Part 1: Discovery in Tenant to Tenant Migrations https://ift.tt/3rdZW0y Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant migrations happen very often: There are merger and acquisitions, e. g. when a company buys another company, and divestitures, e. g. when a company gets partially outsourced to another company. This three-part blog series covers all things you should be aware […]

Active Directory Monitoring: AD Time Service https://ift.tt/2Lf3FeW Is time, or more precisely an accurate time, necessary to operate an IT infrastructure? Well, it all depends. In order to operate a secure IT infrastructure, all computer systems must have precise time information. Computer systems can query time information via the NTP (Network Time Protocol) from other […]

Goodbye, Exchange 2010 (And advice moving forward) https://ift.tt/2SR6xyX The end of an era. Exchange 2010 is End of Life today–no more security updates, no more extended support. I know there are quite a few servers left out there in the world, but many of them are not even in use (or they were merely in […]

Modern Authentication Support comes to Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer https://ift.tt/2SwxbwO Since December last year, we’ve been making a lot of investment into the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer site. If you’ve used the website in the past couple of months, you probably saw the website has had a face lift with a modern UI for all […]

Recap of Exchange and Outlook News for Microsoft Ignite 2020 https://ift.tt/30lgNUb Recap of Exchange and Outlook News for Microsoft Ignite 2020 Microsoft’s virtual Ignite conference was held this week and did a pretty good job of maintaining the hype and excitement of a real in-person event. Gone were the opportunities to talk with colleagues in-between […]

Recap of Exchange and Outlook News for Microsoft Ignite 2020 https://ift.tt/36iFLHA Recap of Exchange and Outlook News for Microsoft Ignite 2020 Microsoft’s virtual Ignite conference was held this week and did a pretty good job of maintaining the hype and excitement of a real in-person event. Gone were the opportunities to talk with colleagues in-between […]

Exchange Hybrid Migrations: More Than Just a Pretty Face https://ift.tt/34PJ0FC In my daily support work, I mostly deal with Exchange hybrid migrations (issues) from all our Office 365 native migration options (hybrid, cutover, staged, IMAP and G Suite). Seeing that no customer ever opened a support ticket if things were OK to tell us they […]

Microsoft 365 Backups – Do you need them? (Part One) https://ift.tt/2Dy8pIA Backing up Microsoft 365 can be a fairly controversial question – with some people suggesting you definitely, absolutely need to backup – and others saying there is no need. Sure – there are some valid reasons to backup data in Office 365, but in […]

Modern HCW (Hybrid Agent): troubleshooting like a pro https://ift.tt/3hV7sJ0 Most of you are probably familiar with Classic Hybrid Deployments that are automatically configured through classic option in the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW).  In this blog post we will focus on Modern Hybrid Configuration (aka Modern Hybrid Agent) and specifically, Agent troubleshooting. The 2 mentioned flavors […]