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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit v9.6
The new version of MAPS v9.6 has been released. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes...
Date: 02/12/2017
Exchange Server 2016 Online Training Courses
Microsoft Exchange team recently released some Exchange Server 2016 courses that is great learning...
Date: 08/22/2016
Integration of Windows Azure Pack, SPF and SCVMM
Recently i was troubleshooting some integration issues between SCVMM, SPF and Windows Azure Pack...
Date: 12/13/2015
ADFS and SAP Integration
In a recent project I was working on ADFS with multiple applications and customer also had SAP to be...
Date: 07/31/2015
Exchange team blog on How big is too big
Recently Exchange team has written an excellent article on Exchange processor and memory usage and...
Date: 06/30/2015
Microsoft Exchange 2016 Initial outline
Microsoft has recently released an initial look at Exchange 2016 architecture and Exchange team has...
Date: 05/12/2015
Microsoft Exchange team blog about Large message sizes in Office 365
Recently Microsoft Exchange team has written a blog about large messages in Office 365. I see many...
Date: 04/24/2015
Missing SPN causing domain replication issues
I was recently working with a customer where one of their Active Directory would not replicate. They...
Date: 03/24/2015
Protecting all Organizational Units (OUs) from accidental deletion
You can protect your organizational Units from accidental deletion by using Power Shell scripts to...
Date: 02/15/2015
Step by step guide for upgrading Active Directory from Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Sometime ago, I wrote a blog about upgrading from Windows 2003 based Active Directory to Windows...
Date: 02/08/2015
OWA Forms Based Auth Logoff Changes in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 8 – And Good News for TMG Customers
Back at the release of Exchange Server 2013 CU1 we made some necessary changes to the way OWA logoff...
Date: 01/13/2015
Sysvol migration - Migrating to the ‘ELIMINATED’ state
I was recently working with a customer helping them migrate to the Eliminated state of Sysvol...
Date: 12/31/2014
Security Compliance Manager Baselines for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2
I was recently working on a project using Security Compliance Manager (SCM) for Active Directory...
Date: 12/23/2014
Microsoft Lync Server 2013, Planning Tool
I was recently working with one of our customers on Lync 2013 project and one of the questions...
Date: 11/30/2014
On-Premises Legacy Public Folder Coexistence for Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7 and Beyond
What are we talking about today?In Exchange 2013 CU5 (yes 5, V, cinco, fem, and cinque) we started...
Date: 11/09/2014
Latest Exchange 2013 Calculator
We recently released updated versions of both the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator...
Date: 10/26/2014
Introducing Microsoft Ignite – meet us in Chicago
At The Official Microsoft Blog, we revealed more details about our unified technology event for...
Date: 10/20/2014
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....
Date: 09/28/2014
Protecting against Rogue Administrators
Occasionally I am asked the following question – how can I protect the messaging environment...
Date: 09/16/2014
Released: Cumulative Update 6 for Exchange Server 2013
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of our most recent quarterly servicing update...
Date: 08/26/2014
Spam email and Office 365 environment - connection and content filtering in EOP
In the last related blog post we gave some introduction about Exchange Online Protection (EOP), what...
Date: 08/19/2014
Managed Availability Probes
Probes are one of the three critical parts of the Managed Availability framework (monitors and...
Date: 08/11/2014
ADRMS OWA Issue Code 2147160062
Recently I was working for ADRMS integration with Exchange which is rather simple however it became...
Date: 07/02/2014
MAP Toolkit 9.1 Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the availability of version 9.1 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning...
Date: 06/27/2014
Improved CalCheck integration with OffCAT
In the last week there have been two big improvements related to CalCheck and OffCAT that will make...
Date: 06/18/2014
ADRMS Error - The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not been authenticated
I was recently helping a customer in ADRMS design and deployment where we faced an issue with ADRMS...
Date: 06/08/2014
Microsoft Exchange 2013 and ADRMS Integration
I recently did an Exchange 2013 deployment at one of our customers and also integrated with ADRMS so...
Date: 05/25/2014
Released: PelNet
With the huge scale environment I currently work in my team has had some difficulty when it comes to...
Date: 05/02/2014
The Preferred Architecture (Exchange 2013)
During my session at the recent Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), I revealed Microsoft’s...
Date: 04/21/2014
Updated: Exchange Server Deployment Assistant
We’re happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant! These updates...
Date: 04/18/2014
Certificate Planning in Exchange 2013
Now that we understand the load balancing and namespace planning principles and how clients connect...
Date: 03/20/2014
Exchange 2003 migration toolkit
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 entered the market on September 28, 2003 and continued the great...
Date: 03/10/2014
Load Balancing in Exchange 2013
This article is part 2 in a series that discusses namespace planning, load balancing principles,...
Date: 03/05/2014
Released: Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1
Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download! Please make sure to read...
Date: 02/26/2014
Data loss prevention in Exchange just got better
With Exchange 2013, we released a new data loss prevention (DLP)capability based on deep content...
Date: 02/25/2014
Exchange ActiveSync Guided Walkthrough
Many users rely on their smart phones and other mobile devices to access their email and calendar...
Date: 02/09/2014
Deploy a Guest Cluster Using a Shared Virtual Hard Disk
This has been a great new feature added in Windows Server 2012 R2. The possible scenario of the...
Date: 01/30/2014
Exchange 2013 database schema updates
Recently, we have seen some questions about what the Update-DatabaseSchema cmdlet in Exchange 2013...
Date: 01/14/2014
Disk Read Error when migrating virtual machine from one cluster to another
Recently I was involved in a Private Cloud project and as part of the project, we were migrating...
Date: 12/26/2013
Responding to Managed Availability
I’ve written a few blog posts now that get into the deep technical details of Managed...
Date: 12/18/2013
MAP Toolkit 9.0 now available!
We are pleased to announce the RTM availability of version 9.0 of the Microsoft Assessment and...
Date: 12/18/2013
Released: Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 3
The Exchange team has announced the availability of our most recent quarterly servicing update to...
Date: 11/28/2013
Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough (Exchange On-Premises)
Outlook prompting users for credentials? Outlook users disconnected from their mailboxes? These are...
Date: 11/16/2013
Exchange Server: The Road Ahead
We’re approaching the one-year anniversary of the release of Exchange Server 2013. This is...
Date: 11/13/2013
Beta of Microsoft Office 365 Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange Server 2013 now available
Exchange team has released a blog about Office 365 best practices analyzer for Exchange 2013 as...
Date: 10/04/2013
Released: The new Exchange Server Deployment Assistant
Exchange team has written a blog about new Exchange Server deployment assistance as below:...
Date: 10/04/2013
Server Component States in Exchange 2013
In Exchange 2013 we introduced the concept of “Server Component States”. Server...
Date: 09/28/2013
Assigning File Share permissions using Power Shell
Recently I was working on some Power Shell scripts for configuring my Windows Server 2012 machines....
Date: 09/14/2013
New Remote Connectivity Analyzer Tests for Mail Flow
Exchange team has written below blog on the remote connectivity analyzer tests for mail flow...
Date: 09/10/2013
Hybrid Mailbox moves and EMC changes
As customers are upgraded or sign up for the latest version of Office 365 for business, they may...
Date: 08/31/2013