One of the nice features introduced in Exchange 2010 was Admin Audit Logging. Concerned administrators everywhere rejoiced! This meant that a record of Exchange PowerShell activity, organization wide, was now saved and searchable. Administrators could query the Admin Audit Log, using the Search-AdminAuditLog Cmdlet, and reveal any CmdLets invoked, the date and time they were…
Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection is now available
Just a quick note that we have released a new service that some of you might be interested in, called Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection. This is a complementary service to already existing Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and extends to additional types of advanced threats. To learn more, head over here: Exchange Online Advanced Threat…
Exchange @ Ignite 2015
We were joined by thousands of Exchange and Office 365 customers at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago last week. It was full of announcements, new content, and opportunities for the Exchange community to reconnect. For those who were on site we thank you for your enthusiastic participation and engaging questions. We spent time geeking out on…
Public Folder team is looking for feedback!
Here at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago, the Public Folder team has been asking customers to fill out a survey to help them learn more about public folder use and get feedback on some possible future features that they are thinking of. If you are up for it, there is a survey they have created that…
Exchange Server 2016 Architecture
Exchange Server 2016 builds upon the architecture introduced in Exchange Server 2013, with the continued focus goal of improving the architecture to serve the needs of deployments at all scales. Building Block Architecture In Exchange Server 2016, there is a single building block that provides the client access services and the high availability architecture necessary…
Hello from Microsoft Ignite
We’re excited to be kicking off Ignite this week in Chicago – doing it on Star Wars day is a nice bonus as the Exchange team is here in full force. It has been great catching up with our customers and Exchange MVPs as we prepare for this action-packed week. At Ignite we will begin…
New Support Policy for Repaired Exchange Databases
The database repair process is often used as a last ditch effort to recover an Exchange database when no other means of recovery is available. The process should only be followed at the advice of Microsoft Support and after determining that all other recovery options have been exhausted. For many years in many versions of…
Troubleshooting High CPU utilization issues in Exchange 2013
Introduction In Exchange support we see a wide range of support issues. Few of them can be more difficult to troubleshoot than performance issues. Part of the reason for that is the ambiguity of the term “Performance Issue”. This can manifest itself like anything from random client disconnects to database failovers or slow mobile device…
Generating user message profiles for use with the Exchange Calculators
Download EDIT 12/30/2016: This post has been updated for the new 2.0 version of the script. Greetings Exchange Community! My name is Dan Sheehan, and I work as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, specializing in Microsoft Exchange. Today I present to you the Generate Message Profile script which assists Exchange administrators/service owners with generating…
Larger messages and Enhanced NDRs come to Office 365
I wanted to write a quick note to make sure that our Hybrid customers have seen the following two recent improvements made to transport in Office 365, as both of them could be something that you will run into or might want to be aware of: Enhanced non-delivery reports (NDRs) in Office 365 Office 365…