Posts Tagged ‘Exchange’

While directory sync provides a much needed service for Office 365 tenants one pain point that comes up pretty regularly is distribution group management once you’re in the cloud. Sure the groups get synced to the cloud but if you’ve been used to managing the group memberships with Outlook when everyone’s mailbox used to be […]

This is a reminder for some or heads up for new tenants about an issue you might have run across that occurs when you try to change a user’s userPrincipalName in your local AD when using dirsync. If you change the UPN (left side of @) and keep the user in the same domain, dirsync […]

I recently came across an issue when one of my peers in the enterprise voice group helped integrate their existing on-premise Lync 2010 environment with hosted voicemail in the cloud. We followed the recommended steps outlined in these series of TechNet articles and other publications and everything seemed to work fine with a few test […]

My intention of this post is to reach organizations whom currently leverage Shoretel and would like a high level understanding of integrating Lync Server 2010/2013 with their current Shoretel investment.  In this series of Q&A, it is assumed Lync will sit behind the Shoretel system.  In other words, the Shoretel PBX will be the gatekeeper […]

This is post 10 of the twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the 10th day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 10 Lync Internal Server Roles! On the surface (No PUN intended), Lync 2013 is, or at least was upon release, widely perceived to not […]

I’ve been meaning to sit down and spend some time exploring the new Active Directory cmdlets that come with Windows Server 2012 so I decided to use my lab to create some test objects and populate the mailboxes with some messages. My lab setup is very simple: 1 – Windows Server 2012 domain controller 1 […]

Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell 3.0 offer thousands of new cmdlets to make any scripter happy. One set of cmdlets had me intrigued when I first heard about them. The cmdlets in the storage module interested me because frequently I would have to deploy a bunch of new Exchange servers and depending on the design […]

 This blog post is meant for both the PowerShell newbie and scripter out there looking for a reason why they should start learning aptly named PowerShell or push themselves to learn a new aspect of PowerShell they’ve been meaning to try. It’s been a few years now since PowerShell first came to be. Remember those […]

Well, it’s about time.  It looks like SharePoint and Exchange are finally integrated in the ways users have been wanting for years now– tasks, document sharing and e-Discovery. Some of the most common questions I’ve fielded over the last few years, both as a consultant and a SharePoint specialist at Microsoft, have concerned getting these […]

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 […]

I recently ran into what appeared to be an issue while creating an Exchange 2010 DAG for one of my customers. The issue arose because I wanted to create a 2-Server DAG using a non-Exchange Server as the FSW (File Share Witness). There is a well-known bug in Exchange 2010 that generates a warning when […]

Late last year Packt Publishing asked fellow MVP Loryan Strant and me if we were interested in writing a book on Office 365. I’ve certainly written a few technical blogs, but never a book with this much detail. Since the topic of this book is right in our wheelhouse, we couldn’t pass it up. Integrating […]