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Inactive Mailboxes

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

Azure AD Application Proxy

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

Teams user limit increased

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

Office 365 Pro Plus Shared Computer Activation

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

Modern Public Folders (Exchange 2013/2016) can now be migrated to Office 365

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

Azure AD Connect Pass-through authentication

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 ...

Migrate Users between Office 365 Tenants

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

Add Customised Help

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

Using Discovery Search Mailboxes

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

Increased maximum email size (150MB)

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

Latest Exchange Updates (March 2015)

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

Office 365 Internet Bandwidth usage

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

Disable Group Creation

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

Migrate between Office 365 Environments

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

Enhanced SPAM Protection for EOP

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

Office Telemetry Reporting

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

Bulk Mail Protection in EOP

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

Office 365 and Lync External Contacts

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

MCSA: Office 365 now a path to Exchange MCSE

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