Exchange

Office 365 – Exchange Hybrid Configuration Troubleshooting tool

Microsoft has announced and delivered a tool to help in the Exchange Hybrid Configuration troubleshooting process. As you may know, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration allows a simple way to move mailboxes between on premises Exchange and online, share the free/busy details between online and on premises, mail flow security with antispam/antimalware (if going through Exchange […]

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – New way to send attachment when using Outlook Web Access

As announced some time ago, Microsoft has one again introduced a new “simple” feature on Outlook Web Access hosted on Office 365. This new feature now allows you not to send an attachment but a link to your OneDrive for Business space where the attachment is stored. There is nothing to do your side –

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – One Time Password is now available for encrypted message

Back in February 2014, Microsoft has implemented a new security feature on Exchange Online called Message Encryption (see http://blogs.office.com/2013/11/21/introducing-office-365-message-encryption-send-encrypted-emails-to-anyone/). But this feature required to use a Microsoft account to decrypt the message. With the service upgrade; this now possible to bypass this requirement and use a One Time Password (OTP) to decrypt the received message.

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Exchange Online / Office 365 – Exchange: Failed to enable the new cloud archive error for existing cloud mailboxes

Recently I ran into an issue which is well documented for mailboxes moved to Exchange Online, but not in this case. This issue occurred on existing online mailboxes with online archive which has been already moved to online for a long time. Nothing appears on the DirSync logs – neither an error or an update

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Exchange 2013 Hybrid mode updated to automate OAuth authentication method support

Today, I have upgraded my Exchange 2013 deployment by installing the latest CU – CU 6 available for download here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44022 Then I wanted to updated my hybrid configuration with Office 365, so I connect to my ECP and start the HCW to update the settings. At the end of the HCW, I discovered that

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Exchange – Mobile Device Stuck in Quarantine

Recently, I just found an old device put in quarantine on my Exchange environment (ECP\Mobile\Mobile Device Access). Initially this was normal because I applied mobile device policy to put in quarantine all new mobile device – using ActivSync protocol to connect to the Exchange mailbox. In this case, I don’t know why it was not

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Office 365 – External users can not access the site mailbox

While working on a project, I had to setup a SharePoint site on Office 365 with a Site mailbox enabled for this site. So far, so good, this is a well known, simple and working procedure. Nothing tricky there BUT, here it comes the issue; this site is being shared and used by external users

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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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