Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
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Am I the only one who thought of Mobile Information Server (MIS) when looking at today’s Bing wallpaper?
This was from the time when we actually got CDs as installation media. Things have certainly moved on…
From the Microsoft archives, here is our old chum MIS 2002:
Who remembers installing MIS 2002 to get ActiveSync wo… Read the rest “MIS–Blast From The Past”
In a previous Exchange 2010 post we discussed a scenario where users were delegated the capability to create Mail Enabled Contacts in Active Directory using a custom Role Based Access Control (RBAC) role. As part of the solution, we enabled the MyDistributionGroups Role. While this may meet the needs of most organisations, it does introduce one issue where users who are assigned such a Role Assig… Read the rest “Allow Users To Manage Distribution Groups Without Creating New Ones–Exchange 2013 Redux”
When deploying an Office 365 solution, directory synchronisation is a critical component. This is the tool that will synchronise the on-premises directory data to Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD). As you can imagine if the synchronisation stops then chances are that you will run into some issues….
Note that this post is intended to cover both DirSync and AAD Sync, hence the generic title.
Whe… Read the rest “Managing Directory Synchronisation – Notes From The Field”
The session recordings from last weeks Microsoft Ignite conference are available for download. The recorded videos and slides (where applicable) are to be found on the Ignite page. Some recommended Exchange sessions are below and a tool to assist with downloading multiple sessions is noted at the end.
The list below are some of the sessions that I&r… Read the rest “Microsoft Ignite 2015 Sessions Now Available”
Since Exchange servers are now storing an ever increasing amount of data, it is imperative that people can quickly search and retrieve the content from their mailbox. This may have been possible without search capabilities in the past with a 20 MB mailbox quota (remember those days ?!?), but as quotas move to double gigabyte figures effective search is a hard requirement.
Exchange Search is a diffe… Read the rest “Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Search”
Upon launching Outlook and trying to connect to an Office 365 mailbox you may be greeted with an error message which states that “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened”. The error then continues to state that ”Microsoft Exchange is not available. Either there are network problems or the Exchange… Read the rest “Office 365 Error – Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook–Quick Check”
Deploying an Exchange Hybrid solution offers many opportunities to extend messaging services into the cloud. This is one of the biggest strengths of the Microsoft offering. We can provide on-premises, cloud only and hybrid solutions.
One capability is cloud based archives. This allows either:
This p… Read the rest “Enable Remote Archive With Exchange Hybrid”
Update 12-1-2022 Please see this post which covers the newer Outlook client logic. Content below will be left as-is for a historical perspective.
This is a post for reference purposes. The intent is to look at how Outlook will locate the correct Autodiscover endpoint in a hybrid environment. This Exchange 2010 SP3 lab has a hybrid configuration with Office 365. The tenant is called TailspinToysC… Read the rest “Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process”
This is in response to a engagement where the admins were puzzled that they could not create a public folder calendar in Exchange 2013. That is something that we should be able to do.
Why were they not able to do so?
To creating the public folder calendar, we need to use Outlook. This is the same as Exchange 2010, so no differences there.
What was stumping them was, when they went to Outl… Read the rest “How To Create Public Folder Calendar In Exchange 2013”
In the Tailspintoys environment, the administrator (moi) was a bit slack. They let the AD FS 2012 R2 proxy get into a bad state. The AD FS Proxy was not contacting the AD FS server on the internal network, and this allowed the short lived authentication certificate to expire. At this point the AD FS Proxy was “dead to me” as far as the AD FS server was concerned. The internal AD FS server was … Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust”