Author: Carlos A Lopez (Twitter: @CLopezDC)

Exchange Online Multi-Geo for data at-rest

Carlos A Lopez (Twitter: @CLopezDC) Azure, Exchange Online, Office365

Multinational companies with offices around the world often have a need to store their employee data at-rest in specific regions, in order to meet their data residency requirements. Multi-Geo enables a single Office 365 tenant to span across multiple Office 365 datacenter geographies (geos), which gives you the ability to store Exchange data, at-rest, on a per-user basis, in your chosen geos. The two main consideration are the following:

  1. Multi-Geo is currently available to customers with a minimum of 2,500 Office 365 services subscriptions and will have to be directly requested to Microsoft.
  2. The only available Geos are: Australia, Asia Pacific, Canada, European Union, France, India, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, and United States.

New Windows Server 2019 challenges – Change Adapter Options

Carlos A Lopez (Twitter: @CLopezDC) Azure, Backup, Windows Server, Windows Server 2019

After installing my new Windows 2019 server for an Azure Backup Server, I noticed that I now longer have access to neither the Network Card settings nor the MMC console. I was getting a message”

Win2019 Error
Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

After little research I found that the solution was a simple one.

  1. Elevated the command prompt (CMD) and run gpedit.msc
  2. Navigate to Computer Configuration
  3. Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options
  4. Enable “User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account”
  5. Reboot the server and try again.

Tune Exchange Online (O365) Performance

Carlos A Lopez (Twitter: @CLopezDC) Office365 , , ,

To improve the speed of migration and reduce your organization’s bandwidth constraints for Exchange Online, consider the following:

  • Reduce mailbox sizes and always use cached mode
    • Smaller mailbox size improves migration speed. Cached Exchange Mode enables a better experience when you use an Exchange account. In this mode, a copy of your mailbox is saved on your computer. This copy provides quick access to your data, and it is frequently updated with the server that runs Microsoft Exchange.
  • Use the mailbox move capabilities with an Exchange hybrid deployment:
    • With an Exchange hybrid deployment, offline mail (in the form of .OST files) does not require re-download when migrating to Exchange Online. This significantly reduces your download bandwidth requirements. A hybrid deployment provides the seamless look and feel of a single Exchange organization between an on-premises Exchange organization and Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365. In addition, a hybrid deployment can serve as an intermediate step to moving completely to an Exchange Online organization.
  • Schedule mailbox moves to occur during periods of low Internet traffic and low on-premises Exchange use:
    • When scheduling moves, migration requests are submitted to the mailbox replication proxy and may not take place immediately.