Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We have come to the end of 2012 and this will be final post for the year. It is that time of year, were most of us are ready to go on holidays, I will be taking a few weeks off myself and relax with family and friends. Thank you all for your support, questions and comments throughout the year. 2012 has been a great year for my blog, I am overwhelmed by the increase …

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Configure RSA Authentication on a TMG Server for OWA Publishing

This post is based on recent field notes. Instead of creating a new detailed post with step by step information on how to configure RSA Authentication on a TMG Server, I have compiled the information and steps needed to configure RSA Authentication on a TMG Server. Below is a small overview of the steps needed to configure RSA Authentication on a TMG server for use with Outlook Web App. The overview of the steps: On …

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Lync 2013 License changes

With the release of the wave 15 products, Microsoft has made some changes in the licensing for a lot of these new products. For Lync Server 2013 this means a major change. I am doing this post, since I have not seen many writings about these changes and not everyone is aware of this huge change in licensing. It will be more expensive for a lot of organizations. As an overview for the whole wave …

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Remote Connectivity Analyzer has been updated

All of us, has properly gotten a call from someone whose Outlook client is having trouble connecting to their Exchange environment and a lot of us properly already known the infamous web based tool from Microsoft called Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA), which can be used to test external connections to your Exchange environment, for a lot of different client scenatios, such as Outlook Anywhere, ActiveSync etc. Microsoft have done a major updated their toolkit …

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Latest Exchange rollup updates available

Something that went a bit unnoticed last week, the Exchange Team released the latest Exchange Rollup Updates, they are all available as downloads from Microsoft Download or from the Windows Update. Below is an overview of the latest Rollups: Exchange 2007 SP3: Update Rollup 8-v3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2778154) Build no. 8.3.279.6 (Release date: 13th Nov. 2012) Download the Exchange2007-KB2778154 package now Exchange 2010 SP1: Update Rollup 7-v3 for Exchange Server …

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