In migrating from Notes to Office 365, the outlook shared address book or GAL only showed users who have active accounts in Office 365. As you can imagine this creates problems for users who have been migrated to Office365 as they are unable to find addresses of users whose mailboxes still reside in notes. All […]
Posts Tagged ‘Active Directory’
Determining the best way to create shared mailboxes in Office 365, when performing a migration from Lotus Notes or GroupWise
While planning your migration to Office 365, you have a couple options when provisioning Shared Mailboxes in Office 365.Microsoft does not charge you to create Shared Mailboxes in Office 365, if you do it right.Here are your options to create Shared mailboxes. Typically, when planning a migration from a Lotus Notes or GroupWise messaging system, […]
Migrating 5000 mailboxes to BPOS over a weekend and still have pilots – an option to consider
Background Let me explain what this means first and set some criteria for a statement like this. In the majority of cases this would involve moving little to no data which is usually the recommended approach for such a large cutover (a.k.a. flash cutover). Coexistence between on-premise mail systems and BPOS can be problematic and […]
Using ADFS 2.0 for Role Management in SharePoint 2010
I noticed that almost all of my most recent blog posts on the new claims features of SharePoint 2010 involve using ADFS 2.0 in some way. However, I don’t want to leave folks with the impression that this is a requirement. In fact, when SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM, you’ll be able to happily federate SharePoint […]
To DirSync or not to DirSync
When setting up a new BPOS site for clients the first conversation I make sure to have is about their on-premises Active Directory solution. Most companies already have a domain even if they are currently using Notes or Groupwise for a messaging solution, I haven’t seen a fully native Novell operation where no Windows domain […]