Dani on Jun 21, 2021
You Might Want to Audit Your LAPS Permissions - Part1
In today's blog, I'd like to quickly talk about the Local Administrator Password Solution (aka LAPS). It's nothing new and has been around for some ...
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Dani on Jun 17, 2021
Preview updating PowerShell 7.2 with Microsoft Update
Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re taking the first steps to making PowerShell 7 easier than ever to update on Windows 10 and Server. ...
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Dani on Jun 17, 2021
Basic Authentication and Exchange Online - June 2021 Update
It’s been a few months since our last update on Basic Authentication in Exchange Online, but we’ve been busy getting ready for the next phase ...
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Dani on Jun 12, 2021
News About the June 2021 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server
We typically release our quarterly Cumulative Updates (CUs) for Exchange Server on the third Tuesday of a month. In June 2021, that would be June ...
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Dani on May 31, 2021
Microsoft 365 Maps and Licensing
Moin, in short: A nice, pictorial overview of the possible plans and their products: Greetings, Dani ...
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Dani on May 31, 2021
Staying on top of Office 365 Updates
Moin! One of the main challenges when using Office 365 products and services is to stay aware of announcements, updates and upcoming features. This applies ...
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Dani on May 29, 2021
Security baseline for Microsoft Edge version 91
We are pleased to announce the enterprise-ready release of the security baseline for Microsoft Edge, version 91! We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft ...
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Dani on May 27, 2021
Enabling Modern Auth for Outlook
Since we announced in 2019 that we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols we have been encouraging our customers to switch to Modern ...
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Dani on May 27, 2021
Exchange Health Checker has a new home
Today, we are happy to announce that the Exchange Health Checker PowerShell script has a new home: it is now part of the Microsoft CSS-Exchange ...
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Dani on May 27, 2021
Outlook for Windows Shared Calendar Public Notifications
It is with great excitement that we are announcing that we have graduated the shared calendar improvements in Outlook for Windows out of preview! This ...
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Dani on May 27, 2021
Difficulty Generating a Memory Dump
My name is Teeda, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Performance Team at Microsoft. This blog post provides several suggestions and ...
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Dani on May 27, 2021
FAQs from the field on KRBTGT reset
Introduction Recently I had couple of customers asking many questions on KRBTGT account password reset and Microsoft’s recommendations for this, in this article I will ...
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Dani on Apr 26, 2021
Why Exchange Server updates matter
It is very important to keep updating your Exchange Servers to a supported Cumulative Update (CU). Simply put, your on-premises environments should always be ready ...
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Frank on Apr 14, 2021
April 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft has released security updates for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2019 These updates are available for the following ...
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Dani on Apr 02, 2021
Native external sender callouts on email in Outlook
We know that some of our customers leverage Exchange transport rules to prepend subject line or insert the message body to show the email is ...
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Dani on Mar 17, 2021
March 2021 Quarterly Exchange Updates
Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates (CUs) for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. These CUs include fixes for ...
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Dani on Mar 02, 2021
Windows Admin Center version 2103 is now generally available
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Admin Center version 2103! A big THANK YOU to the Windows Admin Center community, ...
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Dani on Feb 22, 2021
Upcoming changes to mailbox receiving limits: Hot Recipients Throttling
To ensure optimal mail flow performance for all customers and protect the health of Exchange services, Microsoft is updating the way in which we enforce ...
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Dani on Feb 08, 2021
Managing deployment of RBCD-Protected User (CVE-2020-16996)
Summary If you use Protected Users and Resource-Based Constrained Delegation (RBCD), a security vulnerability may exist on Active Directory domain controllers. To learn more about ...
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Dani on Feb 05, 2021
Basic Authentication and Exchange Online - February 2021
We previously announced we would begin to disable Basic Auth for five Exchange Online protocols in the second half of 2021. Due to the pandemic ...
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Dani on Jan 16, 2021
Windows Defender SmartScreen - File and Flash Player blockage problem
SmartScreen has become a part of Windows 10 OS, it was named as Windows Defender SmartScreen. It is useful to protect not just Edge, Internet ...
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Dani on Jan 16, 2021
Understanding email scenarios if TLS versions cannot be agreed on with Exchange Online
By now you are hopefully aware of the TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation efforts that are underway across the industry and Microsoft 365 in particular. Head out ...
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Dani on Jan 04, 2021
Enhanced Security Admin Environment Retirement
The Enhanced Security Admin Environment (ESAE) architecture (often referred to as red forest, admin forest, or hardened forest) is a legacy on-premises approach to providing ...
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Dani on Dec 23, 2020
The Mysterious Case of the Self-Moving FSMO Roles
Hello all! This is Chris Cartwright from Directory Services. I had a coworker, Eric Jansen, reach out to me from the field and ask about ...
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Dani on Nov 18, 2020
Deprecation Notice for Outlook REST API v2.0
Microsoft Graph is the modern API for the Microsoft 365 platform. We make continuous, significant investments in its security, performance, and features to ensure it ...
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Dani on Oct 15, 2020
Core Active Directory Internals
Now, there is no possible way to cover every possible detail from every day during the MCM. Consequently, my plan is to cover the concepts ...
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Dani on Sep 22, 2020
Exchange News and Announcements - Microsoft Ignite 2020
Today we are announcing that the next versions of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Skype for Business Server and Project Server will be available in the ...
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Dani on Sep 21, 2020
Manage USB Devices on Windows Hosts
Raven is a Miniature Schnauzer that doesn’t like small critters in the yard unless they can fly. This gives Raven an insurmountable challenge, since my ...
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Dani on Sep 18, 2020
SMB Compression: Deflate your IO
Hi folks, Ned Pyle guest-posting today about SMB Compression, a long-awaited option coming to Windows, Windows Server, and Azure. As you know, the growth of ...
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Dani on Sep 15, 2020
Microsoft Exchange Updates Release - September 2020 Quarterly
Moin, Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. These updates include fixes for customer reported ...
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Dani on Sep 11, 2020
Memory Leaks in a Process
My name is Jeffrey Worline, and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Performance Team at Microsoft. This blog addresses troubleshooting leaks ...
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Dani on Sep 05, 2020
Decrypting the Selection of Supported Kerberos Encryption Types
In recent months Microsoft support has received a lot of questions regarding disabling RC4 for the encryption of Kerberos tickets. If I had to guess ...
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Dani on Aug 01, 2020
Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection for Linux
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MD ATP) support for Linux with kernel version 3.10.0-327 or later, including the following Linux flavours : Red Hat Enterprise ...
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Dani on Dec 17, 2019
December 2019 Quarterly Exchange Updates released
Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. These updates include fixes for customer reported issues ...
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