About Dejan Foro

Dejan Foro is founder and CEO of Exchangemaster GmbH. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland and is a dedicated specialist, with 32 years of professional work experience in IT. Before starting Exchangemaster GmbH he worked as a system engineer and project manager with customers of all sizes and across many industries: From small ISV startups and a NGO humanitarian organizations up to largest international corporations like Stryker, Swisscom, British Telecom and Nyrstar. He spent his entire career delivering Microsoft based infrastructure solutions with main focus on Active Directory and Exchange. During those years, he collected a valuable work experience on 8 Exchange generations (2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 and 5.5) and has delivered services to a user base of more than 3.2 million mailboxes in on-premise, hybrid and Office 365 deployments. Beside working on customer projects, he is a regular speaker and expert at Microsoft conferences and user groups. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer he also teaches Microsoft Official Curriculum courses to technical professionals around Europe. For his work he has received numerous awards. In 2005 he was the first member to be elected into the MCP Hall of Fame by Windows IT Pro Magazine readers choice (as 1 of 6 worldwide). From 2005-2017, Dejan has been awarded by Microsoft Corporation with the yearly Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in area of Exchange for 12 years in a row (one of approximately 100 worldwide and, at the time, the only 1 such in Switzerland).

FAQ 000161 – Use PowerShell to do CPU inventory

This article applies to: Windows Server 2016 Here is an example of a PowerShell command you can use to collect info on your server CPUs AAA The command will produce following output: SystemName DeviceID Manufacturer Name NumberofCores NumberofLogicalProcessors ---------- -------- ------------ ---- ------------- ------------------------- SERVER1 CPU0 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @

FAQ 000160 – How to properly perform maintenance on an Exchange DAG (reboot me softly)

This article applies to: Exchange 2016, Exchange 2019, Exchange SE This article describes how to properly perform a maintenance procedure on Exchange Servers that are members of an Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG). You will typically need this in order to perform maintenance work like hardware upgrades, patching, software upgrades and similar, where it

FAQ 000158 – How to create an Exchange view-only admin in Office 365

This article applies to: Exchange online, Office 365 Organizations migrating to Office 365 relatively often face a need to give some of the users a restricted, view-only access to Exchange. A typical scenario would be to enable helpdesk personel to check on user settings, but at the same time you don't want to allow them to make any changes

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FAQ 000156 – How to disable clutter functionality in Office 365

This article applies to: Office 365   PROBLEM The user wants to disable the clutter functionality in his Office 365 mailbox. SOLUTION Sign in to Outlook on the web. On the navigation bar, go to Settings Go to Options > Mail > Automatic processing > Clutter.  Unselect Separate items identified as clutter. Clik Save.

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FAQ 000155 – Office 365 users are unable to see on-premise dynamic distribution lists

This article applies to: Office 365 Exchange hybrid PROBLEM: Office 365 users don't see on-premise dynamic distribution lists in their Outlook Address Book. CAUSE: Due to architectural differences in local Active Directory/Exchange  and Office 365, the on-premise Dynamic Distribution Groups do not get replicated to Office 365. This is by design. WORKAROUND: In Office

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