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Why the correct load balancing persistence is so important in Exchange Server...
I’m sure this has been covered by many other sources on the internet, but I thought I’d put down my thoughts on the matter as many people still don’t understand why the correct load balancing...
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Distributing offline address books to multiple generation servers.
I’ve been involved in relatively large Exchange Server 2010 multi-tenanted solutions recently and during my deployments we decided to move away from a dedicated server for Offline Address Book (OAB)...
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Office 365 Certificates and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard
It’s been a while since my last blog, but the world of Microsoft Consulting has been keeping me very busy.In this post I’m going to cover an issue I picked up during an Office 365 Hybrid deployment for...
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Office 365 - Outlook Certificate Popups
I got a mail the other day from a colleague requesting assistance on behalf of a partner around an Office 365 certificate error in Outlook.The scenario was that a certificate expired – I’m not sure...
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Exchange 2010 Edge - Unable to Relay
Got a call from a customer informing me that inbound mails are bouncing with 550 Unable to relay – but only on 1 of their Exchange 2010 Edge servers. The other server works fine.First thing I ask is...
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Group Policy client side extensions
A couple of months ago I was assisting a customer with a very strange Group Policy problem. The first sign of the problem was when some users complained that they weren’t notified of upcoming password...
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Exchange 2010 SP3 on Windows Server 2012
I've been busy with a small Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 engagement the last few days and we decided to go with Windows Server 2012 for the base operating system. Luckily for us Exchange 2010 SP3 has...
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Windows 8, Hyper-V, Vyatta Lab and Wireless adapter saga
I had some time recently to fine tune my lab environment on my laptop and thought I would share my experiences.Microsoft was kind enough to provide me with a drive upgrade a couple of months back – a...
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Office 365 Post Service Upgrade
Office 365 customers running on Wave 14 tenants are gradually being upgraded to Wave 15 tenants. Although communication is being sent out to customers I wanted to add to my blog to help with the...
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Office 365 Insight into the Hybrid Configuration Wizard
In this post I want to cover the Hybrid Configuration process - specifically detail on the Configure Legacy Exchange Support step.The Hybrid Configuration Wizard has 6 tasks that it executes:Global...
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Office 365 Upgrading DirSync SQL Express Database
This short article covers the process of an in-place upgrade of the DirSync database to a full standard edition of SQL 2008 R2.Why would we want to do this? Well, you might find yourself in an...
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Office 365 DirSync Password Synchronization
Got some great news – Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Agent (DirSync) has a new welcome feature - Password Synchronization - whooohoo.This is great for hybrid and staged migrations and simplifies...
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Exchange 2013 fun with Information Store
I've been working with the Exchange Team on some additions to the Exchange 2013 Role Requirements calculator scripts lately and I picked up an interesting issue with the Information Store service on...
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Office 365 DirSync Update
I just received feedback from the Dev Team that an updated version of DirSync Tool has been released that fixes the below Exception in Windows 2003 Domain Controller...
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Office 365 Hybrid Mailbox Migration Management
2014/10/02 Update: New Version 1.1 has been released - fixed a bug that always causes moves to be suspended.If you are going to use the Large Item Limit switch, please use it cautiously and ensure your...
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Exchange Server Large MailItem Script
UPDATE : 1. Please take note we have increased the size limit to 150MB during on boarding the previous 25MB should no longer be an issue - see the announcement here:...
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Managing failed mailbox move requests
If you haven’t seen my mailbox migration tool yet, go and have a look at it here. It’s been working great for me and my customers that have been using it. If you have a large amount of mailboxes to...
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Office 365 License Reporting
UPDATE 2014/14/09: New version 0.6 has been released to support Power BI for Office 365 licenses.I’ve been looking for some way of reporting on Office 365 licenses assigned to users and creating a...
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Office 365 Insight into the Hybrid Configuration Wizard Part 2
I decided to extend the Insight into the Hybrid Configuration Wizard article into another 2 parts. I've been getting numerous requests on troubleshooting the dreaded Get-FederationInformation...
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