Exchange
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Introduction to Microsoft Mobile Device Management I'm currently settling in to a new job where I'm spending a fair amount of time working with Microsoft's Mobile security management tools, mostly Microsoft Intune. This is largely what I was doing towards the end of my old job too, and while there's some great people writing great material out there, I think there's a lack of articles that try to start at the beginning with current (as of April 2019) tools and pull all the strands together, so that's what we're going to talk about here.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017
One of the things I’m working on at the moment is moving the remainder of our Exchange organisation over to Office 365 / Exchange Online.
We moved the bulk of our accounts some time ago; students here have been on Office 365 Exchange email for a few years, but staff and ‘role’ email accounts have been held on local Exchange servers until this month.
The things I’ve seen people worry about on these migrations have actually been the least of my worries.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Just lately Microsoft seem to be determined to mix up brand names to confuse customers.
For a while now we’ve had OneDrive for Business, the product that is built on the back of totally has nothing to do with OneDrive. OneDrive is your typical cloud file sync platform… and actually one I like enough to make my primary cloud storage of choice. OneDrive for Business is the name Microsoft have decided to give to uploading documents to a personal document library in SharePoint, in particular SharePoint Online/Office365.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
After our recent Exchange 2013 rollout, we noticed a problem with the Exchange 2013 servers (virtual guests on a HyperV cluster) experiencing clock drift and ultimately bugchecking (aka blue screen) with 0x000000ef errors.
These crashes and clock drifts occurred once every couple of days and quite aside from the crashes, clock drift is a very big deal on any kind of server these days. While the crashes were disruptive in their own right, the potential problems caused by someone having to wait a bit to access their mailbox or receive a message is nothing to the problems that could be caused by the timestamp on an email being a day or two out.
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
I’m currently heading an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 migration at work and I’m going to share the thoughts and notes that I’ve made on the process so far.
The actual install process was fairly painless to be fair, with one CAS and two Mailbox servers currently configured, but I have encountered one problem with certificates that I thought I would share:
We required a new Unified Comms certificate as part of the rollout, so I used the Exchange Admin Centre (EAC/ECP) to generate a Certificate Signing Request on the CAS server.
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