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Vom 28. - 30. Juni 2021 findet die Infinity 365 Konferenz in Wien im Studio 44 statt. Der Montag ist ein Workshop-Tag mit Themen rund um OneDrive, Datenschutz, SharePoint Framework, Modern Workplace und Adoption Best Practices. Am Dienstag und Mittwoch bietet die Konferenz in drei parallel Tracks Session zu dem Themen Employee Experience und New Work, Administration und User Adoption und Entwicklung und Low-Code. Ihr trefft mich auf der Konferenz und ich freue mich, wenn ich euch in meinen Sessions begrüßen darf. Teams Admin Rollen und das Teams Admin Center Microsoft Teams und lokale Postfächer - Warum?   Weitere Informationen zur Konferenz: Agenda Anmeldung   Wir sehen uns in Wien.    

Das Blog Cumulative Update für Mai 2021 (CU0521) fasst interessante Themen rund um Cloud Sicherheit, Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams und Azure des Monats Mai 2021 zusammen. Allgemein [STICKY] Modern Collaboration Architecture (MOCA) [STICKY] Microsoft Products Reaching End of Support for 2020 Education and Governance: your weapons to combat fear and enable modern workplaces Build the next generation of collaborative apps for hybrid work Storytelling for Champions - new resources available How a positive hybrid work culture can help you to mitigate insider risk PowerShell Event Log Mining   Exchange Server [STICKY] Microsoft Exchange Server Support Scripts [STICKY] Outlook License Requirements for Exchange Features Tech Talk 12 - Exchange Server Support Life-Cycle Outlook AutoDetect And Broken AutoDiscover Office Online server - Sorry there was a problem and we can’t open this document Exchange server patching performance and windows defender Microsoft Exchange Server attacks: The Fast and the Furious New security functionality in May 2021 security updates Exchange Health Checker has a new home Troubleshooting Legacy Public Folder Migration Endpoints in Office 365   Microsoft 365 | OneDrive | Exchange Online | and more [STICKY] Microsoft ...

Recently I had to support the uninstall of Exchange Server 2016 CU10 on a Windows Server 2019 system. That this setup is not supported is a different topic. In this case, a new Exchange Server 2016 system was placed in service, and the old system needed to be removed from the on-premises Exchange organization. We mounted the Exchange 2016 CU10 ISO, and ran the following command from an administrative command line: Setup.exe /mode:uninstall   Prerequisites Checks The prerequisites check failed with an odd error: http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2017/01/attempting-to-delete-exchange-server.html Querying for any incompleted public folder migration requests returned no results. But the prerequisites check insisted that there was an existing public folder migration request. In such a case you already know that you have to use ADSIEdit to find the object in question.  It turned out that the prerequisites check was right, as we found a single public folder migration request in the Active Directory configuration partition. The request was an artifact of an unsuccessful migration attempt in 2019. After we have checked that the current modern public folder hierarchy worked as expected, we deleted the artifact from Active Directory. Now the ...

I am honored to speak at CloudEight Virtual Summit 2021. CloudEight is a conference about Microsoft 365 related topics and takes place for the third time.    My session covers the topic "Microsoft Teams and On-Premises Mailbox - Why?" What are the reasons for using Microsoft Teams with on-premises mailboxes, what are the technical requirements, and why is this approach not necessarily a good idea? Register today. Looking forward to seeing you at the virtual conference.   Links CloudEight Virtual Summit Event Homepage    

The use of Microsoft Viva requires using a modern SharePoint site as a home site.  The documentation for enabling Microsoft Viva describes how to set a new SharePoint Online Home Site, but lacks an important step. You must swap the new home site and current home site, in addition to setting the SharePoint Online home site. The swap cmdlet archives the current home site.  # Replace with the new home site URL $NewHomeSiteUrl = 'https://varunagroup.sharepoint.com/sites/Varuna' # Replace with current home site URL $CurrentHomeSiteUrl = 'https://varunagroup.sharepoint.com/' # Replace with an archive URL $ArchiveUrl = 'https://varunagroup.sharepoint.com/sites/oldhomepage' Invoke-SPOSiteSwap -SourceUrl $NewHomeSiteUrl -TargetUrl -ArchiveUrl $ArchiveUrl   Links Install Viva Connections today    

  I am honored to speak at Teams Nation 2021 on 12th May about Microsoft Teams Admin Roles and Teams Admin Center.  Register today and visit my session in room Teams Nation Germany (TCD). As suspected, the session will be in German. Teams Nation is a community conference and offers 115 sessions in 11 tracks. Visit the conference site and register today.   Teams Nation Conference Teams Nation Schedule Register for Teams Nation Conference  

Being in a situation where you need to recover IT components or even a whole IT infrastructure after a disastrous event can be stressful. It would help if you stayed concentrated while dealing with the constant status requests by the management. In such a situation, it can help to isolate your mind by listening to music. Music that helps you focus your thoughts, anger, and feelings in such a moment. Maybe you find my Spotify playlist helpful. The playlist contains about 12 hours of music. IT Recovery Playlist Listening to music using a headphone is good, but playing music loud and feeling the rhythm and every single bass is much better. Enjoy.    

This post was published first on April 1st 2021   Wouldn't it be nice if you could stay in Microsoft Teams even when working with your emails? Microsoft Teams is getting even more mature by providing an App for integrating Outlook into the Microsoft Teams client. At least it seems that this is the case. or was it?   The Outlook App (Preview) Last week a new App, still in preview, showed up in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) of some demo tenants. I filtered the list of available apps using Outlook as a search term.   When selecting the app, the details showed that the app was still in preview (v0.41).   As long as the app is enabled within Teams, you can add the app to a Teams Setup Policy and make it available for users. Your users can then access the Outlook App using the Teams app bar.   You can simply click on Outlook in the app bar and, voilá, you have your Outlook inbox in Microsoft Teams. Due to the architecture of Microsoft Teams, you have access to your Outlook on the Web version of your inbox.   Links Learn more ...

This year's MCT Summit Middle East took place on 19-20 March, with two full days of content about Microsoft technologies. Four session tracks plus a workshop track offered possibilities to learn and share knowledge, not only with the MCT community.  The session recording will be made available on the event website.   I enjoyed talking about Exchange Hybrid, what it is, why you need it and how you implement it using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard. My PowerPoint presentation is available on Slideshare.  I look forward to next years' event.        Links MCT Summit Middle East My PowerPoint slide deck on SlideShare   

Services of third-party software solutions often interfere with installing a new Exchange Server cumulative update, because these services have a file lock active.  To avoid any issues when installing a CU, or having the prerequisites check fail due to open files, you simply stop the Windows services and ensure that those services do not restart automatically. Especially monitoring solutions that use some kind of watchdog service are a candidate that you must disable for installing an Exchange Server CU. The following two PowerShell examples help you to prepare the Windows services for installing an Exchange Server CU.   Prepare for CU installation In preparation for the installation of an Exchange Server cumulative update, you can use the following PowerShell commands. # Disable and stop services or just stop services # Add other services as needed # Set SMEX service to manual and stop services Get-Service -Name 'ScanMail*' | Set-Service -StartupType Manual Get-Service -Name 'ScanMail*' | ?{$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Stop-Service -Force # Stop SMEX SQL Express instance Get-Service -Name 'MSSQL*' | ?{$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Stop-Service -Force # Disable and stop ENow monitoring services Get-Service 'ENow*' | Set-Service -StartupType Disabled Get-Service 'ENow*' | ?{$_.Status -eq 'Running'} ...

You sometimes need some (or even many) test user objects in Active Directory. This script helps you create any number of test users in your Active Directory domain, which you can easily enable for on-premises or remote mailboxes afterward.   The Script # Number of user accounts to create $UserCount = 5 $RandomPassword = $true $DefaultPassword = 'Pa55w.rd' # User name prefix # New user object will be named TestUser1, TestUser2, ... $TestUserPrefix = 'TestUser' # User object properties $GivenName = 'Test' $Surname = 'User' $Company = 'Varunagroup' $JobTitle = @('Junior Consultant','Senior Consultant','Technical Consultant','Business Consultant') $PreferredLanguage = 'de-DE' # Name of the new organizational unit for test user object $TestOU = 'Test User' # Target OU path where the script creates the new OU $TargetOU = 'OU=IT,dc=varunagroup,dc=de' # Import Active Directory PowerShell Module Import-Module -Name ActiveDirectory # Build OU Path $UserOUPath = ("OU={0},{1}" -f $TestOU, $TargetOU) # Check if OU exists $OUExists = $false try { $OUExists = [adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$UserOUPath") } catch { $OUExists =$true } if(-not $OUExists) { # Create new organizational unit for test users New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name $TestOU -Path $TargetOU -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion:$false -Confirm:$false } else { Write-Warning ('OU {0} exists please delete the OU and user ...

  I am honored to be a speaker at the Virtual Scottish Summit 2021 conference, taking place on Saturday, 27. February. The Scottish Summit is a truly European event. You can choose from 365 sessions covering mostly any about Microsoft 365 workloads in seven languages: Englisch Spanish German French Italian Portuguese Polish   Attend my session when you are interested in the challenges of implementing Exchange Server Hybrid, and the requirements to make it work with Microsoft Teams and on-premises mailboxes. My session at Scottish Summit 2021: Exchange Hybrid - What, Why, and How Session schedule details 13:00h (UK)    Links Scottish Summit 2021 Website Register for Scottish Summit Scottish Summit Sessions Scottish Summit 2020 YouTube Channel   See you online for the Virtual Scottish Summit.