Weekly IT Newsletter – June 20-24, 2016
Guy Bachar
June 26, 2016
Active Directory, Azure, Exchange, Lync, Office, Office 365, PowerShell & Scripts, SharePoint, Skype for Business, SQL, System Center, Windows Client, Windows Phone, Windows Server
Newsletter
Microsoft Exchange:
· Exchange 2016 CU2 Released –
· Exchange 2013 CU13 Released –
· Exchange 2010 SP3 RU14 Released –
· HCW Improvement: The Minimal Hybrid Configuration option –
· DAG Activation Preference Behavior Change in Exchange Server 2016 CU2 –
· Expired Certificates Cause Exchange Cumulative Updates to Fail
· Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory
· Exchange Best Practices: Administrator Access to User Mailboxes
· Exchange 2016 dev/test farm in Azure
· Using the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (Part 1)
· EWS Basics: Message Flagging and Marking Messages Read/Unread
· Flash: The Best way to Fix your Exchange 2013/2016 Unified Messaging, UM Dial Plan, is to redeploy it. It is not as hard as it sounds. |
Skype for Business:
· Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – June 2016 –
· Skype for Business & Azure AD Application Proxy As Reverse Proxy –
· Skype for Business–Understanding Location Based Routing –
· How To: Upgrade Office Web Apps 2013 to Office Online Server 2016 –
· Administrating Skype for Business Server 2015 Step by Step for Anyone eBook Released –
· Online Meeting Icon Missing from OWA in Exchange Online
· Lync 2013 SDK With Skype for Business 2016
· Warning: Firmware update may not apply the configuration properly after update from Audiocodes 6.8 to 7.0 on Mediant 1000 and Mediant 4000
· Easily hide users from address book in Skype for Business/Lync via powershell
· Five Productivity Tips to get the most from Skype for Business |
Active Directory:
· Hybrid: ADFS and Azure Federation Certificate Renewal –
· Powershell Status Reporting on AAD Connect –
· Azure multi-factor authentication (MFA) cheat sheet –
· New Azure AD Connect version (1.1.189.0) Released –
· Specops Password Policy – Enterprise password security
· Deploying Group Policy Security Update MS16-072 KB3163622
· Advanced Threat Analytics–Attack Simulation and Demo–Part1
· Understand the Microsoft Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) security model |
Office 365:
· Conditional Access for #Office365 Exchange & SharePoint preview! –
· OneDrive Bulk Data Upload –
· Office 365 news roundup –
· The 2016 MQ for Enterprise Mobility Management –
· Learn the costs for ExpressRoute –
· Announcing a new version of the Office 365 admin app –
· RESOLVED: The connection to the server “fqdn” could not be completed.
· Deletion threshold in Office 365 or Azure AD Connect
· Office 365 – Have You Enabled “Common Attachment Blocking”?
· New in Intune: Partnership with SAP and Citrix, MAM improvements, and more
· Office 365 Service Assurance and Audited Controls |
Microsoft Azure:
· a leader in the 2016 Gartner IDaaS MQ! –
· Identity Protection adds support for federated identities! –
· Azure Information Protection makes warding off data leaks easier –
· DNS security appliances in Azure
· Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer preview: June update
· Enable SSO (Single Sign On) to On-Premises Exchange OWA (Outlook Web Access) via Azure AD Application Proxy
· Azure Stack deployment |
Windows Client, Windows Server and Windows Phone:
· Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14372 for PC and Mobile –
· Microsoft Shares Their Roadmap for Windows 10 and the Cloud –
· Five fun things you can do with the Windows 10 Bash
· How to Encrypt Password in web.config files
· Microsoft’s Windows 10 push is effective, damaging, desirable, and deceptive
· It’s happening: Windows 10 Mobile is live for the Nokia Lumia Icon – here’s how to get it
· Comparing Windows Server 2016 Nano TP5 Provisioning Time to GUI/Core Installation Options |
Microsoft Office:
· June 14, 2016, update for Office –
· Enterprise email—what a new business needs to know –
· 3 ways Power BI can help your sales team succeed
· June 2016 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in
· Excel and big data |
SharePoint & Office Web App Server:
· SharePoint on the Go: 5 Things to Know about the iOS App –
· Break the SharePoint Upgrade Cycle –
· Security Update for Office Online Server (KB3115134) –
· Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB3115170) –
· Microsoft launches SharePoint mobile app for iOS; Android and Windows 10 apps coming later
· SharePoint 2016 Workflow Manager installation step by step guide |
SQL:
· Azure SQL Database query performance improvements for newly created databases –
· Get a head start on SQL Server 2016 with this how-to guide –
· Powering mission-critical performance with SQL Server 2016 |
System Center:
· SCOM 2012 R2 agent state from Health Service Watcher grey
· Guidance for customers using the Microsoft Operations Manager agent for on-premises end points |
KB’s:
· MS16-079: Update Rollup 14 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3: June 14, 2016 –
· NDR after you accept or decline a meeting request in Exchange 2013 –
· Some Android devices do not redirect to Exchange Online –
· How to use SMTP matching to match on-premises user accounts to Office 365 user accounts for directory synchronization –
· June 2016 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 –
· Public folder forwarding rule doesn’t work after migration to Exchange Server 2013
· Primary SMTP addresses are displayed incorrectly or secondary SMTP addresses are missing in Exchange Online
· Outlook prompts for password when Modern Authentication is enabled
· “Sign in to your Microsoft account” wizard page has only one text box in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2
· Get-ADGroupMember returns error for domain local group to members from remote forests
· June 2016 DST and time zone update for Windows |
Downloads & Recent Releases:
· Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition –
· Comparing Skype for Business versus Slack, Cisco, and Google Hangouts –
· Improving service quality in Skype for Business –
· Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics 1.6 with Update 1 (upgrade only version) –
· Five new free eBooks from Microsoft Press
· System Center 2012 R2 Integration Pack for VMware vSphere
· Microsoft® SQL Server® Backup to Microsoft Azure®Tool |
Scripts & PowerShell:
· PowerShell FAQ: Top 5 Questions about PowerShell from the Field –
· GitHub PowerShell Scripts Repo –
· PowerShell Tail Command
· Send E-mail to office 365 using PowerShell script | Part 1#2
· PowerTip: List all Azure Resource Manager storage accounts by using PowerShell
· Map VMware virtual disks and Windows drive volumes with a PowerShell script |
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