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TechDays Belgium 2013: Office 365 Do’s and Don’t’s

2013-03-15T10:51:56Z

This year at the Techdays in Belgium, I presented a session on Office 365, and the do’s and don’t’s when evaluating Office 365, based on the most typical questions I get when talking to customers about Office 365. Here’s a short recap of this session…more to be added J

Do 1: Know What You Are Subscribing To

Office 365 Service Descriptions: http ://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819284.aspx
Office 365 Service Updates: htt p ://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/office_365_service_updates/974.aspx
Office 365 Service Upgrade Center for Enterprises: http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/office_365_service_updates/office-365-service-upgrade-center-for-enterprise.aspx
Sign-up for a trial: http ://alturl.com/rt9j8
The new Office 365 Deployment Center: http://www.deployoffice365.com/

The new Office 365 Deployment Center is the place to find the tools, guidance, and technical resources to help you pilot and deploy Office 365. With Microsoft’s recommended approach, you can set-up a 25-user pilot quickly and experience the full set of Office 365 service features including the new Office applications. Then, smoothly move your entire organization into production and add advanced features, when needed.

Do 2: Understand Identities

Webcast on “Understand Identities and Single Sign On” available here: http://community.office365.com/en-us/blogs/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2013/02/07/understand-identities-and-single-sign-on-with-our-upcomoing-ignite-webcast.aspx

Do 3: Realize ADFS is more than Federated Identities

ADFS:

Enables users to access both the on-premises and cloud-based organizations with a single user name and password
Provides users with a familiar sign-on experience
Allows administrators to easily control account policies for cloud-based organization mailboxes by using on-premises Active Directory management tools
Enables SharePoint Hybrid Search

AD to Windows Azure AD Quick Start Guide: http://www.itproguy.com/ad-to-windows-azure-ad-quickstart-guide-released/
Access Control Policies possible with ADFS:

Do 4: Is your environment ready to hook up to Office 365?

Check your AD with the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool, that provides analysis of your on-premises environment in preparation for an Office 365 enterprise deployment: http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/183/p/2285/8155.aspx
Supported clients

Exchange: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.150).aspx
SharePoint Supported Browsers: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx
Lync:

Supported Clients: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/jj663067.aspx
Client comparison tables: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425836.aspx

Office 365 Client side requirements: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/office365-enterprises/ff652534.aspx

Do 5: Check your Network

Lync:

Lync 2013 Network Bandwidth Requirements for Media Traffic: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj688118.aspx
Lync 2010 Bandwidth Calculator: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19011

Exchange:

Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-Client-Network-8af1bf00

SharePoint:

Plan for Bandwidth Requirements: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262952(v=office.12).aspx

Office 365 URLS and IP Address Ranges

http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh373144.aspx

Exchange Online URLs and IP Address Ranges

http ://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchangelabshelp/gg263350

RSS Updates for URL and IP Address Range Changes

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=236301

Set up your network for Lync Online

http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh416761.aspx

Do 6: Check out Azure

Current Guidance:

ADFS should only be deployed in Azure VM for High Availability.

We would also not recommend a customer deploy the underlying AD domain controller to Azure. There would be latency issues for NTML authentication of domain join machines.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156090.aspx

You can deploy corporate domain controllers alongside AD FS on Windows Azure virtual machines, which provides additional guarantees of service availability in the event of unforeseen failures such as natural disasters. This is especially true for online services such as Microsoft Office 365 that can authenticate users directly from their on-premises corporate Active Directory.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/07/26/windows-azure-and-office-365.aspx

Developing Windows Azure Web Sites Integrated with Office 365
Developing Windows Azure Workflows Integrated with Office 365

Windows Azure Ad RMS

Integration with Exchange Online

Company Confidential
Company Confidential Read Only
Do not forward (Works across tenants)

Integration with SharePoint Online

There is no support for SharePoint Online Wave 15 (v2013) integration with customer on-premise AD RMS infrastructure.
Documents that have been protected with RMS can be uploaded to SharePoint Online only in standard document libraries.
In Office 365 Wave 15 (v2013), SharePoint Online supports RMS integration with the Windows Azure RMS service

Do 7: UC & C: Decide what to keep On Premises and what to move to Online

Small part of this:

The SkyDrive Pro app. As you may know, SkyDrive Pro is cloud storage that organizations provision for employees as part of their SharePoint 2013 on-premises and/or Office 365 SharePoint Online deployments.

This personal file storage service is for business use, and users can store, access and synchronize their files using the SkyDrive Pro client software. Users are not limited to synchronizing their personal docs--they can sync any document library to which they have permission (for document libraries where sync is turned on).

As we shared at SharePoint Conference, we're working on native SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS, both will be coming in summer of 2013. There, too, is a Windows desktop client that ships with Office 2013--and soon this "folder sync" technology will ship as a free, standalone installable client. In addition, the capabilities already come natively in Windows Phone (more on that below in the Office Hub section of this post).

Customize Click-to-Run, Office 2013 deployment: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2013/01/22/office-2013-click-to-run-customization.aspx
SharePoint 2013 hybrid resources: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35593

One-way hybrid environment with SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365
Two-way hybrid Search environment with SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365
Business Connectivity Services Hybrid Overview

Lync 2013 Hybrid possibilities: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204805(v=ocs.15).aspx

Can I switch from an Office 365 E3 subscription to E1?

2012-07-09T13:10:59Z

Imagine you have been testing Office 365 for 30 days, using the Free Trial option available for both Small Businesses (Plan P1) and Midsize Business and Enterprise (Plan E3) (get your own trial today, by clicking here), and after doing so you want to buy for example the E1 subscription for your users, the question is: can you switch your existing “users” from an Office E3 subscription to E1, without them losing anything?

The answer is yes

Looking at http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/gg570315.aspx

You can assign new licenses or replace existing licenses for more than one user at a time. On the Users page, select the check box next to the names of the users, click Edit, and then click Next twice until the Assign licenses page appears. Select Replace existing license assignments or Add to existing license assignments, and then select the check box for the licenses that you want to assign. For information about editing multiple users, see Create or edit users.

And more importantly here on http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/compare-plans.aspx#fbid=O3TwiI0AXgF

Question: If I trial Plan E3, can I switch to plans E1, E2, or E4?

Answer: Yes, you can switch between plans. Once you have signed up for a Plan E3 trial, you can make this change in the billing and subscription management of your Office 365 admin overview. Note: only Plan E3 is available for trial.

Now, be careful, take note of the differences between the different subscriptions, since moving between the different subscription plans, might come with losing and gaining features! E3 for examples has an unlimited Online Archive in it, whereas E1 has a limit of 25Gb for the sum of Primary Mailbox and Online Archive!

But You CanNOT migrate between a Plan P Account and a Plan E account

You cannot migrate between a Plan P account and a Plan E account. In order to move between the two plans you would need to cancel your account and then sign up for a different one.

Important Sources when looking/deciding between the different subscription plans in Office 365:

Try Office 365 for free for 30 days: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/free-office365-trial.aspx?WT.z_O365_ca=Try_online-software _en-us
Compare the different Office 365 Plans: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/compare-plans.aspx
Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13602
Office 365 for professionals and small businesses Service Description: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13779
Microsoft Office 365 Service Descriptions and Service Level Agreements for Dedicated Subscription Plans: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18128

Can I move a user from Plan K1 to Plan E3?

In the following print screens you can see the switch from a Plan K1 license to a Plan E3 subscription in the same tenant for a user called Kiosk 1.

Start = Kiosk1 = Microsoft Office 365 Plan K1

OWA for Kiosk1 looks like:

Time to switch Kiosk1 from Plan K1 to Plan E3:

Be careful: you need to uncheck K1 and then select E3, followed by clicking Save.

When Kiosk1 signs in, the services for Plan E3 are initialized. When changing a user from E3 to E1 the setup of Lync and SharePoint is not needed anymore, since it has already been done

Once the setup is done, Kiosk1 can open his mailbox again:

And OWA gives the same messages:

Office 365 Rocks!

Ilse

Take away the possibility for users in Exchange Online to change their own password

2012-06-22T14:26:17Z

Got a question today if it is possible to prevent a user from changing his or her own password when using Exchange Online, within Office 365.

The answer is Yes And how to do this? Find one way of doing this in this blog post, using (what did you expect?) the magic of PowerShell.

Setting the scene

I want to create a new user id, called Test, in my Office 365 environment, and have the following password characteristics:

- Password should never expire

- Password should not need to be changed at first logon of the user

- Password can not be changed by the user, using OWA.

Step 1. Create the user

Using the Office 365 admin portal, I’m creating my new user:

Step 2. Changing Password Settings

I do not want my user to sign in with that temporary password, so by using the Microsoft Online Service Module for Windows PowerShell, I change the password to the one I want, and I set it to never expire, and I disable the fact that the user will need to change the password at the first logon.

To set the password to never expire, I’m using the cmdlet Set-MsOlUser and adding PasswordNeverExpires, and setting it to $True.

To set the password to a predefined value, I use the cmdlet Set-MsOlUserPassword, and add the new password using NewPassword (be aware, you need to identify the password in clear text here, no need to encrypt it first), and then by adding the ForceChangePassword and setting it to $False, the user won’t be prompted to change it after his first login!

Signing in, the user needs to enter his password I have given the user, and can sign in:

But the user is still able to go to OWA, select Options, and from there change his password.

When searching the web, it is possible in an Exchange On Premises environment to disable the Change your password functionality from within OWA/ECP:

But the cmdlet Set-OwaVirtualDirectory and its parameter ChangePasswordEnabled, is not available in Exchange Online!

How to do this in Exchange Online? Using RBAC!

As described in one of my previous blog posts (Exchange Online (Office365) and RBAC?), you can create and assign custom roles in Exchange Online. The permission to change your password, is included in the default role assigned to any mail-enabled user in Exchange Online. It is included in the role MyBaseOptions.

First I will create a new role AllButChangePassword, and make it a copy of the existing MyBaseOptions role.

Looking at the parameters that can be set using Set-Mailbox within the role AllButChange Password, it is visible that password is included:

Time to remove it:

And then to create a new RoleAssignmentPolicy, which will include the AllButChangePassword:

Then assign the new role to my test user:

And time to test!

Logging in to OWA as test user, going back to ECP, the ability to change the password is gone!

Exchange ROCKS!

Ilse

Using Exchange Management Shell to manage your Exchange Online and Exchange On Premises Environment

2012-03-16T11:10:00Z

Yesterday I have had the pleasure of doing a TechNet LiveMeeting here @Microsoft Belgium, entitled “Using the Power of PowerShell to manage your Exchange Online and Exchange On Premises Environment”. The session was not a level 400 deep dive in PowerShell, but its aim was to give some tips on how one can use PowerShell to manage an Exchange Online tenant in Office365.

Tip 1. Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted and -AllowRedirection

Connecting to Exchange Online is easy, and boils down to launching Windows PowerShell, creating a new persistent connection to the remote Exchange Client Access Server, and importing it, like can be seen in the picture below:

Two remarks here:

1. Before you are able to run the cmdlet Import-PSSession, you need to make sure you are allowed to run scripts... When you run Import-PSSession and you get the following error message:

Import-Module : There were errors in loading the format data file:
Microsoft.PowerShell, , C:\Users\Seppe\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp_0740bdd5-5276-437
7-a890-50bb10d3d32b_cuwqdhef.gqv\tmp_0740bdd5-5276-4377-a890-50bb10d3d32b_cuwqd
hef.gqv.format.ps1xml : File skipped because of the following validation except
ion: File C:\Users\Seppe\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp_0740bdd5-5276-4377-a890-50bb10d
3d32b_cuwqdhef.gqv\tmp_0740bdd5-5276-4377-a890-50bb10d3d32b_cuwqdhef.gqv.format
.ps1xml cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this s
ystem. Please see "get-help about_signing" for more details..
At line:3 char:30
+                 Import-Module <<<< -Name $name -Alias * -Function * -Prefix
$prefix -DisableNameChecking:$disableNameChecking -PassThru -ArgumentList @($se
ssion)
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Import-Module], RuntimeEx
   ception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FormatXmlUpateException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Com
   mands.ImportModuleCommand

To enable the execution of scripts you can run the cmdlet Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted. This can be enforced btw by using Group Policies, you can download the ADM Group Policy Template for PowerShell here. For more information on Set-ExecutionPolicy, check this link here.

2. Do not forget the parameter AllowRedirection, which will enable redirection to the appropriate Exchange server using different URI.

Tip 2. Connecting to Exchange Online and Exchange On Premises at the same time, use –Prefix

When you launch the Exchange Management Shell, you are using Remote PowerShell to connect to a Client Access Server in your Exchange On Premises environment, as you can see by running Get-PSSession after launching Exchange Management Shell

If you would then create a new persistent connection to Exchange Online using the directions mentioned above, you would get the following warning when importing the PowerShell Session:

“WARNING: Proxy creation has been skipped for the following command: …., because it would shadow an existing local command. Use the AllowClobber parameter if you want to shadow existing local commands.”

If you would use the parameter AllowClobber, you would indeed shadow the existing commands, meaning, you would hide or replace the original commands: eg. running Get-Mailbox would retrieve the Exchange Online mailboxes, but you wouldn’t be able to retrieve the ones in your Exchange On Premises organization anymore in this EMS Session!

Solution: Use the Prefix parameter, which will add the given prefix to the nouns in the names of the imported commands.

Running the following Import-PSSession $Session –Prefix o365 will import all the commands, but will prefix all the nouns with o365, running Get-DistributionGroup will return a list of all Distribution Groups in my On Premises Exchange Organization, where-as running Get-o365DistributionGroup will return a list of Distribution Groups in my Exchange Online environment:

Tip 3. Remove-PSSession

Looking at the definition of Remove-PSSession on TechNet

The Remove-PSSession cmdlet closes Windows PowerShell sessions (PSSessions) in the current session. It stops any commands that are running in the PSSessions, ends the PSSession, and releases the resources that the PSSession was using. If the PSSession is connected to a remote computer, Remove-PSSession also closes the connection between the local and remote computers.

Why would you do this for your Exchange Online? Because if you do not close the Windows PowerShell window without disconnecting from the server-side session, your connection will remain open for 15 minutes. And you have a limit of three connections to the server-side session at one time per account.

Tip 4. Use Profiles

If you want to know more about Windows PowerShell Profiles, please head over here @MSDN, where you can dive into the wonders of profiles. The reason it might be useful to use profiles here is that you don’t need to type everything every single time you want to connect to your Exchange Online environment. By entering the New-PSSession and Import-PSSession lines in any of the 4 profiles, you can create functions that you can call upon when you want to connect to your Office365 Exchange Online tenant by simply entering Connect-ExchangeOnline.

In the TechNet LiveMeeting I created my Windows PowerShell Profile, the process on how to create this is clearly described here, and here’s what it looks like after creating it:

By using the so-called Windows PowerShell user profile, this will only work for the currently logged on user, and only for the Microsoft.PowerShell shell, if I launch ISE for example, you won’t have the functions Connect-ExchangeOnline and Disconnect-ExchangeOnline:

Question: is it possible to schedule a PowerShell script against Exchange Online?

Answer: Sure

In the below example I will schedule a task to when run will create a excel file with an overview of the mailbox sizes, the tricky part is the passing of your credentials. I have chosen to first create a passwordfile, which will contain the password of the user that will be used to connect in the script to the Exchange Online tenant:

Read-Host -AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File C:\users\ilvancri\MyPassword.txt

Then I have created a script called “Mailboxsizes.ps1”, that will connect to Office365, create the csv file, and remove the PSSession in the end:

$password = type C:\users\ilvancri\MyPassword.txt | ConvertTo-SecureString
$userid = "ilse@microsoftbelux.onmicrosoft.com"
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $userid,$password
$global:session365 = New-PSSession -configurationname Microsoft.Exchange -connectionuri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -credential $cred -authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $global:session365

Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select Displayname,TotalItemSize, ItemCount | Export-csv .\mailboxsizes.csv
Get-PSSession | Remove-PSSession

Now it’s time to create a batch file that when run, will launch and execute the script:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -command ". 'C:\users\ilvancri\mailboxsize.ps1'

And now you can schedule to run the BAT file when needed.

Ilse

Extending your Lync monitoring data using PowerPivot and Power View

2012-03-09T11:13:00Z

During the last Techdays here in Belgium, I have had the privilege of being able to present a session on Lync. I had chosen as a topic for that session “Deploying Lync: Notes from the Field, and more”, where I talked about the top ten questions I run into when talking to customers about deploying Lync in their environment. I tried to answer the following questions:

Lync Online – Lync On Premises: where do we go?
Lync is a Puzzle, really?
Lync and NAT: Yes or No?
Whats’s up with the Picture in Lync?
Are there any tools available to help me design hardware and bandwidth requirements for Lync?

And then the final topic I touched upon was monitoring, and that’s when I was happy to introduce one of my Technology Advisor colleagues, Wesley Backelant, who knows almost everything about PowerPivot and Power View and SQL and BI to the IT Pro Lync audience And we promised to blog about it, so here it is, the details on the web

Monitoring Server in Lync, why would you use it?

In short, the Monitoring Server role in Lync is optional, and can be added after finishing the deployment of all the other server roles within Lync. The Monitoring Server enables you to capture both call detail records (CDR) for Enterprise Voice and Audio/Video conferences and data collections about your Audio/Video Quality of Experience, also incorporating data on file transfers, application sharing, and remote assistance. It does NOT archive the conversations itself (if you want to keep the IM conversations in your organization, you should consider deploying the Archiving server role).

Some typical questions on the Monitoring Server role in Lync:

Can the Monitoring server role be combined with any other Lync Server role?
Yes, as taken from TechNet:

“A Monitoring Server can be collocated with an Archiving Server, with a SQL Server store of an Enterprise Edition Front End pool, or with a file store of a Front End pool. The Monitoring Server requires a database, but the database can be collocated on the Monitoring Server, with the database server for the Archiving Server, or on the Back End Server of an Enterprise Edition Front End pool. A Monitoring Server cannot be collocated with a Standard Edition server in a production environment.”
Can you collocate the monitoring database with a Lync back-end database?

The answer is yes, as taken from TechNet

You can collocate each of the following databases on the same database server:

Back-end database

Monitoring database

Archiving database

You can collocate any or any or all of these databases in a single SQL instance or use a separate SQL instances for each, with the following limitations:

Each SQL instance can contain only a single back-end database, single Monitoring database, and single Archiving database.

The database server cannot support more than one Front End pool, one Archiving Server, and one Monitoring Server, but it can support one of each, regardless of whether the databases use the same SQL instance or separate SQL instances.

Do you require SQL Reporting Server?
No, but if you do you will be able to take advantage of the built-in Monitor Server Reports, which you can customize as wanted.
What’s the advantage of using the Monitoring Server role with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager?
By installing the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, which uses the Monitoring CDR and QoE data, you can enable the generation of near real-time alerts showing the health of call reliability and media quality, and define actions upon these.
Do I need a monitoring server per Lync Pool, and even per Site?
No, as taken from the same Technet Article linked to before:
“Multiple central sites can also share any of the following that you deploy in one central site:
- Archiving Server
- Monitoring Server
- Stand-alone Mediation Server or pool
- Edge Server or Edge pool”
Any documentation available on how to deploy the Monitoring Server?
Yes: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Monitoring Deployment Guide, available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8207, which described the different steps envolved:
- Installing Message Queuing for Monitoring
- Installing SQL Server (with Reporting Services)
- Adding a Monitoring Server to the Topology using Topology Builder
- Installing the Monitoring Server
- Deploying Monitoring Server Reports (if wanted)
- Configuring Monitoring Server Settings

Is there a document that described how to use the Monitoring Server Reports in a Lync Server 2010 deployment?
Sure there is, there is Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Using Monitoring Server Reports whitepaper available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=890

Built-In Reports examples:

What does the Dashboard give me?

And yes you can export the reports, and you can customize them…but if you know have the feeling as in “this is not exactly what I want to show my manager”, “I would like to have some more fancy reports” “I’m looking for an easier way to use the gathered data”…then please read along, because now it’s time to dive into PowerPivot and Power View!

Let me start by saying that the solution provided here is obviously for demo purposes. It is not a perfect solution and we are not responsible for the production use of this file.

Technologies Used

First a couple of words on the technology used in this solution.

PowerPivot is a powerful data mashup and data exploration tool based on xVelocity in-memory technologies providing unmatched analytical performance to process billions of rows at the speed of thought. It comes with a client part, a free add-in for Excel 2010, which allows you to import and combine data in an easy way. We used Excel in this particular case to get information from the Lync monitoring databases and create some interesting calculations. In order to get your hands on PowerPivot please visit the official website.

The second part of the solution uses SharePoint and Power View to share and visualize the information in a very interactive way. Sharing PowerPivot files in a scalable and controlled way can be achieved by using the Excel Services functionality of SharePoint. With Excel Services you have the ability to share Excel files to a broad audience without the need to install Excel 2010 (and in this case PowerPivot) on every machine. If you need more information about Excel Services please read this. When integrating SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 in SharePoint 2010, you will get a new powerful data visualization tool called Power View. Power View is really all about the interactive and stunning experience. Understanding Power View is actually the easiest by just watching this demo.

Now that you know the technology part let’s dive into some of the details on how we created this. Of course we started by interviewing customers to understand what they would like to get out of the information available. Some of the topics that came up were duration distribution, average response time, number of sessions by type, uptake of Lync and a lot more interesting stuff!

Most of the information you need is available in the LcsCDR which is fully documented here. The leading table is SessionDetails so you better figure out how this table is structured. One additional set of data you may need is a date table, I have included a hidden sheet with dates but you could also use the DateStream feed from our Windows Azure Marketplace. A couple of other tables we used are SIP, Users, ClientVersions and UriTypes

The other database we used was rtccab1 to get display names. This is a bit less straightforward to retrieve but here is how you can extract it:

SELECT avname.Value as 'DisplayName', avuri.Value as 'UserUri'
FROM AbUserEntry u
INNER JOIN AbAttributeValue avname ON avname.UserId = u.UserId AND avname.AttrId = 3
INNER JOIN AbAttributeValue avuri ON avuri.UserId = u.UserId AND avuri.AttrId = 8

The entire model looks like this

Now that we have all the information in place it is time to visualize some of it. A couple examples of the things we built (remember it was built on a test database too so don’t freak out by the unanswered call rate ).

Taking this PowerPivot file to the server to share it with a broad audience is a matter of saving it on an Excel Services enabled SharePoint Server. This would give you the following view

But we promised a more compelling and interactive way of visualizing this information and that is exactly what you will do with Power View. Power View can be used on PowerPivot files published on SharePoint or on solutions deployed to SQL Server Analysis Services. As a little side note, you can import the PowerPivot model or build this model from scratch in SQL Server Data Tools to make it a real server-side solution running on SQL Server Analysis Services.

The most popular view however is the adoption rate of Lync in the organization, this can be achieved by using the Scatter Chart functionality in Power View.

Please find the PowerPivot file here. In order to get data from your enviroment go to the PowerPivot window, select “Design” and “Existing Connection”. Edit both connections to point to your SQL Server and when done use “Refresh All”. In the Excel Windows go to Data" and select “Refresh All” and you are done. If you want to use Power View just upload the file to a SharePoint where this feature is enabled.

There is a LOT more you can get out of the Lync databases, so we hope this sparks a whole wave of creativity! Ilse’s favorite for example is the QoEMetric database to see the call quality for different users and devices. If I can find some time I’ll see if we can publish this PowerPivot file too.

UPDATE dd April23rd, 2012

Just a small heads up that I changed the Lync PowerPivot file to make it scale better. In order to do so I have removed several unique columns from the import and moved some calculations to the query side instead of the client side.

I have placed the new file here and the original file is still available here.

If you are interested in having this as a Tabular Model (for SQL Server Analysis Services) please let me know. You can easily do this yourself if you like of course by importing the model in the SQL Server Data Tools.

Ilse & Wesley

Shared Mailboxes in Office365

2012-01-10T15:18:00Z

After getting a few questions on Shared Mailboxes, and how you can manage them in Exchange Online as part of Office365, I decided to group a few of these questions and answers into this blog post.

Q1. How can you create a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online – Office365

A1. By using the Exchange Management Shell

More info on how to do this, please check out this URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchangelabshelp/ee441202

In the example below, I’m creating a new shared mailbox called Info.

New-Mailbox Info -Shared

Q2. How to grant users Full Mailbox Access?

A2. By using the Exchange Management Shell, or the Exchange Management Console

Opening the Exchange Management Console, connecting to Exchange Online, go down to Recipient Configuration, and selecting your Shared Mailbox, will give you the ability of managing Full Mailbox Access:

Granting Full Access only enables a user top open the Shared Mailbox, and does NOT provide the ability of sending mail as that Shared Mailbox, or send mail on behalf of that Shared Mailbox.

Q3. How to grant Send-On-Behalf on a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online?

A3. Using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Set-Mailbox

and assign a value to –GrantSendOnBehalf to. In this example I have created a Distribution Group, and I have granted this group send on behalf permissions on the Shared Mailbox Info.

When Ilse sends a message as Info, the message will be received as:

Q4. Can I grant Send-As Permission?

A4. Yes you can, by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Add-RecipientPermission

Q5. Can I see who has Send-As permission on a mailbox?

A5. Yes, using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Get-RecipientPermission

Q6. Is there a way to see who actually sent the message?

A6. Yes, using the auditing features introduced with Exchange 2010 Sp1, which are available in Exchange Online as well.

In order to be able to see who did send this message, you will need to enable auditing before-hand, using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Set-Mailbox!

Now when someone sends a messages as Info:

The message will be arrived as:

To track who really sent this message, run the following line in Exchange Management Shell:

Search-MailboxAuditLog –Identity Info –LogonTypes Delegate –ShowDetails

Ilse

A URL post on Lync–Exchange–Online–On Premises

2012-01-09T17:18:00Z

First: my very best wishes for 2012 to you all!!!!

Second, just posting a blog post containing a list of URL’s I refer to a lot when visiting customers or doing presentations. I’ve grouped them a bit, and I will update the list as time moves along (at least, I’ll try to…)

Exchange General:

Make OWA default mailer: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tmeston/archive/2004/01/08/48837.aspx
Exchange Schema Updates Q&A: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2772.aspx
The Microsoft Outlook 2010 Reference Guide for Lotus Notes Users is available for download here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/microsoft-outlook-2010-reference-guide-for-lotus-notes-users-HA102479434.aspx
Exchange Visio Stencil:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=6977
User Profile Analyzer:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/neiljohn/archive/2011/08/09/user-profile-analysis-for-exchange-server-2010.aspx
Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/v144-of-the-Exchange-2010-1912958d
Understanding litigation hold/legal hold: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee861123.aspx
Overview what’s new in Exchange 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/whats-new.aspx
Youtube movie (15minutes) on why migrate to Exchange 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5-Wb-o9e9c
Utilities to automatically move attachments to SharePoint and replace the attachment with a URL to the attachment:

Blog Post from the Exchange Product Team to explain why Single Instance Store is gone in Exchange 2010: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/02/22/dude-where-s-my-single-instance.aspx
Single Item Recovery in Exchange 2010: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/09/25/3408389.aspx
License requirements for Personal Archive and retention policies: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/license-requirements-for-personal-archive-and-retention-policies-HA102576659.aspx
Office Standard vs Professional Plus, overview of differences: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/office-2010-volume-licensing-suites-comparison-FX101825637.aspx
Training courses Outlook 2010: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/CH010371352.aspx

Lync General:

Lync Calculators:

Lync 2010 Bandwidth Calculator: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19011
Lync 2010 Capacity Calculator: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=12295

The Remote UC Troubleshooting Tool (RUCT): http://blog.insideocs.com/2011/11/14/the-remote-uc-troubleshooting-tool-ruct/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InsideOCS+%28Inside+OCS%29
Lync Visio Stencil:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20891
Lync Integration, which details how Microsoft Lync 2010
integrates with the different versions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft
Exchange Server:: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398806.aspx
Phones and devices certified for Lync:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg278172
Microsoft Lync 2010 Photo Experience:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2010/11/22/microsoft-lync-2010-photo-experience.aspx
Microsoft Lync 2010 Training Download Package: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=9642
Lync Server 2010 - Resource Kit : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c64a1e1-f0b3-479c-a265-e480875c61d8&displaylang=en
Lync Server 2010 - Protocol Workloads Poster : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad8ff3fb-014e-4fd7-8003-436d896ab0c6
Lync and Client Virtualization:
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2560826: Client virtualization support for the Lync 2010 client and the Lync 2010 Group Chat client
- http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21129: This document outlines a series of best practice recommendations for running Lync 2010 in a virtualized environment.
Lync is Great and more…

Next Generation Telephony Whitepaper : http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/4/0/F409709D-D73E-4804-9B4E-DD4C62B8A0E9/Next%20Generation%20Telephony%20paper%20v%201%2002.pdf
Miercom Report on Lync Performance : http://miercom.com/microsoft
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2011/01/21/but-does-lync-server-2010-really-have-pbx-voice-reliability-or-call-scalability.aspx
The Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Lync : http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9751775 (Forrester, Nov 2010)

Lync Documentation:

Lync Server 2010 - Planning Guides : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da9fa26-e032-4dcf-b487-da916ddc508f
Lync Server 2010 - Planning Tool : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=bcd64040-40c4-4714-9e68-c649785cc43a&displaylang=en
Lync Server 2010 - Virtualization : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2905fd33-e29c-4709-a012-e55ea8db63e4
Lync Server 2010 - Security Guide : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1400504e-8b2e-4d75-b091-1bf9f7bbc46f&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29
Planning for Metropolitan Site Resiliency : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg670905.aspx
Lync Server 2010 - Resource Kit Tools : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=80cc5ce7-970d-4fd2-8731-d5d7d0829266
UC Open Interoperability for Lync (interop naar Gateways, IP-PBX, SIP Services) : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx
Certified UC Devices for Lync : http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-be/lync/gg278164(en-us).aspx
SCOM Pack for Lync Server 2010 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e7185068-6424-4e67-bf61-7bf1c53efb4a&displaylang=en
Forefront Security for OCS : http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/serversecurity/ocs/en/us/default.aspx
Forefront Security for Lync : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ocssecurity/thread/1c3fc044-6cc4-4acc-b8c7-3bf9ce4013a5
Voice Quality Improvements in Lync Server 2010 (Taimoor Husain) : http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2011/04/04/voice-quality-improvements-in-lync-server-2010.aspx

FOPE: Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Service Description: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26126
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) 11.1 Product Documents: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=282

Hybrid: Exchange/Lync Online &/or On Premises:

Lync On Premises - Exchange Online:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2011/06/28/configuring-on-premises-lync-server-2010-integration-with-exchange-online.aspx
Direct a Lync Server to Exchange Online UM: http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/gg703752.aspx

Office Professional Plus vs Office Standard:

Compare server integration features between Office suites available through volume licensing: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/compare-server-integration-features-between-office-suites-available-through-volume-licensing-FX101850719.aspx

Office 365:

Exchange Online

Microsoft Exchange Online Standard: FAQ for Message Record Management (MRM)
http://www.google.be/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=microsoft%20exchange%20online%20standard%20message%20record%20management%20&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmicrosoft.order-1.com%2FMOS%2FService%2FMOS_Exchange_FAQ_MRM.doc&ei=YXKuTsf1DsSj-gaahIncDw&usg=AFQjCNFh5P4iOt_9h9kZVsKuewWeIhTS5g
Migrate Public Folders to Office365:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27582
Set Up and Manage Information Rights Management in Exchange Online: http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/gg597271.aspx
PST Importer Office365:
http://fernandoandreazi.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/office-365-pst-importer-user-edition/

Lync Online

Lync Online - Federation
http://www.ultimate-communications.com/2011/07/federation-101-in-lync-online-office365-lync/
Comparing Lync Online with Lync Server (on-premises): http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/lync/480.aspx
Automatic sign-in, domain federation, and other features do not work as expected in Lync Online when you use a custom domain in Office 365: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2566790/en-us

General

Office 365 P vs E plans: http://blogs.technet.com/b/lystavlen/archive/2011/09/23/office-365-comparing-p-and-e-plans.aspx
Office 365 FAQs: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/faqs.aspx#fbid=aaLz3s3OYFh
The Office 365 Trust Center: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/trust-center.aspx#fbid=aaLz3s3OYFh
Office 365 Online ID: Password Policies
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/5/1754A668-6673-4E5A-A034-F8C7758E10BE/Office%20365_Password_Policy_6-20-2011.docx
Service Descriptions:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602

Ilse

Add an Alias to a Distribution Group in Exchange Online (Office365), and Removing one...

2011-11-15T08:34:00Z

Looking back to BPOS, the only way to add an alias to a distribution group, was by using DirSync, as described here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/onlineservicesexchange/thread/0dab060f-41a2-4ef2-926d-8b6e0b2464c8

With the arrival of Office365, and Exchange Online, time to see if it is possible now to have one distribution group with multiple email aliasses, even without using DirSync.

Goal = have a distribution group, with 3 email addresses: Sales@sir.onmicrosoft.com,Sales@vancriekinge.be, and info@sir.onmicrosoft.com

First I will create the new distribution group, using the Exchange Control Panel. I sign into OWA, and from there click on Options, and select to manage My Organization, and from there I create a new distribution group called Sales:

Now time to add the two other addresses…

Option 1. Use the Exchange Control Panel

When selecting the distribution group Sales, and clicking on Details, I can see there is currently one e-mail address, and no Add button:

But when going to the General options, I can see that I can change the e-mailaddress of the group, and that the existing addresses will be kept!

So I enter Info in the E-Mail address, and press Save:

When checking the E-Mail Options, I can see there are now two e-mail addresses for my distribution group:

But no option to remove any of these…

Option 2. Using the Exchange Management Shell

Easy After connecting to Exchange Online, I will use a variable to add the e-mail address of info@vancriekinge.be to the distribution group.

PS C:\Users\ilse> $sales = Get-DistributionGroup sales
PS C:\Users\ilse> $sales.EmailAddresses
SMTP:Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com
smtp:Sales@Sir.onmicrosoft.com
PS C:\Users\ilse> $sales.EmailAddresses += "sales@vancriekinge.be"
PS C:\Users\ilse> $sales.EmailAddresses
SMTP:Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com
smtp:Sales@Sir.onmicrosoft.com
sales@vancriekinge.be
PS C:\Users\ilse> Set-DistributionGroup -Identity Sales -EmailAddresses $sales.EmailAddresses
PS C:\Users\ilse> Get-DistributionGroup sales

Name                    DisplayName             GroupType               PrimarySmtpAddress
----                    -----------             ---------               ------------------
Sales                   Sales                   Universal               Info@Sir.onmicrosof...

PS C:\Users\ilse> Get-DistributionGroup sales | fl *emailad*

EmailAddresses : {smtp:sales@vancriekinge.be, SMTP:Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com, smtp:Sales@Sir.onmicrosoft.com}
EmailAddressPolicyEnabled : False
WindowsEmailAddress : Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com

Check via ECP, and it’s done

Using the Shell, it’s different to remove an e-mail address:

PS C:\Users\ilvancri> Get-DistributionGroup sales | fl *emailad*

EmailAddresses            : {smtp:sales@vancriekinge.be, SMTP:Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com, smtp:Sales@Sir.onmicrosoft.com}
EmailAddressPolicyEnabled : False
WindowsEmailAddress       : Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com

PS C:\Users\ilvancri> Set-DistributionGroup -Identity Sales -EmailAddresses 'smtp:sales@sir.onmicrosoft.com','SMTP:info@sir.onmicrosoft.com'
PS C:\Users\ilvancri> Get-DistributionGroup sales | fl *emailad*

EmailAddresses            : {SMTP:info@sir.onmicrosoft.com, smtp:sales@sir.onmicrosoft.com}
EmailAddressPolicyEnabled : False
WindowsEmailAddress       : Info@Sir.onmicrosoft.com

A check in ECP reveals the e-mail address sales@vancriekinge.be is gone…

Option 3. Using the Exchange Management Console

As blogged before (http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2011/10/14/exchange-online-change-primary-smtp-address-without-changing-sign-in-address.aspx) it is possible to install the Exchange Management Console, and use it to connect to your Exchange Online environment, even if you do not have a Hybrid setup with an Exchange On Premises.

Using the Exchange Management Console, you can go to the properties of your distribution group, and add/remove e-mail addresses as you need:

Exchange rocks!

Ilse

The secret about a successful export-to-pst and import-from-pst migration is called Add Custom Address, type X500

2011-10-25T09:48:00Z

The last few months, I have had the below question pop up regularly…

Question:

is it possible to export the content of my On Premises mailboxes to PSTs, and then import them into my brand new Exchange Online environment?

Answer:

Yes, you definitely export your mailbox content to a PST, and import that PST back into your new mailbox

But, the problem that usually pops up is, that when replying to a mail that has been imported back into the new mailbox from the PST, and it’s a reply to a another mailbox homed in the same mail environment, a user gets the following NDR:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups, The e-mail address you entered couldn’t be found…. as seen below:

Solution?

One way of solving this, is when you reply to a mail imported from your PST, and destined for anyone in the same Exchange environment, to just remove the name, and search for it again in the Global Address List, that will work

But: is that user friendly?

Definitely not, so, time to investigate, and come up for a better way to solve this!

Setting the scene

I currently have an Exchange 2010 Sp1 On Premises deployed, with two mailbox-enabled users:

Both mailbox-enabled users have sent a few mails between one-another:

Now, I want to export the content of these two mailboxes to a PST, that I want to import into a brand new Exchange Online environment. First I will delegate myself (being the administrator) the abililty to export mailboxes to a PST using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet New-MailboxExportRequest, by running the following line in the EMS: New-ManagementRoleAssignment –role “Mailbox Import Export” –user “MsBelgium\Administrator”

Followed by the export itself:, issuing New-MailboxExportRequest:

And double-check to make sure it’s finished, using Get-MailboxExportRequest:

Next up: Create two mailbox-enabled users in my Office 365 environment, and hand out the same e-mail addresses to both users:

Everything is looking as it should, being, ok

Time to open up Robin’s mailbox using Outlook Anywhere, and import the previously exported PST file:

Everything seems to be in order, but now, Robin wants to reply to a mail received from his colleague Rita, now watch the MailTip provided by Outlook 20101

But let’s just ignore the warning provided by the MailTip, and press Send…. and let’s have a look at the NDR we are getting immediately:

and the below info, Diagnostic information for administrators:

Interesting, searching the web, got me more information about this issue, for example at the following links:

So, how to solve this?

Simple: Use the Exchange Management Shell, or the Exchange Management Console to add the X500 address to the mailbox-enabled users

After clicking OK, and checking with the Shell we can see the X500 address has been successfully added:

When replying to the same message, we don’t get the MailTip anymore

And the message arrives, without any problem:

Exchange simply rocks!

Ilse

Exchange Online: Change Primary SMTP Address without changing Sign-In address

2011-10-14T15:07:21Z

By default, when you mail-enable a user, that user will be given an e-mail address that matches the user’s online services id. You can always add other e-mail addresses, using Exchange Control Panel:

As you can see, it is not possible to change the primary e-mail address using this Exchange Control Panel, when you change the user its online services id, the primary e-mail address will match the new online services id… so:

Question

Is it possible to change the primary e-mail address of a user without changing it’s online services id?

Answer

Yes, by looking here:

http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/administration/changing-primary-smtp-address-without-changing-the-microsoft-online-services-id.aspx

You can see that by using the Exchange Shell, it’s fairly easy to change the primary e-mail address without changing the Microsoft online services id.

But….isn’t there an easier way?

And, yes there is…using the Exchange Management Console

You can install the Exchange Management tools on a Windows 7, as described here: Install the Exchange 2010 Management Tools

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232090.aspx

After installing the required windows components, I am ready to Retry:

When launching the Exchange Management Console, I get an error that he is unable to connect to an On Premises Exchange environment, but I can right-click and select Add Exchange Forest:

And chose to select to Exchange Online:

And there I can see the mailboxes in my Online environment:

When going to the properties of my mailbox, I can select the tab E-Mail Addresses,

click on ilse@vancriekinge.be, and click Set as Reply:

Time to test:

Primary E-Mail address has changed, and the Online Services id hasn’t

Ilse

Ilse Van Criekinge's Weblog

TechDays Belgium 2013: Office 365 Do’s and Don’t’s

Do 1: Know What You Are Subscribing To

Do 2: Understand Identities

Do 3: Realize ADFS is more than Federated Identities

Do 4: Is your environment ready to hook up to Office 365?

Do 5: Check your Network

Do 6: Check out Azure

Do 7: UC & C: Decide what to keep On Premises and what to move to Online

Do 8: Ready to move Exchange, think about your options

Do 9: Check our Trust Center

Additional info:

Can I switch from an Office 365 E3 subscription to E1?

But You CanNOT migrate between a Plan P Account and a Plan E account

Important Sources when looking/deciding between the different subscription plans in Office 365:

Can I move a user from Plan K1 to Plan E3?

Start = Kiosk1 = Microsoft Office 365 Plan K1

Take away the possibility for users in Exchange Online to change their own password

Setting the scene

Step 1. Create the user

Step 2. Changing Password Settings

How to do this in Exchange Online? Using RBAC!

Using Exchange Management Shell to manage your Exchange Online and Exchange On Premises Environment

Tip 1. Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted and -AllowRedirection

Tip 2. Connecting to Exchange Online and Exchange On Premises at the same time, use –Prefix

Tip 3. Remove-PSSession

Tip 4. Use Profiles

Question: is it possible to schedule a PowerShell script against Exchange Online?

Answer: Sure

Extending your Lync monitoring data using PowerPivot and Power View

Monitoring Server in Lync, why would you use it?

Some typical questions on the Monitoring Server role in Lync:

Can the Monitoring server role be combined with any other Lync Server role?

Can you collocate the monitoring database with a Lync back-end database?

Do you require SQL Reporting Server?

What’s the advantage of using the Monitoring Server role with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager?

Do I need a monitoring server per Lync Pool, and even per Site?

Any documentation available on how to deploy the Monitoring Server?

Is there a document that described how to use the Monitoring Server Reports in a Lync Server 2010 deployment?

Built-In Reports examples:

What does the Dashboard give me?

Let me start by saying that the solution provided here is obviously for demo purposes. It is not a perfect solution and we are not responsible for the production use of this file.

Technologies Used

Shared Mailboxes in Office365

Q1. How can you create a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online – Office365

A1. By using the Exchange Management Shell

Q2. How to grant users Full Mailbox Access?

A2. By using the Exchange Management Shell, or the Exchange Management Console

Q3. How to grant Send-On-Behalf on a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online?

A3. Using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Set-Mailbox

Q4. Can I grant Send-As Permission?

A4. Yes you can, by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Add-RecipientPermission

Q5. Can I see who has Send-As permission on a mailbox?

A5. Yes, using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Get-RecipientPermission

Q6. Is there a way to see who actually sent the message?

A6. Yes, using the auditing features introduced with Exchange 2010 Sp1, which are available in Exchange Online as well.

A URL post on Lync–Exchange–Online–On Premises

Exchange General:

Lync General:

FOPE: Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

Hybrid: Exchange/Lync Online &/or On Premises:

Office Professional Plus vs Office Standard:

Office 365:

Add an Alias to a Distribution Group in Exchange Online (Office365), and Removing one...

Option 1. Use the Exchange Control Panel

Option 2. Using the Exchange Management Shell

Option 3. Using the Exchange Management Console

The secret about a successful export-to-pst and import-from-pst migration is called Add Custom Address, type X500

Question:

Answer:

Solution?

But: is that user friendly?

Setting the scene

So, how to solve this?

Exchange Online: Change Primary SMTP Address without changing Sign-In address

Question

Answer

But….isn’t there an easier way?