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Office 365 Hybrid Deployment With Exchange 2010 SP2 – Part 2

January 27, 2012 in Exchange 2010, Hybrid Deployment, Office 365 with 0 Comments

In this article, we will go through the steps to setup and configure ADFS 2.0. If you have missed the first part, read it here. ADFS is required for single sign-on access to Office 365 services.

ADFS for Office 365 is NOT about enabling the ADFS role from Server Manager. ADFS Version 2 is required for our scenario. Download ADFS v2.0 from here depending on the OS. A dedicated ADFS server is not required for small environments, the recommendation is to have it running on atleast two domain controllers. I will be installing it only on one domain controller as it is a test lab.

Office 365 Hybrid Deployment With Exchange 2010 SP2 – Part 1

January 27, 2012 in Exchange 2010, Hybrid Deployment, Office 365 with 0 Comments

I am starting an article series which explains how to have a hybrid deployment of Exchange 2010 SP2 with Office 365. You can follow along if you have a test lab. As I have written before, there is no money involved in setting this up, as Microsoft is offering a 30 days trial for E3 plan, read here.

Update Rollup 6 For Exchange 2007 SP3 Released

January 26, 2012 in Exchange 2007 SP3, Update Rollup with 0 Comments

Microsoft has released update rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 SP3 deployments. For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB2608656.

Failed To Deploy Forefront Protection Server Agent Remotely

January 25, 2012 in Exchange 2010, Forefront with 0 Comments

I was at a client site today and while deploying the forefront agent remotely to an Exchange 2010 mailbox server from Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC), the job failed with the error given below.

Office 365 Trial

January 23, 2012 in Office 365 with 4 Comments

Microsoft is offering a 30 days trial for both the P1 & E3 packages. The P1 is for professionals & small businesses and E3 for midsize & large enterprises.

Connect To Lync Server Using Remote PowerShell

January 20, 2012 in Lync Server 2010, PowerShell with 0 Comments

I had written before about how to connect to an Exchange 2010 server from a Windows PowerShell, read here. The same can be done for Lync Server as well.

The commands are pretty much the same as for Exchange 2010.

Disable Auto Mapping Of Mailboxes In Exchange 2010 SP2

January 19, 2012 in Exchange 2010, New Feature, SP2 with 2 Comments

One of the features introduced in Exchange 2010 SP1 which had mixed response was the auto mapping of mailboxes in Outlook, to which the user had full access to. Though it is a good feature, there was no control over it and some admins found it very frustrating, especially the ones that had users with too many shared mailboxes.

Microsoft has listened to the customer feedback and have put a parameter that can control the auto mapping.

Integrate Lync 2010 With Exchange 2010 OWA

January 18, 2012 in Exchange 2010, Lync Server 2010 with 2 Comments

I am sure that there are a number of articles explaining the process of integrating Lync 2010 with Exchange 2010 OWA, as Lync has been around for a while. I have started playing with Lync only very recently and hence this is more of a bookmark for me when I am at a customer site.

There are a number of steps to be done, in the proper order to make the integration a success.

Rollback Lync Server 2010 Forest Prep

January 17, 2012 in Lync Server 2010 with 2 Comments

I got a phone call from a customer who wanted to know whether it was possible to rollback forest preparation for Lync Server 2010. They only had an approved change request for the schema upgrade, but the engineer got carried away and did the forest prep too. Their reporting tool started emailing the creation of all the universal groups related to Lync.

Configure Autodiscover Site Scope In Exchange 2010

January 16, 2012 in Autodiscover, Exchange 2010 with 2 Comments

I was asked today about the steps to configure autodiscover site scope and I was surprised to find out that I hadn’t written about it before. I was thinking of giving a link to the article, but I have to write it first. So, here it goes.

Configuring site scope for autodiscover comes in only if you have multiple sites with clients connecting, say a company which spreads across the country or a global company with branches in many countries. Whatever the scenario is, the intention is to get Outlook 2007+ clients to pick up a local or closest CAS server as the SCP endpoint.