This was a question asked by a community college customer deploying Office 365 for Education near Seattle. Dirsync server syncs AD user objects, groups, contacts to Office 365. User objects are synced as MSO IDs and all mail enabled objects are synced to Exchange Online. What server hardware do I need for…
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BES integration with Exchange Online in Education
We have had a lot of interest from our education customers on integration with BES in Exchange Online in Office 365. This is something that has not been available in Live@EDU in the past. RIM is making their BlackBerry Could Services for Microsoft Office 365 available at no cost. While the general availability is scheduled…
How can I troubleshoot ADFS issues with Office 365?
This was asked by a university in Southern California. Here are some new tools to help you troubleshoot your ADFS and your Office 365 setup: ADFS Connectivity Analyzer tool You can also use the Remote Connectivity Analyzer to help you troubleshoot your ADFS configuration or other coexistence settings. I provided my on prem AD…
Curious Greg builds a lab Part IV
Today Curious Greg is going to Houston to visit the Johnson Space Center. Before he leaves he wanted to share the final configuration pieces to the hybrid lab. When we last left the lab we configured our virtual directories. Today we will start with address policy. From the on-premises hybrid server open the Exchange Management…
What are all the Office 365 for Education PowerShell command options?
This was a question from a university in New Orleans looking to move to Office 365 for Education. There are two PowerShell scenarios applicable to Office 365 for Education. The first scenario is leveraging PowerShell for overall management of your Office 365 tenant and the other PowerShell scenario is for leveraging PowerShell to manage…
Curious Greg builds a Lab–Part III
The yellow man in the hat has been breathing down on me lately to continue my exploits. Today I’ll cover how we setup trusts and start to configure a hybrid Exchange environment. In my lab I have a CAS/HT server and a MBX server both are Exchange 2010 SP1 RU5. From our previous discussion…
Curious Greg builds a Lab–Part I
I remember as a kid those days I would read Curious George and wonder how did he end up there. Well usually the man in the yellow hat had something to do with that. I don’t have a man in the yellow hat but I starting thinking about helping customers (not starting mischief) and I…
Questions about ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) with Office 365 for Education
I had several ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) questions from a large university in northern California proceeding with Office 365 for Education for faculty, staff and students. What servers do I need to accommodate single sign on (SSO) aka Federated ID? The following on premises servers are needed to accommodate SSO with Office…
What do you get with Exchange Hybrid?
This was a question from a university in Utah looking to deploy students on Office 365 and keep their faculty staff with on prem Exchange 2010. What does Exchange Hybrid deployment mean? Exchange Hybrid deployment means you want to maintain rich coexistence with Exchange Online and an Exchange on premises installation. What versions of…
What do I need to do to prepare for Office 365 for Education?
Welcome to our new blog! My name is Mark Garcia and I have been blogging on the Three UC Amigos blog for the past 3 years with some great customer reach. I have recently moved to the Office 365 for Education team as a Cloud Architect. I look forward to sharing some great technical…