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The_Exchange_Team on 09-16-2020 12:32 PM

Let’s talk about migration move reports. We will need this knowledge when we get to later parts of hybrid migration blog...

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The_Exchange_Team on 09-15-2020 07:00 AM

Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.

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The_Exchange_Team on 09-14-2020 07:00 AM

In about a week from today Microsoft Ignite 2020 gets underway. It’s quite a bit different this year but the one thing y...

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The_Exchange_Team on 08-31-2020 08:35 AM

Let's talk about what makes Exchange hybrid migrations happen!

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The_Exchange_Team on 08-10-2020 07:59 AM

As hopefully many of you already know Exchange Server 2016 enters the Extended Support phase of its product lifecycle on...

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The_Exchange_Team on 08-06-2020 01:26 PM

Controlling the number of recipients per message that your users can send to is one of several measures email admins can...

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The_Exchange_Team on 07-31-2020 08:35 AM

In this blog post we will cover more than you ever wanted to know on Modern Hybrid Agent troubleshooting.

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The_Exchange_Team on 07-29-2020 03:32 PM

Outlook for Android supports Android and Tizen wearable technology. When the Outlook app is installed on the wearable, t...

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The_Exchange_Team on 07-28-2020 03:16 PM

Today we are pleased to announce some new changes to Modern Authentication controls in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, e...

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The_Exchange_Team on 07-24-2020 07:07 AM

At the end of August, Outlook for Android will roll out support for the new device password complexity functionality inc...

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The_Exchange_Team on 07-20-2020 04:02 PM

Imagine you could book an office to work anywhere in the world. Now imagine this could be done in Outlook. Well, we have...

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The_Exchange_Team on 07-06-2020 08:46 AM

Today, we are excited to announce that RecoverableItems, a tenant admin PowerShell cmdlet, has shipped to the preview ve...

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The_Exchange_Team on 06-30-2020 08:14 AM

Today, we are happy to announce the Public Preview of a Modern Auth unattended scripting option for use with Exchange On...

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The_Exchange_Team on 06-23-2020 09:15 AM

Over the last several months, we have seen many customers adopting Microsoft Teams, even if their mailboxes are still ho...

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The_Exchange_Team on 06-19-2020 09:00 AM

Many of you may rely on Exchange Online mobile device access rules to ensure that only approved devices (or apps) access...

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The_Exchange_Team on 06-16-2020 09:00 AM

Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. Th...

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The_Exchange_Team on 06-10-2020 06:32 PM

Today, we're posting about an upcoming change that might impact customers who use the Intune Exchange On-Premises Connec...

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The_Exchange_Team on 06-03-2020 10:00 AM

At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announced new Exchange Online management cmdlets and showed how they can be used to perform...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-28-2020 08:00 AM

Just a couple of weeks or so after our announcement of OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP Auth in Exchange Online, today we...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-27-2020 08:19 AM

If you wanted to pull back the curtain on hybrid mail flow, connector settings and troubleshooting, this post is for you...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-22-2020 08:59 AM

In this blog post, we will discuss the bits and pieces of Out of Office and some of the main reasons why an Out of Offic...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-20-2020 12:22 PM

In this blog post we will cover a very common scenario faced by customers who have moved all of their mailboxes from on-...

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Nino Bilic on 05-19-2020 12:32 PM

You might (or might not) be aware that the TechNet Gallery site is going to be retired soon (currently planned for June ...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-15-2020 03:05 PM

We have released the new room finder experience to Exchange Online Outlook on the web (and you should start seeing it ro...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-07-2020 11:00 AM

When a reply all mail storm happens in your organization, it can disrupt business continuity and in some cases even thro...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-30-2020 08:00 AM

Ever since we announced our intention to disable Basic Authentication in Exchange Online we said that we would add Moder...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-09-2020 09:00 AM

The SMTP AUTH protocol is used to submit millions of emails every day. Basic Authentication for SMTP Auth will be suppor...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-08-2020 09:00 AM

Now that we have re-written the backend for FindTime to get into the Office 365 compliance boundary, here are 5 useful t...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-06-2020 07:00 AM

Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standar...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-03-2020 09:00 AM

Last year we announced changes to make Exchange Online more secure, and earlier this year we provided some updates on pr...

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in Released: September 2020 Quarterly Exchange Updates on 09-20-2020

@sjhudson We've removed the part from the KB that says that no /PrepareAD is required. It is definitely required to run /PrepareAD with this release for both versions - Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.

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in Released: September 2020 Quarterly Exchange Updates on 09-20-2020

Thanks for alle the replies - good to know ;)

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in Released: September 2020 Quarterly Exchange Updates on 09-18-2020

@j_ware This is exemplary and highly recommended. Anyway - in the scenario described above setup is executed and at first glance it looks successful but after the setup process you're still on the same Exchange build because we don't use the new bits from the Exchange CU .iso due to the wrong "sourc...

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in Released: September 2020 Quarterly Exchange Updates on 09-18-2020

@mp2884 @Lukas Sassl I always use a "Run As Administrator" command prompt for running CU updates or any other Exchange installer, and also make sure all interactive powershell sessions are closed and no one else is logged on to the server; if someone else is logged on and has the exchange management...

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in Released: September 2020 Quarterly Exchange Updates on 09-18-2020

@mp2884 We've checked this and it looks like you've run setup.exe by using PowerShell without using the full path or ".\" (as we've described it here in step 3: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/deploy-new-installations/unattended-installs?view=exchserver-2019#use-setupexe-to...

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