One of the points I made in “How Exchange’s Recover Deleted Items option could be improved” is that it would be nice if Exchange could track the folder that an item was deleted from so that the item could be restored there if...
When Microsoft announced that Exchange 2013 CU11 and Exchange 2016 CU1 would implement “mailbox anchoring”, a new way of connecting Exchange Management Shell (EMS – or PowerShell if you like) sessions to Exchange servers, I...
In January, I spoke with Javier Soltero, the new General Manager of the Outlook development group, about his plans, hopes, and aspirations for revitalizing the Outlook client family, including Outlook desktop. Javier said that “his team is...
The law of unintended consequences erupted in full force after Microsoft announced their joy at being able to deliver dynamic Office 365 Groups in December. Dynamic distribution groups have been used since Exchange 2003 (when they were called...
A recent Microsoft blog lauded the wonders of online archives, specifically of the type made available in on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online (just in case you thought otherwise). Interestingly, the post says that “studies suggest that...
Following my post on “The story of Exchange IOPS” outlining the journey of Exchange from being an I/O hog to something far less demanding on storage systems, a recent request from Josh Odgers from Nutanix to consider his post &ldquo...
The history of software is littered with examples of grand strategic changes that never amounted to much when implemented. The crusade to reduce the number of disk I/O operations generated per user per second (IOPS) is an example of how a big bet...
Since the introduction of the first "dumpster" in Exchange 2000, users have been able to recover deleted items without asking an administrator to recover the data from a backup. Given the propensity of humans to make mistakes (like deleting an ...
The disclosure on the EHLO blog that Exchange on-premises servers will run into some known issues if .NET Framework 4.6.1 is installed might surprise some, especially because it has become a recommended update distributed by Windows Update, but it...
Many questions followed my article introducing Office 365 Planner, so clearly I didn’t do such a good job explaining the topic. Here’s an attempt to do so in a question and answer format. If you have other questions, try asking them in...
