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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.
In Windows 10, Microsoft introduced “Windows Hello” which – to keep things simple – offers the ability to use biometrics to unlock a computer instead of using a regular password. But the fact that you can use biometrics for authentication purposes is not really new. Given this, you might wonder what is so special about Windows Hello. The answer lies in the combination of Hello with another feature.
A few weeks ago, Microsoft released Exchange 2016 to the public. By now, some of you will have had the chance to play with the latest member in the Exchange Server family and perhaps have formed an opinion on whether it’s something you are willing to consider upgrading to now, or after few more Cumulative Updates have been released.
With IT/DEV Connections less than two weeks out, I found myself getting anxious to attend these insightful sessions.
The conference, which happens to be one of my favorites, has many advantages: it’s not as hectic as Ignite, and the smaller crowd gives you the opportunity to interact with all the great speakers.
As reported earlier, Office 365 was recently hit with a widespread issue. According to the case details that Microsoft posted to its service dashboard, the problems started around 6:15 PM (EST) on July 15 and were solved by July 15 at 9:30 PM (EST).
Last week during Microsoft's Ignite conference, I had the pleasure to co-present a session with Timothy Heeney on hybrid Exchange deployments. For those who weren't able to attend Ignite, the recording of that session is available here. During our session, Tim spoke about how Microsoft tests hybrid deployments and the tools it (recently) released to help you troubleshoot hybrid deployments. He also announced some pending changes to the face of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard.
One decision to make when moving to Office 365, is determining how to move mailboxes. There are various options available and this makes it hard to see the forest through the trees. And choosing the right approach is no easy task. The decision is influenced by many variables such as the size of your organization, the impact on your users, the impact on your IT department, and the bandwidth of your internet connection.
In this on-demand webinar, Exchange MVP Michael Van Horenbeeck will be discussing several important topics regarding Exchange hybrid deployments and some troubleshooting tips.
As mentioned in a prior blog post, Microsoft released Cumulative Update 5 (CU5) for Exchange 2013. At first sight, this update doesn’t appear to make lots of changes – at least not visibly. However, it does contain a lot of fixes and, as you will find out, there have been some changes to the Hybrid Configuration Wizard as well.