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HMC and Windows Hosting related matters. This blog will also include Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hosting Deployment.

Office 365 and BlackBerry... $0 per user per month!

Now, I thought this is an interesting move by BB that I like to share with everyone....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 03/17/2011

GAL Segmentation or Segregation in Exchange Server 2010...

Microsoft has officially released a statement on the support of GAL Segregation or Segmentation...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/27/2011

Happy Holiday!!

Hey Folks, It is this time of the year where everything seems to just slow down to almost a complete...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/20/2010

Lync 2010 RTM.

Hey Folks, Just in case you missed this. Lync 2010 has gone gold or RTM. Fun time ahead... :)...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 10/29/2010

The Next BPOS... Microsoft Announces Office 365

Finally, the name is out. ... Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next generation in cloud...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 10/19/2010

HMC's Hosted Exchange to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment Migration Guide.

Hi folks, So, we have been mentioning the migration guide for Hosted Exchange in HMC to Exchange...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/16/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #4 - Tenants

Tenant Administrators and Tenants By now you probably know that when you create a new tenant...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/13/2010

Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 RC is here...

Alright, a quick one. To those who do not know, Communications Server 2010 was renamed to Microsoft...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/13/2010

Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #7: OAB Servers

Yes, while the whole world is talking and about to planning to move towards the next release of...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/10/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #3 - Resellers

Resellers The concept of Resellers in Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment, well... let me be...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/10/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #2 - Hosters

A closer look at RBAC in Hosting Deployment In the last post, I gave a quick overview of RBAC which...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/08/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment and Exchange Server 2010 Address List Segregation

I have seen this question being asked in the forum a couple of times and I thought it may be a good...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/07/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #1 - Introduction

Introduction One of the biggest changes from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010 is Role...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/07/2010

The Future of Exchange Starts Here: Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Is Now Available

As some of you already know... Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is now RTM. Quick.. go and download it!! I...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/25/2010

Not all the cmdlets in the E2k10 SP1 beta Hosting Deployment have the -Organization switch?

This is a quick one. I saw some questions posted in the forum on this and I thought I should give a...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/17/2010

Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #6: Mailbox and Public Folder Database

At the heart of HMC is MPS. And at the heart of this this MPS is that 2 mysterious databases, the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/13/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #9 - Autodiscover

How should I really start this post? Conceptually, the way Outlook uses Autodiscover in Exchange...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/13/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #8 - Address List Segregation

Yes, Address List Segregation, it is time to talk about it. In Exchange Server 2007, Address List...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/09/2010

Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #5: Contacts and Groups

Hi, we have been talking about Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for the past few weeks....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/08/2010

SharePoint 2010... Multi-tenancy Support for Hosters - It is there if you want it.

To avoid overdose of Exchange, this weekend, I took some time to look at SharePoint 2010 and just to...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 08/05/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #7 - Transport Segregation

Back in 2008, I wrote a couple of blogs about the things we do to multi-tenant Exchange Server 2007...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/27/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #6 - Btw, Remote Powershell works too. Now, that's wicked!

In Part #5, I blogged about how you can utilize Exchange Control Panel (ECP) in a hosting...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/21/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #5 - Exchange Control Panel (ECP) in Hosting Deployment...

When you are doing the Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment, one of the sections teaches you how to...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/18/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #4 - Wait wait... are you saying mail contact actually works now? No way!

Hey folks, that's right, mail contact actually works properly now in Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/16/2010

Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #4: OU Container to Organization - MPS to AD

In Part #3, I provided a piece of code that will retrieve from Active Directory all the OUs and then...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/16/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #3 - Creating New Mailbox

Alright, let's continue with this. So, you have seen how we can enable the hosting mode in Exchange...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/13/2010

Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #3: OU Container to Organization - AD to MPS

Alright, here is a piece of code like the earlier. Instead of checking the user object, this checks...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/09/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #2 - Creating New Organization

In my previous blog, Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #1 - The First Look, I...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/08/2010

What's not available in Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Mode

This is what documented in the Exchange 2010 SP1 beta Hosting Deployment Help file, Exchange 2010...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/05/2010

Verify otherWellKnownObjects Integrity

A while ago, I blogged about Messing with otherWellKnownObjects,...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/28/2010

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #1 - The First Look

For those who are planning to move from HMC to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting deployment or...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/25/2010

Want to ask a question on Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment?

Microsoft has created a forum to respond to any question for hosters on Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/24/2010

Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #2: User Objects - AD to MPS

Alright, first I provided the Powershell script to do MPS to AD check and now we are going to do the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/24/2010

Hosting Environment for SharePoint 2010 Products?

Thinking about Hosting for SharePoint 2010 already? Here is a model that summarizes the support for...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/24/2010

Thinking about migrating to Exchange 2010 SP1 from HMC already?

Here is a shameless copy and paste from a deck by Microsoft Communication Sector Industry Director....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/23/2010

Getting a quick MPS/HMC statistics...

Want to get some quick statistics on your HMC environment, specifically, what's in the MPS database?...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/21/2010

Remove Deleted Users

Have you ever had a time when you quickly and without thinking too much or accidentally deleted the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/15/2010

Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment

Most of you probably have heard about Exchange 2010 SP1 beta being made available a while ago. If...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/15/2010

I am back...

Well, well, well. What do you know? My passion to blog has called me back to share and I am going to...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/02/2010

HMC Resource Management - Part #5 - HMC Resource Management and SharePoint and OCS

In the last blog, I discussed about the HMC Resource Management for Exchange. This entry, I will...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/27/2010

HMC Resource Management - Part #4 - HMC Resource Management and Exchange

Now, let's talk about the most confusing portion in the HMC Resource Management, which is the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/27/2010

HMC Resource Management - Part #3 - HMC Plan Management

In part#1 and part#2, we discussed about the databases in the HMC Resource Management and also we...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/27/2010

HMC Resource Management - Part #2 - HMC Resource Management and Active Directory

Things have been busy for me and i haven't had the time to complete this series in a timely fashion....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/28/2009

Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Knowledge Base Articles

This page used to provide just the HMC related updates but now it has been updated to provide the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 09/25/2009

HMC Resource Management - Part #1 - PlanManager and ResourceManager – Overall Concept

I believe one of the most mysterious parts of HMC is about the MPS engine and the Resource...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/20/2009

Troubleshooting HMC OCS’s Address Book Segregation

HMC 4.5 has been out for a while now. We are beginning to see more and more people deploying OCS...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/20/2009

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