Month: October 2019

Security breach by known bad actor group

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

Will Jetstress be updated for Exchange Server 2019?

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

PowerShell easy location

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

E-mail junk add in for Outlook

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

Get-MailboxLocations

Where in the world is your mailbox! While not to be confused with Get-MailboxLocation, this function is designed to just give a count and location of the data center hosting up all your mailboxes. It does run Get-Mailbox against the entire online tenant, so that process could take a while depending on the number of

Set-AutoDiscoverSiteScopeExchangeServers Part 2

In the part 1 of this function, we covered an option to set all Exchange servers to use every AD site in an organization, minus any 'deployment' ones. But what if you have a very large organization, with multiple data centers hosting Exchange servers, various regions to support, and you want to target specific locations