Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 Announced

The Exchange Team has just announced the Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 2010. It is currently scheduled for release in first half of 2013. The SP3 will as expected include support for Co-existence with Exchange 2013 and also support for installing Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2012. Along with these two major features, it will contain all fixes within Update Rollups released prior to SP3. Read more on the Exchange Team blog about the …

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How to change the Recipient Type of a Mailbox in Exchange or Office 365

If you need to change the purpose of an existing Exchange Mailbox, for instance changing a User Mailbox to a Shared Mailbox or maybe the other way around, changing a Shared Mailbox to a User Mailbox. Could also be changing to a Room or Equipment. This an relative easy task to change. Make sure your running the Exchange Management Shell or are connected Office 365 (see previous post). Change a mailbox to a Shared Mailbox, …

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How to set User Passwords to never expire in Office 365

There can be a good reason for setting certain user accounts to never expire their password. With Office 365, it is also possible to set this for a selected user account or all user accounts within the organization. Still, it is advisable not to set never expire for all accounts. In this blog post I will describe how easy it is to set an user account in Office 365 to never expire it’s password using …

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How to Create a Shared Mailbox in Office 365

In Office 365 you can create a Shared Mailbox, for several or all people to have access to. In this blog post I will describe how to create a Shared Mailbox using PowerShell. See my previous blog posts about connecting to Office 365 using PowerShell. When the Shared Mailbox has been created, it is important to assign permissions to it. In the following example, we will create a Shared Mailbox for IT Helpdesk. New-Mailbox -Name …

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Lync Server 2013 sessions from TechEd 2012 Australia

Now the first Lync Server 2013 sessions from Microsoft has started emerging. The first conference to contain some Lync Server 2013 was TechEd 2012 Australia, which was held in September 11th – 14th. The next conference with a lot of Lync, would properly be the Lync Conference 2013 in San Diego (Feb. 19-23 2013). They are available as on demand recordings (webcasts) and slide decks (not online yet) are also online. Here is the complete …

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