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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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Mail flow insights (wave 2) will soon be available in O365 Security &...
As you might have previously read, we released the first wave of mail flow insights last year (here is the original announcement). Admins can use the mail flow dashboard in the Office 365 Security...
View ArticleExchange Team blog is moving to a new home soon!
EHLO! As we hinted in our 15 year blogoversary post, this blog will be moving to a new home soon. Here is what you can expect: Our new home will be Microsoft Tech Community, Blogs section (there will...
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Exchange Online – Modern Authentication and Conditional Access Updates
We’re constantly improving the security of Office 365 products and services. Modern Authentication and Conditional Access are two of the best ways of ensuring that your clients can take advantage of...
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Introduction to Public Folder Hierarchy Sync
Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide high level overview of hierarchy synchronization process in public folders and provide some troubleshooting steps to monitor and troubleshoot...
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Microsoft Hybrid Agent Preview Update
As you are aware, we released the Microsoft Hybrid Agent for Exchange Server as a preview on Feb. 5th, 2019. The blog post for that release is located here. We have been busy working on a few...
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Introducing the new migration experience from Google G Suite
Several weeks ago we added a new Microsoft 365 Roadmap item announcing our intent to add ability to migrate Google G Suite calendars and contacts to the ability to migrate mail to Office 365 using our...
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The 100 migration batches limit and how to not run into it
As you might or might not know, in Exchange Online we have an upper limit of 100 migration batches. You can see this limit for MaxNumberOfBatches in the Exchange Online PowerShell Get-MigrationConfig:...
View ArticleInstalling Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 Core – Notes From The...
To prepare for supporting on-premises Exchange Server 2019, I felt it necessary to build out a basic lab. I've used a default installation lab to great effect during my career supporting Exchange, both...
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FAQs on Office 365 Retention, Disposal & Archiving
With the introduction of Unified Retention & Retention Labels in the Security and Compliance, many customers have questions on the differences between Unified Retention, Retention Labels and MRM...
View ArticleThe time has come: our blog is moving
As mentioned back in March – we are moving! Starting today, we are starting our ‘freeze’ period where we do not expect to create any new posts on this blog. We’ll start again once we have moved to our...
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