Category: exchange online
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An “Inexpensive” Exchange Lab In Azure
This blog post centres around two scripts that can be used to quickly provision an Exchange Server lab in Azure and then to remove it again. The reason why the blog post is titled “inexpensive” is that Azure charges compute hours even if the virtual machines are shut down. Therefore to make my Exchange lab…
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Highly Available Office 365 to On-Premises Mail Routing
This article looks at how to configure mail flow from Office 365 (via Exchange Online Protection – EOP) to your On Premises organization to ensure that it is highly available and work in disaster recovery scenarios with no impact. It is based on exactly the same principle to that which I blogged about in 2012:…
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Errors in Moving Exchange Archive Mailboxes to Office 365
I was trying to move an Archive mailbox to the Office 365 service from my demo environment the other day when I came across an error I thought I would note down here for completion. I could not find the error elsewhere on the internet An archive mailbox must be enabled before it can be…
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Enabling and Configuring AADRM in Exchange Online
This article is the fourth in a series of posts looking at Microsoft’s new Rights Management product set. In the previous post we looked at turning on the feature in Office 365 and in this post we will look at how to manage the service in the cloud. In this series of articles we will…
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The New Rights Management Service
This blog is the start of a series of articles I will write over the next few months on how to ensure that your data is encrypted and secured to only the people you want to access it, and only for the level of rights you want to give them. The technology that we will…
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Message Classifications, Exchange 2013, Exchange Online and Outlook
Message Classifications are a way to tag email with a property that describes the purpose of the email, for example “Internal Use Only” might be a classification to tell the recipient of the email that the message should not be forwarded. Classifications are configured by administrators and appear shortly after creation in Outlook Web App,…
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Cannot Send Emails To Office 365 or Exchange Online Protection Using TLS
I have found this is a common issue. You set up an Exchange Online Hybrid or Exchange Online Protection (EOP) stand alone service and follow all the instructions for the creating of the connectors needed, only to find that your emails queue in your Exchange Server. If you turn on protocol logging you get this…
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Whitelisting Salesforce Emails in Exchange Online Protection
In this article, Salesforce list three IP address ranges (by way of CIDR notation) where their emails can come from when you are a Salesforce.com user. To ensure these emails come to all users of your organization if you are using Exchange Online Protection (EOP) then you have to create a transport rule to attempt…
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Outlook Archive Appears to be Duplicated
A client sent me the following screenshot today, and though redacted you can see that their Outlook mailbox has more than one Online Archive showing: This users mailbox was not the only one in the company, but you can see how the mailbox is showing three Online Archives and seemingly all for the same mailbox.…
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The Exchange Server Header Firewall
The below Header Firewall video was recorded as “pre-reading” for the Exchange 2010 MCM program. The website that originally hosted this video is no longer available, so I am reposting the video that I recorded here:
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Moving Exchange Online Protection Junk Mail to the Junk Email Folder
If you use Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to filter your email in the cloud and to remove spam and malware before onward delivery to you, and if you use Exchange 2007 or later on-premises, then you need to configure Exchange to move detected spam to the Junk Email folder in Outlook. By default EOP detects…
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Journal Alternative Mailbox and No Inbox Rules
In the event of your journal mailbox going offline, any journal reports destined for these mailboxes will queue. After two days (though this time is the expiry time for messages in your Exchange organization, so may be different) the message will expire and an NDR sent to the sender of the journal report. The problem…
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Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Spam Filtering to Outlook’s Junk E-Mail Folder
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is a cloud hosted email anti-spam and antivirus filtering system. Amongst the options to filter away your spam, one of the options to to allow the email to be flagged and sent on into your on-premises email system, and then managing it there. If you have Exchange 2007 or…
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Missing the Message Tracking Log Explorer in Exchange 2013? Not anymore…
Exchange 2013 has removed a number of user interfaces that existed in Exchange 2010, one of them being the Message Tracking toolbox utility: In Exchange 2013 you can search for an individual messages in the Exchange Control Panel (https://servername/ecp) by selecting mail flow > delivery reports. But this tool requires you to specify the source…
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Installing and Configuring AD RMS and Exchange Server
Earlier this week at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2012) I led a session titled Configuring Rights Management Server for Office 365 and Exchange On-Premises [E14.314]. This blog shows three videos covering installation, configuration and integration of RMS with Exchange 2010 and Office 365. For Exchange 2013, the steps are mostly identical. Installing AD RMS…
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Highly Available Geo Redundancy with Outbound Send Connectors in Exchange 2003 and Later
This is something I’ve been meaning to write down for a while. I wrote an answer for this question to LinkedIn about a week ago and I’ve just emailed a MCM Exchange consultant with this – so here we go… If you configure a Send Connector (Exchange 2007 and 2010) or Exchange 2003 SMTP Connector…
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Domain Redirection and BPOS to Office 365 Migration
With Microsoft Exchange Online via BPOS (the precursor to Office 365) you were able to configure a simple CNAME redirection to make access to OWA easier for your users. For example, you could create a CNAME in DNS for mail.fabrikam.com (where fabrikam.com is your domain in BPOS) which pointed to go.domains.live.com and then when users…
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Fix Federation Trust Issues After Exchange Server Recovery
I had a need to recover an Exchange Server following a blue screen after patching that I could not undo. I had the databases intact, and of course Active Directory was installed on a different server so I installed a new server and ran setup /m:recoverserver (after installing all the updates and hotfixes that is).…
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Office 365 Hybrid Coexistence and Edge Server
One of the delights in my job is when Microsoft give me a call and ask me how something works in one of their products! Such a call came today and it involved get Office 365 hybrid coexistence working with an Edge Server. Exchange Server Deployment Assistant does not have the answer to this issue;…
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Hub Transport Load Balancing
In Exchange 2010 (not SP1) and Exchange 2007 there was no memory of unavailable transport servers and so the round robin method of load balancing across the hubs in the target delivery site or smarthosts used by connectors sourced to your current server was just that – round robin. Though if a server was unavailable…
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OWA and Moving Mailboxes to Office 365
Lets imagine a scenario where you are using an on-premises Exchange Server and users’ use Outlook Web App, and then you move some mailboxes to the Office 365 cloud with Hybrid Coexistence enabled. The user might not know their mailbox has been moved and so yesterday they went to https://mail.company.com/owa, but today they need to visit…