In this blog, I will review the configuration needed in order to activate Kerberos authentication with Exchange 2019 servers. General Kerberos authentication for Exchange’s is not configured by default when using a commonly shared namespace for more than one Exchange server. The reason is that the shared namespace URL, for example, mail.contoso.com is not “attached” to a […]
Introduction When Exchange 2010 SP1 RTW’d back in August 2010, one of the things that the Exchange Product group had spent a fair amount of resources on getting into the product was a feature that made it possible for MAPI clients (usually internal Outlook clients) to connect to a load balanced CAS array to be […]
Consider a hypothetical scenario where Contoso merges with World Wide Importers, and the two combine each others resources. World Wide Importers has Exchange 2016 deployed, so it’s decided that users from Contoso will link their accounts to mailboxes in worldwideimporters.com as a resource forest.Each company’s corporate identity will remain intact, so they will maintain the […]
This week Microsoft released their new Edge Chromium based web browser as we can read here. The browser is based on the Chromium project, like many other browsers. The new Edge browser was already available for a while via different Insider channels, which they still are. The browser is released this week not only for Windows, but also for macOS. As it is […]
The following summary provides details about the process and commands provided by Skype for Business and Lync to manage failover and failback of services in a DR situation. Summary of steps required for a pool failover If the failed pool has an Edge server associated, first move the association Set-CsEdgeServer -Identity EdgeServer:<Edge pool FQDN> -Registrar […]
I have two standard edition pools, SE1.fabrikam.com (SE1) and SE2.fabrikam.com (SE2). My CMS is located in SE1. These pools are backup registrar to each other. I have manually shutdown SE1 to create a DR scenario. I wanted to invoke a pool failover from SE1 to SE2. Following steps may be helpful for reference. Run the […]
This article outlines the unplanned failover and fail back for Skype for business. However the DR setup must be provisioned in order for the DR activation to happen. The deployment must have the below setup : 1)Skype for Business HQ Front end, HQ SQL ,HQ OOS will be part of the HQ active directory site. […]
Following the release of the first cumulative update for Skype for Business 2019 the Skype for Business Control Panel is getting refreshed to get ride of Silverlight. Well, sort of as at this stage the capabilities available in this new Control Panel are quite limited to Users management; the other capabilities are not yet included and will come […]