See why more and more businesses are reporting success with the cloud Based on a Survey done by MMicrosoft Nearly 80 per cent of IT pros surveyed said that they could save money and gain more productivity as a result of using a cloud approach. Learn how your small business can use the cloud to:…
Peer behind the curtain – how Microsoft runs Exchange Online Speakers: Eddie Fong (Microsoft), Karim Battish (Microsoft) For full session details, click here. ABSTRACT: For 75 minutes, you’ll give you a virtual Microsoft blue badge and enter the world of Microsoft Exchange Online operations. See how it’s done with a rare look behind the scenes…
On April 13 of last year, Microsoft announced the deprecation of “Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync)” and “Azure Active Directory Sync (Azure AD Sync)” and that it was time to start planning to upgrade to Azure AD Connect. They have also announced that end of Support for DirSync & AzureAD Sync will be on…
Exchange 2010 OWA : User Account has been Disabled. After a users account has been disabled for some time and re-enabled , they might be faced with the below error in Outlook and OWA. Outlook Error OWA Error To resolved this issue you can open ‘Exchange PowerShell’ and the the following #OneLiner Get-MailboxDatabase -Identity ‘DataBase01’…
Test network latencies and speed to Azure data centers from different countries. www.AzureSpeed.com is developed and maintained by Blair Chen (@blrchen), open source on GitHub, built on top of following open source projects Great tool by @blrchen, surely one of the tools to keep in your toolbox. AZURE Latency Test
Bulk Enable ActiveSync using Exchange PowerShell Lets Start by search for all Mailboxes with ActiveSync Disabled. Open Exchange Powershell and Type the following. Get-CASMailbox -Resultsize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.ActiveSyncEnabled -eq $false} Now that we have a list of Users with ‘ActiveSyncEnabled’ set to ‘false’ , lets change this and Enable ActiveSync for these Users. Get-CASMailbox…
Convert VHD to VMDK and other way around Lets look at a great #Free tool from Starwind that allows us to do a conversion of our current virtual machine files. For this example and will convert a VHD to vmdk and start it up in Vmware WorkStation. You can start by Downloading the Application from…
Covert Mailbox to Shared Mailbox in Office 365 Admin Center With one of the Latest updated to Office 365 you now have the ability to convert a mailbox from the Admin Center itself. Lets go ahead and convert a Mailbox. Log on to the Office 365 Admin Portal and search for the Mailbox 2. Double…
Execution of Scripts is Disabled on this System When you try and run a #PowerShell Script and you are faced with the Error “Execution of Scripts is Disabled” The quick work around for this is to change the current Execution Policy using the following. Lets Change the Execution Policy by running a #OneLiner Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted…
Free Load Balancer from KEMP Since the introduction of #Exchange 2010 Microsoft no longer recommend the use of “Windows Load balancer” for #Exchange. KEMP Provide an excellent alternative with great additional features. The Free version of #KEMP Load Balancer come with the following features. KEMP Technologies free LoadMaster Application Load Balancer is a fully featured…
Clean MailboxDatabase Command no longer Valid on #Exchange 2013 Clean-MailboxDatabase Command has been decommissioned for Exchange 2013 and replaced with Update-StoreMailboxState http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860462(v=exchg.150).aspx Update-StoreMailboxState require the GUID of a mailbox to execute so it usually easier to run in combination with Get-MailboxStatistics like the example below Get-MailboxStatistics -Database MDB02 | ForEach { Update-StoreMailboxState -Database $_.Database -Identity $_.MailboxGuid…
Get Disconnected Mailboxes Exchange 2013 EAC and #PowerShell By using the EAC (Exchange Admin Console) In the EAC, navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes. Click More , and then click Connect a mailbox. … Click the disabled mailbox that you want to reconnect, and then click Connect. Lets look at doing the same with #PowerShell : …