What? Why are we talking about buying a car? I was at lunch the other day with some engineers and we got to talking about new cars. I’d mentioned how I had not done a lot of due diligence in the past and planned to make that change next time. Since I have to rent

I’d like to introduce you to my MO_Module. It’s a PowerShell module, combining several daily administrative tasks into simple Verb-Noun Functions for engineers to perform their jobs easier. I was developing/maintaining several different PS modules, which became more work, so I thought I’d just combine everything into one single place. Since my primary technologies are

Just a reminder, the Exchange Server 2019 role requirement calculator is now only available in the current Cumulative Update download. To obtain the CU downloads, you must have access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. The main reason the role requirement calculator ships in the CU’s, is that the Exchange Product Group now owns

It worked out this time: 3rd month, 3rd week, on a Tuesday for the Exchange Server product updates. Not a lot of changes, but a couple of items of interest, the first one, the Exchange Product Group (PG) continues to tighten Active Directory security, which I absolutely love. They have added a few deny values,

Just a reminder, the Exchange Product Group (PG) is (usually) following the current cadence of releasing Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) every third month (March, June, September, December) and the third week of that month. This allows a predictable rhythm for customers to plan when to upgrade their Exchange servers. With this planning, customers should download

This is just a philosophical discussion around the common answer of ‘it depends’, or ‘it’s a choice’. ‘Which way should the toilet paper roll go in your house?’ This is very analogous to all of the ongoing debates in history: Coke vs. Pepsi, VHS vs. Beta, BlueRay vs. HDDVD, Visual Studio Code vs. ISE, and

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/deploy-cloud-witness No, neither version supports the cloud witness option. However, Exchange Server does fully support an Exchange File Share Witness server in Azure. If you choose this option, you’ll need a writable Domain Controller and a Windows Server to host up the File Share Witness directory. The reason for a Windows Server for the FSW,

I was interviewed on ‘RunAs Radio’ which was posted on March 4th, 2015 with a 30 minute discussion about free tools for the IT professional. RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products. RunAs Radio was launched on April 11, 2007 with a node from its sister show, .NET Rocks!, which

A: Yes Sometimes customers wish to use certain hardware for installing the Exchange Server application that already has a specific amount of RAM in place, and that RAM is not within the current recommended  range for Exchange. Can you make this change at the hardware level and not have to take out the RAM? Yes,

I’ve run into this a couple of times now with customers, consequently thought I’d finally get around to writing a blog post. The question is, can spam notifications be sent less than once a day? What are we talking about. In Exchange online, there is a notification message that is sent to users’ mailboxes periodically,