Now, I thought this is an interesting move by BB that I like to share with everyone. http://community.office365.com/enus/office365/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2011/03/16/office-365-and-blackberry.aspx So, if you are currently a hoster, you...

Microsoft has officially released a statement on the support of GAL Segregation or Segmentation (however you want to call it) for Exchange Server 2010. I think many people has been waiting for this capability since the release of Exchange Server 2010...

Hey Folks, It is this time of the year where everything seems to just slow down to almost a complete stop. Yes, it is this time of the year where we will rest and have some fun time with family and friends. As passionate as I am with technologies,...

Hey Folks, Just in case you missed this. Lync 2010 has gone gold or RTM. Fun time ahead... :) http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2010/10/27/microsoft-lync-released-to-manufacturing.aspx Official Lync Site. http://www.microsoft.com/en...

Finally, the name is out. ... Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next generation in cloud productivity that brings together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service. Here is hte...

So, the HMC to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 migration guide is out. You are eager, you are planning, you are excited. Let's do it. Starting from next week onwards for the next 1-2 months, I will be walk through the migration guide and will be discussing...

I was away for few weeks, was on site at a customer location, handling some critical situations and then followed by Microsoft's CSS Global Leaders meeting in Seattle. Finally, I have caught up with my email, with my sleep and etc. Finally, I have...

Hi folks, So, we have been mentioning the migration guide for Hosted Exchange in HMC to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment for a while. So, here it is, folks. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mhpta/archive/2010/09/15/hosted-exchange-2010-migration...

Tenant Administrators and Tenants By now you probably know that when you create a new tenant organization, there are a few RBAC roles being created and there are also a few role groups created out of the box. You may also see some assignments being...

Alright, a quick one. To those who do not know, Communications Server 2010 was renamed to Microsoft Lync Server 2010. It is the next generation of OCS. It will bring new features such as call admission control and remote site survivability. Hosting stuff...

Yes, while the whole world is talking and about to planning to move towards the next release of Hosted Exchange (Exchange Server 2010), I haven't forgotten that we still have folks in HMC world. The good news is that the migration guide is on the way...

Resellers The concept of Resellers in Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment, well... let me be really direct here, it doesn't really exist anymore. Remember in HMC world, we have to create resellers before you even create any tenant organization...

A closer look at RBAC in Hosting Deployment In the last post , I gave a quick overview of RBAC which I think s important. Those who has been working on Exchange Server 2010 for while and already know RBAC can skip the last blog posts. If you do not...

I have seen this question being asked in the forum a couple of times and I thought it may be a good post to write. So, I decided to spend the next 30 minutes to blog about this. Many of you here probably have some good experience with Exchange Server...

Introduction One of the biggest changes from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010 is Role Based Access Control or in short, RBAC. RBAC changes a lot of things, some said it has simplified management, some said it has added tons of flexibilities...

As some of you already know... Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is now RTM. Quick.. go and download it!! I will be updating my environment as well and will continue to blog about this. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/08/25/455861.aspx

This is a quick one. I saw some questions posted in the forum on this and I thought I should give a short blog on this. For those has been playing with Exchange Server 2010 SP1 beta hosting deployment, I am quite sure by now you realize that you always...

At the heart of HMC is MPS. And at the heart of this this MPS is that 2 mysterious databases, the PlanManager and ResourceManager databases. What I am trying to do is to attempt to provide you guys some script to help you to better know your environment...

How should I really start this post? Conceptually, the way Outlook uses Autodiscover in Exchange 2010 SP1 beta hosting deployment hasn't changed compared to HMC. I blogged how Autodiscover work in HMC back in early 2009. It is here for those who are interested...

Yes, Address List Segregation, it is time to talk about it. In Exchange Server 2007, Address List Segregation is really the heart of Hosted Exchange. If we do the address list segregation correctly, then the client should not be able to see another tenant...

Hi, we have been talking about Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for the past few weeks. Let's get back to HMC a little bit. We were talking about MPS with AD Integrity check. I am grouping all the HMC's MPS and AD integrity check into the "Integrity...

To avoid overdose of Exchange, this weekend, I took some time to look at SharePoint 2010 and just to see how much has changed since the SharePoint version we used in HMC 4.5. In HMC 4.5, we used Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1. I blogged about...

Back in 2008, I wrote a couple of blogs about the things we do to multi-tenant Exchange Server 2007 in HMC. In those blog posts, I walked through from a high level the components in Exchange that HMC changes to make the product multi-tenant. You can read...

In Part #5 , I blogged about how you can utilize Exchange Control Panel (ECP) in a hosting deployment. Those are all really good. What I didn't tell you is that, Remote PowerShell works too for tenant organization in a hosting deployment. Now, most...

When you are doing the Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment, one of the sections teaches you how to create a registry key in all the CAS server to fully disable Exchange Control Panel as in the following picture, So, it said IF your hosting organization...