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Top 10 Best Security Practices for Azure

Top 12 Posts of 2019

Addressing the Office 365 Monitoring Gaps - Part 3

Top 10 Teams Features in 2019

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Addressing the Office 365 Monitoring Gaps - Part 1

Exchange 2019 CU4 and Exchange 2016 CU15 Explained

Outlook: Limits and Performance

Nov 19 Outage | ENow Office 365 Monitoring

Blocking Self-Service Purchases

Ignite 2019 Wrap-up

Keeping Active Directory Healthy

MFA Outage | ENow Office 365 Monitoring

6 reasons why Scheduled Maintenance is the Hottest Party at Microsoft Ignite

Modern Authentication in Exchange Online

Exchange Quarterly Updates - September 2019

Authentication Planning in the Enterprise

Microsoft Teams - Team Creation Considerations

Exchange Online Migration: Unmentioned Pitfalls (Part 2))

Microsoft Exchange and the .NET Framework

Teams & SfB Devices

Monitoring the Office 365 End User Experience

Exchange Online Migration: Unmentioned Pitfalls

Office 365 Conditional Access

July Outage 2019 - Office 365 Monitoring

What you need to know about the Microsoft Hybrid Agent GA

Autodiscover Dillema (Part 2)

Exchange Server 2019 Virtualization in times of 48 Processor Cores & MetaCacheDatabase

Managing Exchange Online with Azure Cloud Shell

Deploying Outlook mobile securely in the enterprise (Part 2)

Deploying Outlook mobile securely in the enterprise

Activating Privileged Identity Management Roles with PowerShell

Email Security | How to Protect Against CFO Fraud (Part 2)

May 2nd 2019 Office 365 and Azure Global Outage Recap - Office 365 Monitoring

Avoid the Microsoft Teams “Islands Mode” Trap

Floating Mailbox Databases in Exchange 2019: Pros & Cons

LDAP Policies & Exchange Deployment

Email Security - How to Protect Against CFO Fraud

New Teams Features

Office 365 Authentication

Certificate Management in Exchange Guide

Password-less Sign in with AD FS & Office 365

Exchange 2019 - Windows Server Core

Prepare your On-Premises Public Folders for migration

Deployment Guide: February 2019 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Teams in a Hybrid Exchange Environment

The Microsoft Hybrid Agent: What You Need to Know

Still Running Exchange 2010? Now What...

Thinking about Exchange 2019?

The 7 Best Blog Posts of 2018

What's New in Exchange Online

The Autodiscover Dilemma: Steps to Overcome It

How did you find out about the November 19 Azure AD outage?

Deploying Windows Hello for Office 365

Conditional Access in the Field - Part 2

Microsoft Ignite: Monday Morning Primer

6 reasons why Scheduled Maintenance is the best party at Microsoft Ignite

Connect with ENow at Microsoft Ignite

The Office 365 Domino Effect

EMS Security Overview

Conditional Access in the Field - Part 1

What can we expect from Exchange Server 2019?

A look at Microsoft Intune

CENTRALIZED MAIL TRANSPORT IN MULTI-FOREST EXCHANGE ENVIRONMENTS

Do you use AD RMS on-premises? You need to read this!

Managing Teams with PowerShell

Secure Mobile Device Access with MobileIron Sentry and Kemp LoadMaster ESP

Solution Engine Revisited:Using Exchange Server Features to Prevent 'Reply All' Email Storms (Clone)

How to Guide: Microsoft Bookings

Is My Workplace safe as an IT Professional in a Cloud Based World

Webinar: Monitoring the Office 365 end User Experience. does it Matter?

Top 10 Tips for Migrating to Exchange 2016

Delegated Administration with Azure Active Directory Administrative Units

Exchange Reference Material on GitHub

A Look at Office 365 Attack Simulator

Intelligently Using Migration Endpoints to Speed up Migrations to Exchange Online - Part 3

Intelligently Using Migration Endpoints to Speed up Migrations to Exchange Online - Part 2

Intelligently Using Migration Endpoints to Speed up Migrations to Exchange Online - Part 1

Migration of Legacy Public Folder to Modern Public Folder in Exchange Online

New Azure Active Directory Features

The Requirement to Trust and Change When Moving to the Cloud

Introducing AAD Connect 1.1.749.0 with new privacy and troubleshooting features

Conditional Access Azure Active Directory

The Curious Logic Behind Some EOP Routing Decisions

The Importance of using Split-DNS with Office 365

PowerShell Core is GA, but not ready for Office 365

Top Support Issues for Exchange 2013/2016

Hybrid Modern Authentication: Should I Care or Not?

New Client Access Rules for Exchange Online

Mailscape - A Comprehensive Review

5 Questions You'll Get Asked During the Holiday Season

New Features in Office 365 Message Encryption

First Look at Access Reviews for Office 365 Groups and Applications

The Right Exchange Architecture

Monitoring is Hard, but Notification is too.

Office 365, The Last Seven Years, and the Future of Exchange

New ID and Authentication Features

Teams and Skype: A Look Forward

Using Microsoft Flow

Mailscape 365 - A Comprehensive Review

Assigning Office 365 Licenses by AD Group Membership

Alternative Architecture for Exchange On-Premises (Virtualization)

Security Features Guide for Office 365 Administrators

Performing eDiscovery Against A Specific Folder

Alternative Architecture for Exchange On-Premises (Medium to Large Environments)

Modern Attachments with OneDrive for Business

Understanding Auto-Upgrade Options in Azure AD Connect

The New Microsoft 365

Alternative Architecture for Exchange On-Premises (Small Businesses)

What to Do When the Office 365 Portal Goes Down

Building Simple Azure Resource Manager Templates – Part 1

Getting Started with Azure Resource Manager

Office 365 Service Health Dashboard Limitations

The Collaboration Landscape in Office 365 – Part 2

The Collaboration Landscape in Office 365

2017 Office 365 Outages Recap: Ducks vs Horses - Office 365 Monitoring

Advanced Security Management in Office 365 – One Year After Launch

Conditional Access to Exchange Online and Office 365

Managing Mailbox Plans for Exchange Online

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Office 365 Redux

Restricting Access to Security and Compliance Center Functionalities

Collaboration with Email

Sizing Edge Transport Servers for a (Large) Hybrid Deployment

Legacy Public Folder Migration – Notes from the Field

Skype for Business Hybrid Options

Reply or Reply All: Controls, Options, and Best Practices

What Does “Supported” Mean to Microsoft?

Azure AD Connect Hybrid writeback & permissions

Exploring Azure Stack

Using custom policies with Skype for Business Online

The New OneDrive Admin Center

The Case Against the Cloud

Using smart links to improve the login process to Office 365 applications

Encrypting email in Office 365 with PGP

Office 365 Migration — Exploring Tenant to Tenant Migrations

User Access and External Sharing Improvements in SharePoint Online

New Calendar Sharing Experience in Office 365

Explaining Conditional Access and Azure Pass-Through Authentication

New Exchange Online Migration Options

Our Top Exchange & Office 365 Blog Posts of 2016

Microsoft Releases Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication and Seamless Single Sign-on

Do More Via Actionable Email Messages in Exchange Online

New Features in Office Pro Plus

Introducing Microsoft Teams

Introduction to Azure Information Protection

New and Advanced Features for Azure Active Directory Connect

Manage Office 365 Groups with PowerShell

AD FS in Windows Server 2016

Ignite 2016 Wrap-Up

Office 365 Exposed, episode 5

Using Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365

Advanced Security Management in Office 365 — Part 2

Advanced Security Management in Office 365 — Part 1

Office 365 Hold Your Own Key

A Practical Look at Exchange Database Internals Part 2: Transaction Logging and Recovery

A Practical Look at Exchange Database Internals — Part 1

Upcoming Features for Skype for Business Online

Activity Alerts in Office 365

Get Your Top 10 Exchange 2016 Questions Answered at MS Exchange Con 2016

New Features in Outlook and Exchange Online

Finding Real World Value in Azure Active Directory Premium

Migrating Distribution Lists to Office 365 Groups

Meet the Azure AD PowerShell Module

Supervisory Review in Office 365

Are You Ready for Exchange 2016?

New DAG Activation Feature in Exchange 2016 CU2

Auditing Your Azure RMS Protected Documents

Office 365 Security & Compliance Center – Part 2

Email Safety Tips in Exchange Online

Q1 Release

Simplified forwarding settings in Office 365

Office 365 Security & Compliance Center – Part 1

Auditing and Reporting for Office 365

Google beating Microsoft in mobile apps? Maybe for consumer, but not for business

Lies, damn lies, and statistics obfuscate Office 365 numbers

New spoofing report available in Exchange Online

AAD Connect Advanced Deployments and Troubleshooting

VIDEO: Office 365 Groups - New SharePoint Document Library Features

Preservation policies in Office 365

Enabling DKIM in Exchange Online

AD FS Claims Rules and Modern Authentication

Deploying Azure Active Directory Connect 1.1

Hybrid Headache: Hybrid mailbox moves and the “expect 100-continue” header

Security Improvements in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business (External Sharing and More)

Configuring and Managing Multi-factor Authentication for Exchange and Skype for Business

Hybrid Headaches - The Confusing Case of Cross-Forest

Force Azure AD Connect to connect to specific Domain Controllers only

With Exchange 2016, are SANs Finally Dead?

Hybrid Headaches: Webinar Part 1

Setting Up a Simple Exchange Server 2016 Lab

Understanding controller caching and Exchange performance

Hybrid headache: Modern Public folders and Exchange Online: a story of hate and love?

Mail-Enabled Public Folders & Directory-Based Edge Blocking

Hybrid Headaches Starts

Skype for Business new capabilities (Preview Program)

The 7 Deadly Sins of Exchange Server Backups

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December 3rd Outage: What does it mean for you?- Office 365 Monitoring

Getting started with Microsoft Passport, Windows Hello and Office 365

5 Questions Sysadmins Get Asked During the Holiday Season

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest - 11.20.15

Identity and Authentication Management for Office 365

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest - 11.13.15

Advanced sharing scenarios with Exchange Hybrid deployments

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest - 11.06.15

Office 365 Groups: What the Exchange Administrator Needs to Know

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest - 10.30.15

Overcoming corruption during mailbox moves

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest - 10.23.15

Should you upgrade your Hybrid Exchange configuration to Exchange 2016 or not?

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest - 10.16.15

Running Exchange 2010? Start Planning Your Exchange 2016 Migration Now!

Meet Our Newest VP and CTO – MVP Paul Robichaux

Your Weekly Exchange and Office 365 Digest

Thoughts on Microsoft's latest news on Office, Office 365 and Exchange

Giving Your Hybrid a Health Check

Using Exchange Server Features to Prevent 'Reply All' Email Storms

Are You Automating Enough?

IT/Dev Connections 2015: The Session Run-Down

A Closer Look at Azure AD Connect – Part 5

Managing Encryption in Exchange Online – Which Is the Right Technology for Your Organization?

A Closer Look at Azure AD Connect – Part 4

A Closer Look at Azure AD Connect – Part 3

Let the Games Begin: The Exchange 2016 Preview Is Out!

July 15 Outage — More Visibility Needed! Office 365 Monitoring

Mobile Device Management (MDM) In Office 365

Tips for Elegantly Departing Employees’ Mailboxes

Tha Annual Summer Outage, 2015 Edition: Office 365 Monitoring

IRM, OME, S/MIME, and More: Managing Encryption in Exchange Online

A Closer Look at Azure AD Connect – Part 2

A Closer Look at Azure AD Connect – Part 1

Microsoft releases "Azure AD Connect" to the public

The Future of Microsoft Exchange (Online) Webinar Unraveled

Microsoft releases Cumulative Update 9 for Exchange 2013 along with Update Rollups for Exchange 2007, 2010

Continuum for Phones: The Coolest Feature Release From Microsoft No One Is Talking About Yet

Lync/Skype for Business to Skype Connectivity Update

Microsoft fixes 'important' security vulnerability in Exchange 2013 in MS15-064

Planning for Public Folders in Exchange 2013

Using (selective) authentication per (sub)domain in Office 365

3 Experts Weigh in on The Top Exchange Moments From Ignite

Hybrid Exchange deployments: Highlights from Ignite

Top Exchange and Office 365 Sessions to Attend at Ignite

Is a hybrid Exchange deployment the right option for you?

Which Federation Protocol Should I Use?

CPU Contention and Exchange Virtual Machines

A Closer Look at the New ActiveSync Redirection Feature in Exchange 2013 CU8

Troubleshooting Exchange Hybrid Deployments Video

How to Migrate Scheduled Tasks from One Server to Another

Average IT Salaries in the U.S.

The Challenges of Reporting and Monitoring Exchange in the Cloud

Setting Up Your First PowerShell DSC Pull Server

Azure in 5 Minutes

Add Custom Branding to Your Office 365 Sign-in Page

Business Rules for ADFS

Tracking Down Overactive Mailboxes With Get-StoreUsageStatistics

3rd-party federation solutions for Office 365 (part 1): Celestix ADFS Bridge

Improve Your Exchange Deployment by Learning from a Massive Scale

Skype & Lync Part II: Video Calling

Skype & Lync Part I: Announcements

The Sony Hack: Vital Lessons for Microsoft Admins

How to Build a SCCM OSD Progress Report to Wow Your Boss - Part 3

How to Build a SCCM OSD Progress Report to Wow Your Boss - Part 2

How to Build a SCCM OSD Progress Report to Wow Your Boss - Part 1

Exchange Group Management Script

How Can I Share My Knowledge With an IT Community?

I Started Contributing to an IT Community and You Can Too

I Don't Have Time To Give Back to My IT Community!

Microsoft Announces Skype for Business

The Future of the Exchange Administrator

The Future of Software Defined Networking in Windows

Automating the Pruning of Stale Active Directory Users and Computers

Azure AD Sync Tool HTML Report

How to Achieve High Availability With Small Lync Pools

To Virtualize or Not to Virtualize Exchange

Lync Call Quality Methodology to enhance the Call Quality and User Satisfaction (Part IV – Score Card)

Lync Call Quality Methodology to enhance the Call Quality and User Satisfaction (Part III – Collecting Call Quality)

Lync Call Quality Methodology to enhance the Call Quality and User Satisfaction (Part II – Server Health)

Lync Call Quality Methodology to enhance the Call Quality and User Satisfaction Part I: CQM

When a Ranking is More Than a Number: Why CIOs Choose ENow

Top 10 Tips for Supporting & Troubleshooting Lync 2013 Infographic

Introduction to Managed Availability: Local Monitoring Files and Overrides Part III

Introduction to Managed Availability: How to Check, Recover, and Maintain Your Exchange Organization Part II

Introduction to Managed Availability: An Exchange Administrator‘s task? Part I

Powershell: Upping your Parameter Validation Game with Dynamic Parameters Part II

Powershell: Validating Powershell Advanced Function Parameters Part I

Outlook Calendaring: Best Practices and Key Considerations

Applying Managed Settings and What it Does

Scripting Agent Cmdlet Extension

The Cloud Feature Gap

Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 with multiple IP addresses on a single NIC

Lync: With great power comes great responsibility

Clearing AutoComplete and other Recipient Caches

Microsoft Solutions Advisory Board – Azure, Cloud Services and More

Finding and Eliminating XP PCs on Your Network

Exchange 2010 3rd Party SSL Certificates: The Whole Story

Exchange Online Outage : A Failure to Notify - Office 365 Monitoring

What’s New in Hybrid Exchange 2013 On Prem & Exchange Online Deployments

Filling the Blind Spot of MS Exchange

New Hybrid Configuration Wizard features in Exchange 2013 CU5

Does your environment need an Exchange 2013 Edge Transport server?

13 Signs you are a System Admin

Are you Ready? Recover an Exchange 2010 Server in Your DAG

The Exchange Track at TechEd 2014

Taking the Pressure off Exchange Hybrid Cloud Migrations

Exchange Virtual Directory HTML Report

Hybrid Exchange Deployments - Myths, Enhancements & Considerations

On-Premise Exchange Notes from MEC 2014

MEC 2014 Conference Highlights

What to Look for at MEC 2014

How to Add an Exchange 2010 Custom Attribute using PowerShell

Exchange 2010 Public Folder Data Recovery

Tools for validating a hybrid deployment

Lync 2013 – Deploying Persistent Chat with Compliance

Microsoft Lync 2014 Conference: Recap

Keys to deploying Exchange without emptying the wallet

Match your Exchange deployment to your IT department budget

Updating your Active Directory 2008 Replication from FSR to DFS Replication

Exchange 2010 Public Folders Manage Send As Issue

Exchange 2013 OWA Coexistence with Exchange 2010

Automating Exchange Mailbox Audit Logging with Exchange 2010

Issue With Assigning Exchange 2010 Role-Assignment Policies

Office 365, is it a Good Fit for my Organization?

How to Tackle Exchange 2010 Backup and Recovery

Exchange Cannot Send Mail to Some Domains

Getting Started with Exchange 2010 Relay Connectors

Random Thoughts on BYOD and Email

My Users Can Create Distribution Lists?

"Under the Hood" with ExFolders and Microsoft Exchange

Using PowerShell to Report on Exchange Server Disk Space

Message restrictions on your Exchange groups preventing emails to be received?

Exchange 2010 and Active Directory Operation Failed on DC Errors

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirement Calculator – Part 2

Keeping Exchange Healthy: Exchange Performance Counters

Keeping Exchange Healthy: Tools for Monitoring and Reporting

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirement Calculator – Part 1

Subordinate CA Migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2- Part 3: The Back-Out Procedure

Subordinate CA Migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2- Part 2: Restoring the Source CA from Backups

Subordinate CA Migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2- Part 1 Preparing the Source and Destination Server

The Attribute, the Myth, the legacyExchangeDN

Released– Exchange Bulk User Creation Tool v2.0

Response to “Should I Be Using SAN Snapshots as a Backup Solution?”

Removing Duplicate Items from a Mailbox

Configuring Anti-Affinity in Failover Clusters

Automating Jetstress 2013 for Exchange 2013 – Part 2

Automating Jetstress 2013 for Exchange 2013 – Part 1

RBL and Exchange 2013

Sending and Receiving Messages from Multiple Locations in Exchange 2013

Configuring an Exchange Hybrid Deployment with Office 365 Part 3: Online Services Directory Synchronization Setup

Configuring an Exchange Hybrid Deployment Part 2: AD FS Configuration and Office 365 Integration

Configuring an Exchange Hybrid Deployment with Office 365 Part 1: AD FS Preparation and Installation

Creating an Exchange 2010 Transport Agent

Exchange 2013 Lab Tutorial: Part 9- Cumulative Update 1

Exchange 2013 Lab Tutorial: Part 8- Users, Mailboxes, Distribution Lists and Public Folders

Exchange 2013 Lab Tutorial: Part 7- Setting up DAG Databases and SSL

Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch- Part 6- Configuring a DAG

Building an Exchange 2013 LAB From Scratch- Part 5

Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch- Part 4: Provisioning your Exchange Servers...

Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 3: Active Directory Domain Controller: CA Installation…

Exchange 2013 Lab Tutorial: Part 2: AD Domain Controller and Installation

Exchange 2013 Lab Tutorial: Part 1: AD Setup

Lync 2010 Address Book Service: A Quick Glance

Patching DAG Nodes in Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 SP1/ SP2- Deleting Emails Sent to Wrong DL

Quick Tip– Remove KB2667402 before you install Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1…

System vs. Application Monitoring

Exchange 2010 Site Disaster Recovery on a Shoestring Part 3: Performing the Backup, Restore, and Recovery

Lync - How to choose the right SIP Trunk Provider

Exchange 2010 Site Disaster Recovery on a Shoestring! Part 2: Navigating the Failover Process

Exchange 2010 Site and Server Disaster Recovery on a Shoestring Part1: Building the Solution

Cisco ACE Sample Configuration for Exchange 2010

Exchange Can't Start Due to Misconfigured AD Sites

Moving Exchange 2010 Mailboxes to Create White Space

Understanding Exchange Server 2013 – Part1

Exchange 2010 DAG Local and Site DR/Failover and Failback

Exchange Migration Guide 2010 - Part 4

Exchange Migration Guide 2010 - Part 3

Exchange Migration Guide 2010 - Part 2

Exchange Migration Guide 2010 - Part 1

Discontinued Features in Exchange Server 2010

New Features in Exchange Server 2010

Are you using TMG and having issues publishing Outlook Anywhere?

Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant

The ESE Consultants’ Corner: Fourth Edition

Exchange 2010 Connectors: Part IV

Exchange 2010 Connectors: Part III

Exchange 2010 Connectors: Part II

Exchange 2010 Connectors: Part I

Power to the People: Exchange 2010 SP 1 Allows Users to Reset their OWA Passwords

The ESE Consultants’ Corner: Third Edition

Remote Shell Connection in Exchange 2010

ESE Consultants’ Corner: Second Edition

Exchange 2010 Site Disaster Recovery on a Dime! Part 3: Backup, Restore, Recovery

Exchange 2010 Site Disaster Recovery on a Dime! Part 2: Navigating the Failover Process

All for one and one for all: The key to a successful Office Communications Server Deployment

Understanding Exchange 2010 Storage Architecture: Part 3

Dude, Where’s my Backup?

Understanding Exchange 2010 Storage Architecture: Part 1

To virtualize Exchange or not to virtualize Exchange?

Installation of Exchange Server 2010 Tutorial

Exchange 2010: The New Archiving Feature

Looking for an easy way to synchronize GALs between organizations?

Outlook Whenever Wherever – Outlook Anywhere (Shakira, Shakira) – Part 2: Completing the Configuration and Troubleshooting…

Outlook Whenever Wherever – Outlook Anywhere (Shakira, Shakira) – Part 1: DNS Domains and SSL Planning…

Anomalies when using the BPA with Exchange 2007 CCR Cluster on Windows 2008

Things that can be missed in Exchange 2007 migration planning…