One of the significant enhancements delivered in today’s Skype for Business Server 2019 CU1 is the new “Modern Administration Control Panel” or MACP. This is a new HTML5-based admin interface, which shares a particular visual familiarity with the SfB Online and Microsoft Teams Admin Centres – and does so without requiring Silverlight. Thankfully it still […]
Last month we saw an interim hotfix that took SfB 2019 Server from its initial “dot-zero” release to 7.0.2046.116, and this July update (officially CU1) is the one we’ve all been holding out for, updating *everything* on my SE Front-End as well as adding some long-awaited functionality. The new build number is 7.0.2046.123. What’s Fixed? […]
A couple of days ago I got a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine, which is an all-in-one device with an access point, 4-port switch, and a security gateway. After the basic setup, I wanted to connect my Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine USG to an Azure VPN Gateway (Azure Virtual Gateway), using Site-to-Site VPN. In this blog […]
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 […]