Exchange

I ran into an absolutely crazy issue which involved Exchange 2010 and a group of “ghost” mailboxes.  The specifics were that the mailboxes showed up in Get-MailboxStatistics reports on the databases, but were not connected, “Deleted”, or “Soft Deleted”.  They [...]

Now that Exchange 2013 co-existence is available with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007, I’ve been working on upgrade Exchange 2010 environments to SP3 in preparation for Exchange 2013 migrations.  I however did run into an issue with Exchange 2010 SP3 [...]

There are two primary reasons to turn off AD FS in Office 365.  The first is because you want to use a new AD FS farm, possibly because your standalone AD FS server is not sufficient anymore.  You cannot transfer [...]

Active Directory Federation Services provides Single Sign-on capabilities to Office 365 customers, as well as forms based authentication for external users on non-domain joined computers and other devices.  AD FS with Office 365 requires version 2.0 or higher, meaning the [...]

This message will be a thing of the past with Exchange 2013, kind of like 8-tracks and cassette tapes.  There have been some significant changes in Exchange 2013’s client access role.  RPC is no longer a supported direct access protocol.  [...]

When it comes to Office 365 you need to ensure that users are actually using their accounts because you may be paying for licenses that are not being used.  I recently have worked with a client that is very budget [...]