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...
The ability to run searches across a mixture of Exchange mailboxes and SharePoint sites to uncover the deep and dark secrets of those who would prefer their work to go unnoticed is what, in some degree, eDiscovery is all about. Microsoft has in...
Part of planning a deployment of a new on-premises release of Exchange is a review of client requirements. It’s therefore reasonable that anyone who is interested in deploying Exchange 2016 might start to look at clients to make sure that...