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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A lot of posts have been done by the Microsoft Exchange Team to document why and how one should remember to convert any LDAP filter used in your Exchange 2003 environment to OPATH filtering. For more info have a look here: OPATH recipient filtering for...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

After deploying DPM2010, you will need to deploy an agent on any client you want to protect. You can choose to automatically deploy your agents, by running the wizard in the DPM 2010 Administrator Console:   Or you can choose to manually deploy an...

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...

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...

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...

Changing between Microsoft Office Outlook versions is definitely exciting, and sometimes even quite challenging, and I am sure you all have had that feeling “I used to be able to change this setting by clicking there, and now that “there”...