One of the plenty new Enterprise Voice features in Lync, is Call Park. This feature enables you to put a call on hold, and then retrieve the call from any phone by using a so-called internal orbit number. The feature itself is automatically installed...

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...

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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”...

Wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Wonderful, Healthy, Joyful 2011!! Ilse

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...

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...

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...

It is possible to manage Lync remotely using the wonderful world of Remote Powershell. Here’s a short overview of using Remote PowerShell to connect to Lync. Prerequisites Your client machine from where you want to connect to Lync, must have: Windows...

  Microsoft Lync Server 2010 ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere. Join Annelies Bulkens, Johan Delimon, and Dirk Gullentops...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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

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...

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...

  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...

With the release of Exchange 2010 Sp1 Beta, I was eager to find out what has changed when it boils down to the integration between Exchange 2010 and Active Directory Rights Management Server. As stated on The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog, in their “ Yes...

A few months ago I posted a procedure on how one can import pictures into Active Directory by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Import-RecipientDataProperty, here: Upload picture in Outlook 2010 using the Exchange Management Shell (Exchange 2010...

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”...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...