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Microsoft Teams High CPU – Using Hardware Acceleration with the Microsoft Teams Client To Lower CPU Load

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the benefits of Windows as a service is that we receive constant updates, security enhancements and additions to the OS.  One of the new features in the 2004 build was the introduction of hardware accelerated GPU scheduling.  For details on this new feature and some background on how the Windows Display Driver Model has evolved please read this excellent article.

In this post I will post my … Read the rest “Microsoft Teams High CPU – Using Hardware Acceleration with the Microsoft Teams Client To Lower CPU Load”

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Exchange HCW Detects “Wrong” Version

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When running Exchange setup or the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), I always recommend looking at the version information that is shown on screen. This is part of the gross error check to make sure that the correct version is being used.

This habit is one of the recommendations made in the Mistakes to Avoid Installing Exchange CU post.

Sometime you still may see something that surprises yo… Read the rest “Exchange HCW Detects “Wrong” Version”

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AD FS Extranet Smart Account Lockout Protection

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS added the Extranet Account Lockout protection feature.  The intent of Extranet Account Lockout protection is to add an additional feature to password authentication which traverses Web Application Proxy (WAP).  Note that the feature is not available for authentication directly targeting AD FS.  The reason for this is that the Extranet Account Lockout protection was des… Read the rest “AD FS Extranet Smart Account Lockout Protection”

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Previously Working Now Unable To See Exchange On-Premises Free/Busy – Redux

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Exchange Federation Metadata Update

When deploying Exchange hybrid, one of the aspects that can prove to be the most challenging is Exchange Online mailboxes trying to view calendar information for on-premises mailboxes.

This is because there are multiple potential issues which can be caused due to management of Exchange on-premises, firewall rules and reverse proxy configuration issues.  What was slightly interesting with this custo… Read the rest “Previously Working Now Unable To See Exchange On-Premises Free/Busy – Redux”

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Office 365 Welcome Pages – Circa 2015

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below are some of the older Office 365 welcome pages, thought it might be fun to make the screenshots available for reference.  They are from an old blog post that never made its way out of the draft folder.  So it was repurposed for this post.

I used to call this one the California Highway

Office 365 Logon Page - California Highway

 

Once signed in, the Office 365 admin portal is shown below.

 

Office 365 Admin Portal

 

Cheers,

Rhoderick

 

 

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End of Outlook 2010 Support – T Minus 1 Year

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For awareness, Office 2010 has one year remaining of its extended support lifecycle. Office 2010 SP2 has been required since October 2014.  All Office 2010 installs must be running SP2 in order to receive security updates since that time.

On the 13th of October 2020, Office 2010 will exit out of extended support.  Please plan to transition to a support client well in advance.

There are many feature … Read the rest “End of Outlook 2010 Support – T Minus 1 Year”

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 1 Year

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

End of Exchange 2010 SupportJanuary 2020 is going to be a very important month.  There are multiple large and important products which will exit out of their extended support lifecycle phase.  The list includes Exchange 2010.

We reviewed this a year ago, to provide additional warning and notification as many customers still run Exchange 2010 on-premises.  For those who are not in the middle of upgrade or migration activities t… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 1 Year”

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Script to Clear Credman

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

With my customer facing role, there are lot of demonstrations to enterprise customers.  Manually reverting machines back to the initial starting point for the next demo can be time consuming and error prone.

One example of this is clearing out the contents on Window's Credential Manager.  There is no option to do a block select to delete multiple entries at once.  Worse still is that Modern Authent… Read the rest “Script to Clear Credman”

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Mail Not Flowing From Office 365 To On-Premises Exchange Server

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a repro of a customer reported issue where they were having issues sending email from Office 365 to on-premises Exchange servers.  Apparently this had been working previously with no issues, then mailflow started to have problems.  Some email was flowing from Office 365, but some was delayed or not delivered at all.

There were no issues sending email from the on-premises Exchange servers to… Read the rest “Mail Not Flowing From Office 365 To On-Premises Exchange Server”