Ilse Van Criekinge's Weblog

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Ilse Van Criekinge's Weblog

  • Installing the Lync Edge Server

    Reading the TechNet article, Installing Edge Servers , it’s pretty straightforward to deploy the Lync Edge server role in your Lync topology. While updating my demo environment with an Edge server, I followed the step-by-step guidance from the article...
  • Exchange 2010 Online Archive & Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive

    Microsoft Exchange 2010 includes a new (and great) feature, called online archive, which enables you as an IT administrator to provision your mailbox-enabled users with a familiar personal archive, available online, providing you with a lot of features...
  • 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 = ...
  • Call answering rules & FIND-me

    While configuring my demo environment, I noticed the following error message when trying to configure a set of Call Answering Rules for one of my demo UM-mailbox-enabled users: “The phone number you tried to dial has been restriced.” interesting… In order...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Lync Online: What’s Possible?

    When talking about Office365, and how you can manage the Exchange Online piece of it using Exchange Management, Exchange Control Panel, and Exchange Management Console, people are often disappointed when finding out there is no Lync Control Panel, or...
  • 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...
  • Stored Procedures and Lync

    After upgrading my demo environment from Lync RC to Lync RTM, I found that my monitoring server role displayed the following error when trying to go to the dashboard … Thanks to Wesley B, I was able to fix the error by running the suggested Stored Procedures...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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...
  • TEC 2010 FOllow-up: some interesting bpos links and one rms answer

    Last week I was in Los Angeles, to deliver two sessions for The Experts Conference , one on how one can use Active Directory Rights Management Server to protect Exchange 2010, and one entitled “Exchange: On Premises or In the Cloud”. During that last...
  • Save the Date: TechDays Belgium returns on 14-15-16 February 2012!

    TechDays Belgium returns on 14-15-16 February 2012 ! Since we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary it will be a special edition: we’re moving to a brand new location (to be disclosed soon) and will offer you new ways to experience the conference. For those...
  • Support for multi-tenancy in Exchange 2010?

      Yes there is…:-) For more information, you can download the document that will help you to plan, deploy, and manage Exchange Server 2010 Sp1 (Beta) in a multi-tenant organization. And if you want to know more, and share your thoughts, go to the...
  • Office 365 Beta for Enterprises

    Quite a view subscribers to the Office 365 Beta have been given access to their beta tenant, as I gather by following the tweets on #Office365. For more information on Office 365, just go to: http://www.office365.com Given the amount of questions that...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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. ...
  • 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...
  • No More Single Instance In Exchange 2010

    And if you want to know why, and what the consequences are...have a look at this great post from the Microsoft Exchange Team itself: Dude, Where's My Single Instance? Ilse
  • 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
  • Exchange 2010 Sp1 Beta is available now, let’s have a first look

    As posted by the Exchange team yesterday, it is true: Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Now Available for Download Once you have downloaded the files, and deployed them, you are ready to rock the Exchange 2010 Sp1 world. Let’s have a short look at some of...
  • 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...