heck out this blog post from Microsoft first. Mine’s mostly based on that but tailored to my specific situation. We have a CAS server that’s purely for internal admin ECP functions. Managed Availability was running some ActiveSync tests on it and failing (because they don’t exist) with errors like these in SCOM: 1 2 3 4 5 […]
When installing an Exchange 2013 Edge Transport server a self-signed certificate is created and configure for use with the SMTP Transport server. The self-signed certificate has the NetBIOS hostname as the Common Name and the FQDN in the Subject Alternate Names field. You can view this self-signed certificate using the Certificate MMC snap-in: Exchange servers […]
In this article we will show you how to enable SNMP on your VMware ESXi host, configure SNMP Community string and configure your ESXi firewall to allow or block access to the SNMP service from specific host(s) or network(s). Enabling SNMP service on a VMware ESXi host is considered mandatory in any production environment as it allows a Network Monitoring System (NMS) access and monitor the ESXi host(s) and obtain valuable information such as CPU, RAM and Storage usage, vmnic (network) utilization and much more. Furthermore, […]
I have a lab environment containing Office 365, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2010. Free busy is not working from O365 –> 2010 or Exchange 2016 –> 2010. The Autodiscover record points all EWS requests to Exchange 2016 Web Services Virtual Directory for the Availability Service. The Availability Service on the Exchange 2016 server is failing to […]
I’ve provided a few tutorials on this blog showing how easy Docker makes it to get a WordPress blog up and running. These show off two different ways of running containers in Azure – first just by using a regular Virtual Machine, and second with Azure Container Instances: Installing WordPress with Docker Compose Deploying WordPress […]
Overview: This paper shows the Skype® for Business 2015 – (Lync® 2013) Servers in a typical On-Premise deployment and discusses the Roles and their Functions as Part 2 of a series that specifically looks at Microsoft Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) and the challenges and solutions for integrating Skype for Business 2015 with H.323 or SIP standards compliant videoconferencing systems. Hence, it […]
When installing Skype for Business it is important to consider how you are going to guarantee a level of consistent service to your consumers. Out of the box Skype for Business does not use any Quality of Service (QoS) methodologies. However, it does support them. Skype for Business uses Differentiated Services Code Point or DSCP […]
Copy Receive Connectors from one Exchange Server to another When doing migration creating new Exchange Receive Connectors that has alot of IP Addresses. Doing this manually is a pain! But there is a command we can use to accomplish this CAS1 is the server that I will copy the Receive Connector and CAS2 the new […]