A blog mostly about Exchange related stuff.
Recently I’ve been working more with Azure DevOps within our team; we do our capacity planning and tasks (Work Items) in sprints. However, I also use mail as a sort of To-Do list. Since a few weeks, you can have Flagged Mails from your Exchange account added as an To-Do task. It even copies most content of the mail and flag status (Complete etc.), both will show the same status. And more recently Planner tasks can show up in the
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Under the Practical PowerShell flag, we've recently posted an instructional YouTube video showing the installation of Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 Core. It's light on PowerShell, but as it is Windows Server Core there is a lot of text screens 😉. The 12 minute video can be seen here, but be sure to maximize your screen for the best experience: If you like the video be sure to like it. We plan to have more instructional videos on
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Next week I will be speaking at the IT/Dev Connection conference in Dallas (TX) during 16-18th October 2018, which is particularly exciting for me as it is the first time I will present in the USA! The session title is “Securing, Protecting, and Managing the Flow of Corporate Communications”. The session abstract tells you a bit more: Simple Mail Transport Protocol, or as it is better known, SMTP, should be simple. It says so in the name. However, the internet
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Today the Microsoft Exchange Product Group announced the release of the Exchange Server 2019 public preview! They also lifted the veil on some of the new features/capabilities etc. of this new major build of Exchange Server. Where can I download the Preview bits? Click here to download Exchange Server 2019 Preview. Warning: These are Preview bits and are not meant to be used in a production environment (not even as a added Exchange server!). Use a lab environment to test
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And some other news dropped in my mailbox this week: I will be speaking together with Jetze Mellema at ExpertsLive NL 2018 on 19th June! During that session we will talk about Exchange migrations; "Destination unknown, migrating mailboxes from somewhere to anywhere". What will we be speaking about exactly? “Migrating mailboxes. Something every Exchange admin has done. Whether it be from legacy to a more modern version of on-premises Exchange, Cross-forest, to the cloud or even from other groupware solutions.
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Some exciting news! I’ll be speaking at the European Collaboration Summit 2018 in Mainz, Germany on May 28-30. My session is “Securing Exchange Online” and during that hour I will go through the capabilities of Exchange Online (Office 365) to further secure your email data and mail flow based on up-to-date know-how. It’s a topic I like, is quite relevant and popular, I also have to update my session every time with new information and considerations. The Summit itself looks
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What? A free community event in a first collaboration between Dutch and Belgian Exchange, Skype and Office 365 experts. There will be two sessions, but before and after sessions you are free to talk with any of them about Exchange, Skype for Business/Teams and Office 365. When? This Thursday evening starting at 18:00. Where? Maarssen (near Utrecht) at the Fujitsu office. Who? MVPs like Jaap Wesselius, Dave Stork, Michel de Rooij, Steven Van Houttum and Michael Van Horenbeeck along with
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Update 21 July 2020 Microsoft has set a new date for the deprecation of TLS1.0 and 1.1, after a previous postponement due to the pandemic. You can find it in the Microsoft 365 Message Center message MC218794, which also references this Docs article. From October 15, 2020 onward, Microsoft will gradually enforce TLS1.2 on Office 365 services. Note that this enforcement change will take to roll-out to every tenant etc., so you might not see it immediately. I hope everybody
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In a few weeks, I’ll be travelling to Novotel Leuven in my neighboring country Belgium for the E-Communications & Collaboration Day 2017, a full-day (May 3rd 2017) of expert presentations and content about Office 365, Exchange, Skype for Business and related technologies. During this day, I will be presenting “Securing Exchange Online”: In this session, Dave Stork will go through the capabilities of Exchange Online (Office 365) to further secure your email data and mail flow. Questions like: • How
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Within Office 365 you can use Audit Logging to monitor specific actions admins and users take. It’s comparable with Auditing within Exchange, but for most of all actions available in your Office 365 tenant. However, you need to do a search to find those actions perhaps long after the fact. That might be adequate for most organizations, but it would be nice to get an near immediate alert on the important stuff. Luckily, that is also possible! Consider the following
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