Overview Lync Server 2010 is extremely granular when it comes to routing voice calls. Lync administrators can configure a voice call to load balance between multiple PSTN gateways within a single site or failover to a PSTN gateway in a second site in the event the primary PSTN gateway fails. After numerous discussions with colleagues […]
Posts Tagged ‘unified communications’
What?!?! How to Correct Audio Playing Through Speakers Instead of a Lync Certified Headset
One of the items I love about Microsoft Lync is the fact that I can plug my Lync certified headset (Plantronics Blackwire C420) into my laptop and instantly begin using it to make and receive telephone calls. This morning, I plugged my headset in to join a Lync Online Meeting and the audio started playing […]
Quest Lotus Notes Migrator for SharePoint: Migrating Fields with Populated Drop-Down Menus
When using the Quest Migrator tool to migrate a client from Lotus Notes to SharePoint Online/Office 365, you are provided with a very straight-forward interface to migrate DB’s and applications to the new SharePoint environment. However, when trying to keep consistency between environments checks and modifications are needed to ensure the items are correctly migrated. […]
Office 365-SharePoint Online Disabling the “My Site” Feature
ISSUE: When working with several clients to get them started with SharePoint Online, many clients are not yet ready to give users the full functionality/customizations that the “My Site” feature provides. Whether it is the social features, personal features, or just the creation of a personal site, many clients feel like they need their users […]
Working With Exchange 2010 Recovery Databases
Background Brien Posey has an excellent post explaining the steps required to mount a recovery database in Exchange 2010. His post can be found here. While assisting one of my customers restore email data using a recovery database, I learned some lessons that I thought I’d share. In this instance, my customer needed to restore […]
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, […]
Access Denied on the Portal and Mailbox is inaccessible after migration to Office 365
We’ve migrated many users from an external messaging system, like Lotus Notes or GroupWise to Office 365.On one of our migrations, we ran in to an issue with a migrated user.When this user tried to logon with their AD credentials (ADFS deployed), they would constantly be prompted for their logon credentials.When we logged on to […]
TMG HTTP to HTTPs Redirect Not Working
Nearly all organizations that have deployed any version of Exchange now recognize and understand that allowing Port 80 access from the Internet directly into any Exchange Server is not exceptionally secure, and is therefore not desirable. I personally will not deploy Exchange for any of my customers unless they publish Exchange to the Internet using […]
Changing look and feel in Office 365 public web site. (Overview)
If you have the P1 plan, you get a public web site that you can customize. This is pretty neat. Office 365 gives you plenty of tools to create your own look and feel. Here is an overview of the basic functionality provided to customize your site. You can set the width of the page […]
Lync and My Sites (Update My Site status with Lync Personal Note)
If you have noticed, Lync’s personal note does not sync with your “My Site” status. It would’ve been great if there was a way to set the My Site link in the Lync client and it would automatically set the status. To accomplish the above we have to use the Lync client SDK which can […]
Activate Office365 users via Powershell
With general availability of Office365 in the horizon, new features are being activated every day. One such long-awaited feature is activating users via Powershell instead of from the portal site. To do so follow these steps: Download the MSOL services module from here: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/Office365-enterprises/ff652560.aspx Connect to office 365 with following commandlets $cred = get-credential (enter […]