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Office 365 Message Center Email Digest
In my recent post about managing change in Office 365 I talked about the role of Message Center notifications in keeping you up to date with changes occurring in the cloud. One of the weaknesses of the...
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The Sun is Setting on Site Mailboxes in Office 365
Microsoft is notifying Office 365 customers that access to Site Mailboxes is being removed from SharePoint Online, and no more Site Mailboxes can be created from March 2017 onward. The functionality of...
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What’s New in Office 365 for January 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 3rd Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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New Service Health Dashboard for Office 365
The Service Health Dashboard in the Office 365 admin portal provides customers with a view of the health of the wide variety of services in Office 365. Microsoft uses the Service Health Dashboard to...
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Changing the OWA Reply All Default Setting to Reply
One of Microsoft’s interesting design decisions with Outlook on the web (OWA) for Exchange is the default setting of “Reply all” for replying to email messages. As any seasoned email admin will tell...
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Update to the Office 365 Message Center Digest Email Script
A couple of weeks ago I released my PowerShell script for generating an email report of Office 365 Message Center notifications. After it was released one reader, Ryan Mitchell, kindly sent me some...
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GitLab Data Loss Lessons for Office 365 Customers
In late January of this year GitLab, a Git repository and source-code management service similar to GitHub, suffered the permanent loss of some customer data. As reported by The Register: Behind the...
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First Steps: Securing Office 365 Administrator Accounts with Multi-Factor...
When you sign up a new Office 365 tenant a Global Admin account is created for you. This Global Admin account, and any other admin accounts you create later on, are highly privileged, powerful accounts...
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Exchange Server Error: An Incomplete Installation Was Detected
I ran into an interesting issue while I was removing an Exchange 2016 server from an environment. The uninstall process failed on step 5 of 13 and threw an error. The error itself is not all that...
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Migrating Azure AD Connect to a New Server
For organizations that are using synchronized identities for Office 365, the directory synchronization tool of choice these days is Azure AD Connect. To keep AAD Connect running you may eventually have...
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Does Office 365 Secure Score Help Detect Hackers and Intrusions?
In an email from a reader I was asked about Office 365 Secure Score and whether it will help their organization to know when hackers have gained access to their Office 365 data. The short answer is no,...
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Using CompleteAfter to Manage Automatic Completion of Mailbox Move Requests
When Exchange Server 2010 brought us the miracle of online mailbox moves there was much rejoicing, for it meant no longer burdening our users with lengthy outages while their mailboxes were moved....
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Multi-Factor Authentication Adoption: Are You One of the 55%?
Last week I ran a survey asking about multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption. Of the hundreds of responses I had actually thought that we would see a clear majority adopting MFA. After all, we all...
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Microsoft is Changing the Groups Behavior to Stop Senders Receiving a Copy of...
A new notification appeared in my Message Center email digest to let me know that Microsoft is rolling out a change to the behavior of Office 365 Groups. We have recently fixed the email sending...
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Simplifying Office 365 License Control with Azure AD Group-Based License...
Managing the allocation of Office 365 licenses has been a pain point for many customers. For smaller tenants with simple requirements, the allocation of licensing can either be handled manually on an...
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What’s New in Office 365 for February 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 3rd Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection Dynamic Delivery Behavior with...
In January of this year Microsoft added two new features to Advanced Threat Protection for Exchange Online. One of the new features, called Dynamic Delivery, provides an additional option that...
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Exchange Server 2007 is About to Reach End of Life – What’s Your Plan?
On April 11th this year, Exchange Server 2007 will reach the end of its support lifecycle, otherwise known as end-of-life. For customers still running Exchange Server 2007, you should start making...
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Time to Prepare for Microsoft Teams General Availability
On March 14th Microsoft will be making Teams generally available for Office 365 customers. Before then, you should review your Teams configuration to make sure that you’re ready. If you’re planning to...
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Migrate Home Drives to OneDrive for Business
One of the wins for Office 365 customers who have OneDrive for Business included in their licensing is to migrate users’ personal files to OneDrive. For files that are stored in home drives on...
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