First of all, happy new year to all dear readers and followers. With January well underway, and taking some (largely offline) time off for the holiday period, it’s time to see what 2016 brought.

But first a new year resolution: step up the blogging game. While there isn’t much development happening in the Exchange space, with Microsoft’s cloud-first strategy, there is still a lot to talk about or script for. My list list of ‘scripting ideas’ is substantial, now let’s find some time to realize some of these ideas. Knowing that when you publish scripts, you automatically become its support channel, so that may put some additional stress on my mailbox, but it’s a small price for helping lots of people out.

Some Highlights:

• Re-awarded as Office 365 Servers and Services MVP
• Awarded 2016 Exchange Oscar for Best Code Contribution
• Workshop: Advanced PowerShell Management of Office 365
  IT/Dev Connections
• Webinar: How to Benefit from MS Office 365 and Maintain Control of Your Data
• Session: Exchange 2016 & OOS, Office Online Server

Global Stats of 2016:

• Number of views: 309,767 (total: 1,888,669)
• Visitors: 220,900 (total 894,316)
• Number of posts: 22 (total 547)

Popular Posts of 2016:

Note: Not considering the Archives, Versions, Builds and Dates, Schema Versions and Toolkit pages.

• Exchange ActiveSync and Inheritable Permissions issue
• TargetAddress, ExternalEmailAddress and Set As External
• The Attribute, the Myth, the legacyExchangeDN
• Limiting Exchange 2010 Database Cache
• Outlook for iOS adds Contacts support

Top 5 Visitor Countries of 2016:

• United States (96,286)
• United Kingdom (29,606)
• Germany (19,968)
• India (14,355)
• Netherlands (13,056)

Top 5 Referrers of 2016:

• exchangeserverpro.com (Paul Cunningham’s)
• blogs.technet.com (MSFT blogs)
• meridian.ws (blog)
• experts-exchange (community)
• veritas.com (support forum)

Top 5 Search Terms of 2016:

• kb2506143
• targetaddress
• federation information could not be retrieved from the external organization
• exchange 15.1
• exchange version numbers

Top 5 Scripts of 2016:

• Ignite 2016 Slidedeck and Video downloader (4,941, total 4,941)
• Exchange v15 (2013/2016) Unattended Installation Script (2,601, total 8,577)
• Removing Duplicate Items from a Mailbox (2,079, total 6,843)
• Clearing AutoComplete and other Recipient Caches (1,932, total 3,920)
• Removing Messages by Message Class from Mailbox (915, total 2,942)