When you set up Exchange Hybrid, it should configure your Exchange organizations (both on-premises and cloud) to support the fact that an email from a person in one of the organizations should appear as internal to a recipient in the other organization. In Outlook that means you will see “Display Name” at the top of the message and not “Display Name” <email address>. An email from the internet is rightly treated as anonymous and so […]
When configuring Azure AD SSO as part of Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) or with Password Hash Authentication (PHA) you need now (since March 2018) to only configure a single URL in the Intranet Zone in Windows. That URL is https://autologon.microsoftazuread-sso.com and this can be rolled out as a registry preference via Group Policy. Before March 2018 there was a second URL that was needed in the intranet zone, but that is no longer required (see notes). […]
Back in December the User Experience (UX) for Azure AD login changed to a centered (or centred, depending upon where in the world you speak English) login page with pagination. Pagination is where you enter the username on one screen and the password on the next. This was covered in new Azure Active Directory centered sign-in experience and recently in early April 2018 Microsoft announced changes to the UX to include the removal of all […]
This document is up to date as of March 2018 and is therefore unlike many earlier documents on this issue as this feature set is in the process of changing. First, Send-On-Behalf is changing so that it is supported across a hybrid Exchange Server to Exchange Online connection. At the time of writing this is in the process of being rolled out, so it might well be in your tenant by the time you read […]
Mentioned during Microsoft Ignite 2017, there is a new search functionality in place within Exchange Online. Not all mailboxes are able to make use of the new functionality, such as hit highlighting and search results being shown in-line with the results highlighted in context with the results. The reason that the functionality is not available is that the feature has not been rolled out to all mailboxes in the service. At Microsoft Ignite, a percentage […]
This error can turn up in Exchange Server when Exchange Server is trying to resolve the object that it should deliver a message to. Exchange queries Active Directory and expect that if the object exists in the directory, that the object exists only once. If the object exists more than once, this is the error – as Exchange does not know who to deliver the email to. The error is visible when running Get-Queue in […]
When you create a migration batch in Exchange Online, the default setting for a migration is to start the batch immediately and complete manually. So how long can you leave this batch before you need to complete it? As you can see from the below screenshot, the migration batch here was created on Feb 19th, which was only yesterday as I write this blog. The batch was created on the morning of the 19th Feb, […]
If you create an Office 365 Retention Policy (in the Security and Compliance Center) that applies to all Exchange Online content then you might find that after the retention policy has been deployed (a day or so later usually) that the policy is in error and there is a message at the top of the retention policy pane that shows “1 distribution result(s) found”. The “Notify support” link does nothing but help you call support, […]
I came across two interesting oddities in journaling in Exchange Online in the last few weeks that I noticed where not really mentioned anyway (or anywhere I could find that is). The first involces routing of journal reports and the second the selection of the journal target. The journal report, that is the message that is sent to the journal target mailbox when an email is sent or received from the mailbox(es) under the control […]
In a long term hybrid scenario, where you have Exchange Online and Exchange Server configured and mailboxes on both, internet bound email from your on-premises servers can route in two general ways. The first is outbound via whatever you had in place before you moved to Office 365. You might have configured Exchange Online to also route via this as well. The second is to route Exchange Server outbound emails via Exchange Online Protection. Your […]