Mailbox auditing seems like a pretty good thing to have in an email product, if only to answer the eternal question of who deleted a particular message from the mailbox. Exchange 2010 was the first version of the product to include mailbox...
Javier Soltero joined Microsoft after Acompli, the mobile email start-up he led, was acquired in November 2014. Since then he has overseen the rebranding of the Acompli apps for iOS and Android as Outlook and then took responsibility for the...
Last week I looked back on what happened in the world of on-premises and cloud Exchange during 2015. This week it’s time to consider what might come along in 2016. Of course, I don’t work for Microsoft, so anything outlined here is...
Two previous posts describe why a self-monitoring and healing capability is useful in software applications and provide an overview of how the Managed Availability framework provides these capabilities in Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016. As in ...
1999 seems such a long time ago now, but that's when many of us first faced the need to deploy Active Directory (AD). For many companies, the need arose because Microsoft replaced the Exchange Directory Store (DS), used for Exchange 4.0 to 5.5...
Tuesday’s EHLO post by Rob Whaley, a well-known Exchange guy who works on beta releases of the on-premises and cloud products, is all about how a remote PowerShell session connects to a mailbox on an Exchange server. Or, to use the term now...
Two years ago, I spoke with Perry Clarke, the development chief for Exchange (both on-premises and cloud) to discuss the current state of Exchange and how its technology was likely to evolve. We know how the influence of the cloud has affected the...
The Calendar Checking Tool (CalCheck) has been around for a long while. It allows IT to dig into Outlook calendars, hosted on Exchange, and diagnose and fix most problems. It checks things like permissions, free/busy records, and other things t...