Mike O'Neill's TechNet Blog

Technology information from a Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE)

Life in a post 2003 world part 2

That’s correct, as of July 13th, 2015, one of the most popular Windows Server versions has...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 07/15/2015

Protect OU's from accidental deletion

Here is a quick and easy one line PowerShell script to set all of the Organizational Units...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 04/12/2015

Updated OffCAT v2

The OffCAT team just unveiled the most exciting, capable, and modern version of the Microsoft Office...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 04/10/2015

Safety Net has a limit

Exchange 2013 introduced another mechanism to help ensure that e-mail gets delivered to users:...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 03/13/2015

RunAs Radio: Tips and Tricks

I was interviewed on ‘RunAs Radio’ which was posted on March 4th, 2015 with a 30 minute...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 03/06/2015

Where is OMA?

Some of you may ask, what is OMA? Back in the day, Exchange 2003, mobile devices were starting to...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 02/20/2015

RunAs Radio: Exchange blog site

I was Interviewed on RunAs Radio on May 7th, 2014 with a 30 minute discussion about the Exchange...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 02/16/2015

Support for Exchange 2013 File Share Witness Server in Azure

The Exchange product group has announced support for putting your Exchange 2013 File Share Witness...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 01/29/2015

Exchange 2013 impact on legacy OAB settings

Much has been written about the new and changing ways OAB (Offline Address Book) generation in...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 12/31/2014

Using PowerShell instead of cmd to keep a transcript

Ok, so all of you that use Command Line (CMD.exe), it is probably time to stop and just use...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 10/01/2014

Load Balancer design options

As I visit companies, I run into many that are doing different designs when it comes to leveraging...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 09/12/2014

To archive or not to archive…

This article is about choice and how ‘it depends’ for different environments. The...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 09/04/2014

Life in a post 2003 world

That’s correct, as of April 8th, 2014, several extremely popular Microsoft products have ended...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 04/09/2014

No one received the certificate expiration notification!

Exchange Certificates Prior to Exchange Server 2013, the Exchange application did not automatically...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 10/09/2013

Outlook 2013 vs. OWA 2013

I have had a few customers ask for a comparison table of the differences between Outlook (OL) 2013...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 08/29/2013

Pin virtual guests to specific physical hosts

This is a common discussion, who should be in charge of High Availability (HA), the host...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 06/01/2013

I had posted a blog about what happens if you do have Lingering Links in your environment about a...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 05/15/2013

DAG DB’s flipping all the time randomly for no apparent reason

I have run into this issue several times in the past few months and want people to be aware of this...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 05/01/2013

How to create consistent signatures and send them from other mailboxes

I have recently created a description process on how to create signatures for Outlook, how to deploy...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 04/05/2013

Migration from Exchange 2003 to 2013 a NO GO!

Just over 40% of all EXRAP’s (Exchange Risk Assessment Programs) performed last year (2012) by...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 04/03/2013

Exchange 2013 co-existence is now supported

Released today, Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 is now publically available for download. You can now co-exist...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 04/02/2013

Documentation made easy

I’m going to tell you a way that you can make change management documents with ease, build...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 03/20/2013

First Post - Introduction

Hello, my name is Mike O’Neill and I’m a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) working for...

Author: Mike_O'Neill Date: 03/14/2013

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