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The Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of products designed to provide low-code access to data and services in Office ...
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The Exchange team blog has put together a nice walk-through for working with Inactive mailboxes (Exchange Plan 2) when users ...
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JGSPIERS.COM has published a very informative article about Azure Application Proxies. This can be found at: https://www.jgspiers.com/azure-application-proxy/ ...
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In most situations it is fairly straight forward to format a control to show currency, you change the appropriate property ...
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The maximum number of users now allowed in a Microsoft Team is 5000 (up from 2500) ...
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The latest CUs for Exchange Server have been released: CU1 for Exchange Server 2019, CU12 for Exchange Server 2016 and ...
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As you design your forms, you may want to gather a number of controls into a logical group. While this ...
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Should you add a new screen in a project and then decide that is the screen you want the App ...
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Power Apps does a good job creating Apps from data, but if you start with a blank canvas you need ...
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In many situations Power Apps makes a good job of sorting and filtering when you create an app from data ...
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In Power Apps the dates will appear by default in US format. It is fairly straight forward to change this ...
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CU11 for Exchange Server 2016 is now available. This update supports .NET Framework 4.7.2 in readiness for its acquirement in ...
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This update is CU10 for Exchange Server 2016 and CU21 for Exchange Server 2013. This will be the last CU ...
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In a large Public Folder deployment, the public folder mailboxes hosting content could end up being geographically dispersed. As there ...
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Shared computer activation can be enabled by editing the configuration XML file (part of the Office Deployment Tool) to include ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange. The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 6 Exchange Server 2013 ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange. The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5 Exchange Server 2013 ...
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As announced by the Exchange Team Blog.  However, one of the requirements is for running an Exchange Hybrid environment, so ...
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Azure AD Connect build 1.1.371.0 introduced Pass-through authentication (Preview).  Pass-through authentication can be used by many organisations as an alternative ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange. The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 4 Exchange Server 2013 ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 Exchange Server 2013 ...
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A nice article from the Exchange Team linking to many other very useful articles. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/05/31/checklist-for-troubleshooting-outlook-connectivity-in-exchange-2013-and-2016-on-premises/ ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 Exchange Server 2013 ...
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Some comments to support Module 3 of course M10961 # The following command will not work as Get-ADComputer returns ADComputer ...
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Microsoft have written a fairly comprehensive guide to the migration of accounts between Office 365 complete with sample PowerShell code ...
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By going to Company Profile and filling in a help desk card (under Custom Help Desk) you can provide a ...
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Discovery Search Mailboxes are arguably less used in Exchange 2013 (and Exchange online) than they were in Exchange 2010.  This ...
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Deployment on Microsoft Azure virtual machines is supported if all storage volumes used for Exchange databases and database transaction logs ...
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Until now, the maximum email size in Office 365 was 25 MB.  If users wanted to 'send' larger document they could ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 8 Exchange Server 2010 ...
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Using Office 365 will increase your organisation’s Internet traffic, so it is important to evaluate and assess the network impact of ...
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In September 2014, Office 365 announced the “first phase of Groups in Office 365”.  Although Groups already existed, this heralded ...
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How to migrate mailboxes from one Office 365 tenant to another Hopefully this will be a situation that most users ...
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In Exchange 2013, it became possible to have a multi-site DAG configured in an active-active model by using a third ...
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Exchange Online Protection (EOP) has recently been extended to provide improved SPAM protection.  The new functionality includes DMARC (Domain-based Messaging ...
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Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 UM Language Packs ...
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Office 2013 has functionality (Office Telemetry) that allows for reporting of how Office is used in your environment, and if ...
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Exchange has the useful ability to re-connect mailboxes that have become disconnected. This allows administrators to recover mail data after ...
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Anyone using Office365 or using Exchange Online Protection (EOP) are about to see a change in how bulk mail is ...
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Whilst rarely needed when running PowerShell commands in the console, creating custom objects can be a useful technique when writing ...
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Setting up an Office365 account is a very straightforward process.  Very quickly you can be up and running with Online ...
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Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released. This update rollup resolves various ...
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Currently if you wish to pursue an MCSE in Exchange 2013 (or SharePoint or Lync) you required an MSCA in ...
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During the recent Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), Microsoft released their latest iteration of the Preferred Architecture (PA) for Exchange.  The ...
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Exchange Server 2013 exams – specifically 70-341 and 70-342 – have now been updated for Service Pack 1. Exchange Server ...
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With the advent of Exchange 2013, we see a move away from the traditional monitoring techniques that were used with ...
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This online utility asks you questions and generates a custom list of tasks for you to prepare your organisation and ...
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This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 for 180 days ...
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As an Exchange administrator, there’s times when it’s useful to have a visual, straightforward and concise document that gives you ...
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Microsoft have produced some Excel spreadsheets which can be used to help plan the server requirements for Exchange.  Different versions ...
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Microsoft Exchange PST Capture allows you to search for PST files on computers in your organisation and then import those ...
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For administrators who do not use System Center Operations Manager to monitor their Exchange 2010 environment, a thorough understanding of the most ...
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The transport rules that are available to Exchange Server 2010 allow you to do many things including adding a disclaimer ...
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This is the code I use in class to demo creating custom RBAC objects. New-ManagementScope -name "VIP Users" –RecipientRestrictionFilter {memberofgroup ...
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How Certificates are Used Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are methods for securing communications between servers ...
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As part of a Datacenter switchover, the DNS record of the CAS array in the failed site should be updated ...
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Recently I was asked the question: 'Can you remove a mailbox from email address policies to stop the reply address ...
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When you use Format-Table you can choose which columns you wish to view. Get-WMIObject Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DriveType=3" | Format-Table DeviceID, ...
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Delivery Class Throttling is an automatic process that was introduced with Exchange 2010 SP1. It is designed to address the following ...
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Often when working with PowerShell you will want to specify a file to read data from it.  Whilst the file ...
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In a simple, one Forest Exchange deployment, Autodiscover will work for internal users without needing to be configured. In many ...
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PowerShell is a wonderful tool to gather information and analyse or display it. However, it can be somewhat daunting for ...
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Changing screen colours can be easily done using the .NET [Console] object with commands similar to below: [Console]::ForegroundColor = "yellow" ...
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