msexchange.org: Proceed with Planning your Exchange Growth with higher cost savings

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MSExchange.org: Exchange Server 2013 Backup and Restore 101 - Recovering individual items (Part 1)

In this multi-article series, we are going to start the process of using Exchange Server 2013 built-in features to restore all sort of data, starting with individual items.



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msexchange.org: Tune and optimize performance of your Office 365 connection

We are pleased to announce new resources to help Office 365 customers receive optimal performance when connecting to Office 365.



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MSExchange.org: Managing Exchange Online using Server 2012 R2 Essentials Experience Role (Part 1)

In this article series, the author explores the capabilities of the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Experience Role in managing Exchange Online.



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msexchange.org: Expanding data loss prevention (DLP) to SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Windows File Share and Office Clients

One of the key tenets of our approach to security with Office 365 is to give you the right set of tools and services to address your organization’s specific security and compliance needs.



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msexchange.org: Email Migration site in the Office 365 Onboarding Center Updated with videos and more

Check it out here:



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msexchange.org: Information classification and Microsoft RMS

Updated information and whitepapers about information classification and Microsoft RMS.



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msexchange.org: System requirements for the new Office

The landing page for the system requirements for *all* Office suites, commercial and consumer.



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msexchange.org: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.4.5 Update

This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.



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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

• Quickly Get the Data You Need for Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2013 Problems


• The fallacy of the workstation File Share Witness


• Microsoft Issues Advice on SSL 3.0 Security Vulnerability


• Appointments reappear in OWA calendar as one Chrome bug is fixed


• Set rules with Office 365 message classification


• Three ways to manage user accounts in Office 365


• How can I delete Exchange audit logs?


• Why is my Exchange Server connection on the fritz?


• How does write back cache improve performance?


• What are write back cache’s requirements?


• Three questions to ask when you work on Office documents in the web


• Exchange Server 2013 Configuration Management with PowerShell DSC


• Customized Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1 Script for Office 365 Migrations


• Come get your Calculator Updates!


• How to transition your current SMTP service to EOP in 45 minutes or less


• Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 15)


• Traveling between time zones


• Add shortcuts to your own locations in the Save, Open, Attach File and Insert Picture dialogs


• AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange


• How to report spam that arrives in Office 365 to Microsoft


• Exchange 2013: In place upgrade places components in an offline state.

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Subject Exchange: Update for Outlook Junk E-mail Filter – October 2014

Microsoft has recently released the October updates for the Outlook 2007/2013 Junk E-mail Filter.

“This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.”

The update is available for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) or you can use Microsoft Update. As usual the update comes with the corresponding Knowledge Base article:

• Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2899475)


• Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2760587)

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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 15)

In this part of the series we will install Exchange 2013 on our pre-prepared and tested Windows 2012 R2 server and perform some basic configuration.



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Tony Redmond: AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange

Exchange 2010 uses AQS (Advanced Search Syntax) to construct its discovery searches. Exchange 2013 takes a difference approach and uses KQL (keyword query language). Why the change?

AQS is shared with other Windows search components such as Windows Desktop Search. As explained in my article “Exchange searches are limited to certain item types”, Exchange 2010 only supports a subset of the full AQS capabilities. On the other hand, KQL is shared with other Office 2013 applications, the most important of which is SharePoint 2013 because the two applications can form a single discovery domain across the email stored in Exchange and the documents held in SharePoint.

Giving Exchange and SharePoint a common search syntax makes a heap of sense. Another advantage is gained in that KQL is able to perform “proximity searches”. Take the situation where you want to search for items that mention the words “Azur project” and have the word “bribe” somewhere close to those words. AQS can certainly find anything that includes “Azur project” AND “bribe” but it can’t find “Azur project” with “bribe” within 30 words (in KQL syntax, the word “bribe” is NEAR (n=30) the other phrase). As you can imagine, this capability could be very useful in searches that start out being somewhat imprecise because you’re not quite sure about what you’re looking for. It’s true that searches like this might throw up more results than you are able to deal with on a practical basis, but they could provide a hint as to how searches might be refined to hone in on the critical items.

You don’t need to deploy SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 together to be able to use KQL, but if you do, the searches will uncover information stored in site mailboxes, modern public folders (but not their older equivalents), normal user mailboxes, and other SharePoint sites – and Lync conversations and other interactions if you deploy Lync 2013 alongside Exchange 2013.

Deployed alone, Exchange 2013 is quite capable of using KQL for Exchange-specific multi-mailbox searches executed through the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) console. The only dependency is on the content indexes generated from Exchange mailbox databases by Search Foundation. These content indexes are populated through normal user activity and as the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) moves mailboxes over to Exchange 2013 servers. You’ll still have to use the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) to perform the older AQS-style searches for mailboxes that remain on Exchange 2010 and then combine the results of both searches by exporting content from both searches to a common discovery mailbox.

You might expect the Search-Mailbox cmdlet to use KQL when executed on an Exchange 2013 server but this is not the case. The older syntax is used. I think this is actually quite logical because it means that code written for older versions of Exchange will run against Exchange 2013 too – and the Search-Mailbox cmdlet is often used to scan mailboxes for content that needs to be removed. Search-Mailbox includes the powerful (and potentially destructive) DeleteContent switch for this purpose. Use with care!

KQL syntax is pretty powerful. I’m sure that the Exchange community will learn KQL tips and techniques to improve searches from those who work with SharePoint and vice versa. It’s nice when a change makes life easier.

Follow Tony @12Knocksinna

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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

• Quickly Get the Data You Need for Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2013 Problems


• The fallacy of the workstation File Share Witness


• Microsoft Issues Advice on SSL 3.0 Security Vulnerability


• Appointments reappear in OWA calendar as one Chrome bug is fixed


• Set rules with Office 365 message classification


• Three ways to manage user accounts in Office 365


• How can I delete Exchange audit logs?


• Why is my Exchange Server connection on the fritz?


• How does write back cache improve performance?


• What are write back cache’s requirements?


• Three questions to ask when you work on Office documents in the web


• Exchange Server 2013 Configuration Management with PowerShell DSC


• Customized Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1 Script for Office 365 Migrations


• Come get your Calculator Updates!


• How to transition your current SMTP service to EOP in 45 minutes or less


• Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 15)


• Traveling between time zones


• Add shortcuts to your own locations in the Save, Open, Attach File and Insert Picture dialogs


• AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange


• How to report spam that arrives in Office 365 to Microsoft


• Exchange 2013: In place upgrade places components in an offline state.

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Subject Exchange: Update for Outlook Junk E-mail Filter – October 2014

Microsoft has recently released the October updates for the Outlook 2007/2013 Junk E-mail Filter.

“This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.”

The update is available for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) or you can use Microsoft Update. As usual the update comes with the corresponding Knowledge Base article:

• Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2899475)


• Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2760587)

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msexchange.org: Exclaimer Strengthens Its Innovative Product Portfolio with the First Ever Disposable Email Address Software for Microsoft Exchange™

Exclaimer Address Tagging for Exchange provides users with a new method to combat the constant threat of global email spam.



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msexchange.org: Proceed with an effective migration from IBM Domino to Microsoft Exchange

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msexchange.org: Proceed with an effective migration from Notes to Microsoft Exchange

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msexchange.org: Web Apps Server Removal from Download Center

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msexchange.org: Come get your Calculator Updates!

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msexchange.org: Beyond Email: 4 Digital Trends shaping Office Communication

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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 15)

In this part of the series we will install Exchange 2013 on our pre-prepared and tested Windows 2012 R2 server and perform some basic configuration.



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msexchange.org: Be part of the GSX Solutions’ Lync road trip! Meet us at Teched Barcelona and Sydney

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msexchange.org: Monitoring SharePoint Web Front-Ends servers

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Tony Redmond: AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange

Exchange 2010 uses AQS (Advanced Search Syntax) to construct its discovery searches. Exchange 2013 takes a difference approach and uses KQL (keyword query language). Why the change?

AQS is shared with other Windows search components such as Windows Desktop Search. As explained in my article “Exchange searches are limited to certain item types”, Exchange 2010 only supports a subset of the full AQS capabilities. On the other hand, KQL is shared with other Office 2013 applications, the most important of which is SharePoint 2013 because the two applications can form a single discovery domain across the email stored in Exchange and the documents held in SharePoint.

Giving Exchange and SharePoint a common search syntax makes a heap of sense. Another advantage is gained in that KQL is able to perform “proximity searches”. Take the situation where you want to search for items that mention the words “Azur project” and have the word “bribe” somewhere close to those words. AQS can certainly find anything that includes “Azur project” AND “bribe” but it can’t find “Azur project” with “bribe” within 30 words (in KQL syntax, the word “bribe” is NEAR (n=30) the other phrase). As you can imagine, this capability could be very useful in searches that start out being somewhat imprecise because you’re not quite sure about what you’re looking for. It’s true that searches like this might throw up more results than you are able to deal with on a practical basis, but they could provide a hint as to how searches might be refined to hone in on the critical items.

You don’t need to deploy SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 together to be able to use KQL, but if you do, the searches will uncover information stored in site mailboxes, modern public folders (but not their older equivalents), normal user mailboxes, and other SharePoint sites – and Lync conversations and other interactions if you deploy Lync 2013 alongside Exchange 2013.

Deployed alone, Exchange 2013 is quite capable of using KQL for Exchange-specific multi-mailbox searches executed through the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) console. The only dependency is on the content indexes generated from Exchange mailbox databases by Search Foundation. These content indexes are populated through normal user activity and as the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) moves mailboxes over to Exchange 2013 servers. You’ll still have to use the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) to perform the older AQS-style searches for mailboxes that remain on Exchange 2010 and then combine the results of both searches by exporting content from both searches to a common discovery mailbox.

You might expect the Search-Mailbox cmdlet to use KQL when executed on an Exchange 2013 server but this is not the case. The older syntax is used. I think this is actually quite logical because it means that code written for older versions of Exchange will run against Exchange 2013 too – and the Search-Mailbox cmdlet is often used to scan mailboxes for content that needs to be removed. Search-Mailbox includes the powerful (and potentially destructive) DeleteContent switch for this purpose. Use with care!

KQL syntax is pretty powerful. I’m sure that the Exchange community will learn KQL tips and techniques to improve searches from those who work with SharePoint and vice versa. It’s nice when a change makes life easier.

Follow Tony @12Knocksinna

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MSExchange.org: How to transition your current SMTP service to EOP in 45 minutes or less

In this article, we are going to go over the process to transition your current on-premises SMTP service to Exchange Online Protection (EOP).



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msexchange.org: GSX Solutions for boosting Service Providers' revenue at MSPWorld

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msexchange.org: http://ift.tt/1txMKEs

American founding father Benjamin Franklin famously said, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” In order to yield your greatest results, organization and access to each tool you need to accomplish your goals is paramount. Getting organized. Some people are naturally great at this, some people drag their feet and kick their heels. But there is no doubt that organization can yield results—at home, at work or at school.



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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

• What controls do we provide to protect your data in transit in Office 365


• Microsoft “Blocks 10 Million Spam Messages A Minute”


• Why Exchange Online now preserves BCC and DL information in message headers


• Exchange Online Protection Getting Security Enhancements


• Microsoft turns off the last public folder in their internal Exchange deployment


• How to build the best email encryption policy


• Why is my Exchange Server connection on the fritz?


• Improving Outlook Web App options and settings


• Evolving Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to protect against tomorrow’s threats


• Introducing Microsoft Ignite


• Introducing Microsoft Ignite and our lineup of top conferences in 2015


• Organize your Office 365 with the new app launcher


• Microsoft Ignite Event for IT Pros Coming in May


• Office 2010 SP2–You Did Upgrade, Right?


• Troubleshooting Event ID 15021 in Exchange Server 2013


• PowerShell Tip: List Active Mailbox Database Copies for an Exchange Server Database Availability Group


• Messages Queuing with Error 451 4.4.0 DNS Query Failed


• Exchange Powershell Tip #11


• Backup and Restore Instructions for the DirSync Database


• A look into Conversations with EWS and Powershell in a Mailbox


• E-mail Forensics in a Corporate Exchange Environment (Part 5)


• Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 16)


• Hiding details of all or some appointments and meetings


• Quickly collapse all opened subfolders


• The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets


• Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date

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msexchange.org: Friday Podcast - Stuck with Lync Performance Issues? Tips to manage them

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Exchange Team Blog: Introducing Microsoft Ignite – meet us in Chicago

This morning on The Official Microsoft Blog, we revealed more details about our unified technology event for event for enterprises in May. The event will be known as Microsoft Ignite. If you are one of the many MEC conference alumni this is the conference for you. Microsoft Ignite is for Exchange customers using Office 365 or Exchange Server on-premises. Register now to reserve your spot and we will see you in Chicago on May 4^th!

Shape the event | Join the YamJam

We are committed to making Microsoft Ignite an incredible and valuable event for all of us who are passionate about Exchange, Office, SharePoint, Lync, Project and Visio. We want your feedback to help shape plans for this event. Join us for a YamJam on the Office 365 Technical Network on Tuesday, October 21^st 9:00 am – 10:00 am PDT to ask questions about the event and to provide feedback on what you want to see there. For those unfamiliar with a YamJam, it is similar to a “TweetJam” on Twitter or an “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” on Reddit, except it takes place on Yammer.

How to participate:

1. Request access to the Office 365 Technical Network.


2. Join the Ignite Event group. You can find it by using the Browse Groups function or through the search bar.


3. Log in at 9:00 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, October 21^st to ask questions and provide feedback on what you want to see from the Microsoft Office Division at the conference.

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MSExchange.org: Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 16)

In this part 16, we will continue where we left off in part 15. More specifically, we will establish the federation service farm on the first AD FS server and then add the second federation to this farm.



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msexchange.org: OneDrive for Business Client Network Bandwidth Calculator

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msexchange.org: Evolving Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to protect against tomorrow’s threats

Ten million spam messages blocked every minute. That’s the average number of spam messages that are blocked by Microsoft every minute. However, every day attackers around the world find new techniques to attack your email.



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msexchange.org: Lync Server 2013 Guidance Series: Can I partition Global Address List?

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msexchange.org: Simpler, better instant messaging options in Lync 2013

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msexchange.org: Updated Office 365 Plan Selector Tool

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msexchange.org: Error MigrationPermanentException directory property homeMDB is not writeable on recipient

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msexchange.org: How to fix a couple of issues after removing a certificate in Exchange Server 2013

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msexchange.org: FastTrack: getting your customers to the cloud

Get your Office 365 customers quickly launched and active with FastTrack.



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msexchange.org: Improving Outlook Web App options and settings

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msexchange.org: Paths to Success with Web Application Proxy

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MSExchange.org: E-mail Forensics in a Corporate Exchange Environment (Part 5)

In the previous part of our article series we started to look at extracting data directly from Outlook or from a PST. In this final part, we will continue with this approach.



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msexchange.org: Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0

Now you have no excuse not to migrate your Vmware Exchange lab to Hyper-V :) Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) is a Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution for the information technology (IT) pro or solution provider who wants to convert virtual machines and disks from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts and Microsoft Azure.



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msexchange.org: Office 365 merger migration guide for Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online

Summary: Outlines how to migrate mailboxes and service settings from one Office 365 tenant to another.



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msexchange.org: Active Directory Rights Management Service Client 2.1

AD RMS Client 2.1 is software designed for your client computers to help protect access to and usage of information flowing through applications that use AD RMS on-premise and with Windows Azure AD RM.



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msexchange.org: Cloud Business Email Market, 2014-2018

The Radicati Group published a new report about the Cloud Business Email Market.



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msexchange.org: Messaging Platforms Market, 2014-2018

The Radicati Group recently released a new report about the Messaging Platform Market.



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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 14)

This series will focus on how to migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 including approaches available, planning and migration.



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MSExchange.org: E-mail Forensics in a Corporate Exchange Environment (Part 5)

In the previous part of our article series we started to look at extracting data directly from Outlook or from a PST. In this final part, we will continue with this approach.



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msexchange.org: Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0

Now you have no excuse not to migrate your Vmware Exchange lab to Hyper-V :) Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) is a Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution for the information technology (IT) pro or solution provider who wants to convert virtual machines and disks from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts and Microsoft Azure.



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msexchange.org: Office 365 merger migration guide for Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online

Summary: Outlines how to migrate mailboxes and service settings from one Office 365 tenant to another.



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msexchange.org: Active Directory Rights Management Service Client 2.1

AD RMS Client 2.1 is software designed for your client computers to help protect access to and usage of information flowing through applications that use AD RMS on-premise and with Windows Azure AD RM.



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msexchange.org: Cloud Business Email Market, 2014-2018

The Radicati Group published a new report about the Cloud Business Email Market.



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msexchange.org: Messaging Platforms Market, 2014-2018

The Radicati Group recently released a new report about the Messaging Platform Market.



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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 14)

This series will focus on how to migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 including approaches available, planning and migration.



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MSExchange.org: Using Mail Protection Reports

How to create mail protection reports for environments using either Office 365 or Exchange Online Protection (EOP).



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msexchange.org: Azure AD Enhanced Auditing and Activity Logging now in preview!

Many of you have asked for the ability to access audit and activity logs to ensure compliance or investigate issues. I'm excited to share that we've released four new reports in Preview that give you VERY detailed views of user activity in the organization. This first preview includes key directory events. In subsequent updates you'll see us add quite a few more events.



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msexchange.org: From Inside the Cloud: What controls do we provide to protect your data in transit in Office 365?

In our last few posts in our From Inside the Cloud series, my colleagues and lead engineers, Perry Clarke, Vivek Sharma and Kamal Janardhan shared insider overviews on how we design and run various aspects of security, privacy and compliance in Office 365. Today, I would like to share an overview of the controls you have within Office 365 to protect your data in transit.



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msexchange.org: Update Rollup 18 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 18. This is a tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It includes performance enhancements that are packaged together for easy deployment.



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msexchange.org: Friday Podcast - Ease your Exchange Online Environment’s Management with GSX Solutions

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msexchange.org: Best practices: Track usage of Lync Online with PowerShell and REST Web Services

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msexchange.org: Azure AD Enhanced Auditing and Activity Logging now in preview!

Many of you have asked for the ability to access audit and activity logs to ensure compliance or investigate issues. I'm excited to share that we've released four new reports in Preview that give you VERY detailed views of user activity in the organization. This first preview includes key directory events. In subsequent updates you'll see us add quite a few more events.



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msexchange.org: From Inside the Cloud: What controls do we provide to protect your data in transit in Office 365?

In our last few posts in our From Inside the Cloud series, my colleagues and lead engineers, Perry Clarke, Vivek Sharma and Kamal Janardhan shared insider overviews on how we design and run various aspects of security, privacy and compliance in Office 365. Today, I would like to share an overview of the controls you have within Office 365 to protect your data in transit.



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msexchange.org: Update Rollup 18 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 18. This is a tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It includes performance enhancements that are packaged together for easy deployment.



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msexchange.org: Friday Podcast - Ease your Exchange Online Environment’s Management with GSX Solutions

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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 14)

This series will focus on how to migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 including approaches available, planning and migration.



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msexchange.org: Best practices: Track usage of Lync Online with PowerShell and REST Web Services

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MSExchange.org: Using Mail Protection Reports

How to create mail protection reports for environments using either Office 365 or Exchange Online Protection (EOP).



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msexchange.org: Azure AD Enhanced Auditing and Activity Logging now in preview!

Many of you have asked for the ability to access audit and activity logs to ensure compliance or investigate issues. I'm excited to share that we've released four new reports in Preview that give you VERY detailed views of user activity in the organization. This first preview includes key directory events. In subsequent updates you'll see us add quite a few more events.



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msexchange.org: From Inside the Cloud: What controls do we provide to protect your data in transit in Office 365?

In our last few posts in our From Inside the Cloud series, my colleagues and lead engineers, Perry Clarke, Vivek Sharma and Kamal Janardhan shared insider overviews on how we design and run various aspects of security, privacy and compliance in Office 365. Today, I would like to share an overview of the controls you have within Office 365 to protect your data in transit.



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msexchange.org: Update Rollup 18 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 18. This is a tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It includes performance enhancements that are packaged together for easy deployment.



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Subject Exchange: Weekend reading

• Essential steps for DLP policy success


• Gauge your readiness to move to Office 365


• MigrationWiz can make Office 365 migrations whiz by


• Office 365: Finding the name of the Calendar folder


• What’s New: September 2014


• One-Time Passcode for Office 365 Message Encryption


• Introducing a new way to share files with Outlook Web App


• Microsoft Improves Office 365 Document Collaboration


• Error MigrationPermanentException directory property homeMDB is not writeable on recipient


• Error Property InvalidDatabaseCopiesAllowed


• Having issues to access owa/ecp after removing a certificate?


• Exchange MVPs around the World – Oct, 2014


• Unexpected Permissions Appearing on Exchange Server Mailboxes


• Exchange Server 2013 Autoreseed in Action


• Be aware: October 26 2014 Russian time zone changes and Exchange


• Using Mail Protection Reports


• Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 14)


• Flagging emails and default reminder times


• Watermark background (Confidential, Do not Forward, Draft, etc…)


• 4133 Database one datacenter health check failed. 4376 Database one datacenter available copy health check failed


• Recoverable Items and Calendar Versioning


• Google Chrome and Office Servers – the continuing saga


• Exchange: the gateway drug to the cloud

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Subject Exchange: Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool v15.0.995.29

The version 15.0.995.29 (October 2014) of the Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool is now available to download.

Brief Description

Simulate Exchange disk I/O load on a server to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.

Overview

Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

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Subject Exchange: New Office Visio Stencil–October 2014

Microsoft released an updated version of the “New Office Visio Stencil”.

Brief Description

This set of stencils contains more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.

Overview

Creating visual representations of your Microsoft Office and Office 365 architectures, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync is a helpful way to communicate your deployment. These Visio stencils provide more than 300 icons — many depicting servers, server roles, services and applications — that you can use in architecture diagrams, charts, and posters. These icons are primarily centered around deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 as well as hybrid Office 365 deployments of aforementioned technologies.

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msexchange.org: Friday Podcast - Ease your Exchange Online Environment’s Management with GSX Solutions

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msexchange.org: Best practices: Track usage of Lync Online with PowerShell and REST Web Services

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msexchange.org: Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool Updated

Small update to the JetStress tool.



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msexchange.org: Microsoft Partners are walking hand in hand at ‘Mini WPC’ #DPK2014

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msexchange.org: Exchange Expert Tony Redmond Joins ENow's Board of Advisors

11-time Microsoft MVP to lend wealth of knowledge to leading Independent Software Vendor



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msexchange.org: Friday Podcast - Ease your Exchange Online Environment’s Management with GSX Solutions

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Anderson Patricio: Error Property InvalidDatabaseCopiesAllowed

In some scenarios when creating a Mailbox Database the error below may appear. This Tutorial was based on Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (CU4). Property InvalidDatabaseCopiesAllowed can’t be set...



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MSExchange.org: Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 14)

This series will focus on how to migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 including approaches available, planning and migration.



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msexchange.org: Best practices: Track usage of Lync Online with PowerShell and REST Web Services

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msexchange.org: Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool Updated

Small update to the JetStress tool.



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msexchange.org: Microsoft Partners are walking hand in hand at ‘Mini WPC’ #DPK2014

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msexchange.org: Exchange Expert Tony Redmond Joins ENow's Board of Advisors

11-time Microsoft MVP to lend wealth of knowledge to leading Independent Software Vendor



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msexchange.org: New Office Visio Stencil Released

This set of stencils contains more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.



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MSExchange.org: Using Mail Protection Reports

How to create mail protection reports for environments using either Office 365 or Exchange Online Protection (EOP).



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Exchange Team Blog: Be aware: October 26 2014 Russian time zone changes and Exchange

We wanted to give you a heads up that depending on the version of Exchange you are running, there might be some impact to either names of time zones that are changing on October 26, or the way that actual meetings are displayed in affected time zones. Customers using our newer versions of Exchange, 2010 and 2013, can expect meetings to appear on calendars correctly (provided underlying operating systems have been updated). Customers who are running Exchange 2007 might see meetings displayed at wrong times.

We are committed to correct these inconsistencies in our November release wave.

Please see KB article 3004235 for more information.

Nino Bilic

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MSExchange.org: Using Mail Protection Reports

How to create mail protection reports for environments using either Office 365 or Exchange Online Protection (EOP).



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msexchange.org: Exchange Expert Tony Redmond Joins ENow's Board of Advisors

11-time Microsoft MVP to lend wealth of knowledge to leading Independent Software Vendor



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msexchange.org: New Office Visio Stencil Released

This set of stencils contains more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.



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MSExchange.org: Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 15)

In this part 15, we will continue where we left off in part 14. More specifically, we will deploy the AD FS servers required for the identity federation between the on-premises Active Directory forest and the Azure Active Directory (Office 365 tenant).



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msexchange.org: Introducing the next version of Web Application Proxy

As part of the bigger Windows announcement this week we are excited to share with you the abundance of additional functionality that has been added to Web Application Proxy and AD FS as part of Windows Server next version Technical Preview.



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EighTwOne: The UC Architects Podcast Ep43

Episode 43 of The UC Architects podcast is now available, which is hosted by Pat Richard. Pat is joined by Steve Goodman, Johan Veldhuis, Serkan Varoglu, and yours truly. Editing was done by Andrew Price.

Some of the topics discussed in this episode are:

• Unable moving mailboxes to Exchange 2013 DB excluded from provisioning


• Protecting against Rogue Administrators


• Combine Office 365 tenants after a merger or acquisition


• Hybrid,EAC,Ex2007 & In-Place Hold issues in Ex2013 CU6 & OWA bug


• Certain pages or windows don’t appear in Outlook Web App or in the Exchange admin center when using Google Chrome


• Using PowerShell Background Jobs can help you speed up Exchange Tasks


• Script: Invoke-snomControl PowerShell GUI


• Microsoft Removes September’s Lync Vulnerability Update Due to Problems


• Lync Room System Cumulative Update (Sep2014)


• Lync Phone Edition (LPE) Log Viewer


• September 2014 update for Lync 2013 client


• Script:PolycomVVX FTP Provisioning Server Creation Script


• SecureOfficeWebApps Farm with “FarmOU” Setting


• High CPU after Publishing Lync Topology


• Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.4.4 update


• Lync Mobile update–Gallery View on iPad and participant management on both iPad and iPhone


• IT/Dev Connections (wrap-up)


• TechEd Australia


• Norwegian Lync Day


• UC Birmingham User Group

More information on the podcast including references and a link to download the podcast here or you can subscribe to the podcasts using iTunes, Zune or use the RSS feed.

About

The UC Architects is a bi-weekly community podcast by people with a passion for Unified Communications; our main focus is on Exchange, Lync or related subjects.

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EighTwOne: 2014 Microsoft MVP Award

I am happy to announce I got re-awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Exchange Server for 2014:

MVP awards are given to individuals by Microsoft in recognition of their contributions to the technical community, such as this blog, forums or our very own The UC Architects podcast.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my readers, followers, fellow MVPs and of course the Microsoft employees that have encouraged, helped and supported me over years.

My MVP profile can be found here.

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msexchange.org: Why does monitoring Office 365 matter?

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msexchange.org: Why monitoring Office 365 does matter?

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msexchange.org: Exchange Migration: Those who fail to plan, plan to fail

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