Hi all,      long time no see ! As these days, many companies are migrating their E-mail infrastructures either to Exchange 2013 or Office 365, we often see the behavior that after being migrated, some users' profiles got automatically loaded with all mailboxes for which these users had full access permissions in Outlook. That...

Introduction When we talk about Outlook cached mode and Outlook online mode recommendations, there is a point we always miss, which is the Network bandwidth. Before discussing bandwidth, you guys know that we (Microsoft) recommend enabling Outlook cached mode at the first place, especially on these cloud days. Quoting: When to use Cached Exchange Mode...

Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 preview here – Checkout the Exchange 2016 prerequisites here first. System requirements: Supported Operating System: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 OS updates Updates: Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 .Net Framework: 4.5.2 Internet Explore 11, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari (Latest), Google Chrome (Latest), Mozilla Firefox (Latest)     Quote from...

Since there are some limitations for Exchange 2013 Public Folders, we will focus this little note on the User Logons supported limit, which is 2,000. I briefly mentioned this 2,000 user logons limit on the article about Public Folder limits increase since Exchange 2013 CU8 on a previous blog post. In Exchange 2013, you should...

I- Use “-Filter” parameter where available instead of “where” statements’ For example, the following commands provide the same results: Get-Recipient –ResultSize Unlimited | Where {($_.RecipientTypeDetails –eq "UserMailbox") –and ($_.DisplayName –like "*Zarka")} Get-Recipient –ResultSize Unlimited –Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails –eq "UserMailbox") –and (DisplayName –like "*Zarka")} In a large environment the first command takes an extremely long time to...

IntroductionWhen we talk about Outlook cached mode and Outlook online mode recommendations, there is a point we always miss, which is the Network bandwidth. Before discussing bandwidth, you guys know that we (Microsoft) recommend enabling Outlook cached mode at the first place, especially on these cloud days. Quoting:When to use Cached Exchange ModeCached Exchange Mode...

 As a bookmark, my buddy <a ="http://blogs.technet.com">Rhoderick Milne</a> has written an excellent article about the best way to invoke Exchange PowerShell environment (other than loading the “Exchange Management Shell” itself from the Windows menus – for example, if you want to use a Windows Powershell session you’re currently in, or simply the Powershell Integrated Scripting...

  UPDATE 1 3/19/2015: The Exchange Product Team updated the Exchange 2013 CU8 announcement page with the new PF limits I’m also exposing below – see link and pasted update at the end of this post UDATE 2  3/19/2015: The TechNet Public Folders Limit has been updated  too with the new limits – checkout the...

 This post is just to outline 2 very useful articles to understand and use RBAC role model… 1- Daily operations and getting RBAC info (finding admin rights for a user, finding parameters, etc…) from our excellent and beloved <a ="http://blogs.technet.com">Rhoderick Milne</a> such ase in which RBAC role is a specific cmdlet (example, which RBAC role enable...

 Hi all, Here is the link to download Exchange 2013 CU8, as well as some useful links and useful information. DOWNLOAD link to the Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB3030080) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46373 Some notes from the Exchange Product Group Team as well http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/03/17/announcing-cumulative-update-8-for-exchange-server-2013.aspx Exchange 2013 CU8 – some limits updated for “modern” Public Folders http://blogs.technet.com/b/samdrey/archive/2015/03/18/exchange-2013-cu8-some-new-limits-for-modern-public-folders.aspx  List of issues fixed:...