Posts Tagged ‘unified communications’

Background When I help my customers upgrade their Exchange environments from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, a key element that I focus on is end user impact. If the upgrade is executed correctly, most end users should never know that an upgrade occurred. In fact, in most instances, the only difference end users will notice […]

As many people may already know Managed Folders in Exchange 2010 SP1 have been removed from the GUI and now need to be managed via PowerShell, as stated here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998911.aspx. While they are still supported, the process to create them and assign a Managed Folder Policy is a little confusing, which I found out testing […]

On a recent Microsoft Exchange Installation for one of my customers, I encountered the following error message when trying to setup a Database Availability Group in Exchange 2010 SP1: WriteError! Exception = Microsoft.Exchange.Cluster.Replay.DagTaskOperationFailedException: A server-side database availability group administrative operation failed. Error: The operation failed. CreateCluster errors may result from incorrectly configured static addresses. Error: […]

As we get closer to the launch of Office 365, existing BPOS customers will need to start thinking about and preparing for Office 365.Office 365 comes with a significant amount of enhancements over BPOS.These enhancements will add great amount of value to the users and the company leveraging the new service.Some of the areas in […]

Recently we ran in to an issue while preparing a Lotus Notes customer (let’s call them Company A) to migrate to Exchange Online.As we started to prepare the customer for the first directory sync, the customer had a requirement to start leveraging Microsoft Online and SharePoint Online.Since the customer signed up for standard licenses, we […]

In setting up an Office365 pilot for a customer the other day I found it doesn’t give an option to choose external relay like in BPOS. If you are piloting Office365 with your domain, read-on how to avoid any service interruption to any existing office 365 users. After adding domain, you will be provided with […]

I was recently working with a colleague to determine how to control the behavior of the Lync client when joining Lync Online Meetings (e.g. https://meet.contoso.com/jdoe/XXXXX). If everything is set up correctly, everything magically works! Well what happens if you want to use the Lync Web App to join meetings (rare) or if the Lync client […]

I recently visited a client who was having a miserable time getting the Lync Central Management Store database created during the Topology publishing process. They kept seeing errors similar to below: Error: Script failed (code “ERROR_CREATE_DB”) when installing “CentralMgmtStore” on “lyncserver.company.com”. For details, see the following log file: “C:UsersadminacctAppDataLocalTempCreate-CentralMgmtStore-lyncserver.company.com-[2011_01_03][10_32_38].log” 1/3/2011 10:32:38 AM Error Error: An […]

I am working with a customer to migrate their OCS 2007 R2 environment to Lync 2010. Initially, a single Lync Enterprise Front-End server was installed and placed behind a hardware load balancer. As there was only a single front-end server configured at the time, the internal and external web services URLs matched the Lync pool […]

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 […]

February 2nd, 2011 was a great day in weather punditry. A lot of the country was blanketed in snow; Chicago was no exception. Businesses and schools closed, people were sent home, weather commentators and the blogosphere were busy generating nicknames: Snowpocalypse Snowmageddon SNOMG!! The SNOWotorious BIG (I think that I lean towards #4, for what […]

Lync 2010 gives users the ability to record both peer-to-peer calls as well as conference calls. It’s a handy built-in feature in the Lync 2010 client: However – I’ve noticed that there isn’t a way to record PSTN calls: I’m not 100% why PSTN calls wouldn’t be able to be recorded. Maybe because they are […]