note on our blog to mention to all that at Microsoft Ignite 2017 we have announced that we will be releasing Exchange Server 2019 as an on-premises release to our customers....
View ArticleLooking back at Microsoft Ignite 2017
Ignite 2017 was busy and fun! We loved talking to many of you, answering many of your questions and listening to your feedback. Many teams are still collecting their thoughts into action items and...
View ArticleWhy is my Address Rewriting not working as expected?
Address Rewriting is a feature of the Transport Agent that runs on the Edge Server role. It enables the modification of addresses for both senders and recipients on messages that enter and leave your...
View ArticleUnderstanding modern public folder quotas
As a part of our ‘demystifying modern public folders’ series we have so far discussed the modern public folder deployment best practices and available logging for monitoring public folder connections....
View ArticlePAW your way into Office 365 Migrations
We have had lots of questions regarding what PAW is when it comes to MRS Migrations, so let’s take a few minutes to explain PAW benefits to you. First off, what is this PAW we keep speaking of? PAW, or...
View ArticleAnnouncing Hybrid Modern Authentication for Exchange On-Premises
We’re very happy to announce support for Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) with the next set of cumulative updates (CU) for Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016, that’s CU8 for Exchange Server 2016, and...
View ArticleReleased: December 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates
The December quarterly release updates for Exchange Server are now available on the download center (links below). In addition to the planned cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, we...
View ArticleThe many ways to block automatic email forwarding in Exchange Online
In support, I get this question quite frequently: “How do I block users from auto forwarding their mail outside my environment?” There are plenty of good reasons you may not want auto forwarding: you...
View ArticleEAI support announcement
Out of 7.6 billion people in the world, only 360 million are native English speakers. Although email has been the earliest and most widely-adopted platform for modern electronic communication, email...
View ArticleThe case of Reply Log Manager not letting lagged copy lag
In a previous blog post Ross Smith IV had explained what the Replay Lag Manager is and what it does. It's a great feature that's somewhat underappreciated. We've seen a few support cases that seemed to...
View ArticleExchange Server guidance to protect against speculative execution...
We wanted to make you aware that we have now published a KB article on this subject, KB4074871. Please read it here: Exchange Server guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel...
View ArticlePermanently Clear Previous Mailbox Info
We are introducing a new parameter that can be called by using the Set-User cmdlet in Exchange Online PowerShell. The feature is focused for customers doing migration of on-premises mailboxes to the...
View ArticleExchange Log Collector Script
A while ago I created the “CollectLogsScript” (see my old A better way to collect logs from your Exchange servers blog post) which I have since rebranded to “ExchangeLogCollector”. Seeing that this has...
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