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Thomas Stensitzki is a Microsoft MVP, certified Exchange Server Master, and founder of Granikos GmbH & Co. KG, where he helps organizations modernize messaging, collaboration, and cloud security with Microsoft 365 and hybrid solutions. Alongside decades of deep technical expertise, Thomas has recently turned his focus to connecting technology with real-life conversations. He co-hosts the German-language podcast Cloudchroniken (https://cloudchroniken.de/), exploring the stories behind cloud technology, AI, and digital transformation. He also drives Discuss At Ease, an initiative inspired by his 2024 lymphoma diagnosis, creating open dialogue around illness, resilience, and well-being. A prolific speaker and trainer, Thomas shares insights at events like Experts Live and Exchange Summit. He contributes regularly to the Granikos blog, where his “Cumulative Update” series demystifies the latest in Exchange, Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot.
Securing mobile devices access to an on-premises Exchange Server infrastructure without a hybrid setup is not complicated when using a single-vendor strategy. You simply implement a Mobile Device Management Solution and you are done. Enterprises doing business in the high security industry tend to follow a multi-vendor strategy to reduce the risks due to security flaws in third-party devices.
Exchange Server is a very tolerant software product and allows for installation in different IT infrastructure environments. Some of the possible infrastructure environments are well suited for running Exchange Server, others are less good.
This post is about a recent migration of legacy public folders hosted on Exchange Server 2007 to modern public folders hosted on Exchange Server 2013.
Writing your own transport agent for Exchange Server 2010 is not complicated or an unsolvable task to do.
This transport agent example is the outcome of a requirement to modify email attachments with a GUID based filename. Those filenames were not really usable for the recipients. Interestingly, the email subject contained the information of the content of the attachments. The emails were automatically generated by a SAP reporting application.
When it comes to monitoring application administrators often disagree with system administrators on what to monitor and which thresholds to configure. By nature, system administrators focus on system related counters and objects to monitor. They do not care about application related monitoring as those information's are out of scope of their daily work. Vice versa the same is true for application administrators.