Practical 365

About Nathan McGee

Nathan is an Azure Cloud Architect and Microsoft 365 Expert with 15+ years experience in the tech industry. Over the years, he has gained a deep understanding of how technology can be used as an asset to businesses to achieve growth, improve efficiency, or excel above the competition.

Hailing from the UK, he has a passion for solving problems through technology and he’s able to channel that passion into his current role as a Cloud Consultant at CAE Technology Services, where he has a focus on Cloud Automation and Security.

Automate Exchange Hybrid Server in Azure

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Running an Exchange hybrid server in Azure is easy; the challenge is cost – the savior is automation.
This article covers how to automate your Exchange Hybrid server in Azure and significantly reduce the cost of running your hybrid server in Azure with basic start/stop solutions, progressing to maintenance scripts to ensure the server is kept up to date regularly. It also explores how the maintenance scripts can be expanded to cover scheduled reporting or other tasks.

Use Azure Front Door to Leverage Microsoft’s Global Network for Exchange

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With Azure Front Door, you can reduce the strain on Exchange through caching, content compression, and by filtering out malicious bots before traffic even hits the on-premises network. In this article, we demonstrate how you can use Front Door to reduce your Exchange Server load, increase OWA Client performance and provide Microsoft managed certificates.