Veeam Backup Office 365 Community Edition (v5): installation and configuration

In this tutorial, I will (re) introduce you to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Community Edition (V5). As its name suggests, it is a backup software dedicated to backing up Microsoft Office 365 tenants (Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, etc.). The Community Edition is a free edition of Veeam Backup Office 365 that allows you to …

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Exchange 2013/2016: migrate to Exchange 2019

Introduction In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to migrate from Exchange 2013/2016 to Exchange 2019. A migration from Exchange is something that can be scary but is relatively simple under 2 conditions: Prepare for migration using a checklist for example. That the starting environment (Exchange 2013/2016) has been correctly installed and configured …

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Change the default visibility of calendars on Exchange

Problem The default visibility of calendars in Outlook / Exchange does not allow you to see the detail (object, location, description) of an event, unless the user has modified the rights himself. Solution It is possible in PowerShell to modify the default visibility of calendars in Exchange. Connection to Exchange online / Office 365 Open …

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Outlook : autodiscover disable SCP Active Directory

In this troubleshooting tutorial, we’ll see how to prevent Outlook autodiscover from using the Active Directory SCP point for mailbox configuration. What this type of “trick” is used for: If the computer environment in which you already have an Exchange installation and the mail servers have not been properly uninstalled. If you find yourself in …

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Upload PSTs on Office 365 and import into accounts

When migrating to Office 365, you may need to return the history of old mailboxes in the news using the PST archives. There are several ways to do this: Import from the Outlook client directly (I highly recommend this solution). IMAP copies from the Office 365 migration interface. Send PSTs on Microsoft servers for import. …

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Office 365 with Active Directory Synchronization: Add an Alias to a Mailbox

To add an alias to a mailbox in an Office 365 environment whose Active Directory is synchronized, you must use the local directory (On Premise) to add the alias in the proxyaddresses attribute. 1. Open the Active Directory Users and Computers console and verify that the Advanced Features view is enabled 1 . 2. Right-click …

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Exchange 2019 : add a mailbox

Mailbox list

In this tutorial, we will see how to create a mailbox on Exchange 2019 using the admin interface. When creating a mailbox, there are two possibilities: Create a mailbox for an existing user in the Active Directory. Create a new user and the mailbox at the same time. Create a mailbox On the administration interface …

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Exchange 2019: Add a database

Exchange 2019 : databases

Using multiple databases to store mailboxes allows you to configure a different volume. Example: The DBMX01 database stores mailboxes with a 1GO quota and the DBMX02 database stores mailboxes with a 5GB quota. With this configuration, simply move the box from one base to another to change the volume. Add a database 1. On the …

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Exchange 2016: how to set up a DAG

In this tutorial, we’ll see how to set up a Database Availability Group (DAG) that makes the Exchange Highly Available (HA) databases available. This feature of Exchange makes it possible to put the databases that host the mailboxes in high availability, the databases replicate in “real time”. This solution ensures high availability of Exchange messaging …

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