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In the modern world phishing emails are a fact of life for everyone from the richest companies to the poorest home user, and protecting against them by teaching your staff how to spot them is becoming less and less effective. Thieves are using AI tools to write perfect (often targeted Read more…
A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients inbox, all was happy. Unfortunately scumbags hackers and thieves decided to take Read more…
Explore how office 365 encryption works within exchange online mail flow and the microsoft exchange server environment. This comprehensive guide helps you understand data protection measures and exchange server fundamentals when sending emails between Outlook clients and Exchange Online servers. 0:00 Introduction0:20 Outlook to Outlook Encryption1:10 When is Encryption Not Read more…
If you see this message in your event logs or reporting tools, you likely have some simple work to do: Eventsource: Windows Exchange EventsWindows Event ID: 74Message: (Process w3wp.exe, PID 11936) Connection leak detected for key URtech.ca/URTech/Calgary/Users/IT/Ian Mat in Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Authorization.WSManBudgetManager class. Leaked Value 1 This event is logged when the Read more…
If you work for any sort of medium or large company you know that it is not uncommon for email accounts to sometimes not yet shut down properly when someone exits. After a few years someone will eventually ask to see a list of all inactive Exchange users, and then Read more…
In a word, yes. You can safely recover many GB’s of disk space by deleting the old versions of C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\Owa\prem , however there are a couple of things to know before you go deleting what you think are old and unsused MS Exchange files / folders. How To Read more…
If you have ever opened a Microsoft technical support case you will know that they seldom get back to you quickly. One case that we just opened is now at 28 hours, on a 4 hour SLA and even after pestering them twice, we haven’t heard a peep out of Read more…
We recently had a client who needed to add a new domain to their Microsoft 365 and was very confused by the process. It turns out all they wanted to do was to Have email for that domain be processed through their existing Microsoft Office 365 account. This is actually Read more…
To delegate a user rights to shared mailbox in Exchange it pretty easy: The problem with adding a delegate through the Exchange portal is the delegated mailbox will “automap” into the users Outlook. If you have a bunch of these delegated shared mailboxes in your Outlook it can get a Read more…
Every email has a mail header which contains routing, source, destination and validation information. If you are trying to troubleshoot an email message you need to understand the message header. To see the mail header: DOUBLE click on a message in Outlook so that it opens in a separate window Read more…
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple and others are not going to provide details on how their algorithms determine what is and what is not spam. What they will do is provide generalized explanations and allow email administrators (like www.URTech.ca staff) to see various “switches” and thresholds for categories. From these we Read more…
If you are working with Microsoft Exchange 2016, On-Prem, you weill find a new service named, Microsoft Exchange Notifications Broker. The Notifications Broker service is set to start AUTOMATICALLY by default and if you start it manually you will notice it stops after 30 seconds. What Is The Microsoft Exchange Read more…
Subject Alternative Names (SAN) certificates can save time and money because they allow you to use a single certificate for upto 5 domain names. They are quite common on servers that run Microsoft Exchange. Cloud providers of Exchange Online, like Office 365, usually take care of their own certificates and Read more…
NOTE: Oct 30 2023 – We had a client who thought the bounce was occurring ON A REPLY. It was not; it was simply that the bounce (NDR) on the original message was RECEIVED AFTER they had replied. the bounce was taking 3+ minutes to be received and in that Read more…
In this video we explain and demonstrate how to setup a quarantine email notification in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. This is the second of our two part series on setting up the email quarantine in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. In the first segment we explain the step by step process Read more…
In this short video we explain and demonstrate how to whitelist email domains or specific senders or email that contains some specific text in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online: The commands used in this Microsoft365 / Office365 safe senders video are: A message header > includes any of these words > Read more…