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A spam-free diet of tech articles, tips and tricks and how-to's on administering Microsoft 365, Office 365, Exchange and Windows Server. CodeTwo develops software solutions for Office 365, Exchange and Sharepoint.
CodeTwo Blog
3w ago
The right to disconnect is here. See how to handle it from a Microsoft 365 admin’s perspective. Have you ever received an urgent email after hours or during vacation? Of course, especially if you’re an admin. The right to disconnect is meant to put a stop to this. There are some changes that you, as ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
2M ago
Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 are reaching their end of life soon. If you’re still on-premises, the time to prepare is now. We’re less than a year from the Exchange 2016/2019 end of life (EOL) date, which is set to October 14, 2025. It’s high time to plan on how you want to handle the ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
3M ago
Want to be a multifactor authentication guru among your fellow Microsoft 365 admins? This article is for you! Multifactor authentication (MFA) offers additional layer(s) of security for the traditional login and password authentication method. According to Microsoft, it reduces the risk of account being compromised by more than 99.2% – the figure that is hard ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
3M ago
VBScript’s demise is certain. Let’s see if it affects you in any way and what to do when VBScript gets deprecated. VBScript (Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is nearing its end of life. Let’s see how it may affect you and what alternatives you have. Will many people miss it? That’s open to discussion. Be ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
3M ago
See how to create a company email signature with Active Directory user data using VBScript. It’s not perfect, but it’s free! [Update]: This article was updated on November 4, 2024. While the methods in this article still work, there are two issues that can sabotage your email signature management efforts: VBScript’s end of life and ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
4M ago
SharePoint brand center promises easy management of your company assets in Microsoft 365. Let’s see how to use it. The SharePoint brand center has been available in preview since April 2024. Since then, it has already gone through substantial changes. It started out as more of a “SharePoint font center”, but since the start of ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
7M ago
Mergers and divestitures are the moments in an organization’s lifecycle when you, as an admin, might face the task of moving your users’ mailboxes. Nowadays, with more and more companies investing in the cloud infrastructure like Microsoft 365, a very common mailbox-move scenario is the tenant-to-tenant migration. Read on to get a comprehensive guide on how to prepare for the migration and run it by using the native migration means offered by Microsoft.
Carrying out the mailbox migration without third-party tools has always been a complex task. Unfortunately, with years passing by, the Redmon ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
7M ago
Exchange Server vNext is the codename for the new Exchange Server version. The official name is Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE). After its first announcement back in 2020, Microsoft has finally revealed more information about what to expect from the latest and final version of on-premises Exchange.
When is Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) coming?
Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) will be released in Q3 2025.
What’s new in Exchange Server vNext?
Let’s take a look at all the new things we can expect from the newest Exchange Server.
Subscription Edition
The main differ ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
8M ago
The new external recipient rate limit introduced by Microsoft is meant to put an end to mass mailing using cloud mailboxes in Exchange Online. Read on to learn when it will be enforced, how it exactly works and what other recipient limits apply to Exchange Online.
External recipient rate limit (NEW!)
How are recipients counted?
What about mail flow connectors?
More recipient-related limits in Exchange Online
Recipient rate limit
Recipient limit
Message rate limit
Maximum number of recipients added by mail flow rules
Maximum number of forwardees added by mail flow rules
Receiving limit
Recei ..read more
CodeTwo Blog
9M ago
To cite Microsoft’s announcement, “cloud.microsoft is the new unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services.” It promises greater security and unified experience. Sounds wonderful. However, you might prefer to learn some solid facts like: what’s already migrated, or how cloud.microsoft really affects us. Read on to learn this and some more.
A few words about the formal introduction
Microsoft introduced the cloud.microsoft domain on the Microsoft 365 blog. The domain was provisioned and announced in early 2023.
The part that immediately caught my attention was the word cloud listing quite ..read more