New Microsoft Pix features let you take bigger, wider pictures and turns your videos into comics

Microsoft has released two new features with today’s update to Microsoft Pix for iOS, an app powered by a suite of intelligent algorithms developed by Microsoft researchers to take the guesswork out of getting beautiful photos and videos.

The first of these features, Photosynth, helps create photos that take in more of the perspective or scene you are standing in front of, whether it is wide, tall, or both. It does this by allowing you to freely pan and capture from side to side, up and down, back and forth, and even go back to the start to include any parts of the scene you may have missed.

“The idea came after some frustrations I had when trying to take a picture of Snoqualmie Falls.

Discontinued and deemphasized features in Exchange Server 2016

Although Exchange Server 2016 includes several new features and functionalities, some features are discontinued or de-emphasized because they are replaced with appropriate new technologies.

The following Exchange Server 2010 features are discontinued:

• ·        The Unified Messaging server role, which is replaced by Unified Messaging services running on the Mailbox server role
• ·        The Hub Transport server role, which is now replaced by transport services
• ·        Exchange Management Console and Exchange Control Panel
• ·        Support for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and RPC over TCP client access
• ·        Outlook Web App no longer offers built-in spell check. Instead, spell check now works in the web browsers.
• ·        Outlook Web App no longer supports custom date on a message flag and customizable filtered views.
• ·        Anti-spam agent management in the Exchange Management Console
• ·        Managed folders, which are replaced with retention policies
• The following Exchange Server 2013 features are discontinued in Exchange Server 2016:
• ·        The Client Access server role, which is now integrated with the Mailbox server role.
• ·        The MAPI over CDO library, which is replaced by Exchange Web Services, Exchange ActiveSync, and representational state transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs).
• The following features are deemphasized, which means that they will not be used in future Exchange Server versions:
• ·        RPC over HTTP, because it is being replaced with MAPI over HTTP
• ·        Database availability group support for failover cluster administrative access points
• ·        ThirdPartyReplication parameter on the Database availability group

Transfer of FSMO Roles

We can transfer the roles for some temporary maintenance issues on to ADC and again we can transfer back the roles onto DC.

We can transfer the roles in two ways

1. Command mode
2. Graphical mode

Transfer of roles through command:

On DC
Go to command prompt and type ntdsutil
Type: roles
Connections
Connect to server (name of ADC ex.sys2)
Q
Transfer schema master
Transfer RID master
Transfer infrastructure master
Transfer PDCQ
Q
Exit

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Exchange Server 2019

Microsoft is planed to release Exchange 2019 On-Premises by 2018.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/10/02/exchange-server-2019/

Windows Hello for Business

In Windows 10, Windows Hello for Business replaces passwords with strong two-factor authentication on PCs and mobile devices. This authentication consists of a new type of user credential that is tied to a device and uses a biometric or PIN.

Windows Hello for Business lets user authenticate to an Active Directory or Azure Active Directory account.

if you have only office 365 subscription and windows 10 then also your user able to login through windows hello no need local AD.

Windows Hello addresses the following problems with passwords:

• Strong passwords can be difficult to remember, and users often reuse passwords on multiple sites.
• Server breaches can expose symmetric network credentials (passwords).
• Passwords are subject to replay attacks.
• Users can inadvertently expose their passwords due to phishing attacks.

Overview of Exchange Database Concepts and Architecture.

The mailbox database is the primary component in Exchange Server 2016. Unlike previous Exchange Server versions, which also contained public folder databases, Exchange Server 2016 works only with mailbox databases.

Mailbox databases contain data, data definitions, indexes, checksums, flags, and other information that constitute mailboxes in Exchange Server 2016. Mailbox databases hold individual users’ private data, and also contain the mailbox folders that Exchange Server generates when you create mailboxes for those users. You can host the mailbox database on a single server, or you can distribute it across multiple mailbox servers if you have deployed database availability groups (DAGs).

Exchange Server 2016 stores the mailbox database in a database file, also known as an Exchange database (.edb) file. In addition to the .edb file, Exchange Server 2016 uses a set of data files to host and maintain the mailbox database. These files include: