When you face large Office 365 implementations you might need to add many domains, going through the wizard will take up much time. Recently I had to work through an extensive list of domains as well, so I created a quick few lines of PowerShell that helped me solve this in seconds instead of hours.Using PowerShell and an input file I added the domains ......

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Recently I designed and implemented a large Office 365 environment, part of it was a Hybrid Exchange 2013 server that should also serve as a central SMTP relay server to 365 and the rest of the world.Since we didn't want to control a huge list of authorized IP addresses and of course adding complete IP subnets is a bad idea, we chose to use SMTP authentication ......

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Last week I was setting up Lync 2013 with Remote Call Control to a Mitel Live Business Gateway(LBG).I expected not much had changed from Lync 2010, and the lack for any 2013 procedures took us the 2010 path. After configuring the Lync environment to talk against the Mitel LBG, surprised I was to see no traffic at all was arriving at the LBG.Going over ......

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I think many of you have strugled or are now struggling on how to get the Offline Address Book distributed to all CAS servers.When you try to add a new server to the OAB and you already have a large number of servers in the list of virtual directories it can be quite a pain from the Exchange management console. It also cost me quite some time to come ......

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I think that almost every Exchange admin can concur with me that the Outlook autocomplete cache is one of those things you love but at the same time also hate. Users mostly love this function, except when it fails.Luckily since Outlook 2010 things got a little better and we got rid of the dreaded nk2 files.Outlook 2010 now includes a folder named "Suggested ......

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When Installing Exchange from the command line in a locked down environment I was presented with the following error message on the CAS prerequisites check. You must be a member of the 'Organization Management' role group or 'Enterprise Admins' group to continue. When I checked the Organization Management members list, I didn't see my account there ......

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A large portion of my work consists of designing Exchange 2010 environments for customers all around the world.Recently I was working on an assignment where we wanted to implement Exchange UM to replace cisco unity for 23 offices. The whole deployment is planned to run virtualized, this directed me to the specific requirements of UM on virtualization. ......

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