Exchange 2016:- DAG Seeding Failure. https://ift.tt/39hpTop As many of you know, DAG seeding can fail for a few reasons, namely: Networking issues Resource issues (CPU/RAM) Disk space issues Anti-virus (exclusions missing) And many more….. Today we had a strange one though, some databases seeded fine but the rest were failing with this error: Here are […]

Exchange 2019: Setup on Windows Server 2019 Core https://ift.tt/2OMXIUI For all those wondering what an Exchange 2019 Setup looks like on Windows Server 2019 Core, here is a snippet of what I did in my lab: If you look at the setup line, you will notice that there is a switch /InstallWindowsComponents and that is […]

Decommissioning Your Last Exchange Server https://ift.tt/3iKYnE7 Decommissioning the last Exchange server When you are in an Exchange hybrid configuration and you have migrated the last Mailbox to Office 365, you might wonder what to do with the last (couple of) Exchange server that is still running on-premises. Can you decommission your last Exchange server because […]

Securing Exchange Servers https://ift.tt/2YNsCSY Securing Exchange Servers Securing Exchange servers is hard. I mean it can be a giant pain sometimes. There are what, hundreds of millions or maybe billions of lines of code running on your Exchange servers, right? It doesn’t take much for a typo to get through and open a vulnerability that […]

Azure Cloud Shell Now Supports Exchange Online https://ift.tt/2F7fZY0 We’re very happy to announce that the Exchange Online PowerShell module is now available in Azure Cloud Shell! If you’re an Exchange admin and you’ve never used Azure Cloud Shell before (or have no idea what it even is!), then this blog post is for you. We […]

Announcing The Exchange Server 2019 Sizing Calculator https://ift.tt/39rfUfV The Exchange team is pleased to announce that the Exchange 2019 Sizing Calculator has completed development.  We have heard the community since the release of Exchange Server 2019 and have spent the past few months making usability improvements to the calculator, adding specific investments for Exchange Server […]

Microsoft Extending End of Support for Exchange Server 2010 to October 13th, 2020 https://ift.tt/2SDGUmh After investigating and analyzing the deployment state of an extensive number of Exchange customers we have decided to move the end of Extended Support for Exchange Server 2010 from January 14th 2020 to October 13th 2020. Our commitment to meeting the […]

Exchange On-Premises Best Practices for Migrations from 2010 to 2016 https://ift.tt/2Q9GZfR As many of you know from the previous blog post, Exchange 2010 End of Support Is Coming and the soon-to-be-a-classic sequel post Microsoft Extending End of Support for Exchange Server 2010 to October 13th, 2020 time is up for Exchange Server 2010 and you should plan to migrate to […]

Notes from the field: Windows 10 Device Compliance https://ift.tt/38ukglS One of the coolest features in Microsoft 365 is the ability to measure device compliance, and based on that reading, grant, deny or limit access to cloud resources. For mobile devices this works really well, and most compliance policies are fairly simple: make sure the device […]