Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
Since it’s Friday, let’s have a non-technical post. You will likely have realized that I have some OCD and language issues. This can come through in various forms, it may be how someone insists on saying “anyways” rather than anyway, or the latest internal Microspeak babble. Raymond Chen has a dedicated tag to track the Microspeak nonsense which he hears.&nb… Read the rest “Friday Morning Rant – Premise and Tenents”
The directory synchronization program managers have been hard at work adding more and more documentation to the Azure repository. The content is currently being published to azure.microsoft.com. For example Introducing Azure AD Connect takes us through the identity management steps when connecting to Azure AD.
Please note that this post is based on the upgrade to 1.0.9131.0 which was released in De… Read the rest “Azure AD Connect Express Install Upgrade – Build 1.0.9131.0”
The Office 365 HCW has been updated and now supports Exchange 2010. Previously only Exchange 2013 and 2016 were the only versions supported by the initial release of the Office 365 HCW.
For details on the updated support position please see this post on the Exchange Team Blog. This means that the HCW built into the Exchange 2010 product is not to be used, and should now be considered unsupported.
T… Read the rest “Running The New Exchange 2010 Office 365 2010 Hybrid Wizard”
Amir Hague will be delivering a webcast to introduce the Support & Recovery Assistant tool – SaRA. Amir is a very well known and respected program manager within Microsoft, who is heavily focused on Office 365 and Exchange issues.
What: This webcast introduces SaRAwhich is an automated tool that can be run by Office 365 users on their machines to help troubleshoot common suppo… Read the rest “Support Corner Webcast: Office 365 Support & Recovery Assistant (SaRA)”
This is link throw down for items that we discussed in a Exchange 2013 workshop which I delivered in Ottawa, Canada’s capital. The weather was pretty warm, the adjacent picture of parliament was on a bright Saturday morning when the temperature was a crisp –15 Celsius.
For those who want to convert to Fahrenheit, I’ll let you get on with that in your own time.
There was a cause for concern as the … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Workshop Links – January 2016”
Exchange 2013 streamlined the connectivity between servers with the “every server is an island” design philosophy. The intent was to remove the strict version dependency hooks which existed in the previous versions of Exchange. For example, the Exchange 2007 HUB Store Driver can only communicate with the Exchange 2007 Mailbox role. Conversely, the Exchange 2010 HUB Store Driver can only communi… Read the rest “Controlling Exchange 2013/2016 Proxying To Exchange 2010”
The year 2015 is almost done, and 2016 is upon us! As in previous years, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what content was active, and compare that to previous years.
The RDCMan posts remain popular, with the 2.7 version replacing the older 2.2 post. Windows 2012 R2 ADFS installation remains very active with all of the setup articles in the most common posts. In the same vein,… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2015”
Exchange 2013 CU11 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU11 Released”
The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 12 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU12 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.
This is build 14.03.0279.002 of Exchange 2010, and KB3096066 has the full details for the release. The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU12 Released”
This is one of those silly but intriguing things that is worth sharing. When delivering some internal training over Skype I noticed that some of the emoticons have names I did not expect.
Skype for Business introduced some really nice emoticons. The below image is from the 2016 version of the client, showing the emoticons I currently have available.
Yes this list includes our vener… Read the rest “Heidy The Skype Squirrel”