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Tim McMichael

Navigating the world of high availability...and occasionally sticking my head in the cloud...

In script version 1.3 we began the introduction of logic that allowed administrators to convert the...

Date: 03/19/2019

In Office 365 the managed folder assistance is responsible for applying data retention policies to...

Date: 02/13/2019

Dynamic distribution lists offer excellent mechanisms to email groups of users based on their...

Date: 01/29/2019

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Date: 09/25/2018

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Date: 09/19/2018

In Office 365 an Exchange related object can be replicated from the on premises Active Directory to...

Date: 09/10/2018

In Exchange Online an Office 365 Group ( Unified Group / Modern Group ) allows for a new level of...

Date: 08/22/2018

In Office 365 cloud only groups can have their membership managed through the Office 365 portal or...

Date: 08/21/2018

In some previous blog posts I have outlined conditions where users may have inadvertently had a...

Date: 07/15/2018

In Office 365 migration batches are the preferred method of establishing mailbox migrations to...

Date: 07/03/2018

In the last few weeks I have worked several escalations from customers inquiring about...

Date: 07/01/2018

In order for an Exchange Online mailbox to exist in Office 365 it must be attached to an Azure...

Date: 06/26/2018

Administrators may enable security groups on premises as distribution groups. [PS]...

Date: 04/29/2018

In certain support circumstances it may become necessary to hard delete an Azure Active Directory...

Date: 04/29/2018

In todays connected environments there are several applications that send email through designated...

Date: 04/22/2018

In Office 365 when licenses are assigned to a user a mailbox should not be provisioned if the user...

Date: 04/10/2018

In Office 365 I often encourage customers to control user forwarding through the user of remote...

Date: 04/09/2018

In Office 365 we allow administrators to create mail user objects. A mail user object is a security...

Date: 04/09/2018

Today I spoke with a customer that had a unique situation – at least for me. They have started to...

Date: 02/19/2018

In Office 365 support we occasionally receive requests to review non-deliverable reports. In some...

Date: 02/09/2018

In Office 365 administrators can invoke the managed folder assistant by using the...

Date: 02/07/2018

In Office 365 administrators may discover issues with distribution lists and distribution list...

Date: 02/06/2018

In support you often have interesting cases come across your desk – and sometimes the questions and...

Date: 02/06/2018

In Azure AD Connect, the default synchronization interval is set to 30 minutes during installation....

Date: 01/23/2018

When customers desire to move a domain from one tenant to another or decommission a domain within a...

Date: 01/17/2018

In Office 365 there are several throttling limits that administrators may encounter that impact mail...

Date: 12/05/2017

I had a customer present an inquiry to us on the management and communication of release release...

Date: 12/05/2017

In Office 365 domain verification was traditionally only available through DNS record validation....

Date: 11/12/2017

Occasionally we receive customer requests for generation of report data. Today I received a request...

Date: 11/07/2017

This week I had a customer present with an interesting issue. They have a partner company they work...

Date: 11/06/2017

Auditing of mailbox operations are not enabled by default in Exchange Online. It is the...

Date: 11/05/2017

Today I had an interesting case come across my desk. A customer wanted to enforce that all external...

Date: 10/24/2017

In recent weeks I have worked on several escalations regarding the DNS health checks in the Office...

Date: 10/22/2017

In Office 365 we provide administrators the ability to access important information about the...

Date: 10/16/2017

Cluster failures due to transient cluster communications problems can often lead to databases...

Date: 10/11/2017

Office 365 groups are the recommended replacement for legacy distribution groups in Office 365. You...

Date: 10/10/2017

In Office 365 it may become necessary to change recipient types for on premises accounts. In this...

Date: 10/03/2017

In Office 365 administrators may experience almost immediate failures of migrations to Office 365....

Date: 09/17/2017

In Office 365 our provisioning logic generally prevents the existence of a mailbox on premises and...

Date: 09/10/2017

When an administrator provisions a migration batch to Office 365 and adds users, objects known as...

Date: 08/22/2017

The Office 365 portal often offers information regarding the status and health of your services. The...

Date: 08/15/2017

Administrators can view and configure auto reply settings for an Exchange Online mailbox using the...

Date: 08/15/2017

As most administrators are aware the clutter feature of Office 365 has been automatically enabled...

Date: 05/08/2016

In Exchange 2007 we introduced the ability to perform passive replica backups of an Exchange...

Date: 08/23/2015

Exchange Online has been extended to take advantage of One Drive for Business as a location to...

Date: 06/14/2015

Exchange Server and Office 365 offer many different options for forwarding messages to different...

Date: 06/08/2015

In Office 365 Outlook Web Access allows for individuals to manage distribution groups that the own....

Date: 05/19/2015

In Office 365 there may be a need to perform a bulk update to email addresses across accounts. The...

Date: 05/17/2015

On the EHLO blog we recently announced a support change for databases that have been repaired. The...

Date: 05/06/2015

Introduction When running Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2, administrators can create a DAG...

Date: 04/29/2015

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