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Advanced Sharing Scenarios with Exchange Hybrid Deployments

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Steve Goodman

The functionality in Exchange Hybrid is now quite mature. It’s been available since the launch of Office 365 (or even before if you include the embryotic support in Live@EDU) and provides the rich co-existence functionality that allows organizations to mix mailboxes on-premises and in the cloud, retaining much of the normal sharing capabilities people rely on for day-to-day collaboration.

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Should You Upgrade a Hybrid Exchange Configuration to Exchange 2016?

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

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.

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IT/Dev Connections 2015: The Session Run-Down

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

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.

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Hybrid Exchange deployments: Highlights from Ignite

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Michael Van Horenbeeck MVP, MCSM

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.

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