
Messages more marked as spoofed (and moved to Junk e-mail) in Office 365? You’re not alone!
Update 21/03/2018: Microsoft have dialed back on how quickly messages are marked as spoofed and, thus, moved to the Junk E-Mail folder. However, the guidance is to still properly implement SPF/DKIM/DMARC to be future proof. After all, at some point in the (near)...

Summary of announcements for Hybrid Exchange @ Ignite
Today, Microsoft has made some quite big (and important!) announcements around the work they are doing to improve the experience for Hybrid Exchange customers. These announcements were all "dropped" during session BRK3155 (How to thrive as an organization in Exchange...

Microsoft releases new “Tenant Restriction” capability
A few days ago, Microsoft announced the General Availability of the "Tenant Restriction" capability. Although I have not been able to play with it so far, I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on the usefulness of the feature following a debate I had with a...
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“Conference season” is about to start!
Every year in September, right after the summer holidays, there is an unofficial start of a new "work season". For some this unofficial start moment comes a bit earlier, for others a bit later. Some even say their work season lasts the entire year... But that's...

Exchange Virtual Directory HTML Report
Update 12/09/2016: script updated to version 1.8: Included support for Exchange 2016 CU2+ Made some minor changes to the code + output now shows a message if successful/unable to write the html file. Previous updates in version 1.7: Added more recent Exchange build...
Speeding up retrieval of Send-As permissions
Many Exchange administrators are familiar with the Get-ADPermission cmdlet. In the contrary to the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet, the Get-ADPermission cmdlet retrieves Active Directory permissions for an object, instead of permission in Exchange itself. For instance,...

A closer look at the “Minimal Hybrid Configuration” option
Just a few weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new feature in its line-up of hybrid Exchange capabilities: the Minimal Hybrid Configuration option. With the introduction of this new capability, Microsoft seems to have responded to a long-standing question from customers...

New challenges ahead!
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work one day in your life. ~ Confucius” Work is an important part of our everyday life. Given that, on average, one probably has to work about 40 years until retirement, it makes absolutely sense for someone to follow...

Exchange Hybrid Deployments and cross-premises Full Access permissions
Nothing but excellent news in the hybrid Exchange realm these days! Microsoft recently updated the support statement for cross-premises permissions in a hybrid deployment. As of now, Full Access delegate permissions are supported cross-premises. I know many customers...