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We’re pleased to introduce free Skype Meetings—a new online meetings tool that provides small businesses with real-time audio and HD video conferencing. Skype Meetings includes collaboration features like the ability to share screens and content during meetings. Read more at …
I had an interesting request from a customer the other day where they were synchronizing Active Directory into two disparate environments–Office 365 and another hosted Exchange environment. In their new Office 365 environment, they didn’t want any address proxies matching …
Remove an unwanted ProxyAddress pattern from users via AADConnect Read More »
Every copy of a mailbox database in a DAG is assigned an activation preference number. This number is used by the system as part of the passive database activation process, and by administrators when performing database balancing operations for a …
DAG Activation Preference Behavior Change in Exchange Server 2016 CU2 Read More »
Today we are announcing the latest set of Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013. In addition to normal fixes to customer reported issues, these releases also include updated functionality. Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 2 and …
A few weeks ago, I saw something come up for a peer that needed a way to manage the maximum number of ActiveSync devices that a user had connected in Office 365. Using only native Exchange policies, we can’t do …
There is perpetually a lot of angst around licensing users for Office 365 workloads. Most of my customers over the years have wanted to ease into deployment, only enabling certain services at a time. Of course, as an evergreen service, …
Collaboration got a big boost this month with the initial release of the Skype for Business for Mac Preview, sharing and messaging updates to the Office 2016 desktop client, the ability to create external Yammer groups and more. So did …
You may have ran across new Office 365 usage reports for SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Yammer, and Skype for Business. If you haven’t, I recommend you take a look. These new reports give IT admins more insight into how their …
We have recently changed the way, removing an Office 365 user with attached mailbox, behaves. Previously: If we deleted an active user while he was still licensed, his mailbox would go into a “soft deleted” state and could have been …
How to purge a soft deleted mailbox in Office 365 Read More »
April was a busy and exciting month for the Office 365 admin center team. We started to roll out a variety of new features in the new admin center, including new reporting capabilities, customization options and user management improvements. Since we …
What’s new in Office 365 administration—April roundup Read More »
