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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When reading through the Exchange Online Service Description , it clearly states that there is a built-in Deleted Mailbox Recovery Time of 30 days: Deleted Mailbox Recovery When an Exchange Online mailbox is deleted, its contents are recoverable for 30...

Since Lync for Mac is now available for download from TechNet, MSDN, and through the download site customers have access to via their volume licensing agreement, two questions often come back: Q1. Can I use Lync for Mac to connect to my Office 365...

  Intro When thinking about configuring a hybrid environment, as in moving some mailboxes online, and keeping some on premises, one the questions you need to answer is: how do you want to have your mail flow configured? Do you want your MX record...

About a month ago I got the following mail: Hi Ilse I know you had a RBAC Session at Teched. We tried to scope to multiple OU's as described in this article without any success. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638181(EXCHG.149).aspx RecipientOrganizationalUnitScope...

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...

  Today I have had the privilege of doing both a BreakOut Session on Secure Remote Access in Lync, and a Demo Session on Office365, together with my colleague Koen Van Tolhuyzen, at the TechDays in Antwerp! In this demo session, we tried to show...

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...

  Question Is it possible to provide users with an Address List in Lync that only contains a subset of users in a Lync organization? Answer Yes How? Using an attribute called msRTCSIP-GroupingID , as described in this TechNet article: http://technet...

Question It is possible to give someone the permission to schedule an Online Meeting on behalf of someone else? Answer Yes How? Let’s have a look Step 1. Setting the scene In my demo environment I have two mailbox-enabled user...

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...

A question a lot of people ask me when talking about Lync, and how it’s a single client used for IM/Presence, Conferencing, and Voice, is “what happens when you invite someone to a conference who doesn’t have a Lync client"?”… and that’s when 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...

Have you seen the Lync Attendant? Lync Attendant? Lync Attendant is an intuitive call management application that helps you manage large numbers of simultaneous calls   Where can you find it? It’s a free download, and you can find it here: Microsoft...