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14/05/2019

Getting Azure DevOps tasks in To-Do with Flow

Recently I’ve been working more with Azure DevOps within our team; we do our capacity planning and tasks (Work Items) in sprints. However, I also use mail as a sort of To-Do list. Since a few weeks, you can have Flagged Mails from your Exchange account added as an To-Do task. It even copies most content of the mail and...

Automation/Azure Comments: 2

21/02/2019

Installing Exchange 2019 on Windows 2019 Core

Under the Practical PowerShell flag, we’ve recently posted an instructional YouTube video showing the installation of Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 Core. It’s light on PowerShell, but as it is Windows Server Core there is a lot of text screens 😉. The 12 minute video can be seen here, but be sure to maximize your screen for the...

Exchange 2019/Podcast Comments: 2

08/10/2018

I will be speaking at IT/Dev Connections 2018!

Next week I will be speaking at the IT/Dev Connection conference in Dallas (TX) during 16-18th October 2018, which is particularly exciting for me as it is the first time I will present in the USA! The session title is “Securing, Protecting, and Managing the Flow of Corporate Communications”. The session abstract tells you a bit more: Simple Mail Transport...

Events/Security/SMTP Comments: 0

24/07/2018

Exchange Server 2019 Preview is available!

Today the Microsoft Exchange Product Group announced the release of the Exchange Server 2019 public preview! They also lifted the veil on some of the new features/capabilities etc. of this new major build of Exchange Server. Where can I download the Preview bits? Click here to download Exchange Server 2019 Preview. Warning: These are Preview bits and are not meant...

Exchange/Exchange 2019/Office 365/Preview/Beta Comments: 0

30/03/2018

I will be speaking at ExpertsLive NL 2018!

And some other news dropped in my mailbox this week: I will be speaking together with Jetze Mellema at ExpertsLive NL 2018 on 19th June! During that session we will talk about Exchange migrations; “Destination unknown, migrating mailboxes from somewhere to anywhere“. What will we be speaking about exactly? “Migrating mailboxes. Something every Exchange admin has done. Whether it be...

Events/Exchange/Office 365 Comments: 0

30/03/2018

I will be speaking at the European Collaboration Summit 2018

Some exciting news! I’ll be speaking at the European Collaboration Summit 2018 in Mainz, Germany on May 28-30. My session is “Securing Exchange Online” and during that hour I will go through the capabilities of Exchange Online (Office 365) to further secure your email data and mail flow based on up-to-date know-how. It’s a topic I like, is quite relevant...

Events/Exchange/Security Comments: 0

19/02/2018

Free community event in Maarssen (NL) this Thursday evening

What? A free community event in a first collaboration between Dutch and Belgian Exchange, Skype and Office 365 experts. There will be two sessions, but before and after sessions you are free to talk with any of them about Exchange, Skype for Business/Teams and Office 365. When? This Thursday evening starting at 18:00. Where? Maarssen (near Utrecht) at the Fujitsu...

Events/Exchange/Office 365 Comments: 2

10/01/2018

Office 365 to enforce TLS 1.2 per October 15, 2020

Update 21 July 2020 Microsoft has set a new date for the deprecation of TLS1.0 and 1.1, after a previous postponement due to the pandemic. You can find it in the Microsoft 365 Message Center message MC218794, which also references this Docs article. From October 15, 2020 onward, Microsoft will gradually enforce TLS1.2 on Office 365 services. Note that this...

Exchange/Office 365/Security Comments: 23

20/04/2017

I’ll be speaking at E-Communications & Collaboration Day 2017 (BE-COM.eu) on May 3rd 2017

In a few weeks, I’ll be travelling to Novotel Leuven in my neighboring country Belgium for the E-Communications & Collaboration Day 2017, a full-day (May 3rd 2017) of expert presentations and content about Office 365, Exchange, Skype for Business and related technologies. During this day, I will be presenting “Securing Exchange Online”: In this session, Dave Stork will go through...

Exchange/Office 365/Security Comments: 0

10/04/2017

Creating an Activity alert in Office 365

Within Office 365 you can use Audit Logging to monitor specific actions admins and users take. It’s comparable with Auditing within Exchange, but for most of all actions available in your Office 365 tenant. However, you need to do a search to find those actions perhaps long after the fact. That might be adequate for most organizations, but it would...

Office 365/Security Comments: 0

31/03/2017

Can I place my Exchange hybrid management server in Azure and use Azure Domain Services?

As some might know (although I and others have to repeat this regularly…), if you enable directory synchronization from your on-premises Active Directory (AD) and you migrate all you Exchange mailboxes to Exchange Online you still require an Exchange server to manage mail(box) objects. It is the only supported solution, even though some use third party tooling or ADSIedit. Luckily...

Active Directory/Azure/Exchange/Exchange 2013/Exchange 2016/Management/Office 365 Comments: 10

29/03/2017

Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2016 aka Writing a book

Some of you may have wondered why I was somewhat quiet. The reason was that during the last year (and a half?) I was writing a book with MVP Damian Scoles. That book is now available as an PDF and Apple iBook! The physical paperback is now also available in our shop and includes a PDF and ePub version. Other...

Exchange/Exchange 2016/Personal/PowerShell Comment: 1

20/03/2017

Exchange Server 2007 (almost) EOL!

Just a quick reminder that Exchange Server 2007 will have no support after April 11th 2017. Although every install will continue without any issue after this date, it is a risk continuing the use of this product. Security fixes won’t come available, but also little things like timezone/daylight savings changes aren’t updated which could have a high impact in your...

Exchange/Exchange 2007/Support

11/04/2016

The end is nigh for Exchange 2007: support nearing end and some other reasons to upgrade

The Exchange Team blog reminded us today that in about a year the extended support for Exchange Server 2007 will end. This means no more updates of any kind, not even security updates. Feature updates already stopped 4 years earlier when Mainstream support ended. The product will continue to run, but how longer it’s being kept in production that will...

Exchange 2007/Security/Support Comments: 0

01/10/2015

Exchange Server 2016 is available! Now what?

Today Exchange Server 2016 for on-premises installations became available! Some important links: Exchange Team Blog: Exchange Server 2016: Forged in the cloud. Now available on-premises. Direct download (without a valid license key this is an 180 day evaluation) Exchange 2016 Unified Message Language Packs Technical Documentation Release Notes Product guide (feature glance) Before you rush with installing it, beware of the requirements:...

Exchange 2016 Comments: 6