After getting Exchange 2013 Preview running in my lab, I thought I’d share some of the challenges I ran into while trying to get the product installed. If any of you run into similar challenges, I hope you find this information helpful. First, I’ll discuss the prerequisite tasks. Check out this TechNet article to get […]
Posts Tagged ‘Exchange Server’
Office 365 Remote Move “Completed with Warning” – Part 1
I’ve seen a number of different O365 forum entries on this issue, but I wanted to pull together some thoughts on what I’ve done to resolve these errors for my customers. Normally, a mailbox remote move operation performs a copy of the on-premise mailbox content to the Office 365 mailbox. However, If the mailbox has […]
Video Blog: Migration Strategies to Office 365: Part 2
During part two of this 2-part blog series, Microsoft MVP and PointBridge Professional Services Manager Dave Greve talks about the importance of communications and training within an organization migrating to Office 365. He suggests tips to minimize help desk tickets, maximize adoption early on, provide better ground support during go-live and getting users ready and […]
Video Blog: Migration Strategies to Office 365: Part 1
During part one this 2-part blog series, I talk about the importance of user experience during migration to Office 365. Microsoft offers many capabilities that ensure an optimal user experience such as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Directory Sync and Exchange hybrid services. Additionally, I point out options for organizations with external messaging systems to […]
Exchange 2010 – Is The Upgrade Worth The Effort?
I have written several posts providing insight into some technical challenges that I have encountered while helping my customers upgrade to Exchange 2010. Upgrading any technology within a computing environment requires time and effort, and with some of the technical challenges I’ve already documented, some of you may be wondering if upgrading your Exchange environment […]
Create Remote Domains
One of my clients running Exchange 2003 was using over 400 email domains and was trying to setup coexistence with Office 365. One of the requirements for this is to create remote domains both on-premises and in office 365 for each primary SMTP domain and currently there is not a way to automate this (Exchange […]
Exchange and IE Proxy Server
Recently I had completed setup of Office 365 coexistence for a client using Exchange 2007 and verified mail flow to/from Office 365 and free busy lookups. Abruptly one day mail flow stopped to Office 365 and Exchange console was showing the message “The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.” After […]
Publish Enterprise Vault Using TMG
I have a lot of customers who have deployed Enterprise Vault within their email environments. In many cases, these customers have deployed Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 and have been using ISA Server to publish OWA and Outlook Anywhere to the Internet. These customers have then upgraded to Exchange 2010 and replaced ISA with TMG. […]
Office 365 Shared Mailboxes and an Auto-reply Rule
Office 365 supports the ability to create Shared Mailboxes, right through the UI or through PowerShell commands. The Shared Mailbox is essentially an unlicensed mailbox with no direct logon capabilities. This means you cannot open the mailbox directly, within the Outlook client. What you can do is open the mailbox with an existing licensed mailbox, […]
Creating Bulk AD User Accounts using PowerShell
I am sure most administrators have received a request to create several AD accounts due to acquisitions, mergers, or for other reasons. I had one of those requests which consisted of populating an AD environment that was to be used for Directory Synchronization with BPOS/Office 365. There are a lot of Bulk AD scripts out […]
Exchange 2010 Mailbox Moves Require NetBIOS Name Resolution
During a recent Exchange 2010 Deployment, my customer was experiencing 3 different Exchange 2010 issues that were all solved with the same fix. Issue #1: Customer was unable to move mailboxes from one database to another on the same Mailbox Server or between Mailbox Servers. The following error was returned when attempting to move mailboxes: […]
Unable to Move Mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
Background I recently struggled with the inability to move mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 while helping one of my customers. The environment consisted of a Single Exchange Organization residing in a Single Forest with Multiple Domains within the Forest. The Exchange 2003 Servers and the Exchange 2010 Servers resided in the same Forest, […]