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Exchange / Office 365 – You can select which folder to sync for offline use with OWA

With Exchange 2013, and so Exchange Online too, a new feature has been introduced with OWA (Outlook Web Access) called Offline Access – if you don’t how to use it, take a look at my post here http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2012/07/17/exchange-2013-use-owa-offline/ That said, this feature has been improved as now you can select WHICH folders to synchronize when […]

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Office 365 / Exchange / SharePoint – Solution if your site mailbox is being stuck in provisioning

As you may already know, one of the new major feature of Exchange and SharePoint 2013 (which is also available on Office 365 with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online) is the Site Mailbox. As reminder – in case of you don’t know anything about it, a site mailbox is a central email and document sharing

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Exchange – Updated Exchange 2013 prerequisites installation and configuration scripts

I have updated my PowerShell scripts use to install and configure prerequisites for Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/2012 R2. Both scripts now take into account the new Exchange 2013 Edge role introduced with Service Pack 1. Script for installing Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2008 R2 has been also

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Office 365 – Update your DirSync to take advantage of the new S/MIME feature

As you already know, Microsoft updates frequently the DirSync tool used to synchronize your on premises directory with Office 365. Also, as Microsoft has announced the availability of the S/MIME feature on Exchange 2013 SP1 – and so also for Exchange Online on Office 365, you will have to update your DirSync currently installed. Download

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Office 365 – Moving online mailbox to on premise failed with error Resource ‎’CiAgeOfLastNotification‎(System)‎‎’ is unhealthy and shouldn‎’t be accessed

Recently, I went to an error when moving online mailboxes from Office 365 – Exchange Online – to on premises – Exchange 2013. Strangely, these mailboxes have been moved multiple times in both direction – on premises to online and online to on premises – without any issue. The migration batch starts and content is

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Exchange / Office 365 – Hybrid configuration or Exchange 2013 CU 3 failed with error

Recently, I tried to deployed the latest cumulative update release for Exchange 2013 as well as implement hybrid configuration with my Office 365 which was finally fully upgraded – I say fully upgraded because even after receiving the notification of my tenant has been upgraded to latest version there was still a component running on

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Office 365 – Manage quarantined message

Update – November 29th add the spam notification With the update of Office 365, Exchange Online has been updated to Exchange 2013 (as you already know) but also ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) as well. In this post, here are some key points after the upgrade of FOPE – especially to manage quarantined mails.

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Exchange / Lync / SharePoint – 2013 servers virtual machines

Microsoft has published a complete set of virtual machines ready to use with Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. These VM’s can be used for demo and evaluation. You can use all or part of these VM’s depending of the scenario you want to evaluate, including unified messaging. The VM’s are set to be

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Office 365 – Mailbox size is doubling

After increasing the storage capacity for SharePoint Online (for SkyDrive Pro) from 7 Go to 25 Go few days ago (see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/08/27/skydrive-pro-increases-storage-and-ease-of-sharing.aspx), Microsoft has announced that the mailbox size is also increasing from 25 Go to 50 Go – see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/08/29/exchange-online-mailbox-sizes-are-doubling.aspx Enjoy with more storage capacity

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Exchange 2013 / SharePoint 2013 – Use Exchange Autodiscover to automatically configure My Site URL

As you may already know Exchange is providing an autoconfiguration feature to automatically configure Outlook and ActiveSync devices. If you have already deployed and configured SharePoint 2013 – at least for evaluation, you may have seen a new settings on the User Profile service application – called My Site Host URL in Active Directory. This

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