I believe one of the most mysterious parts of HMC is about the MPS engine and the Resource Management databases. Between last December and January, I blogged about how different products (Exchange, SharePoint and OCS) integrate in a HMC Solution. However...

HMC 4.5 has been out for a while now. We are beginning to see more and more people deploying OCS into the HMC environment as the concept of using IM as one of the corporate communication tools getting better acceptance. One of the most common issues...

HMC has been in the market for a while and as it grows, we are beginning to see many HMC providers are expanding their infrastructure and having more users and companies subscribing to their environment. I also observed that the growth is especially...

Typically in a corporate environment, to find out who are the users using Outlook MAPI access and the version, you can Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor, or ExMon ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9A49C22E-E0C7-4B7C-ACEF...

otherWellKnownObject attributes have been widely used in HMC as a cross reference as well as very much as a kind of a poor man’s AD schema extension strategy. J This blog aims to discuss it and also provide some ways to work with this attribute using...

UPDATED - June 28th - The XML procedure has been updated for HMC 4.5 We all know how the PlanManager database and the ResourceManager database are used to keep track of plans and the relationship between MPS and the Active Directory. We know...

Most of you know HMC does not rely on the usual Exchange OAB generation schedule to trigger OABgen. Instead, HMC introduces a custom tool called HMOabUpdate that gets activated based a scheduled time to automate the generation of Offline Address Books...

When you are using Office Communicator, one of the nicest features (in my opinion) is the capability to add a group and expand it in the contact list. This feature really makes organization and group of contacts more consistent throughout the company...