msexchange.org: Office 365: New and Renamed Role Groups

Expect documentation to be updated very soon and most likely a blog post on this subject.



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msexchange.org: Exchange Hybrid Wizard Lesson Learned

I originally posted this in an internal group a little year ago, but based on feedback about having a public statement as well, here it comes.



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msexchange.org: Capabilities and features in Office 365 Enterprise

Office 365 Enterprise provides the best Office experience along with management and compliance tools.



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Anderson Patricio: Managing Directory Based Edge Blocking (DBEB) feature in Exchange Online Protection (EOP)

The DBEB feature is a powerful resource for Exchange Administrators that are using Exchange Online Protection where only the valid e-mail addresses in Office365 will be able to receive e-mails....



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msexchange.org: Information Protection and Control (IPC) in Office 365 with Microsoft Rights Management service (RMS) whitepaper v1.2a

Updated version of a previously published whitepaper.



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msexchange.org: Enabling Hybrid Cloud Today with Microsoft Technologies whitepaper

This whitepaper has a whole chapter dedicated to hybrid Office 365. A must read!



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msexchange.org: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.4.3 Update

This update fixes critical issues.



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msexchange.org: Office 365 Accessibility Fact Sheet

This is a fact sheet with details on Office 365 Accessibility offerings.



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MSExchange.org: RBAC Made Easy (Part 4)

In this article, the author explains how to manage mailbox objects using RBAC in Exchange Server 2013.



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msexchange.org: Automating the Preparation of Lync Server 2013

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msexchange.org: Microsoft Office Client 2010 CU and SP Build Number Reference

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msexchange.org: Improving visibility to service updates

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msexchange.org: News: Free 90 day trials of Azure AD Premium with 2035 SAAS Apps!

Just a quick note today. I'm happy to let you know that we've just turned on free trials of Azure Active Directory Premium. Now you can get a free 90 day trial of Azure AD Premium for up to 100 users.



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Exchange Team Blog: Developing with Office 365 APIs

While we do not post about purely development subjects very often, I wanted to point you to a pretty cool post on the Exchange dev blog:

Zapier’s Office 365 API Journey

It may come as a surprise to some just how seamless it is to jump into leveraging Office 365 APIs. If this interests you, enjoy!

Nino Bilic

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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 8)

In part eight of this series we'll begin to validate the underlying storage that will support Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 in our target environment. This vital set of tasks will ensure that while we transition to Exchange 2010, and then to Exchange 2013, users of the systems will not see any ill effects.



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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

Is Microsoft really saying "don't virtualize" Exchange? Office is the Bellwether for Microsoft's Rapid Release Mantra Nothing to fear in MAPI over HTTP Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Your Network Items Loose Truncation in Exchange...(read more)



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msexchange.org: Office 365: Decommission of onlinehelp.microsoft.com

Be aware that the entire onlinehelp.microsoft.com URL will be decommissioned by the end of June. The URL will be redirecting to http://ift.tt/Td2USF.



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msexchange.org: Improving visibility to service updates

Those of you who have been following this blog have seen dozens of great improvements that we’ve shipped to Office 365 for business services over the last 18 months.



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MSExchange.org: Exchange 2013 with Rights Management Connector (Part 1)

In this article series we will explore the Microsoft Rights Management [RMS] connector and how we can use it to provide information protection with an existing on-premises Exchange 2013 deployment.



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msexchange.org: AADSync Beta Refresh available on Connect

The AAD team have released a beta refresh build to Connect.



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MSExchange.org: Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 9)

In this article we will deploy an additional two new virtual machines and configure the endpoints for each in a load-balanced fashion.



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msexchange.org: Ignite WebCast: Web Application Proxy (WAP) and Application Request Routing (ARR)

This webcast will give you all the knowledge you need to successfully start publishing Exchange.



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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

Create secure Exchange 2013 deployments with DLP policies Does Exchange 2013 virtualization make sense? Microsoft Exchange Getting Expanded Public Folder Support Next Month Encrypting email in transit makes a heap of sense Microsoft Delivers Pre-Release...(read more)



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msexchange.org: Exchange Online Protection Content Updates May/June 2014

The Information Protection Content Publishing team has been busy for the past month creating new content to help customers adopt our features and address content gaps.



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MSExchange.org: RBAC Made Easy (Part 3)

In this article, the author shows how to delegate administration to Distribution Groups in Exchange Server 2013 using RBAC.



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msexchange.org: OWA for Android now available on select devices

At the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in March, we announced that we’ll be bringing a native OWA mobile app to Android phones. Today, we’re pleased to announce a pre-release of this app available in the Google Play store.



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msexchange.org: OWA for Android now available on select devices

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msexchange.org: Last Chance to Register for the MSExchange.org Webinar: PST Files - The Hidden Threat to Your Next Project

Join Microsoft Exchange MVP Steve Goodman and Peter Mullens, Product Marketing Manager for C2C, on Thursday, June 12, 2014, at 2pm EDT, 7pm BST for an informative discussion on the challenges managing data and PSTs before, during and after an upgrade or migration.



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Tony Redmond: Progress in raising public folder limits – but we’re not there yet

It was great to see the EHLO blog informing the Exchange community that work is progressing to increase the scalability of modern public folders and raise the somewhat pathetic limits revealed last March. As you’ll recall, the old limits were 10,000 public folders in the hierarchy and 100 public folder mailboxes.

To be fair to the public folder team, they walked into the lion’s den at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) when they faced an unhappy crowd at the “Unplugged” session for public folders and site mailboxes. Not that site mailboxes were discussed much at that session, which probably reflects the current level of usage for site mailboxes in the wild.

In any case, public folders program manager Kanika Ramiji kept calm and noted the three issues that customers wanted Microsoft to deal with in modern public folders. The first is scalability, and that’s being worked on right now. It’s good that the limit will be raised soon to allow Office 365 tenants to use 100,000 public folders. It’s even better that the scalability work will continue and show up in Exchange 2013 CU6 (due in less than a quarter now) and that the final goal is to support more than 1 million public folders.

As noted in the blog post, scalability improvements take time because they are complex. Microsoft has already enjoyed some robust customer feedback over the initial limits; they won’t want to experience the same reaction if modern public folders fail to scale properly again.

But you’ll notice that nothing was said in the blog post about raising the limit of 100 public folder mailboxes within an organization. On the surface, this shouldn’t be a huge issue as a public folder mailbox is able to hold an awful lot of information.

Office 365 limits public folder mailboxes to 50GB and automatically splits public folders across new mailboxes when that threshold is reached. On-premises deployments can support public folder mailboxes of up to 100GB. However, this is a “soft” limit and a mailbox won’t stop working if it is forced to hold 100.1GB. Rather, it’s a matter of how supportable, reliable, and performant mailboxes are when they hold very large amounts of data.

I imagine that the need to restrict hierarchy updates is the reason why Microsoft is holding to 100 mailboxes for now. The primary public folder mailbox handles all updates to the hierarchy and then fans out updates to all of the other mailboxes, each of which holds a secondary read-only copy of the hierarchy. Updates are very smooth when servers are connected with high-speed reliable networks, but it’s easy to see how things might not work so well if Exchange had to process public folder hierarchy updates across thousands of mailboxes distributed in databases around a large network where some of the links aren’t quite as good as you’d like.

So you could be faced with the need to stuff a one million folder deployment into 100 public folder mailboxes. Hopefully everything will fit in 10TB. If not, it’s time to take out the pruning scissors before you start the migration process to move old public folders to Exchange 2013.

The other issues identified at MEC were lack of support for public folders holding calendar and contacts items in Outlook Web App (OWA) and the lack of reporting and management tools for public folders. The EHLO post says that the public folder team have the OWA limitation on their radar and will get to it after the scalability issues are fixed. If the scalability fixes come to on-premises customers in Exchange 2013 CU6, you can assume that it will take one or two further updates before support for calendar and contacts folders show up.

No word is available on what might or might not happen for reporting and management tools. Given the sad history of neglect on this front for public folders and other elements in Exchange, it would come as no surprise if progress is slow here. But we live in hope!

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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 7)

In this part of the series we'll configure page file settings before moving onto installation of Exchange pre-requisites, culminating in preparing the installation files for subsequent JetStress tests and full install.



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msexchange.org: New Exchange Online Protection (EOP) video series is live

The EOP documentation team has partnered with the EOP Support team to create a video series for getting started with EOP. This series is intended for new EOP customers and customers who have transitioned from FOPE.



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msexchange.org: DirSync Change: Forcing/Manual Syncs

With the latest version of the DirSync tool, the method for how you perform a manual synchronization has changed.



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Exchange Group Team Blog: Happy 10th Birthday Blog

Wow 10 years! .. Actually the first one was on the 6th June: Exchange 2003 Service Pack 1 – 06/06/2004 15:59:00 but I’m not sure what happened to that one :-|

So that makes this one! The one!

Service Pack 1 For Exchange 2003: 07/06/2004 10:17:00

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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

How flawed firmware can really give your DAG some replication headaches How to create the best Exchange monitoring option One thing you must do to protect Exchange 2013 security Clear up misconceptions about hosted Exchange services The Garage Series...(read more)



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msexchange.org: Backing up Exchange Mailbox databases with eseutil utility

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msexchange.org: The Garage Series for Office 365: Extending Exchange, Outlook and OWA across platforms and devices with the new app model

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msexchange.org: Demystifying Spring 2014 updates for Office Web Apps Server 2013

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msexchange.org: Site Resilience Impact on Availability

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msexchange.org: Office 365 Ignite: eDiscovery Webcast

Abstract: This presentation will be concentrating on eDiscovery and in-place hold relative to Exchange Online. Some troubleshooting tips will also be included.



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MSExchange.org: Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication (Part 3)

In this third and final article, we will see how to use text messages to authenticate and what App Passwords are.



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Anderson Patricio: How to create a DAG in Exchange Server 2013 SP1 without AAP

In this Tutorial we are going to use a new feature introduced in Exchange Server 2013 SP1 which is the capability to create a DAG object without an AAP (Cluster...



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MSExchange.org: Product Review: Netwrix Auditor

In this review we will look at the latest version of Netwrix Auditor and how it improves auditing and compliance in an Exchange environment.



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MSExchange.org: Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 8)

In this part 8, we will continue where we left off in part 7. That is, we will connect to the two new virtual machines via remote desktop and create a new Active Directory forest by promoting them to AD DS servers.



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