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Matt Abraham posts a few top tips on making Exchange 2013’s version of OWA more touch-friendly , simply by modifying the address! Among his tips are twide (touch, wide) and tnarrow (touch, narrow): You can modify the Outlook Web App view with a couple of easy switches, which can be saved in your favourites...

Summary : Shamsher Dhanoa , a Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer based in the US , tells us why you would want to block the ever-valuable Exchange Autodiscover feature, along with detailed steps and options on how to do it. Microsoft Exchange Administrators may well remember setting up Outlook...

Mike O’Neill guest blogs on the Exchange Team’s blog (still sporting the wonderfully punny “ you had me at EHLO ” tagline) on setting up a shared mailbox to send something akin to canned responses . As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE), I assist companies with Lotus Notes and GroupWise migrations...

Summary: Jaroslav Zikmund, one of our Czech Republic-based Microsoft Premier Field Engineers who focuses on Messaging, provides us with some insights and details on enhancements in Exchange 2013 for protecting email via Active Directory Rights Management. Better safe than sorry! Enjoy. When it...

This article has been contributed by Ryan Doon , a PFE working with Microsoft Canada. In this post, he talks about why storing PST files on a file server will lead to performance issues, and presents some options to proactively avoid those issues. As a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft I am always...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The venerable Personal Storage Table (PST) file has been present in Microsoft Exchange environments for many years.  In some ways its success has lead to its downfall.  With the proliferation of PST files on a network, multiple...

Written by Frank Plawetzki, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book) . One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution...

Written by Gerald Ramich , Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article is for folks who are trying to troubleshoot Microsoft Outlook Connectivity issues to Exchange servers. I’ll look at a wide number of troubleshooting items, including: RPC through CAS for Mailbox Access...

Written by Gerald Ramich , Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article is for folks who are trying to troubleshoot Outlook Connectivity issues. In my experience, many people confuse profile creation with connectivity to the server, so in this post I’ll explain what happens at profile creation...

Written by Dan Erelis , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer   As I discussed in a previous post on combating PST (personal folder files) infestation, one of the fundamental reasons why organizations look to an email archiving solution is to solve the problems associated with PST  storage. There...