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.
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.
Listening to music using a headphone is good, but playing music loud and feeling the rhythm and every single bass is much better.
Enjoy.
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?
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.
Enjoy Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook. - And remember today's date.
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.
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.
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*' | ?{$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Stop-Service -Force # Stop NetBackup service Get-Service -Name 'NetBackup*' | ?{$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Stop-Service -Force
After installing the Exchange Server cumulative update you should restart your computer. I recommend initiating a check for additional Windows Updates for the CU. This helps to ensure that you do not only have the latest CU installed, but required security updates as well.
# Enabling and starting services # Adjust the list of services as needed # Enable and start SMEX services Get-Service -Name 'ScanMail*' | Set-Service -StartupType Automatic Get-Service -Name 'ScanMail*' | Start-Service # Enable and start ENow Monitoring services Get-Service -Name 'ENow*' | Set-Service -StartupType Automatic Get-Service -Name 'ENow*' | Start-Service
Enjoy Exchange Server.