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How to connect Office 365 (Post Upgrade) to a POP or IMAP Account

Today I was working on a customer issue where they were unable to connect Thunderbird to an Office...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 05/09/2013

How to enable ActiveSync Logging in Office 365 and On Premise

There are times when you have an ActiveSync device that isn’t behaving properly. Maybe mail is...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 05/08/2013

Cross Premise Calendar Sharing with Office 365

There are two ways to share read access to your calendar across premise (On Premise to Office 365 or...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 05/07/2013

How to prevent your Exchange Database Drives filling up completely. Or Disk Space monitoring on a budget

We have all been there. We create our brand new Exchange system, size the server correctly using the...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 02/07/2013

How to patch the Multi Role DAG

I recently had a conversation with one of my customers who is about to patch their multi-role DAG...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 11/28/2012

Block Mobile apps that use Exchange Web Services

We all know that with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, ActiveSync is the preferred option for Mobile...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 08/23/2012

Manage Groups with Groups in Exchange 2010

Its been a while since I have posted anything useful, so I might as well start again! A Common issue...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 04/03/2012

Custom RBAC Management Roles–Part 2

In a previous post, I explained how to create a Custom RBAC role which removes certain abilities...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 12/04/2011

PowerShell for Exchange 2010–Cheat Sheet!

When working with customers, everyone who is new to PowerShell finds it to be an amazing idea, but...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 10/21/2011

Outlook 2010 Group Policy Templates–Issue with Exchange Unicode Mode–Turn Off ANSI Mode

There seems to be an issue with the Outlook 2010 ADM/ADMX Template Files. The Description for the...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 10/17/2011

How to Import an ICS file into Outlook

Todays post will detail how to import an ICS file into Outlook 2010. I have been working with a...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 10/14/2011

How to create a custom “Recipient Management” group using Exchange 2010 RBAC

My customer wanted to assign the "Recipient Management" group to their helpdesk staff, who...

Author: Matthew Abraham Date: 09/16/2011