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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

Michael Van Horenbeeck is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) and Exchange Server MVP from Belgium, with a strong focus on Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Active Directory, and a bit of Lync. Michael has been active in the industry for about 12 years and developed a love for Exchange back in 2000. He is a frequent blogger and a member of the Belgian Unified Communications User Group Pro-Exchange. Besides writing about technology, Michael is a regular contributor to The UC Architects podcast and speaker at various conferences around the world.

Office 365 Monitoring

Addressing the Office 365 Monitoring Gaps - Part 1

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

Office 365 is a tremendous service that we all know and love. With Office 365, IT Pros and end users alike are equipped with a multitude of applications (Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and more) that enable easier collaboration and increased productivity. Something as simple as collaborating on a word document in real time has changed the way people work.

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Cloud Outages Highlight the Need for Monitoring and Planning

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

Microsoft has had a bad run lately. First, there was Solorigate, a major supply-chain attack (hack), through which attackers seem to have been able to access and copy (parts of) source code for various Microsoft (cloud) solutions, including Exchange and Intune. Next, at the beginning of March 2021, there was ‘Hafnium’, a severe vulnerability in Exchange Server which left all on-premises installations of Exchange Server vulnerable to exploitation by a web shell, enabling attackers to fairly easily establish foothold into the on-premises environment.

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An Overview of Office 365 Attack Simulator

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

A few weeks back, Microsoft announced the Public Preview of a new and very interesting feature, named Attack Simulator. The idea behind Attack Simulator is to give you a safe toolset to use in order to probe some aspects of the security of your organization, when it comes to email hygiene and password strength, with more to come in the future. In this article, we will do a quick overview of Attack Simulator.

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Part 2: Speed up Migrations to Exchange Online

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

This is a multi-part article in which we will cover Migration Endpoints. First, we will cover what Migration Endpoints are, what you use them for and how you can manually configure a migration endpoint. In the second part of this article, we will dive deeper into how you can leverage multiple migration endpoints to potentially speed up your migration to Exchange Online. Lastly, we'll discuss some of the most common mistakes regarding Migration Endpoints and how to avoid or solve them.

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Part 1: Speed Up Migrations to Exchange Online

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

This is a multi-part article in which we will cover Migration Endpoints. First, we will cover what Migration Endpoints are, what you use them for and how you can manually configure a migration endpoint. In the second part of this article, we will dive deeper into how you can leverage multiple migration endpoints to potentially speed up your migration to Exchange Online. Lastly, we'll discuss some of the most common mistakes regarding Migration Endpoints and how to avoid or solve them.

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Sizing Edge Transport Servers for a (Large) Hybrid Deployment

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

When it comes to sizing a typical on-premises Exchange Server deployment, Microsoft has really gone out of their way to provide all the information you need. Along with the Mailbox Role Requirements Calculator, I believe Microsoft’s guidance to be one of the most complete in the industry—–leaving little to the imagination and with clear guidance on what you should and should not do.

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

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

A little over two years ago, I wrote about an issue I encountered with a KEMP load balancer and how Microsoft performs hybrid mailbox moves. More specifically, the issue evolved around a seemingly different interpretation between KEMP and Microsoft regarding the implementation of the expect 100-continue header. As I noted then, the workaround was to configure the KEMP load balancer to ignore the 100-Continue rules as described in RFC 2616.

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Hybrid Headache: Modern Public folders and Exchange Online

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

Over the past few years, Microsoft has made many attempts to do away with public folders. If are still working with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, I’m sure you’ll remember the many rumors about Public Folders being deprecated in “vNext”. Yet, they still exist today in Exchange 2016 –although not in exactly the same form as in earlier versions of Exchange.

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