Following the release of the new Hybrid Agent I take a look at some of the things you may not have realised from the headlines! … More 5 things to be aware of with the Microsoft Hybrid Agent Preview
As you would probably imagine, I run several lab environments to test, play, break different things throughout my day-to-day work, and to keep these working smoothly I use Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates to provide reliable, and most importantly FREE, SSL certificates for my environment. These only last for 3 months so I am updating my … More Exchange Server 2016 unable to load ECP or PowerShell after updating certificate
It has always been the case that the only supported patch level for Exchange on-premises – whether Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 or soon 2019 – is n-1. Meaning that although your Exchange organisation doesn’t need to be bang up-to-date to be supported in a hybrid relationship with Exchange Online, you have to remain effectively within … More Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard no longer runs with unsupported versions of Exchange
In Part 1 I configured my Exchange 2016 virtual directories for OWA and ECP to authenticate using Kerberos, more on this shortly. In Part 2 I configured Hybrid Modern Authentication to begin using Azure AD to authenticate Exchange on-premises services. Part 1 is a hard requirement for this to work, so if you haven’t already, check it out! In this final part I will now move on to publishing OWA and ECP using the Azure Application Proxy to also secure these final services with Azure AD. … More How to secure Exchange 2016 with Azure AD – Part 3 – Azure Application Proxy
In this series of blogs I’m going to look at the end-to-end process of taking an organisation from not publishing any Exchange on-premises services to the internet, to publishing Autodiscover, Outlook and OWA/Outlook on the Web externally, secured with Azure AD Conditional Access, Hybrid Modern Authentication and the Azure Application Proxy. … More How to secure Exchange 2016 with Azure AD – Part 1 – Authenticating OWA with Kerberos
When I opened up Outlook this morning I was prompted with a message saying that I had a new feature in Outlook, the ability to see who I am meeting with by viewing all responses to meeting requests. I did some quick testing of this to see whether it was just internal meetings/recipients. Sure enough, … More New Outlook Feature: See all meeting responses when not the organiser
Good news! Focused Inbox is now live in Exchange Online! Bad news, it is enabled by default for new mailboxes, even for migrated users, which could see a massive change in behaviour that you/your users aren’t expecting! Thankfully, if you are using the latest version of the Exchange Online PowerShell Module you can manage these … More Quick Tip: Managing Focused Inbox in Exchange Online
This is the second in a series of posts. You can find links to the other parts of the series here: Part One – Introduction Part Two – Full Mailbox Access In Part One I gave an overview of the different scenarios in which cross-premises permissions are affected in a Hybrid scenario between Office 365 … More Delegate permissions in Exchange Hybrid – Part Two – Full Mailbox Access
If you are in the situation where you are migrating from a non-Microsoft mail system (e.g. Domino Lotus Notes, Google) or a hosted Exchange platform you may be in the situation where you have set up AAD Connect before extending your Active Directory Schema to include the Microsoft Exchange attributes. This can cause problems when … More How to fix being unable to add Exchange Hybrid features to AAD Connect configuration
Whilst setting up a lab for another blog post I am writing I ran into an issue in my new Exchange environment where after I logged in to the EAC login page as normal I see nothing but a blank screen. As I have just been setting up my lab I have just updated the … More Exchange 2016 – Blank page after logging into EAC
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