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Last week I had to coordinate a meeting with nine people across three companies and seven time zones. This common struggle has been solved with Microsoft FindTime for some time, but so many people do not know about it! Finding a time to meet is a widespread issue in global teams across companies. This is […]
Updated May 2, 2022 If you are looking for guidance on what is in a message header and how to interpret a message header, check out my article here: https://madmike.net/what-is-an-email-message-header/ This article shows how to read an email message header. With 345 million active users in Office 365, Office 365 & Outlook remain the top […]
What is a Message Header? Reading a message header is a simple and necessary skill for Office 365 & Exchange Admins. These days it is becoming less and less common. However, it certainly is one of those skills that you need when issues pop up. We often had to review message headers with on-prem […]
An important part of troubleshooting issues with Office 365 is confirming the service is healthy. While most problems are related to single users or configurations, outages occasionally happen. While this article isn’t some of my more groundbreaking content, I often get asked how I monitor outages & health in Office 365. When people complain something […]
On October 5, 2021, the Microsoft Exchange Team BLOG posted a notice about Upcoming API Deprecations for EWS in Exchange Online. The article included some API commands becoming end of life. However, the true shock was a statement that on September 30, 2022, no new Application Registrations would be allowed. The key statement was this: […]
I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at a great meetup in Manchester, UK a few days ago. The Microsoft Cloud User Group has some fantastic gatherings coming up, and I highly recommend all my UK friends take advantage of them. They are excellent networking events. In this post, I will review what I covered […]
When it comes to on-prem Exchange migrations to Office 365, I am a broken record. If you can use the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) to migrate Exchange On-Prem Mailboxes to Exchange Online, you should. MRS migrations allow for a much easier migration with the following benefits: Reuse Outlook Cache Normally, no reconfiguration of Outlook / […]
In a Merger and Acquisition, the race is on from day one! Many times, in this race, acquiring organizations want to get their new colleagues up and running as quickly as possible. However, in this race, some organizations decide to provision new accounts with an Office 365 license. In my opinion, this is not the […]
Reactions, GIFs, and Emoticons are not just something kids are using anymore. They have become a regular part of our corporate communication. They can enhance or soften written communication, providing a wide range of communication tones in text, rather than the flat text of the past. However, there are a lot of migration challenges with […]
Day One activities for MAD work are often chaotic. I remember the 6 AM wake-ups by an AP Mobile Alert and my pager going off! After a cup of coffee, the first thing I would try to find out was if the other company was on Exchange, Notes, or Google. Today this issue is less […]