New Exchange Online migration options
We are in the process of rolling out a new migration experience that will greatly simplify your journey to Office 365 and Exchange Online. This new experience will help any customer running at least...
View ArticleModern public folder deployment best practices
Introduction Since the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, we have heard questions regarding the sizing and deployment of modern public folders. It is important to plan migrations for public...
View ArticleReleased: December 2016 Quarterly Exchange Updates
Today we are announcing the latest set of Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013. These releases include fixes to customer reported issues and updated functionality....
View ArticleCertificate-Based Authentication (CBA) for Exchange Online is Generally...
Many organizations have been using certificate based authentication for Exchange Online while the feature was in preview. Today, we are excited to announce that the feature is generally available in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Graph Preview for Exchange 2016 customers
We are interested in working with Exchange 2016 customers or partners to help us validate Exchange hybrid scenarios using Microsoft Graph. This will be a self-paced development project where your...
View ArticleReleased: Exchange Generate Message Profile Script v2.0.
Greetings Exchange Community! Today, I am pleased to announce the release of a major update to the Exchange Generate Message Profile script. This release primarily focuses on two enhancements. The...
View ArticleReleased: Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator 8.4
Today, we released an updated version of the Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator. This release focuses on bug fixes with the DAG auto-calculation functionality that was introduced in 8.3, as...
View ArticleSend-as and Send-on-behalf of for groups in Outlook
Today, we are excited to announce the ‘Send-as’ and Send-on-behalf of feature for groups in Outlook, which brings you one step closer to turning your email into a great customer support solution. With...
View ArticleAn update to "Important notice for Office 365 email customers who have...
Since we posted this blog post, we have received positive responses from many of our customers, who have proceeded with changing their connectors (as per instructions in the post), thereby protecting...
View ArticleAnalyzing Exchange Transaction Log Generation Statistics – Revisited
Almost 4 years ago, I wrote a script called GetTransactionLogStats.ps1, and originally blogged about it here. At the original time of writing, the primary purpose of the script was to collect...
View ArticleExchange 2007 reaches end of life on April 11th. What’s your plan to move?
On April 11, 2017, Exchange Server 2007 will reach End of Life. If you haven’t already begun your migration from Exchange 2007 to Office 365 or Exchange 2016, you need to start planning now. End of...
View ArticleMulti-Factor Authentication for the Hybrid Configuration Wizard and Remote...
You can now use an Administrator account that is enabled for Multi-Factor Authentication to sign in to Exchange Online PowerShell and the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW). In case you are...
View ArticleAnnouncing the availability of modern public folder migration to Exchange Online
We are happy to announce the availability of public folder migration from Exchange Server 2013/2016 on-premises to Exchange Online! Many of our customers asked us for this, and the full documentation...
View ArticleReleased: March 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates
With this month’s quarterly release, we bid a fond farewell to Exchange Server 2007. Support for Exchange Server 2007 expires on 4/11/2017. Update Rollup 23 for Service Pack 3 will be the last update...
View ArticleExchange Server Edge Support on Windows Server 2016 Update
Today we are announcing an update to our support policy for Windows Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2016. At this time we do not recommend customers install the Exchange Edge role on Windows Server...
View ArticleHelp us test Cloud Attachments in Outlook 2016 with SharePoint Server 2016
My name is Steven Lepofsky, and I’m an engineer on the Outlook for Windows team. We have released (to Insiders) support for Outlook 2016’s Cloud Attachment experience with SharePoint Server 2016. We...
View ArticleSent Items behavior control comes to Exchange Online user mailboxes
It has been a while since we blogged about the ability to control the behavior of Sent Items for shared mailboxes when users either send as or on behalf of shared mailboxes. Today, we are glad to share...
View ArticleAccessing public folder favorites
Introduction Seeing that Outlook desktop and Outlook on the web (or OWA, depending on version) do not support the same types of public folders (or folders added to Favorites) we wanted to talk about...
View Article2nd call for public folders to O365 Groups migrations
We got some replies to our previous post on the subject, but wanted to reach out again as we want to make sure we validate this scenario well. Therefore, here is an updated request: If you are using...
View ArticleDemystifying Certificate Based Authentication with ActiveSync in Exchange...
Some of the more complicated support calls we see are related to Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) with ActiveSync. This post is intended to provide some clarifications of this topic and give you...
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