Ilse Van Criekinge's Weblog

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Ilse Van Criekinge's Weblog

  • Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011!

    Wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Wonderful, Healthy, Joyful 2011!! Ilse
  • Appear Offline in Lync and other Customizations

    Question: Is It Possible To Appear Offline In Lync? Answer: yes In previous releases of Office Communication Server, like 2007 and 2007 R2, you could use Group Policies, to add and change the value of a registry DWORD value called “EnableAppearOffline”...
  • TechDays 2011: Early Bird Pricing Extended Until 28 February 2011

      Register now with extended Early Bird pricing Discover new technologies and increase your knowledge about current technologies on April 26, 27 and 28 at Metropolis, Antwerp. Do you want to attend at a discounted price? We have good news for you...
  • Exchange Online (Office365) and RBAC?

    Oh yes It is perfectly possible to create and assign custom roles within Exchange Online. In this example I will create a custom role which, one assigned to a user, will enable that user to change all its user settings, except for its own street address...
  • Demo Fun in Lync

    If you want to add something easy but yet, amazing to your Lync environment, to highlight the power of Lync’s extensibility, just go to the following web site: http://translator.gotuc.net , which will show the following: You just need to download the...
  • Call Statistics for a UM Server

    Interesting question came up yesterday, being “does Exchange 2010 Sp1 UM provide built-in statistics capabilities?” And the answer is…..YES , as can be derived from the following technet articles: View Call Statistics for a UM Server , which includes...
  • OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2010 RU4: “Did the remote peer accept our certificate”?

      Configuring the link between OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 seems pretty easy, and it all boils down to: Getting the rights certificates: does the Common Name match the FQDN of the Exchange UM server, and the one used by OCS, does...
  • RBAC-Exchange 2010 Sp1 Beta – Scopes = EMC, EMS, and ECP (!)

    As described in the TechNet forums (link http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/92925f7c-97ba-4a96-a4c4-33c193a7b201 ), I had the same problem when delegating permissions using RBAC, and setting a scope to a subset of users...
  • Join us and explore Microsoft Lync 2010 - The next generation of communications server

      Microsoft Lync Server 2010 ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere. Join Annelies Bulkens, Johan Delimon, and Dirk Gullentops...
  • Looking for Lync Documentation

    Looking for documentation on Lync? Hope these links can help you out… Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Lab Deployment Guide o A step-by-step, how-to document you can use to install a Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Standard...
  • Configuring Lync RC and Exchange 2010 Sp1 to Enable OWA as a Lync Endpoint

    This blog post is now available here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2010/09/22/configuring-exchange-2010-sp1-and-lync-rc-to-enable-owa-as-lync-endpoint.aspx Ilse
  • Register today for this ProExchange Event :-)

    Shameless Copy-Paste from ProExchange Once again we managed to get the Exchange Product team over to Belgium to meet up with the Belgian UC Community.  This is your chance to ask the questions you always wanted to ask or that never got answered. ...
  • Merry Christmas and a Fantastic & Healthy 2010

    Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and all the best for a wonderful 2010!!!! -Ilse
  • Let’s Talk about the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Client Group Policy and one of its included settings: IMWarning

    While talking to one of our customers, it became clear that there was no doubt about the possibilities offered to a company by deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server, and configuring its Instant Messaging, Conferencing, and Voice features. He...
  • Exchange 2010 Network Port Reference

    Do you ever have the question, or is the question ever asked to you, which ports are used by Exchange? Well, the answer is available here: Exchange Network Port Reference which includes a ton of information about ports, authentication, and encryption...
  • RoadShow Follow-Up: New-RoleAssignmentPolicy

    Last week I had the opportunity of visiting Brussels, Gent, and Mons to talk about the wonderful new features included within Exchange 2010. During this Exchange 2010 RoadShow, I’ve done several demo’s, and I always said that I would blog every Shell...
  • TechDays 2010 Preconference: Exchange 2010 in Depth

    Learn Exchange 2010 in Depth The second Pre-conference for IT Pro’s will be one covering Exchange 2010. During this full day of training you will learn everything you want to know on how to deploy and manage an Exchange 2010 infrastructure. This session...
  • Exchange 2010 mailbox requirements calculator updated

    The Exchange Product Team has just released a new version of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Requirements Calculator.  Please begin using it in your designs and point your customers to it.    You can download it here - http://msexchangeteam...
  • Exchange 2010 RTM: The online archive

    Exchange 2010 enables you as an Exchange administrator, to give your users an archive. A lot has been said already about this feature, and I just want to take note of some facts and a persistent rumor concerning the online archive.   FACT 1 = ...
  • Tools for troubleshooting an Exchange 2007 organization

    When you have been working for some time with Exchange, you might wonder which troubleshooting tool is available, and if the tool you have used in the past for troubleshooting Client Access for example can still be used in your current Exchange 2007 organization...
  • OCS 2007 R2 - Licensing

    There are a lot of question going around when it comes to OCS 2007 R2 and licensing. In this post I'll try to give an overview of which licenses are required :-) In the end, it all boils down to three things, meaning, you may need a license for: ...
  • Exchange 2010 RTM is available for download NOW!

    Announced at Teched Europe today, Exchange 2010 RTM is availble now for download :-) So go ahead, and explore the new features of this new Exchange version: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=05741f65-2a7b...
  • Exchange 2010 RTM :-)

    My first blog on my new blog here on blogs.technet.com. And what an amazing time to start working for Microsoft. Joining the company as a Technology Advisor - Unified Communications just two weeks ago, it's been a pleasure to see Exchange 2010 has reached...
  • Exchange 2010 RoadShow is coming!

    Agenda 13:00 - 13:30 Registration and Welcome 13:30 - 14:00 Introduction in Exchange 2010 In a time, when your organization requires its communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to achieve...
  • Do you have end users that need Office Communicator training?

    Then the Office Communications Server Team blog has some good news for you: Free Instructor-Led Training for end-users: Introduction to Office Communicator Here’s a copy-paste of the information posted: “This live course is held in a virtual classroom...