Office 365, Azure & Exchange Tips, Tricks & Notes From The Field

Playing With Exchange 2013 Performance Logs

February 17, 2016

It’s not common that one needs to play with Exchange 2013 daily performance log files on a daily basis, unless you work for Microsoft support. You will be hunting for it, especially if you have raised a ticket with performance issues with the Exchange support team.

Tackle .Net Framework 4.6.1 On Exchange Servers

February 11, 2016February 11, 2016

Microsoft has released .Net Framework 4.6.1 and this doesn’t go well with any version of Exchange server, including 2016 yet. You need to watch out for this one especially if you use Windows update to patch the servers.

Azure AD Connect & Connect Health

December 4, 2015July 2, 2015

The Azure team has released the much awaited Azure AD Connect binaries for download.

Connect-MsolService Error – The type initializer threw an exception

November 11, 2015March 2, 2015

While running Connect-MSolService in Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, I was surprised to see the error below. This has worked like a charm in the past!

Specify Password For A New Office 365 User

October 25, 2015March 1, 2015

You can now specify a password for a new Office 365 user, just as you would while creating an account in Active Directory.

Office 365 Roadmap

October 25, 2015February 22, 2015

Office 365 RoadMap url is one to be added to your browser’s favourites.

Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange – Out Of Support From Next Year

October 24, 2015February 19, 2015

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange was an antispam/antimalware product that was used heavily with Exchange 2010, especially in greenfield projects.

Office 365 First & Standard Release

October 25, 2015February 18, 2015

What is the difference between Office 365 first & standard release and how can I jump between the releases?

Change Office 365 Theme

October 25, 2015February 17, 2015

Themes in Outlook Web App is an option some of the end users like to “play” with and the admins always want to have a uniform experience for the end users.

Office 365 Message Size Onboarding Limit Increase

October 25, 2015February 1, 2015

Microsoft has listened to some of the large corporations who wants to move to Office 365 by increasing the maximum size of the message that can be moved to Office 365.