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Exchange – Outlook Mobile support for S/MIME is coming

It is about time, Outlook Mobile on iOS and Android is now supporting S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internal Mail Extensions). This means you will be able to send and receive (and as such read) signed and/or encrypted emails with Outlook Mobile. To start using it, you must have a valid S/MIME certificate off course – manual […]

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Exchange Online – You can now also use Azure Cloud Shell to connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell

A new capability has been added to Azure Cloud Shell, you can now use it to also connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell. To remind you as there are maybe few (lot?) of Exchange administrator who do not know what is Azure Cloud Shell, this is the ability to connect to cloud resources (in this

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Exchange Online – Reminder Clutter is going to go away on Jan 31st 2020

This is a reminder to brink back to your attention that Clutter (the email sorting/classification tool introduced in Exchange Online back in 2017) is going to be turned off for good in January 31st 2020. If you (or your end-users) have been using it, it will then be fully replaced by the Focused Inbox feature.

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Exchange – New capabilities in for HCW Hybrid Agent

As you may be aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is evolving and is currently proposing an ‘Hybrid Agent’ mode in preview (see https://t.co/lRmjI6r6Dv). Well, the Hybrid Agent preview has been updated and is now providing more capability: Multi agent support: you can now deploy more than one Hybrid Agent in your environment Manual

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Exchange – The April Security Update (KB4487563) for Exchange 2019 fails to install

It is this time again, the monthly patch release from Microsoft. This month a security update for Exchange 2019, 2016 and 2013. Problem is the patch (may) failed to install on Exchange 2019 (don’t know for 2016 and 2013 as I don’t have these version anymore), leaving Exchange in a bad shape as the services

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Exchange Online – You can now unblock restricted users

As you may know, with Exchange Online you can (and should have) set a policy an outbound spam policy to block users for sending email if they have been compromised. This has now been moved to the Security & Compliance Center (SCC) in the Alert section In addition of this move, administrators have now the

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Exchange – New Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard in preview

A new Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is now available in preview. This new Hybrid Configuration Wizard is called either Hybrid Agent or Modern Hybrid to differentiate it from the current HCW version. This new HCW has a lower inbound/outbound connectivity requirements and use an agent, making it more appropriate for install in DMZ. The

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Exchange – Exchange 2010 is reaching his end of life, please act

A quick reminder (as even if mail migration seems easy, it always take some time to complete), Exchange 2010 is reaching his end of life in January 14th, 2020 This means there will be no longer technical support, bug or security fixes. If you still have Exchange 2010 in production and do not have yet

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Exchange – An updated Hybrid Configuration Wizard adds additional configuration transfer settings

As you may be aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has been able to migrate some organization configuration settings (ActiveSync Mailbox Policy, Mobile Device Mailbox Policy, Retention Policy and Tag) to Exchange Online since June 2018. Now, an updated version is coming and will be able to add additional organization settings like: ActiveSync Device

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Exchange – The latest Exchange version is now available

Good news, today Microsoft has released the latest Exchange version – Exchange 2019. It is being available through the Volume License or MSDN. That said, you can deploy Exchange on Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019, but it is highly recommended to deploy Exchange 2019 with Windows Server 2019. Exchange 2019 also supports installation

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