Aggregate availability from multiple calendars
I prefer to keep personal appointments on one calendar (on Outlook.com) and work appointments on my work calendar (O365 Exchange), but Exchange only seems to use my work calendar to show my availability to other people in my organization. I'd like to have a way to aggregate my availability from multiple calendar sources, the way that you can overlay multiple calendars in Outlook. It's not really a matter of me seeing all my appointments, because I can easily see everything in a consolidated view in Outlook on my desktop or mobile; it's more about letting others in my organization know when I'm free to meet. I know there is (used to be?) a "free/busy server" option in Outlook client, but I feel like this should be something that can be set on my Exchange profile, so that it doesn't matter what client I'm using. Aside from that kind of option, I guess I'd guess I might be OK with a solution that duplicates anything added to my personal calendar as a block on my work calendar or vice versa, even if it's an IFTTT-type thing. I saw a similar post that mentions some 3rd-party tools from CodeTwo and Connecting Software, but given this is just a preference of mine, I'm probably not going to spend a lot on a workaround. TLDR: Is there a better approach to showing consolidated availability than manually duplicating my appointments between calendars? Thanks!Rebuild search index of a mailbox in Exchange Online
This was something new for me and couldn't find such a post here, so hereby I'm sharing the experience. One of our users showed me that there are some emails in her mailbox which can't be found by using search, nor in the Outlook 2013 rich client (in Online mode), neither in OWA. Tried to search for various texts and properties from those emails, but they was just 'invisible' for search. I've opened a case with the Office 365 support through the admin portal, and what they recommended was simply to run the following PS command: New-MoveRequest our_user@ourdomain.com It seems this, submitting a move request for that mailbox is the recommended way to force reindexing an ExO hosted mailbox. Once the move operation has completed (it takes a few hours depending on the mailbox size, progress can be checked with Get-MoveRequestStatistics) the mailbox got re-indexed, which fixed the search.
How to clear the Discovery Holds folder
To find whether this discovery holds folder is completely full, use the below-mentioned command. Step 1: Connect-ExchangeOnline and then, Step 2: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user | select name,foldersize Note: This DiscoveryHolds folder is having a limit of 100 GB. If it is full, we will get issues like "Unable to clear deleted items folder", "deleted items are getting auto-restored" etc., One of the reasons for this folder is full: If Organization Hold is turned on(All Exchange mailboxes are selected in Compliance Retention Policy) or the Individual ID is selected on Compliance Retention Policy. Solution: Please try the below-mentioned steps to overcome this issue. Step 1: Exclude the DiscoveryHolds full ID in the Compliance Retention policy or run the below-mentioned commands in PowerShell. Connect-IPPSSession and then, Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -Identity "Compliance Retention Policy Name" -AddExchangeLocationException user for multiple users, Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -Identity "Compliance Retention Policy Name" -AddExchangeLocationException user1, user2, user3 Now on PowerShell, Connect-ExchangeOnline and then, Set-Mailbox -Identity user -RetainDeletedItemsFor 0 and then run the below-mentioned command two times. Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity user Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity user After 2-3 minutes, run the below-mentioned commands. Get-Mailbox "user" | FL DelayHoldApplied,DelayReleaseHoldApplied If the output is received as true for any above-mentioned holds, then run the below-mentioned commands. Set-Mailbox user -RemoveDelayHoldApplied Set-Mailbox user -RemoveDelayReleaseHoldApplied and then run the below-mentioned command two times. Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity user Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity user After 2-3 minutes, this DiscoveryHolds folder will become zero as per the below-mentioned screenshot. This process helped me a lot. If you have any doubts/concerns/suggestions about this post, please comment below. Best Regards, Venkat Kiran Kona.
Legacy/Modern Distribution Lists Enhancement
This question is mainly to Microsoft. I was wondering if MS could introduce a feature where in Distribution List/Security Groups or any other modern groups would have option to renew yearly. DL's some time grow rapidly that become very cumbersome job to cleanup. As soon as DL nears expiry an automated mail should be sent to Owner asking if DL needs to be renewed? if not then DL will be expired. Just my 2 cents.Schooling A Sea of Phish Part 2: Enhanced Anti-spoofing technology in Office 365
A few weeks ago, we released new enhanced Anti-impersonation capabilities for Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). Today we’re excited to announce Office ATP’s enhanced anti-spoofing capability for protecting against spoofed emails from external domains. We believe this new capability will help lead the industry in further securing email. The new feature raises the required level of authentication checks for emails sent into Office 365, helping ensure greater protection for customers. Learn more on the Security blog.
Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard error - root element is missing when connecting to 365
Hi Exchange Brain trust, I have an Exchange 2016 environment where I recently joined a Exchange 2019 server to move everything and eventually decommission 2016 server. Everything is configured manually to match what we currently have in 2016 server - configuration wise, they both are identical now. We don't have any mailbox on-prem. Its just being used for administration and SMTP relay. The question is, do we still have to run Hybrid Config Wizard ? The reason I'm asking is, I'm stuck on the following stage with an error I pulled my hair off for hours trying to figure the root cause. Connectivity is all working well. Any idea would be really appreciated !Outlook Meeting Updates Going Directly to Deleted Items
Microsoft made in change in how meeting updates are handled and smaller updates are now going directly to the Deleted items folder. This caused people to miss important updates to agenda items. I am wondering if other people also receive complaints about this? To me it seems strange that such a setting cannot be controlled by individual Outlook settings as there are settings for this already in place. Is Microsoft considering to allow this behavior to be controlled by the Outlook/Outlook on the web settings as an improvement over the current situation? Background information: Uservoice request: https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/325347-office-com-home-page/suggestions/37852648-ms-outlook-calendar-function-has-unwanted-autoproc Information about the change on the Microsoft roadmap: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=meeting%2Cupdates Information about the settings to control this organization wide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/organization/set-organizationconfig?view=exchange-ps Settings that can be set in Outlook and Outlook on the web that do not have any impact on this behavior: Outlook on the Web: Delete invitations and responses that have been updated Outlook: Automatically process meeting requests and responses to meeting requests and polls
