for Exchange & O365 Autodiscover is a fundamental technology in Exchange and Office 365. When Outlook first starts the ‘out of the box experience’ is that it will first of all figure out if it can find an email address for you on the account you’re logged in with and then takes you through a […]
Exchange Online, On Premise for Small, Midsized Businesses – The Costs
Exchange Online is of course part of Office 365 and people are migrating to it in droves. The attractions from a feature perspective are obvious, for a mere £8 a month small businesses (under 300 users) can get all of the following Exchange Online SharePoint Online OneDrive Skype for Business Exchange Online Protection Office 2016 […]
How can I reduce SPAM for my domains?
As any mail administrator will know SPAM is rampant on the Internet. I’ve work in organizations where over 95% of all mail received at the perimeter is dropped as SPAM mail… In previous blogs we have looked at the Sender Protection Framework (SPF) and DomainKey Identified Mail (DKIM). Now it is time to look at […]
Marking email as Private
Tagging a message as private (this doesn’t prevent sharing or printing) If you just want to let people know that you’d like them to treat your email as private, you can tag it as such. This doesn’t stop them from forwarding or printing your message. Instead, it includes “Please treat this as Private” at the […]
Deleting an Outlook Profile
We’ve all been there. The time comes when we resort to deleting the Outlook Profile and simply start again. For IT Professionals this is pretty straight forward and we understand the implications of doing so – and the inevitable new OST download. If you are a big user of email, this could be a pretty […]
The BEST reason to keep a Hybrid Exchange Server
We are often asked about should I have a Hybrid Server (be that for administration only or for full Hybrid) and so last year we blogged TEN good reasons to keep a Hybrid Exchange Server. We left out the best and most important one, which is that Microsoft do not support making changes to Exchange related attributes […]
Outlook “Quick Wins”
Often in the world of Notes to Exchange migrations we run into resistance at all levels at the organisation, but never more so than the incumbent Messaging Admins themselves. The best way around this is sell this as a new skill to learn at the opportunity to become dual skilled at two Messaging Platforms. If […]
Configuring IBM Lotus Domino Server for SNMP
At a recent client engagement, we were asked to configure Domino for SNMP monitoring and alerting – Simple Network Management Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol Now, whilst there are some enterprise tools available for Domino Monitoring like GSX http://www.gsx.com/ and Microsoft SCOM Management packs http://www.nice.de/ibm-domino-management-pack sometimes a free tool will give you enough of what you need. This […]
Just How Private are Lotus Notes Private Items?
Lotus Notes Private Items, Read Receipts and Encryption Following on from my colleague Twan’s brilliant blog on Private Items in Outlook / Exchange, (see here -> https://www.neroblanco.co.uk/2015/08/how-private-are-private-items-in-exchange/ ) we thought we would put together a similar one on Lotus Notes. My colleague Neil Langston already touched on parts of this with his equally brilliant Blog on detecting […]
After migration stop users sending email from Lotus Notes
There are a number things needed to send email from Notes when you have local mailfiles. Local Notes client:- (1) local mail.box (2) local mailfile.nsf (3) server mailfile.nsf – not explicitly needed. Server:- (4) mail.box If you restrict access to the mailfile (2) by making the user have Reader or NoAccess all you […]
Access domino console without the Admin client, only through Notes client.
Too many times I have been at a customer site and wanted to access the IBM Domino Console to see live information but cannot as they do not have the binaries for the administration client. There is a nice interface within the Notes client to access this, albeit a little different interface. You can also […]
How private are private items in Exchange
We sometimes get asked how private are private items? The short answer is not very… private items is an Outlook and OWA concept and NOT an Exchange concept. Exchange has no item level security model, only mailbox and folder level. So what does this mean? This means that unless you can force people to only access […]