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The BitCoin Sex Trap Email Extortion Scam

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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HTTP error 400 accessing Office 365

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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Controlling the creation of Office 365 Groups using an Azure Active Directory policy

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Tony Redmond

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, … Continue reading →

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Office 365 Advanced Security Management

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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Public folders to Office 365 Groups – Yes Please!

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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News about the “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals” eBook

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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The curious drop in mail items reported by Get-MailboxStatistics

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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Reporting delegate access to Exchange mailboxes

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Tony Redmond

All current versions of Exchange 2013 (up to and including CU6) and Exchange Online (Office 365) contain a bug that can compromise the ability of companies to comply with discovery orders. The bug means that a user can remove items … Continue reading →

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Automatic mailbox move requests in Exchange 2013

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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The colorful side of MEC 2014: All the stuff that makes a conference

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Tony Redmond

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 … Continue reading →

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