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The BitCoin Sex Trap Email Extortion Scam
An Odd and Very Demanding Message Last Friday night, I received a note from “Hyman Cipolletta” using the Outlook.com account rriivoryorz@hotmail.com. The message header shows that the message originated in a North American server (Namprd12.prod.outlook.com) in the common Office 365 infrastructure shared by Exchange Online and Outlook.com. My interest was…
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HTTP error 400 accessing Office 365
I recently hit a problem when attempting to access the Office 365 Portal with Chrome. Any attempt resulted in a HTTP Error 400 as shown above. The problem was confined to a single PC and a single browser on that PC as both IE and Edge were happy to connect…
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Controlling the creation of Office 365 Groups using an Azure Active Directory policy
This text is an extract from Chapter 9 from the eBook “Office 365 for IT Pros”. This is an example of how we incorporate new events quickly into the publishing process and make new content available to readers. In this case, the General Availability of Office 365 Planner (announced by Microsoft…
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Office 365 Advanced Security Management
This text is an extract from Chapter 19 of the eBook “Office 365 for IT Pros”. We’re commonly asked at what level the content of the book is pitched and how up to date it is. Well, this topic was announced by Microsoft on June 1 and you can judge…
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Public folders to Office 365 Groups – Yes Please!
The last couple of weeks have brought forward news of two solutions to migrate public folders (aka “the cockroaches of Exchange”) to Office 365 Groups (aka “Microsoft’s new answer to collaboration in the cloud”). The two solutions differ in concept and implementation, but both are valuable in what they do.…
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News about the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook
Folks, A quick post to let you know that we have issued an update for the second edition of the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook. The updates are now available to those who purchased the PDF/EPUB versions through ExchangeServerPro.com and the Kindle version through Amazon. The updated version is…
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The curious drop in mail items reported by Get-MailboxStatistics
Office 365 provides users with 50 GB mailbox quotas, so you’d expect that these mailboxes accumulate tens of thousands of items over time, especially as the default retention policy applied by Exchange Online does not clean out Deleted Items folders from user mailboxes (unless you change the policy). Users are…
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Automatic mailbox move requests in Exchange 2013
Soon after writing about the need to clean out lingering mailbox move requests for Exchange 2010, I requested the developers to add the ability to remove move requests automatically after a certain period. After all, it’s a royal pain to find that you can’t move a mailbox just because an ancient move…
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The colorful side of MEC 2014: All the stuff that makes a conference
What can I say about the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) that recently finished in Austin? Lots of blogs and other comments have already been posted, including my assessment of the messages contained in the day 1 keynote, the splendor of the sessions delivered on day 2, and some closing thoughts…
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