David Greve

While working in SharePoint Online for Office 365 I noticed a few columns missing while creating a SharePoint Designer workflow. I was running SharePoint Designer from one of my many test virtual environments, which have worked successfully in the past. Some of the columns were showing up, while others were not. After a bit of […]

As we get closer to the launch of Office 365, existing BPOS customers will need to start thinking about and preparing for Office 365.Office 365 comes with a significant amount of enhancements over BPOS.These enhancements will add great amount of value to the users and the company leveraging the new service.Some of the areas in […]

Recently we ran in to an issue while preparing a Lotus Notes customer (let’s call them Company A) to migrate to Exchange Online.As we started to prepare the customer for the first directory sync, the customer had a requirement to start leveraging Microsoft Online and SharePoint Online.Since the customer signed up for standard licenses, we […]

I recently tried setting up a SharePoint site for a client within the EMEA data center and noticed I could not logon to the Microsoft Online Service Sign-In Client (SSO.) I tested logging back in to one of my US datacenter accounts and logged in without a problem. After doing some research, it appears the […]

Many organizations today have multiple offices throughout the country and sometimes extend globally.Often times, these offices will have groups of individuals that collaborate with one another based on teams, departments, or even project areas.The demands of collaboration across distributed environments can be challenging and it’s not uncommon for organizations to fly people cross country or […]

One of the challenges I had more recently with a migration from GroupWise to Exchange was specifically with users existing in GroupWise and users that have been migrated from GroupWise to Exchange. The scenario is, when users still exist in GroupWise, how do they email users already migrated to Exchange? The best approach, with minimal […]

After recently deploying PerformancePoint Scorecards within SharePoint, we’ve noticed some client computers (end-users) could not connect to these scorecards. As an example, we have had a filter on the scorecard that would produce an error of: “No Selections available. Contact your system administrator for assistance. Contact the administrator for more details.” The scorecard also continued […]

While implementing a couple SCR solutions, I noticed a common error I have seen while reviewing the copy status of a SCR source and target Exchange 2007 server. I noticed this problem while monitoring the health of a SCR configuration, as an example, run the following command: Ø Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus –Identity <SourceServerStorageGroup> –StandByMachine <TargetServer> | FL […]

While implementing a couple SCR solutions, I noticed a common error I have seen while reviewing the copy status of a SCR source and target Exchange 2007 server. I noticed this problem while monitoring the health of a SCR configuration, as an example, run the following command: Ø Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus –Identity <SourceServerStorageGroup> –StandByMachine <TargetServer> | FL […]

We have been deploying Exchange 2007 for a while now, on Windows Server 2003. Most recently, I have deployed Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 machines. The one noticeable problem, while setting up the Client Access Server role on server 2008 was that the Offline Address Book(OAB) URL was not functioning properly. You could access […]

Why would you want to upgrade the Lotus Notes Connector in Exchange 2003 to the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Exchange 2007? Well, there are many reasons why you would want to take this approach. One reason would be, to change the transport method of messages between Exchange and Notes. You may also be migrating to […]

In Exchange 2003, only one Calendar Connector can exist for every one Administrative Group. So technically, you could have multiple Calendar Connectors in a single Exchange 2003 Organization, with multiple Administrative Groups. Exchange 2007 only supports one Administrative Group in a native Exchange 2007 Organization. Because of this, your capabilities to implement multiple Calendar Connectors […]