Posts Tagged ‘unified communications’

In preparing for a migration to Exchange, BPOS, or Office 365 testing is crucial. The advantage to using a third party tool such as Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange is the ability to easily modify certain attributes, such as the SMTP Target Address, for migration testing purposes. In this scenario, the object is to prepare […]

Have you ever tried enabling a user for Enterprise Voice or Exchange Unified Messaging and received an error stating the action could not be completed due to a duplicate record? I’ve surprisingly ran into this issue more than once recently. Whether a telephone number was used for testing purposes and simply forgotten about or caused […]

To change the frequency of Dirsync: 1. In Windows Explorer, locate the Microsoft.Online.DirSync.Scheduler.exe.Config file in the following folder: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Online Directory Sync. This is the default installation location. 2. Start Notepad, and then open the Microsoft.Online.DirSync.Scheduler.exe.Config file. 3. Change Value=”3:0:0″ to the time period that you want. Use Hours:Minutes:Seconds format to specify the time […]

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 […]

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, […]

Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging is a great voicemail solution, especially for anyone with SIP-compliant PBX like Cisco or Avaya. At PointBridge we’ve had good success migrating people off Cisco Unity in particular. In fact, we recently migrated a 2000-user customer from Unity to Exchange UM, cutting everyone over in a single night. The project was […]

One of the very useful new features of Lync 2010 Phone Edition is support for LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) to allow phones to receive configuration information from the switches they plug into. If you have any experience with Cisco IP Telephony, you know that Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is used for similar purposes to […]

Recently, I had the pleasure of deploying a new Lync Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) at a customer site. If you’re unfamiliar with SBA functionality, a SBA’s primary function is to provide voice resiliency in office locations where direct internet connectivity to the main data center/central site is lost. I won’t go on and on about […]

There is plenty of documentation out there on how to install the XMPP gateway with OCS or Lync (references provided at the bottom of this post). This blog will not focus on the installation of the XMPP Gateway, but rather what to do if you receive TLS errors on the Lync Edge server when communicating […]

Microsoft provides documentation on how to create single common area phone accounts, but there is limited documentation on how to actually create the common area phone accounts in bulk. Below is a breakdown on the bulk account creation process. Script Prerequisites Create a New Client Policy to Support Hot-Desking As indicated in the TechNet article, […]

Programmatically creating Outlook meeting request has been a hot topic for me over the past few weeks. I found myself in a scenario that required me to send a meeting request from a user and was using the System.Net.Mail namespace to do the job.While creating the meeting request, a limitation surfaced as result of the […]

We’ve all experienced it before, those “Wow, I can’t believe it’s that easy” moments. Exchange Web Services Managed API makes sending emails, creating appointments, querying folders/calendars, and generating meeting requests extremely simple.When it comes to programmatically duplicating Outlook functionality (given Exchange is running the show), the Exchange Web Services Managed API is definitely worth looking […]