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Using Transport Rules to Block Outbound Email to Untrustworthy Domains
Sometimes a customer will have the need to block their users from sending emails to domain names that they consider untrustworthy. Exchange makes this possible through the use of transport rules, also...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Reviewing SSL Certificates
As you plan the migration to Exchange Server 2016, you should first perform a review of your client access namespaces before you move on to planning for SSL certificates. Exchange 2016 will install...
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New Pluralsight Course – Designing & Deploying Exchange 2016 (70-345)...
The next course in my series with Pluralsight for the Exchange 2016 certification exam (70-345) is now available. This course covers compliance and archiving for Exchange 2016. Compliance is an...
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Is a Domain Controller Required When Using Azure to Host the File Share...
I received a question in my mailbox overnight from a reader of the 70-345 exam reference. I figured it would be helpful to post the answer here as well, since it is probably a question that many people...
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How Small is Too Small for a Database Availability Group?
A question from a Twitter following: Is it not overkill for an organization with fewer than 100 mailboxes and a single site to have a DAG implemented? Database availability groups are the high...
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Podcast Episode 25: Exchange Online Protection vs Third Party Antispam, with...
My guests for this episode are Brian Reid and Michael Van Horenbeeck. Brian is the director of NBConsult, a Microsoft messaging and cloud services partner based in the UK and South Africa. He is also...
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Issues Reported with Exchange Server 2013 CU14 and Exchange Server 2016 CU3
Fellow Exchange MVP Jaap Wesselius has written about reports of content index failures for Exchange servers that have been installed or updated with Exchange Server 2013 CU14 or Exchange Server 2016...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Reviewing Additional Information
So far in this series on migrating to Exchange Server 2016 we’ve looked at reviewing system requirements, client access namespaces, and SSL certificates. In this article we’ll look at some additional...
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Can Exchange Web Services be Accessed by Bypassing Multi-Factor Authentication?
Please read the updated notes at the end of this post. This week an information security company published their findings that Exchange Server and Exchange Online (Office 365) do not enforce two-factor...
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Don’t Deploy Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 For Now Due to...
Since the release of Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3), which added support for installing Exchange 2016 onto Windows Server 2016 servers, there’s been a series of reports in support...
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Exchange Server Role Based Access Control in Action: Using Management Roles
Exchange Server uses a permissions model called Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage the delegation of permissions for Exchange administrative tasks. RBAC was first introduced in Exchange 2010...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Installing the First Exchange 2016 Mailbox...
At this point in the series on migrating to Exchange Server 2016 we’re ready to install the first Exchange 2016 Mailbox server into the Not Real University organization. To prepare for the...
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Remove Internal Exchange Server Names and IP Addresses from Message Headers
When you send an email message, the recipient can view the headers of the message and see all of the “hops” that the message went through on its journey from one mailbox to another. The header info is...
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Fixing Autodiscover Root Domain Lookup Issues for Mobile Devices
There’s a fairly common issue that occurs with mobile devices connecting to Exchange Server or Exchange Online for mailbox access. Before we go further though, I just want to point out two other...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Configuring Client Access Services
In the last part of this Exchange 2016 migration series we looked at installing the first Exchange 2016 Mailbox server into the Not Real University organization. Now it’s time to configure the client...
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PowerShell Script to Import Mail Contacts from a CSV File to Exchange
Import-MailContactsFromCSV.ps1 is a PowerShell script to automate the creation of Exchange mail contacts using a CSV file for input. The current version of the script supports a CSV file containing the...
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Walk-Through of Building a New PowerShell Script
PowerShell is one of the most important skills for a Microsoft IT professional today. I won’t bang on about it too much here. I wrote my own personal story of how I started learning PowerShell here....
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New Pluralsight Course – Designing & Deploying Exchange 2016 (70-345)...
The next course in my series with Pluralsight for the Exchange 2016 certification exam (70-345) is now available. This course covers the “Plan, deploy and manage Exchange infrastructure, recipients,...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Configuring Mailbox Databases
At this stage of the Exchange 2016 migration the Mailbox server has been installed, and the client access services have been configured. To continue with the configuration of the server, in this...
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Exchange Server 2016 Migration – Preparing for Coexistence
The Exchange 2016 migration for Not Real University is getting to the stage where they can start cutting over client access and transport services to the Exchange 2016 Mailbox server. This stage is...
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