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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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 04/17/2012

Office 365 Migration Issues

Please find a list of migration issues and resolutions that I captured during my last customers...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Microsoft UK Unified Comms Team 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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,...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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,...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 08/09/2011

Steps Action Login to the portal Sign into https://portal.microsoftonline.com as the tenant...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 08/09/2011

Enable a hosted (Personal) Archive for Office 365

Steps Action Configure the ‘Office 365 Tenant’ Organization Relationship...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 08/09/2011

Enable Mailtips - Office 365

Steps Action Enable on-premise Mailtips Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "Office 365...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 08/09/2011

Enable Mailbox Moves–Office 365

Steps Actions Enable move mailboxes for the organization relationship Run...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 08/09/2011

Enabling Calendar Sharing - Office 365

Steps Action Enable free/busy calendar sharing on-premise Run the following command...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2011

Throttling Policies and Exchange Online…

Throttling policies in Exchange Server 2010 have been an often discussed and much misunderstood part...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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,...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2011

Enabling and Managing Federation

Steps Action Configure a remote domain to be used with Office 365 Launch on-premises Exchange...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 06/06/2011

Outlook Performance Counters are missing…

I have been working on a number of Exchange projects recently with cloud integration.  One...

Author: Neil Johnson [MSFT] 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...

Author: Doug Gowans MSFT 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...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 05/13/2011

Adding and Verifying a Federated Domain

Steps Action Launch Microsoft Online Services Identity Federation Management tool At the PowerShell...

Author: Dan Kenyon-smith Date: 05/11/2011

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