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 […]
If you are in the planning stages for a migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016, then you have probably seen this TechNet article. At first, it may seem daunting. So many scripts. So many PowerShell commands. If you are not comfortable with PowerShell it may seem a bit overwhelming. Plus, it is vastly different than any previous migration process. Why […]
A common problem in Active Directory is identifying the source of account lockouts. If a password is modified and a user account gets locked, it can be a frustrating process to get the AD account re-enabled. You can try the following steps to track the locked out accounts and also find the source of AD […]
If you are migrating from SBS 2008 with Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2013 or you are migrating from SBS 2011 with Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2016 the actual migration of the Mailboxes from the old server to the new server cause a tremendous amount of log files created if circular logging is disabled on the […]