To stay in a supported state, even organizations that moved all their mailboxes to Exchange Online, have been required to keep at least one Exchange Server running in the Classic AD environment for as long as the directory synchronization to Azure AD is running. The purpose of this Exchange server is to handle the management… Read More »
Connecting to the Exchange Online service using the recent Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module presents a series of new features, including the option for using modern authentication and have the sign-in protected by Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). The added support for modern authentication in Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2) include all cmdlets and replaces… Read More »
Recently I received an interesting question regarding extracting extensionAttribute data from Azure AD. Apparently this seems simple, but the information is not available through standard Azure AD PowerShell not the Azure AD portal. In Azure AD Connect, by standard the extensionAttribute# values gets synchronized from the on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD via the following… Read More »
During a recent Office 365 migration project I ran into an issue on the on-premises Exchange 2013 platform, when trying to create Mail User objects for the migrated mailboxes. The following error appeared when adding a new Mail User: ExchangeGuid is mandatory on UserMailbox. Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. After first verifying that the Exchange… Read More »
In a recent support case, the migration of mail boxes from an on-premise Domino platform to Exchange Online was started, but the migration got stuck because the on-premises accounts, enabled as Mail Users, did not appear in “Contacts” in the Exchange Online Admin Center. Also, in the on-premises environment Azure AD Connect was present and… Read More »
Microsoft has just released the Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 13 and the Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 2. These updates include both normal fixes to customer reported issues and updated functionality. Added functionality and fixes: .Net 4.6.1 Support AutoReseed Support for BitLocker SHA-2 Support for Self-Signed Certificates Migration to Modern Public Folder Resolved (KB3161916)… Read More »
Integrating an on-premise Active Directory and Exchange organization with Microsoft Cloud Services will require attention to new elements and details. As an example the list of object attributes in the on-premises Active Directory schema differs from the attributes in the Azure and Office 365 services directory platforms. An example is three critical values that are… Read More »
As the use of Office 2016 has started to gain momentum, a number of organizations have experienced cases where Outlook 2016 take extraordinary long time to setup a new profile with a hosted Exchange 2010/2013 solution, like Exchange Online. The situation is furthermore complicated when the option to manually enter the Exchange server settings is… Read More »
In order to ensure that specific emails are marked as spam or not, Exchange Online or Exchange Online Protection (EOP) support the use of transport rules, to make whitelists or blacklists, and control how messages are processed, whether if you need to bypass spam filtering in order to prevent good email messages from getting marked… Read More »
The next CoLabora User Group Meeting will be held at 27. November 2015 from 9.00 to 12.00 (GMT+1). Topics this time will be Cloud Identity Management, Exchange Hybrid and Office 365 Compliance and Exchange Archiving. Most activites and sessions will be done in Danish, except one session which this time will be held in english.… Read More »