Posts Tagged ‘unified communications’

Building on my first post around Office 365, I’ve decided to post a short video blog series on addressing common myths around SharePoint Online. The first video in the series talks a little about the flexibility of SharePoint Online, options for developing solutions in SharePoint Online, and finally, the ability of using ADFS (Active Directory […]

IBM just announced Sametime 8.5.2 IFR 1 with a number of new features.  Some of them look pretty interesting.  I’m most interested in the native applications on Android and iOS.  Here’s what they say: IBM® Sametime® provides a core set of real-time communication services designed to help make your social business actionable. Sametime can help […]

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 […]

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 […]

My previous company was like many organizations; we battled time zone barriers and needed to communicate with a mobile workforce. I used 5 different tools on a daily basis to communicate with my colleagues. In hindsight, especially as a Lync user now, it’s easy to see how much productivity was lost in those 5 disparate […]

I recently had the pleasure of working with one of our customers to implement Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Voice with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 7.1.3. The integration between the two systems went pretty smoothly. During our testing phase though, we uncovered an issue with ringback. When a PSTN user or a Cisco IP Phone […]

Many global organizations are seeking ways to deliver authentication to their global sites, in the most optimal way.With Office 365, you have the ability to provide your end-users a single sign-on experience with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), integrating with Office 365.In order to leverage ADFS, you have to plan out your authentication strategy.The major […]

A hot topic throughout the SharePoint Conference 2011 earlier this month was the evolution of Microsoft’s cloud-based offering, Office 365, and more importantly, it’s successful adoption within large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. Within only 12 weeks since it’s release, millions of customers have taken advantage of the enterprise-class capabilities offered by Office 365. […]

As most people will have heard, Microsoft officially acquired Skype last week. There are precious few details about what the end-state is going to look like with Lync and Skype integrated; or even what Microsoft really plans to do with Skype. With so little information available directly from either party, I decided to read between […]

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 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, […]

I ran into an issue recently that, although was a quick fix, there was not much information posted about it. The problem came during the configuration of AD FS for single sign-on with Office 365, when AD FS looks for the Program Data container to add the specific application and certificate information within Active Directory. […]