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RunAs Radio #588 – Exchange Updates with Gareth Gudger

June 13, 2018 By Gareth Gudger Leave a Comment

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On May 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the RunAs Radio podcast. I joined host Richard Campbell to discuss the latest in Exchange and Office 365. We also discuss the deciding factors and roadblocks companies face when exploring the cloud.

It was great to be back on Richard’s show. We couldn’t believe our last recording together was one and a half years ago. Boy–time flies!

Gareth on Runas Radio #588 - Exchange Updates with Gareth Gudger

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#MVPbuzzChat – Data residency, Hybrid Modern Authentication & Exchange 2019

March 29, 2018 By Gareth Gudger 2 Comments

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On March 24th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on #MVPBuzzChat. I joined host Christian Buckley to discuss data residency, hybrid modern authentication and new products shipping in 2018. We also discussed the importance of TAP, Windows Insider program and participating in UserVoice.

What is #MVPBuzzChat?

#MVPbuzzChat is a webcast by Christian Buckley that features different Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) from all areas and specialties.

To quote Christian:

#MVPbuzzChat is a new series of one-on-one discussions with other Microsoft MVPs where we discuss, in-depth, the technologies that they are most passionate about. My idea was to learn more about what my fellow MVPs are doing — and get to know MVPs from outside of my area of concentration. Christian Buckley
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You can watch all episodes on the CollabTalk YouTube channel, or, via Christian’s blog, buckleyplanet.com.

About Christian

Christian is a 7-time Office Servers and Services MVP, internationally-recognized technology evangelist and collaboration expert, and the Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC; independent research and technical marketing services firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can find Christian’s blog at buckleyplanet.com and follow him on Twitter @buckleyplanet

My recent podcasts

MVPs Talk 365
MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 podcast – What’s new in Exchange & Office 365
On January 13th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 podcast. I joined host Neil McDonnell to discuss what’s new in Exchange and Office 365. Click here to listen
Three65.blog
Three65 Blog with MVP Mark Vale
On March 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the Three65 podcast. I joined host Mark Vale to discuss the latest from Exchange and Exchange Online. Click here to listen
RunAs Radio
RunAs Radio – Episode 504
On October 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the RunAs Radio podcast. I joined host Richard Campbell to discuss what we learned about the future of Exchange from Ignite 2016. Click here to listen
the-uc-architects
The UC Architects – Episode 59
On August 7th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on The UC Architects podcast. I joined hosts Steve Goodman and Dave Stork to discuss the latest on Unified Communications. Click here to listen

Need a guest speaker?

Looking for a guest speaker for your podcast? Drop me an email at info@supertekboy.com.

Filed Under: Exchange News, Exchange Videos & Podcasts, Office 365 News, Office 365 Videos & Podcasts

MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 podcast – What’s new in Exchange & Office 365

February 20, 2018 By Gareth Gudger 1 Comment

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On January 13th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 podcast. I joined host Neil McDonnell to discuss what’s new in Exchange and Office 365.

Listen to “Gareth Gudger | Blue Chip Consulting Group | MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 | Episode 8” on Spreaker.

What is MVPs Talk Microsoft 365?

MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 is a weekly podcast released every Tuesday by Neil McDonnell that features different Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).

To quote Neil:

Weekly interviews with Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP). In these episodes, MVPs will share their thoughts on any recent changes to Microsoft 365, Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, etc. and the impact IT leadership should be aware of, as well as sharing some best practices around total cost of ownership and maturity within your organization.Neil McDonnell
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You can stream all podcasts from iTunes, GooglePlay, TuneIn, Stitcher, PlayerFM & Spreaker.

About Neil

Neil is the President of SVMacPack, a company specializing in delivering Microsoft solutions to the U.S. Federal Government. You can find Neil on LinkedIn.

My recent podcasts

Three65.blog
Three65 Blog with MVP Mark Vale
On March 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the Three65 podcast. I joined host Mark Vale to discuss the latest from Exchange and Exchange Online. Click here to listen
Patch & Switch Show
Patch and Switch – Episode 86 – Live from MVP Summit
While attending my first MVP Summit I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the Patch and Switch show. I joined hosts Rick Claus and Jared Shockley with fellow MVP Nick Westbrook for a light-hearted discussion on life as an IT professional. Click here to listen
RunAs Radio
RunAs Radio – Episode 504
On October 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the RunAs Radio podcast. I joined host Richard Campbell to discuss what we learned about the future of Exchange from Ignite 2016. Click here to listen
the-uc-architects
The UC Architects – Episode 59
On August 7th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on The UC Architects podcast. I joined hosts Steve Goodman and Dave Stork to discuss the latest on Unified Communications. Click here to listen

Need a guest speaker?

Looking for a guest speaker for your podcast? Drop me an email at info@supertekboy.com.

Filed Under: Exchange News, Exchange Videos & Podcasts, Office 365 News, Office 365 Videos & Podcasts

15 Microsoft Ignite sessions every Exchange admin should see (2017)

October 7, 2017 By Gareth Gudger 1 Comment

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Microsoft hosted its annual Ignite conference in Orlando this September. Ignite was massive at 1695 sessions. Almost 300 sessions more than last year. That is a lot of sessions! Many are posted at the Ignite channel on YouTube or through the Microsoft Ignite On-Demand portal. Here are the top 15 sessions I think every Exchange admin should watch.

Tip: I have included notes for each session and the time each topic starts. You can expand the session notes under each video by clicking “Show more session notes”

Thrive as an enterprise organization in Microsoft Exchange Online Ignite 2017 (watch video)

Thrive as an enterprise organization in Microsoft Exchange Online
If you could only watch one session then it should be this one. In this session, Jeff Kizner reveals a slew of announcements for Exchange Online. Announcements include; highly requested coexistence features for Exchange hybrid and, new advances in a tenant to tenant migrations. Jeff demonstrates a mailbox move between two Office 365 tenants using MRS and PowerShell.

  • Mailbox Plans (4:06 mins)
    • Set-MailboxPlan can now assign a retention policy to a mailbox when the mailbox is provisioned.
    • Set-CASMailboxPlan (new cmdlet) can now configure whether ActiveSync, IMAP, and POP are enabled on a mailbox when it is provisioned in Office 365.
  • Client Access Rules (6:52 mins)
    • Additional rule conditions for matching source IP, protocol, recipient filters, or, username
    • Great for only allowing certain protocols from certain locations (e.g. ActiveSync from satellite offices)
    • You can have up to 20 client access rules
    • Best practice to have an “Allow PowerShell” rule in priority 1 (don’t lock yourself out!)
  • Creating a custom app for message classification (16:00 mins)
    • Jeff demonstrates a custom app that uses the Outlook On Send feature to take action when a user clicks the send button in Outlook
    • On Send must be enabled in the OwaMailboxPolicy assigned to the user
    • Available since Exchange 2016 CU5
  • Hybrid delegation (26:40 mins)
    • Jeff discusses and demos advancements in hybrid delegation (full access, auto-map, send as, send on behalf)
  • On-premises policies will come over to Office 365 (46:06 mins)
    • Hybrid wizard will ask you which on-prem policies you want to copy into Office 365 (e.g. OWA, ActiveSync and Retention policies)
    • User’s mailbox, when moved to Office 365, will retain their existing policy assignments
  • Hybrid publishing (50:52 mins)
  • Hybrid recipient management (54:16 mins)
    • Jeff’s team is working towards allowing admins to make changes to attributes in Office 365 and have those attributes sync back to on-prem. This will remove the need to keep Exchange on-prem for recipient management.
    • Jeff’s team is also looking at changing the source of authority on synchronized objects to Azure Active Directory.
  • Migrating data between tenants – mergers and acquisitions (59:33 mins)
    • Jeff demonstrates a mailbox move between two Office 365 tenants using MRS and PowerShell.
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Scott Schnoll’s Exchange tips and tricks Ignite 2017 (watch video)

Scott Schnoll’s Exchange tips and tricks
Scott provides us with his top tips for Exchange. Topics include:

  • Server roles in Exchange 2016 (1:41 mins)
  • How Exchange is developed (2:41 mins)
  • Exchange 2016 Lifecycle (3:56 mins)
  • Changes in Exchange 2016 CU7 (4:51 mins)
    • Forest functional level is now 2008 R2 or higher
  • Announcing Exchange 2019 (8:48 mins)
    • Preview shipping mid-2018
    • General release second half of 2018
  • Bug in Windows Server 2016 that caused IIS to crash – KB3206632 (10:20 mins)
  • iOS11 issue with HTTP/2 (11:22 mins)
    • Microsoft turned off HTTP/2 across all Exchange Online servers
    • Microsoft recommends administrators disable HTTP/2 across all on-premises Exchange servers until Apple resolves this issue
    • Microsoft is working with Apple to help them resolve the issue
  • New calendar improvements across all Outlook clients (15:16 mins)
  • Administrator configured out of office replies (18:00 mins)
  • Message Latency in logs (19:47 mins)
  • Running antivirus on the operating system (21:00 mins)
    • Windows Server 2016 comes with a built-in fully-fledged antivirus
    • Make sure to configure antivirus with all path, process and file type exclusions
  • Health mailboxes (23:22 mins)
    • Do not alter their AD account in any way
    • Do not alter their password or account lockout settings
    • Do not move or alter their mailboxes in any way
  • Stalled mailbox migrations to Office 365 (26:40 mins)
  • Protocol Agnostic Workflow (PAW) (30:24 mins)
    • New mailbox migration code in Office 365 that improves stability and throughput
    • Individual users can be removed from a batch
    • Batch completions can be scheduled
    • Better reporting
    • Microsoft will automatically enable this for your tenant but only if your tenant has no active or completed batches
  • OAuth (35:26 mins)
  • Hybrid license key and hybrid diagnostics wizard (39:20 mins)
  • When to decommission Exchange on-premises (42:00 mins)
  • PST elimination tools (44:27 mins)
  • Deprecation of RPC over HTTPS – Outlook Anywhere (46:32 mins)
  • Mailbox encryption coming soon to Office 365. You can encrypt with either:  (53:00 mins)
    • Microsoft managed key
    • Customer provided key
  • Using Azure VM for DAG witness (55:04 mins)
  • Changes to lagged copy behavior (56:15 mins)
  • Recovering an Exchange Server with newer CU (59:58 mins)
    • This is possible and supported
    • Admin version will still show old CU build until you go to a newer CU later on
  • New anti-phishing behavior in Office 365 (1:01:09 mins)
  • Connecting to Security & Compliance Center via PowerShell (1:07:29 mins)
  • Azure Information Protection – AIP (1:08:17 mins)
  • Advanced Find in Outlook deprecation and reinstatement (1:12:38 mins)
  • New TAP program for migrating public folders to Office 365 Groups (1:13:14 mins)
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Modern authentication for Exchange Server on-premises (watch video)

Modern authentication for Exchange Server on-premises
Greg Taylor discusses two new modern authentication scenarios coming to Exchange on-premises. One scenario which will be available to Exchange 2013 and 2016. And a future scenario that will be available in Exchange 2019. No bunnies were harmed in the delivery of this session.

  • Importance of Modern Authentication (2:39 mins)
    • Allows Outlook to authenticate with a token
    • An easier route to enable Outlook for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
    • Relies on strong network connectivity
  • Two implementations of modern authentication will ship (7:10 mins)
    • Exchange 2013 / 2016 implementation expected by December 2017
    • Exchange 2019 implementation will ship when new release ships second half 2018
  • Overview of how modern authentication works (10:00 mins)
    • Modern auth will only work with MAPI over HTTP.
    • No RPC over HTTP support.
    • Exchange will use modern auth for all client connections, regardless of whether they originate from inside or outside the network.
  • Example of modern auth during autodiscover (15:35 mins)
    • Authorization type of “Bearer” is Outlook instructing Exchange that it can do modern authentication
    • Exchange responds to the client with STS authorization URL (for example AD FS)
  • Explanation of token exchange (17:46 mins)
    • The access token has a lifetime of 1 hour (default TTL)
    • When the Access token expires the client uses their Refresh token to request a new Access Token (re-authenticate)
    • The refresh token is valid for 14 days (default TTL)
    • Password change:
      • Immediately invalidates the Refresh Token.
      • Access token remains valid for the remainder of its duration (up to 1 hour)
  • Deep dive into two versions of on-prem modern auth (23:30 mins)
    • Exchange 2019 will ship with an on-prem implementation of Modern Auth
      • AD FS 2016 required
      • Outlook 2016 / 2019 required
        • Outlook 2013 and older will not work
      • Exchange 2013 / 2016 can be in the organization (no Exchange 2010)
      • Device registration is required
    • Exchange 2013/2016 will ship with a hybrid implementation of Modern Auth
      • Will require hybrid connectivity with Office 365
      • AD FS not required (can just use Password Sync with Azure AD Connect)
      • Exchange HCW must be run to enable OAuth
      • On-prem SPNs registered with Azure AD (configuring this is shown at 39:05 mins)
      • Exchange 2010 is completely unsupported and must be removed from the environment – no coexistence
  • OAuth tokens rely on TLS for encryption (32:13 mins)
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Three65 podcast with MVP Mark Vale – What’s new in Exchange

March 6, 2017 By Gareth Gudger 5 Comments

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On March 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the Three65 podcast. I joined host Mark Vale to discuss the latest from Exchange and Exchange Online.

Three65 Podcast with MVP Mark Vale & Gareth Gudger

(Originally posted at https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/MVP-Office-Servers-and-Services/Three65-Exchange-Exchange-Updates-with-Gareth-Gudger)

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Favorite Exchange sessions at Microsoft Ignite – RunAs Radio #504

November 9, 2016 By Gareth Gudger Leave a Comment

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On October 4th I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the RunAs Radio podcast. I joined host Richard Campbell to discuss what we learned about the future of Exchange from Ignite 2016.

Gareth on Runas Radio #504 - Favorite Exchange Sessions From Microsoft Ignite

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(Originally posted at http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/504)

What is the RunAs Radio podcast?

To quote Richard;

RunAs Radio is a weekly podcast for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products. Each 30-minute episode covers a specific topic in the field of IT from a Microsoft-centric viewpoint.

RunAs Radio was launched on April 11, 2007, with a nod from its sister show, .NET Rocks!. Since then, RunasRadio has had over 400 episodes featuring hundreds of guests from the IT world. A new episode comes out on Wednesday every week, features a guest expert, and focuses on relevant topics in the IT field.

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The Current Status – Episode 43 – Live from IT/Dev Connections

October 26, 2016 By Gareth Gudger Leave a Comment

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During my recent visit to IT/Dev Connections, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on The Current Status – Episode 43. I joined hosts Phoummala Schmitt and Theresa Miller and special guests Michael Van Horenbeeck and Paul Cunningham.

In this episode, we discuss what we learned from Microsoft Ignite and IT/Dev Connections with regard to the future of Exchange and Office 365.

(Originally posted at https://soundcloud.com/thecurrentstatus/episode-43-exchange-uncut)

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15 Microsoft Ignite sessions every Exchange admin should see (2016)

October 4, 2016 By Gareth Gudger Leave a Comment

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Microsoft hosted its annual Ignite conference in Atlanta this September. Ignite was massive at 1412 sessions. That is a lot of sessions! Many are posted at the Ignite channel on YouTube or through the Microsoft Ignite On Demand portal. Here are the top 15 sessions I think every Exchange admin should watch.

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Understand the Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Architecture
Ross Smith discusses the Exchange 2016 preferred architecture. Mike Cooper of GM discusses his implementation of Exchange 2016. Ross and Mike take questions from the audience.

  • Ross demonstrates a new feature where you can recover deleted or purged items to their original folder.
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Deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
Brian Day and Jeff Guillet discuss what’s changed in Exchange system requirements. Discussions included:

  • Exchange 2016 CU3 supports Windows Server 2016
  • Server 2008 R2 FFL/DFL will become the new minimum requirement in future Exchange 2016 releases.
  • .NET 4.6.2 currently only supported on Exchange 2016 CU3 on Server 2016. Will be made available in CU15/CU4 for older operating systems.
  • .NET 4.6.2 will be mandatory with CU16/CU5. The setup will block you if you don’t have 4.6.2 installed.
  • WMFS 5 is only supported on Windows Server 2016. It is not supported when you install it on older operating systems (use the version that comes with your OS).
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Design your Exchange infrastructure right (or consider moving to Office 365)
Robert Gillies, Boris Lokhvitsky, Adrian Moore discuss the business benefits of deploying the Exchange preferred architecture.

  • The importance of eradicating failure domains
  • SAN versus DAS
    • Since Exchange 2003 each version has dropped IOPS requirements.
    • Exchange 2016 uses 93% fewer IOPs than 2003
    • Exchange 2016 uses 30% fewer IOPs than 2013
    • Exchange databases average 10 IOPs
    • 7200 RPM SATA/NL-SAS average 70 IOPs
  • Thick versus Thin Provisioning
  • The importance of controller write cache
  • Bound versus Unbound Namespaces
  • Stretched DAGs
  • Virtual vs. Physical
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