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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 ...

The Exchange team blog has put together a nice walk-through for working with Inactive mailboxes (Exchange Plan 2) when users ...

JGSPIERS.COM has published a very informative article about Azure Application Proxies. This can be found at: https://www.jgspiers.com/azure-application-proxy/ ...

In most situations it is fairly straight forward to format a control to show currency, you change the appropriate property ...

The maximum number of users now allowed in a Microsoft Team is 5000 (up from 2500) ...

The latest CUs for Exchange Server have been released: CU1 for Exchange Server 2019, CU12 for Exchange Server 2016 and ...

As you design your forms, you may want to gather a number of controls into a logical group. While this ...

Should you add a new screen in a project and then decide that is the screen you want the App ...

Power Apps does a good job creating Apps from data, but if you start with a blank canvas you need ...

In many situations Power Apps makes a good job of sorting and filtering when you create an app from data ...

In Power Apps the dates will appear by default in US format. It is fairly straight forward to change this ...

CU11 for Exchange Server 2016 is now available. This update supports .NET Framework 4.7.2 in readiness for its acquirement in ...

This update is CU10 for Exchange Server 2016 and CU21 for Exchange Server 2013. This will be the last CU ...

In a large Public Folder deployment, the public folder mailboxes hosting content could end up being geographically dispersed. As there ...

Shared computer activation can be enabled by editing the configuration XML file (part of the Office Deployment Tool) to include ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange. The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 6 Exchange Server 2013 ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange. The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5 Exchange Server 2013 ...

As announced by the Exchange Team Blog.  However, one of the requirements is for running an Exchange Hybrid environment, so ...

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 ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange. The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 4 Exchange Server 2013 ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 Exchange Server 2013 ...

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/ ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 Exchange Server 2013 ...

Some comments to support Module 3 of course M10961 # The following command will not work as Get-ADComputer returns ADComputer ...

Microsoft have written a fairly comprehensive guide to the migration of accounts between Office 365 complete with sample PowerShell code ...

By going to Company Profile and filling in a help desk card (under Custom Help Desk) you can provide a ...

Discovery Search Mailboxes are arguably less used in Exchange 2013 (and Exchange online) than they were in Exchange 2010.  This ...

Deployment on Microsoft Azure virtual machines is supported if all storage volumes used for Exchange databases and database transaction logs ...

Until now, the maximum email size in Office 365 was 25 MB.  If users wanted to 'send' larger document they could ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 8 Exchange Server 2010 ...

Using Office 365 will increase your organisation’s Internet traffic, so it is important to evaluate and assess the network impact of ...

In September 2014, Office 365 announced the “first phase of Groups in Office 365”.  Although Groups already existed, this heralded ...

How to migrate mailboxes from one Office 365 tenant to another Hopefully this will be a situation that most users ...

In Exchange 2013, it became possible to have a multi-site DAG configured in an active-active model by using a third ...

Exchange Online Protection (EOP) has recently been extended to provide improved SPAM protection.  The new functionality includes DMARC (Domain-based Messaging ...

Microsoft have released the latest updates to Exchange.  The updates are: Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 UM Language Packs ...

Office 2013 has functionality (Office Telemetry) that allows for reporting of how Office is used in your environment, and if ...

Exchange has the useful ability to re-connect mailboxes that have become disconnected. This allows administrators to recover mail data after ...

Anyone using Office365 or using Exchange Online Protection (EOP) are about to see a change in how bulk mail is ...

Whilst rarely needed when running PowerShell commands in the console, creating custom objects can be a useful technique when writing ...

Setting up an Office365 account is a very straightforward process.  Very quickly you can be up and running with Online ...

Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released. This update rollup resolves various ...

Currently if you wish to pursue an MCSE in Exchange 2013 (or SharePoint or Lync) you required an MSCA in ...

During the recent Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), Microsoft released their latest iteration of the Preferred Architecture (PA) for Exchange.  The ...

Exchange Server 2013 exams – specifically 70-341 and 70-342 – have now been updated for Service Pack 1. Exchange Server ...

With the advent of Exchange 2013, we see a move away from the traditional monitoring techniques that were used with ...

This online utility asks you questions and generates a custom list of tasks for you to prepare your organisation and ...

This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 for 180 days ...

As an Exchange administrator, there’s times when it’s useful to have a visual, straightforward and concise document that gives you ...

Microsoft have produced some Excel spreadsheets which can be used to help plan the server requirements for Exchange.  Different versions ...

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture allows you to search for PST files on computers in your organisation and then import those ...

For administrators who do not use System Center Operations Manager to monitor their Exchange 2010 environment, a thorough understanding of the most ...

The transport rules that are available to Exchange Server 2010 allow you to do many things including adding a disclaimer ...

This is the code I use in class to demo creating custom RBAC objects. New-ManagementScope -name "VIP Users" –RecipientRestrictionFilter {memberofgroup ...

How Certificates are Used Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are methods for securing communications between servers ...

As part of a Datacenter switchover, the DNS record of the CAS array in the failed site should be updated ...

Recently I was asked the question: 'Can you remove a mailbox from email address policies to stop the reply address ...

When you use Format-Table you can choose which columns you wish to view. Get-WMIObject Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DriveType=3" | Format-Table DeviceID, ...

Delivery Class Throttling is an automatic process that was introduced with Exchange 2010 SP1. It is designed to address the following ...

Often when working with PowerShell you will want to specify a file to read data from it.  Whilst the file ...

In a simple, one Forest Exchange deployment, Autodiscover will work for internal users without needing to be configured. In many ...

PowerShell is a wonderful tool to gather information and analyse or display it. However, it can be somewhat daunting for ...

Changing screen colours can be easily done using the .NET [Console] object with commands similar to below: [Console]::ForegroundColor = "yellow" ...