Timeline
Two decades of Exchange, Microsoft 365, PowerShell, and IT infrastructure — every article on a single timeline.
Sign In With Google: The Hidden Risks of Identity Federation
Two paths diverged in a wood. One was worn smooth by years of easy traffic. The other asked more of...
Windows Explorer Is Broken. Microsoft Is Finally Admitting It.
Microsoft published a Windows quality update late last week with a notable admission buried in the details: File Explorer needs...
Where Does Claude Desktop Store Its Config on Windows? And a PowerShell Module to Fix the Frustration
You’ve just reinstalled Windows. You install Claude Desktop, launch it, and realize your MCP servers are gone. You know the...
Microsoft’s Claude Bet: The End of AI Exclusivity (And What It Means for Your Enterprise)
Models are commoditizing faster than anyone expected. The companies that locked themselves into exclusive AI relationships are now paying premiums...
The Quiet Revolution: Why Apple Silicon Is Winning the Home Office AI Race
Category: AI, Hardware, Home Lab I’ve been running servers at home since before most people had broadband. Cisco routers, managed...
Use a PowerShell function to get location of a short URL
Quick function to get a location (a target or long URL) for a short URL. URL shortening services return the...
Custom Out of Office replies to specific domains or senders
Automatic Replies (Out of Office) in Microsoft Outlook TL;DR: All you need to know about how to send custom automatic...
Get Azure Storage Account GRS Replication Status using PowerShell and Azure Portal
You can use Azure Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) to replicate a storage account to another Azure region. In the rare event...
An annoying Acrobat Reader bug Adobe should fix asap
UPDATE 8/20/2020: This was fixed in a recent Acrobat build. Thank you, Adobe! This makes life easier for users who...
Managing Email: Two Outlook annoyances you can eliminate quickly
Regardless of the obituaries of email being written, published and shared everyday in the media, let’s admit that far from...
Get file or folder permissions using PowerShell
The Get-Acl cmdlet in PowerShell’s Security module (Microsoft.PowerShell.Security) does a great job of getting file or folder permissions (aka the...
eDiscovery transition in Office 365: Exchange Online eDiscovery transition delayed
Microsoft’s planned transition of eDiscovery features in SharePoint Online and Exchange Online to the Security and Compliance Center (SCC), a...
eDiscovery transition in Office 365: What you need to know
On July 1, 2017, Microsoft will transition the workload-specific eDiscovery features – In-Place eDiscovery and In-Place Hold in Exchange Online...
Windows Server 2012 support lifecycle extended
Microsoft has extended product support lifecycle for Windows Server 2012 to align with the standard product lifecycle support timeline. Mainstream...
Dealing with WordPress’ Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in a REST API Endpoint
On Thursday, WordPress.org released WordPress 4.7.2, fixing the following four vulnerabilities. The user interface for assigning taxonomy terms in Press...
Enable remote desktop (RDP) connections for admins on Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 has reached the General Availability (GA) milestone today. You can download it from your volume licensing site...
BleachBit’s claim of permanently deleting emails from Exchange
In a recent news segment featuring BleachBit, Fox Business questioned whether Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have used the...
Google adds Microsoft Exchange support to Gmail app for Android
Google has announced Microsoft Exchange support in its Gmail client for Android. Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is the ubiquitous protocol for...
Use a PowerShell function to find an email address in Exchange
Exchange admins frequently need to find an Exchange recipient with a specified email address, particularly for generic organizational addresses such...
Use a PowerShell function to get AutoDiscover XML
If you manage Exchange or support Exchange Online users, you may need to retrieve the AutoDiscover XML response. You can...
Maximum number of In-Place Holds on a mailbox in Exchange 2013 and Office 365
Since the early days of In-Place Hold, the number floating around (and documented) is a maximum of five In-Place Holds...
eDiscovery Limits and Throttling Policies in Exchange Server and Office 365
In Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online, In-Place eDiscovery allows you to search a large number of mailboxes. Although the searches...
Archiving auto-forwarded messages in Exchange Online and Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange can now preserve automatically forwarded messages if user is placed on Litigation Hold or In-Place Hold. Over the...
Issue with Symantec Enterprise Vault and Exchange 2013 fixed in Exchange 2013 CU8
Microsoft released Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) yesterday. See KB 3030080: Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2013...
Disable automatic email forwarding in Office 365 and Exchange Server
Exchange Server and Exchange Online allow your users to automatically forward email to an external email address. Over the years,...
Archiving in the cloud: Recover and restore Inactive Mailboxes in Exchange Online
An employee leaves the organization and your organization requires that mailboxes be preserved for a certain period, ranging anywhere from...
Apple OS X 10.10.2 and iOS 8.1.3 Updates
Apple has released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and iOS 8.1.3 which fix a bunch of Exchange and Microsoft platform issues....
Is GoGo’s use of a fake SSL certificate a Man-In-The-Middle attack?
Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineer on Google’s Chrome security team, recently found in-flight WiFi service provider GoGo using a fake...
Net neutrality and how ISPs can impact your email security
There was a time ISPs limited themselves to providing layer 3 connectivity. You got a connection, and if the link...
Choosing the right ultrabook: Asus Zenbook, Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro
If you spend greater part of your workday on a notebook/ultrabook, selecting your primary work tool is as important as...