Category: Email
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Corrupt health mailboxes from a flattened Exchange server
I flattened an Exchange 2013 server the other day. I don’t mean that I took the physical computer out into the parking lot and drove a large vehicle over it to reduce the server to so many random bits of metal. Instead, I did what Exchange administrators have done ever…
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Synchronizing the Exchange 2013 public folder hierarchy across public folder mailboxes
For space reasons, this text is another bit that was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. FWIW, here it is… As you’re probably well aware, public folders are scrubbed and polished to become bright, new, and modern in Exchange 2013. Instead of the legacy public…
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Why Clutter generates so many FAIs in user Inboxes
Playing around with the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet the other day (as you do), I noticed that the number of items reported for the Inbox folder (8,443) didn’t match the number shown by Outlook (8,009). Of course, Outlook Web App has the good sense not to display the total number of items…
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Exchange Online and Native Data Protection – No Backups Baby!
Cloud-based email services such as Exchange Online bring a great deal of value to the table. A service delivered for a fixed known cost that is constantly refreshed with new features (“evergreen software”) and relieves administrators of the need to perform all the mundane tasks required for day-to-day server management.…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2015
January 2015 proved to be quite a varied month in my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com. Everything from technology transfer from the cloud, new mobile clients, some issues I had with Delve, the new Office for Windows, and Azure witness servers, all washed down with a good helping of opinion and…
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Using the Exchange 2013 cmdlet extension agent to populate mailbox settings
For space reasons, this text was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. I only found it again recently, so here it is… Many properties can be set to control exactly how a mailbox functions, but some are more important than others. All mailbox…
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Latest Office 365 SLA results prove robust performance
A recent question raised the issue of how well Microsoft has done against their vaunted 99.9% availability goal for Office 365. It’s a good question to ask because clearly all cloud services need to keep on proving that they can truly deliver a highly reliable and robust service if they…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2014
The last month of 2014 provided the time to look back on what’s happened since Microsoft released Exchange 2000 and how well Exchange 2013 has done in the market (acceptance and in terms of the new features). But we also discussed mobile email strategy, the horrible comparison made by Novell…
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Selecting the right compliance framework to use with Exchange
Exchange 2010 upped Microsoft’s game when it came to the out-of-the-box compliance features available in the server. Exchange 2013 builds on that foundation to refine matters through features such as in-place holds and integration with SharePoint 2013; increased integration is available within Office 365 as Exchange and SharePoint Online share features…
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Gmail as Gaeilge
I was charmed to learn yesterday that Google has added Irish (Gaeilge) to the list of supported languages for Gmail (the local news report is here). Not that I speak much Irish, even after having it drummed into my skull for 14 years at primary and secondary school (teaching techniques were…
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