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Das Blog Cumulative Update für März 2020 (CU0320) fasst interessante Themen rund um Cloud Sicherheit, Exchange Server, Office 365, Microsoft Teams und Azure des Monats März 2020 zusammen. Allgemein [STICKY] Microsoft Products Reaching End of Support for 2019 TechNet Gallery Retirement Supporting a Remote Workforce Overnight 2 weeks in: what we've learned about remote work The risks from within White Paper: Bulding an insider risk management program Work remotely, stay secure - Tips for CISOs COVID-19 - Fernunterricht bei Schulschließungen & Quarantäne As Coronavirus continues to spread, new features in Microsoft 365 are helping empower healthcare workers The top 9 ways Microsoft IT is enabling remote work for its employees Work from Home Warriors - Interview with Anna Chu Employers should support employees who want to speak at events Working remotely during challenging times Google and Microsoft are giving away enterprise conferencing tools due to coronavirus Microsoft's Vision for Task Management Digital transformation is a lifestyle change   Exchange Server [STICKY] Outlook License Requirements for Exchange Features Best practices when decommissioning Exchange 2010 March 2020 significant update to Hybrid Configuration Wizard Released: March 2020 ...

Neuigkeiten von Microsoft Learning - Ausgabe März 2020 - UPDATE Im Rahmen der Auswirkungen von COVID-19 pausiert Microsoft Learning die Anfang diesen Jahres angekündigten Änderungen im Zertifizierungsprogramm.   Dies hat folgende Auswirkungen: Die Abkündigung der klassischen MCSA, MCSD und MCSE-Zertifizierungen, angekündigt für den 30. Juni 2020, wird bis zum 31. Januar 2021 ausgesetzt. Das bedeutet, dass bis zum 31. Januar 2021 weiterhin die klassischen MCS*-Zertifizierungsprüfungen abgelegt werden können.   Die Gebühren für die Verlegung oder die Absage einer Zertifizierungsprüfung werden bis auf Weiteres ausgesetzt, insofern die Verlegung oder Absage mindestens 24 Stunden vor dem Buchungstermin erfolgt.   Der Gültigkeitszeitraum für Zertifizierungen der neuen rollenbasierten Zertifizierungsreihe, die zwischen heute und dem 31. Dezember 2020 ablaufen, werden um sechs Monate verlängert.   Person VUE-Gutscheine für Zertifizierungsprüfungen, die zwischen dem 26. März und dem 31. August 2020 ablaufen, werden bis zum 31. Januar 2021 verlängert. Erfahren Sie mehr über diese Änerungen im Blogartikel von Microsoft Learn.   Links Microsoft Learn Persönliches Microsoft Learning Dashboard   Viel Spaß beim Lernen und bleiben Sie gesund.    

Last updated: 2020-03-28 First posted: 2020-04-01 Once upon a time at an Exchange Conference near you, a member of the Exchange Product Group (PG) announced that the very last Exchange Server will go away when having an active Exchange hybrid setup. This was a hot topic for discussions at the Microsoft Exchange Conferences (MEC, @IamMEC) in 2012 and 2014, already. Since then the Exchange PG came up with a number of reasons why this is not possible. The question on when we will finally be able to remove the very last Exchange Server from the on-premises Exchange organization was asked every year at the Ignite Conference.    Current Situation Currently, the supported scenario for hybrid configurations between your on-premises Exchange organization and Exchange Online requires that you keep the last Exchange Server for creating, and managing Exchange related objects, even if those objects are located in Exchange Online.  The following diagram illustrates the current requirements: Domain Controller Servers, with the most recent Active Directory Schema Update for a supported Exchange Server version, and stored Exchange-extended AD objects. DirSync Server, with AAD Connect, synchronizing Exchange-extended AD objects stored in ...

Exchange Server 2016 introduced the PowerShell cmdlet Get-MailboxServerRedundancy. This cmdlet helps you plan and prepare for Exchange Server maintenance by querying the current maintenance readiness of the database availability group (DAG).  Interestingly, there is no PowerShell help available for this vital cmdlet. Microsoft Docs or Exchange Management Shell's Get-Help provide any valuable information. When querying a DAG about the server redundancy status, the cmdlet's default output provides you with the essential information. The default output contains information about: Identity Name of the DAG member server   IsServerFoundInAD Indicates if the corresponding server computer object exists Active Directory   IsInMaintenance Indicates if the server is currently in maintenance mode   RepairUrgency Indicates an aggregated state of the mailbox database and search index repair modes    SafeForMaintenance Indicates if you can safely activate the maintenance mode for this server   HealthInfoLastUpdateTime Timestamp when the server's health state was last updated     Example - Prior Maintenance This example shows the Get-MailboxServerRedundancy output of a six server DAG, before activating maintenance mode for server LOCEXS06. Get-MailboxServerRedundancy -DatabaseAvailabilityGroup EXDAG01 Identity IsServerFound IsInMainten RepairUrgency SafeForMaintenance HealthInfoLastUpdateTime ...

Azure AD Pass-through authentication (PTA) recommends that you run at least three authentication agents to provide high availability for authentication.  When you download and install the PTA agent, registering the PTA agent to Azure AD might fail. This happens most of the time when the network connectivity to Azure AD requires the use of a proxy server. In such a network setup you normally encounter configuration errors only, if the proxy server is misconfigured or the Internet Explorer zone configuration is missing required entries for trusted sites. When you encounter an error during installation and registration of the dedicated PTA agent I recommend to separate these two steps. You need the credentials of an Azure AD account that is a member of the Global Administrator management group. Download the most current release of the PTA agent: https://aka.ms/getauthagent Copy the downloaded file to the server that will serve as a PTA agent Open an administrative command prompt and install the PTA agent software in silent mode without registering the agent: AADConnectAuthAgentSetup.exe REGISTERCONNECTOR="false" /q Open an administrative PowerShell session, navigate to the default installation location and register the ...

Description This script reads Exchange Organization data and creates a single Microsoft Word document. A later version will support exporting to an Html file. The script requires an Exchange Management Shell for Exchange Server 2016 or newer. Older EMS versions are not tested. A locally installed version of Word is required, as plain Html export is not available, yet. The default file name is 'Exchange-Org-Report [TIMESTAMP].docx'.  Most of the script requires only Exchange admin read-only access for the Exchange organization. Querying address list information requires a membership in the RBAC role "Address Lists". The script queries hardware information from the Exchange server systems and requires local administrator access to the computer systems.   NOTE The script is currently under development in version 0.91 and available as a pre-release. You are welcome to contribute to the PowerShell script development.   Examples # Example 1 # Create a Word report for the local Exchange Organization using # the default values defined on the parameters section of the PowerShell script. .\Get-ExchangeOrganizationReport.ps1 -ViewEntireForest:$true # Example 2 # Create a Microsoft Word report for the local Exchange Organization with # a verbose output to the current PowerShell session. .\Get-ExchangeOrganizationReport.ps1 -Verbose   Version History 0.9. Initial ...

Description This script gathers a list of enabled users for a selected Exchange Server client protocol. The list of users is sent by email as HTML text in the email body or as an attached CSV file. You can select to gather data for a single protocol or for all protocols. Available protocols are: POP IMAP ActiveSync   Requirements Windows Server 2012 R2 or newer Exchange 2016+ Management Shell GlobalFunctions module (found here)   Examples # Find users having all protocols enabled, create a CSV file per protocol and send an email with CSV attachments .\Get-EnabledProtocolReport.ps1 -SendMail -MailFrom automation@varunagroup.de -MailTo report@varunagroup.de -MailServer relay.varunagroup.de -Protocol ALL # Find users having all protocols enabled, create a CSV file per protocol .\Get-EnabledProtocolReport.ps1 -Protocol ALL -ExportCsv   Version History 1.0, Initial community release   Links Download and follow at Github: https://github.com/Apoc70/Get-EnabledProtocolReport Download and like at TechNet Gallery: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Script-to-remove-unwanted-9d119c6b   Follow Me Twitter @stensitzki LinkedIn Xing

Learn - Connect - Explore This year's Microsoft Ignite Conference takes place on November 4 - 8 at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), Orlando, Florida. Choose from over 1,000 Breakout and Theater Sessions to learn about new technologies and methods, or talk directly to Microsoft professionals and MVPs about your technical challenges. Select the sessions and hands-on experiences that are most interesting for you based on the Microsoft Learning Paths to suit your job role. You will find me directly in the Modern Workplace & Modern Life in the exhibition area. Just stop by to learn more about the possibilities of modern and secure collaboration using Microsoft Teams, Mobile Productivity, and more.  Feel free to contact me via email to arrange an appointment at Ignite 2019: thomas@mcsmemail.de.   Links Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference Session Catalogue Microsoft Learning Paths   See you in Orlando!    

Last updated: 2020-01-24   Description   This script creates an HTML report showing the following information about an Exchange 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, and, to a lesser extent, 2007 and 2003 environment. The report shows the following:  As summary Total number of servers per Exchange Server version Total number of mailboxes per On-Premises Exchange Server version, Office 365, and Exchange Organisation Total number of Exchange Server functional roles   Per Active Directory Site Total number of mailboxes Internal, External, and CAS Array names Exchange Server computers Product version Service Pack, Update Rollup, and/or Cumulative Update Number of preferred and maximum active databases Functional Roles Operating System with Service Pack   Per Database Availability Group Total number of member servers List of member servers DAG databases Number of mailboxes and average mailbox size Number of archive mailboxes and average archive mailbox size Database ...

Description When using this PowerShell script you can update the guest user's thumbnail photo to a photo that aligns with your company's corporate identity and compliance guidelines, and you do not have to rely on the Azure AD default photo. This script sets the AzureADThumbnailPhoto for guest users to a photo provided as JPG or PNG file. The photo file can be up to 100KB in size. This is currently not checked in the script. You can either update a single guest user or all guest users. When updating the user photo can choose to set the photo forcibly or only if there is no photo set. The changes are written to a log file. The log file functions are part of the GlobalFunctions module.   Examples # EXAMPLE # Set the photo ExternalUser.png for all guest users if no photo exists .\Set-GuestUserPhoto.ps1 -FilePath D:\Photos\ExternalUser.png -GuestUsersToSelect All -UpdateMode SetIfNoPhotoExists # EXAMPLE # Set the photo ExternalUser.png for guest user JohnDoe@varunagroup.de if no photo exists .\Set-GuestUserPhoto.ps1 -FilePath D:\Photos\ExternalUser.png -GuestUsersToSelect Single -UserPrincipalName JohnDoe@varunagroup.de   Version History 1.0, Initial community release   Links Download and follow at Github: https://github.com/Apoc70/Set-GuestUserPhoto Download and like at TechNet Gallery: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Set-Thumbnail-Photos-for-ae2d437c   Follow Twitter @stensitzki LinkedIn Xing

On May 11th, the SharePoint Saturday Cologne took place at the new Microsoft Office in Cologne.  My session covered the migration of legacy public folders from Exchange Server 2010 to modern public folders hosted on-premises or Exchange Online. Additionally, I've talked about the pros and cons of a migration to Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. The slide deck is available on SlideShare.     View and Download at Slideshare   Enjoy Exchange Server and do not forget about the end of support for Exchange Server 2010 on January 14th, 2010.      

Description This script connects either to Exchange Online or to a dedicated on-premises Exchange Server to export configured mailbox delegates and SMTP forwarding configurations. The SMTP forwarding configurations are gathered from inbox rules and from mailbox forwarding settings.   Requirements Exchange Server 2016 or newer Cretenials to logon to Exchange Online and Office 365 when querying EXO mailboxes Utilizes GlobalFunctions PowerShell Module --> http://bit.ly/GlobalFunctions   Examples # Example 1 # Connect to the on-premises Exchange Server mx01.varunagroup.de and export delegation and SMTP forwarding information .\Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules.ps1 -ExchangeHost mx01.varunagroup.de # Example 2 # Connect to the on-premises Exchange Server mx01.varunagroup.de, export delegation and SMTP forwarding information and get verbose information on the objects worked on .\Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules.ps1 -ExchangeHost mx01.varunagroup.de -Verbose # Example 3 # Connect to Exchange Online and export delegation and SMTP forwarding information .\Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules.ps1 -ExchangeOnline   Version History 1.0, Initial community release   Links Download and follow at Github: https://github.com/Apoc70/Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules Download and like at TechNet Gallery: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-delegates-and-SMTP-9c42a270 Use GitHub Issues to leave comments, requests, end even bugs or issues.   Additional Credits The script is based on the O365-InvestigationTooling script DumpDelegatesandForwardingRules.ps1 by Brandon Koeller Find more Office 365 investigation tooling scripts at https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-InvestigationTooling.   Follow Twitter @stensitzki LinkedIn Xing