• Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

    Many of the customers I work with are currently making their way through an Office 365 technical pilot that needs to include Mac OS X machines as well as various versions of Windows.  The Windows stuff seems fairly well documented and since we now...
  • Office 365 - Non-Federated Identity, Password never expires

    The Microsoft Online Services Module allows you manage your tenant directly and in some cases change settings you can’t change in GUI (note this can only be achieved if you’re managing accounts that have been created in the tenant e.g. not created using...
  • Exchange Server 2010 Cross Forest Delegation

    This has been an interesting bit of work for me.  I have been working with a customer who really needed to provide their users with the ability to manage calendars across different Exchange organisations.  When they initially presented this...
  • Automating Jetstress…

    One of the things I like about Jetstress is that it tends to identify failing or failed components before the servers go live.  Its not all about how many IOPS a storage array can provide, sometimes its just as important to prove the stability of...
  • Office 365 – Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW)

    Whilst working on a few O365 engagements over the last month or so I have seen various issues that have been caused by on-premise infrastructure/setup and which have not allowed the HCW (which was introduced in Exchange 2010 SP2) to complete successfully...