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All things UC related from Microsoft Consulting Services UK : architecture, best practice, news for Exchange and Lync, both on-premise and cloud
Dirsync Database keeps on Increasing…
Hi Have you noticed the Office 365 directory sync database just getting larger and larger… If...
Date: 07/23/2012
Office 365 – Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW)
Whilst working on a few O365 engagements over the last month or so I have seen various issues that...
Date: 05/23/2012
AD FS Publishing and Policy Rules
I’ve been working with a customer who wanted to lock down access to O365 so users can access all the...
Date: 04/17/2012
Office 365 Migration Issues
Please find a list of migration issues and resolutions that I captured during my last customers...
Date: 04/10/2012
Office 365 FOPE and Credit Card Rules
Whilst working with a customer here in the UK on their O365 project, they asked about using...
Date: 01/12/2012
Using Word 2010 with TechNet Blog Platform
This is obviously not a post about Exchange Server, but as a blogger I wanted to share this since...
Date: 12/20/2011
Database Maintenance in Exchange Server 2010
If there is one area of Exchange 2010 that was poorly documented and poorly understood it has to be...
Date: 12/14/2011
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack (SP2) is released!
Last week when the internal announcement was made to say that SP2 had been completed and was...
Date: 12/06/2011
Infrastructure Consultant UC Messaging
We are recruiting! For the full role description, see this link. For more about careers at Microsoft...
Date: 11/14/2011
Microsoft Lync 2011 for Mac and Office 365 Fix
Last month I wrote a blog about connecting Office 2011 for Mac to Office 365. This post...
Date: 10/21/2011
A fix for the interoperability issues between Exchange 2007 and 2010 EMC and IE9 is now available
This has been irritating me more and more recently – I am generally quite a tolerant person, but...
Date: 10/17/2011
Outlook Performance Counters are missing–take 2
Back in the summer (remember that?) I wrote an article about viewing the Outlook performance...
Date: 10/12/2011
Exchange Server 2010 Cross Forest Delegation
This has been an interesting bit of work for me. I have been working with a customer who...
Date: 10/12/2011
Exchange 2010 MCM–Rotation 10
MCM Rotation 10 has just completed and was the first rotation that I have been involved as an...
Date: 10/05/2011
Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac
Many of the customers I work with are currently making their way through an Office 365 technical...
Date: 09/15/2011
Office 365 User Community in the UK
Brett Johnson brought this to my attention last week – Way back at the beginning of this century I...
Date: 09/05/2011
Office 365 and Autodiscover
I’ve had a few customers in the last few weeks ask me how autodiscover works for Office 365 so...
Date: 09/01/2011
Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Certificate Planning–ADFS, Exchange Web Services, OWA, OA??
I recently wrote about configuring Office 365 hybrid to get cross premises availability working,...
Date: 08/25/2011
Office 365 Microsoft Office Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) Tool 3.2–With ADFS 2.0 Diagnostic tools
The Microsoft Office Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) tool has been around for a while,...
Date: 08/24/2011
Office 365 - Non-Federated Identity, Password never expires
The Microsoft Online Services Module allows you manage your tenant directly and in some cases change...
Date: 08/18/2011
Microsoft Certified Master Exchange Server –2 years later…
All the way back in May 2009 I had just completed my Exchange 2007 Microsoft Certified Master...
Date: 08/17/2011
Office 365 Hybrid Deployment / Exchange Rich Coexistence – Sharing Availability (Free/Busy)
I have been working with a number of customers and consultants recently who have been keen to...
Date: 08/14/2011
JetstressCmd has an undocumented /report command
NOTE: This is reposted here from HMLee’s blog back in 2007 – he is no longer posting to the...
Date: 08/10/2011
User Profile Analysis for Exchange Server 2010 (Who needs the Exchange Profile Analyzer?)
I recently wrote about gathering user profile data for Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 by using the...
Date: 08/09/2011
Enabling Retention Policies - Office 365
Steps Action The first step is understand the different types of retention policies you can apply...
Date: 08/09/2011
Performing a Multi Mailbox Search
Steps Action Login to the portal Sign into https://portal.microsoftonline.com as the tenant...
Date: 08/09/2011
Enable a hosted (Personal) Archive for Office 365
Steps Action Configure the ‘Office 365 Tenant’ Organization Relationship...
Date: 08/09/2011
Enable Mailtips - Office 365
Steps Action Enable on-premise Mailtips Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "Office 365...
Date: 08/09/2011
Enable Mailbox Moves–Office 365
Steps Actions Enable move mailboxes for the organization relationship Run...
Date: 08/09/2011
Enabling Calendar Sharing - Office 365
Steps Action Enable free/busy calendar sharing on-premise Run the following command...
Date: 08/09/2011
Adding and Exchange forest to the EMC
Steps Actions Add the online tenant to the on-premise EMC In the on-premises EMC right click...
Date: 08/09/2011
Is 3rd Party Message Archiving Necessary for Exchange Server 2010?
Since Exchange 2010 launched I have had many discussions with customers over the use of archiving...
Date: 08/05/2011
Exchange User Profile Analysis for Exchange 2003 and 2007 (Exchange Server Profile Analyzer How to : EPA)
One thing that I often waffle on about is gathering good quality user profile data before beginning...
Date: 08/02/2011
Office 365 Service Descriptions Released!
So.. with all of the launch fuss I failed to notice that the service descriptions for Office 365 had...
Date: 06/29/2011
Throttling Policies and Exchange Online…
Throttling policies in Exchange Server 2010 have been an often discussed and much misunderstood part...
Date: 06/29/2011
Office 365 Deployment Guide
I have been involved with a number of Office 365 deployments over the last 12 months, one thing that...
Date: 06/24/2011
Jetstress Field Guide
Last Updated : 21/06/2011 The field guide is released at major intervals on the Exchange Team Blog,...
Date: 06/15/2011
Jetstress 2010 – Stress test problem
Recently one of our partner has highlighted an issue in the current version of Jetstress that means...
Date: 06/09/2011
Exchange 2010 - active and passive database IOPS
I have been involved with a few escalations recently (I don't even work in support!), the cases have...
Date: 06/08/2011
Exchange 2010 – Exporting Mailboxes without EXMERGE
I often see customers struggle to make use of the export mailbox features in Exchange Server...
Date: 06/07/2011
Jetstress 2010 and Background Database Maintenance
Last week a colleague from the MCM Exchange 2010 community asked some questions about disabling...
Date: 06/06/2011
Enabling and Managing Federation
Steps Action Configure a remote domain to be used with Office 365 Launch on-premises Exchange...
Date: 06/06/2011
Outlook Performance Counters are missing…
I have been working on a number of Exchange projects recently with cloud integration. One...
Date: 05/31/2011
Support for Virtualising Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has changed..?
The support stance for virtualising Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has changed significantly over the last...
Date: 05/17/2011
Office 365 Directory Synchronization
Dirsync is required to support Single Sign On (SSO) and creates Mail Enabled Users (MEU) in the...
Date: 05/13/2011
Adding and Verifying a Federated Domain
Steps Action Launch Microsoft Online Services Identity Federation Management tool At the PowerShell...
Date: 05/11/2011