While configuring my demo environment with Exchange 2010 Sp1, and Lync RC, I was triggered to find out how one can configure Exchange 2010 Sp1 to configure OWA to enable a mailbox-enabled user to chat using OWA, as is configured in our Microsoft working...

While prepping for one of my sessions @ TechEd Berlin on managing and administering Exchange 2010, I was looking for a demo to illustrate the changes introduced with Remote Powershell when importing and exporting files. That's when I stumbled into the...

Received a lot of feedback on one of my previous blog posts, on how to configure Lync RC and Exchange to enable OWA as a Lync Endpoint: Configuring Lync RC and Exchange 2010 Sp1 to Enable OWA as a Lync Endpoint And it seems a lot of you are experiencing...

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 is here, and it (amongst all other features) enables you as an Exchange administrator to backup your Exchange 2010 environment, and DPM 2010 is DAG-aware! Let’s see… After installing SCDPM2010, I need to deploy...

It’s been a while since I have been able to blog…but now TechEd is done, and we have launched Lync here in Belgium, so time to blog what I have shown in Berlin for TechEd, and during the Launch. First thing I want to blog about, is the...

When talking about the new High Availability features in Exchange 2010 an often recurring question is “How many mailbox databases can you home on an Exchange 2010 Standard Edition?” The answer is listed here: Looking at the On-Premise Licensing for...

So many new features have been included in Exchange 2010, that it would indeed take me more than days to talk about all of these, but there are so many very nice features that you should keep in mind when thinking about Exchange 2010, and one is these...

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...

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...

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...

I love Exchange, and I was pretty impressed when I was first introduced to Role Based Access Control in Exchange, since it finally made it possible for an administrator to delegate control as one would want to delegate control. With the release of...

Last year I blogged about uploading a picture in Outlook 2010 using the power of the Exchange Management Shell in Exchange 2010 ( http://blogs.technet.com/ilvancri/archive/2009/11/17/upload-picture-in-outlook-2010-using-the-exchange-management-shell-exchange...

Last week I got a question from one of my colleagues to see if there was a list available somewhere that describes the differences between Outlook Web App and Outlook Web App Light, as there is a list available describing the differences between OWA Premium...

Question: Is it possible to check if a message has been read, even when the sender forgot to check the box “Request a Read receipt for this message”? Answer: Yes, if you have configured your Exchange 2010 organization to enable the tracking for read status...

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...

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...

A while ago I got a question from someone regarding one of the new features in Exchange 2010, being text messaging. Question was “is it available”… Looking at the TechNet article he referred to, it does state: Source = http://technet.microsoft.com/en...

One of the first warmly welcomed new features included with the next release of Microsoft Office Outlook, being 2010,  is the ability to open up multiple mailboxes (up to 3 by default, and up to 15 using a registry entry) and the fact that when you...

There are a lot of new features available in Lync, and one of them is called “Private Telephone Lines”. A complete review of this feature can be found in this TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg412728.aspx I was eager to test...

  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...

  Had a chat with Rui Silva on Shared Mailboxes, and an interesting question came up…:-) Question = can a user, who has been given Full Mailbox access permissions to a Shared Mailbox, open that Shared Mailbox its Archive in Exchange 2010 RTM? Answer...

Triggered by a comment/question  from Robbie De Sutter, on one of my previous blog posts ( Exchange 2010: And then there is the long awaited cmdlet Add-MailboxFolderPermission ), being: First of all I'm running an international business, hence my...

I have always loved this feature ever since I first noticed it when diving into Exchange 2007. For more information about this web service, and how it is used by multiple applications like Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and later, and the Microsoft...

Only two days after being able to download the newest release of Exchange 2010, here is the Exchange 2010 Storage Calculator :-) For more information, one place, the Ms Exchange Team blog site! Here's the link: Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role...

  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...