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How many Exchange Servers do you need for your hybrid deployment?
Some organizations choose to migrate to Exchange Online because their Exchange servers are end-of-life, so they don’t need to introduce new Exchange servers and save costs hosting and maintaining these servers. Another reason to migrate to Exchange Online for organizations is the introduction of the modern Microsoft 365 workplace. All services integrate with each other,…
List top hundred largest user mailboxes
Here is a quick tip for you. This cmdlet generates the hundred largest user mailboxes sorted by size.
Learn about mail routing between Exchange and Exchange Online
When you configure a hybrid Exchange environment, mail routing can be a challenging topic. How does Exchange know when to send email to Exchange Online? What happens when I change my MX record and point it towards Exchange Online Protection, will email still arrive to my on-premises recipients? Let’s take a deep dive and learn…
Microsoft’s new -le and -ge operators for dynamic group management based on hire dates
Microsoft has recently added the less than or equal (-le) and greater than or equal (-ge) operators to filter users based on their employee hire date attribute (EmployeeHireDate) for dynamic groups. Let’s take a detailed look at Microsoft’s new -le and -ge operators for dynamic group management based on hire dates. This is a helpful…
Object management in a hybrid environment
When an organization is migrating various parts of its IT-landscape to Microsoft 365, administrators need to plan the management of directory objects. Unexpected challenges may appear regarding Object management in a hybrid environment. Azure AD Connect When you setup and configure Azure AD Connect, you enable the synchronization of objects to Entra ID. This enables…
Threat Policy Strategy
Let’s take a dive into a threat policy strategy for Exchange Online Protection and how to effectively implement them in your environment. What are Threat policies? Threat policies are part of Exchange Online Protection. Everyone with a Microsoft 365 license can use these policies to protect their environment against various kinds of threats. There are…
Strange Migration Batch Error
During a recent remote migration batch from on-premises to Exchange Online, I noticed a high number of failures that I couldn’t explain. This prompted me to investigate the single Exchange 2019 server that was set up as a hybrid server between the Exchange 2013 environment and Exchange Online. Let’s take a dive into this strange…
The Hassle with Remote Routing Addresses in a Hybrid Environment
Nothing is more frustrating for a user to find out it isn’t receiving any e-mail. This easy method can help you monitor this issue and proactively prevent it from happening. Let’s solve the hassle with Remote Routing Addresses in a hybrid environment. The Remote Routing Address tells Exchange server where to send the e-mail to…
Manual add Remote Routing Addresses to All Mailboxes
When you’re setting up an Exchange Hybrid environment the Hybrid Configuration Wizard will add the Remote Routing Address to the Default Email Address Policy. Not all organizations make use of an Email Address Policy (EAP) that enables the automatic creation of the primary SMTP (reply) address and additional proxy addresses, like the @tenantname.mail.onmicrosoft.com proxy address,…