Year: 2019

The O365 has updated the clutter service stance on when it will be disabled. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Outlook-Blog/Update-on-Focused-Inbox-and-our-plans-for-Clutter/ba-p/136448 This is good news for people that like using the clutter feature.

I created this PowerShell module awhile ago to help O365 Administrators sign into the their online tenant services using simple verb-noun single command lets (cmdlets). While the general O365 PowerShell (PS) sign-in process is straight forward by itself, there are several lines of PS code that need to be combined and executed each and every

Ran into a customer having this issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3140747/only-a-subset-of-items-are-synchronized-in-shared-mailboxes-or-public Thus, wanted people to know, that there are work arounds, if you are having uses in Outlook, that are not seeing all sync’d items. The good news, there are some registry values you can adjust. And never forget, any registry values, can be controlled via Group Policy

Microsoft Certification tests are a good way for people to demonstrate their knowledge to others. I just completed my Messaging Administration certificate, which currently is two tests: MS-200 and MS-201. Yes, there are many different accreditation paths available to people and many choices in the IT field. It’s not always best to just have lots

I'd recommend you setup an RSS feed process with your favorite web site(s). This allows you to simply get a message in your e-mail inbox whenever a site you follow updates their content. I recently added an RSS feed option to this blog site. For WordPress hosted sties, like this one, all you need to

Mark Nivens created this HealthChecker.ps1 file for Exchange servers for your on premises environment. This script checks various configuration items on the Exchange server to make sure they match the recommendations published in the "Exchange 2013 Sizing and Configuration Recommendations" guidance on TechNet. It also reports on Operating System and hardware information. You can run it remotely against a single

Another scary post on Halloween. Scary that is, if you're not following security best practices. This bad actor group exposes a timing issue with O365 safe links. They create a certificate for a site, that looks ligament, and then exploit it as quickly as they can. For example: Securemail.contoso.com. Since the cert is valid and

Yes.  However, the PG chose not to extend Jetstress functionality to cover MCDB (on Flash/SSD storage), therefore, Jetstress will only validate HDD performance for Exchange Server 2019. What is JetStress? The JetStress tool (download) is a Microsoft supported tool that validates database hard drive performance before you install the Exchange Server application on a Windows

What an easy way to clean up the view of your PowerShell path. Add this into your profile if you want to save some screen space and work in a directory other than c:\. You can also grab the current time and place that in the prompt. Use Get-Location to see which path you are

The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool lets you easily report misclassified e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates for analysis to help improve the effectiveness of the e-mail protection technologies. From the Outlook ribbon, you can click Report as Junk, Report as Phishing, or Report as Not Junk to send a report to Microsoft. You will be