Many administrators need to convert regular User Mailboxes to a Shared Mailbox after migration to Office 365. While the task is not very complex in itself, it is admittedly quite boring and you need to remember quota sizes and not least the syntax for...

I am putting together a list of common mistakes made when configuring Hybrid Deployment. Items will be added to the list as I see them or are made aware of their existence, feel free to send me suggestions. Always use the HCW (Hybrid Configuration Wizard...

Have you ever needed to find out which user is using a given mobile device and all you have is the Device ID or IMEI code? The other way around is very simple but doesn’t really solve the problem. I put together the following piece of code to simplify...

These lines of code can be used for all sorts of purposes where Performance Monitor counters are needed in a Powershell script or just as a one time deal on the command line. I’ve been using the example below to get “snapshots” of how a Jetstress test...

When configuring the Transport Role in Exchange 2010, you often change the paths of the Queue Database and Logs. This is done by editing the EdgeTransport.exe.config file. This is a tedious task if deploying multiple servers and the risk of typo’s is...

You may have a hard time remembering the URL for your Office 365 OWA. The URL is usually something along the lines of: https://pod12345.outlook.com/OWA/, which may not make a lot of sense if you’re accessing OWA from the random kiosk browser and struggling...

On rare occasions you may experience that spam messages are (consistently) delivered to the Inbox folder instead of the Junk E-mail folder even though it is rated at SCL: 9 The graphic below shows the properties of an e-mail rated at SCL: 0 as an example...

You may see the following error in EMC: “An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers”. Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup shown below, is just one of the failing functions: This is usually combined with a slow (laggy) EMC in general....

If you encounter the publishSelfPresence request error (Error Code = 0-1-492) in the CWA client, you most likely have a problem with the SPN (Service Principal Name) of the CWA Service Account. To correct this problem; open AdsiEdit and navigate to...

Most customers know what boxes to check on the Access Edge Server to enable federation and Public IM Connectivity (PIC) but many ask what to do next to sign up to the service. Signing up is quite easy, you simply need to follow this link: https://ocspic...

When trying to complete a certificate request in IIS 7 you may experience the error: CertEnroll::CX509Enrollment::p_InstallResponse: ASN1 bad tag value met. 0x8009310b (ASN:276) This error is described in KB article 959216 but the suggested resolution...

It turned out to be significantly easier to find users without an assigned  LineURI than I expected.  Thanks to Nick Smith for pointing me in the right direction when answering something else. :o) The Powershell script takes no parameters and...

Ever needed to generate a list of 100+ phone numbers for use with e.g. OCSAssignTelUri.wsf? I have but couldn’t be bothered with inventing a new method every time anymore, so I wrote a little ps script: param ([string] $Series, [string] $Width, [string...

I know this topic is not Unified Communications related but it’s annoying the heck out of a lot of people so to share mitigating information I’m including it on my blog. The problem is that Live Messenger minimizes to the task bar like any other active...

The OCS 2007 R2 binaries were recently released for public download. The table below is a compiled list of currently available R2 downloads: Title Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Trial Download Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial...

On February 3rd 2009, OCS 2007 R2 launched globally. To find more information about the launch, visit the virtual launch experience at: www.ocsr2launch.com Future posts on my blog will be R2 related, please check back for updates…

You encounter the following error when trying to connect to the pool with Office Communicator: This is caused by the certificate on the server not matching the host name you are trying to connect to. Typically this is because the _sipinternaltls SRV record...

This turns out to be somewhat tricky unless you experiment quite a lot with the values and operators, therefore I'm posting the quick solution here for those of you that (like me) like to find what you search for... :o) If you use the Get-Mailbox cmdlet...

Over the past couple of months I have worked on more than one project where the customer wanted to create a new forest for the new Exchange 2007 installation. Normally you would migrate users from the old domain(s) with ADMT or another product but in...

If you have a Office Communicator Phone Edition (aka. Tanjay) device, you might be wondering why your incoming, outgoing and missed calls as well as voice mails are not showing up in the lists on the device. For the integration to work, the Tanjay needs...

To quickly set up a lab for testing phone integration you need at least three servers for OCS and Exchange roles. One additional server is needed for Active Directory and Certificate Authority. I would recommend using a 64-bit machine installed with Windows...

After you have set up the Exchange Server 2007 UM role in a lab or in production and want to test Auto Attendant functionality by leaving voice mails for one or more users, you may experience that the Auto Attendant plays the greeting and asks for your...