Top 7 Office 365 Troubleshooting Tools

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As an Office 365 Partner and implementing project, it’s nice to have a collection of tools to turn to when troubleshooting issues with Office 365. Below I’ve shared a few of my favorites by Microsoft.   1. Office 365 Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough One of the most common problems is troubleshooting Outlook connectivity to Exchange Online. This guided walkthrough is intended for Office 365 Administrators to help diagnose…

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Step-By-Step: Migration of Exchange 2003 Server to Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   While most of the focus happening this week was centered around end of support for Windows XP, many IT professionals also had Microsoft Exchange 2003 top of mind as it too had official support end on April 8th. Those currently running Exchange 2003 do have Office 365 as an option and preparation around a cut over migration might be in order. Cutover migrations are great as they take advantage of…

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Backup and Restore Instructions for the DirSync Database

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool (DirSync) is used to provision user accounts from Windows Active Directory on-premises to Azure Active Directory in the cloud. DirSync will synchronize changes to user accounts made on-premises to the cloud so that cloud users have access to directory information and can sign-in. This document describes how to backup and later restore the database and encryption keys required for a DirSync…

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Backup and Restore Instructions for the DirSync Database

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool (DirSync) is used to provision user accounts from Windows Active Directory on-premises to Azure Active Directory in the cloud. DirSync will synchronize changes to user accounts made on-premises to the cloud so that cloud users have access to directory information and can sign-in. This document describes how to backup and later restore the database and encryption keys required for a DirSync…

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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft is happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant! These updates offer you more deployment options and outline new features that make deployments more flexible and easier to configure. We’ve updated the Deployment Assistant to include the following: Support for the Exchange 2013 Edge Transport server role in all on-premises and hybrid deployment scenarios Support for the new, automated process for requesting an Exchange 2013 or…

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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft is happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant! These updates offer you more deployment options and outline new features that make deployments more flexible and easier to configure. We’ve updated the Deployment Assistant to include the following: Support for the Exchange 2013 Edge Transport server role in all on-premises and hybrid deployment scenarios Support for the new, automated process for requesting an Exchange 2013 or…

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Exchange Server Mailbox Statistics Report Tool

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Managing the Exchange Servers in  storage capacity is little bit difficult for administrators when the server gets older and older and  when new users keeps adding in the list. Even if there is any  daily monitoring report for mail flow, databases, disk space monitoring and everything still it’s difficult for administrators to monitor the end users having lot of old emails still in their inbox,sent items,subfolders which occupies…

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Configuring an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Deployment and Migrating to Office 365 (Exchange Online)

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​In this articles series by Henrik Walther, will give you an insight into the New Office 365 and then take you through the steps necessary to configure an Exchange 2013 hybrid deployment followed by migrating mailboxes from on-premises to the New Office 365 (Exchange Online). Introduction Back on February, 27th 2013, Microsoft released a major new update (third generation also known as wave 15) of the Office 365 service now…

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Configuring an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Deployment and Migrating to Office 365 (Exchange Online)

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​In this articles series by Henrik Walther, will give you an insight into the New Office 365 and then take you through the steps necessary to configure an Exchange 2013 hybrid deployment followed by migrating mailboxes from on-premises to the New Office 365 (Exchange Online). Introduction Back on February, 27th 2013, Microsoft released a major new update (third generation also known as wave 15) of the Office 365 service now…

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