Welcome back, this is the second part of my series on migration to Exchange 2013. I covered prerequisites, installation and a little bit of management in the first post, now we’ll have a look at namespaces and certificates. Namespaces in Exchange 2013 After installing Exchange, it’s time to start ... [More]

This is my first post about migrating from an existing Exchange 2010 environment to Exchange 2013. I’ll try do cover everything that seems important to me, if I miss something that you think should be covered… well, that’s what comments are for :) Preparing for Exchange 2013 All servers in the Exc... [More]

It has been quiet around here for some time, so what have I been up to? Well, on one side, I’m having fun at the Scripting Games (http://scriptinggames.org/) where I learn quite a bit (more from reviewing other entries, than from my own coding) and try to to improve my PowerShell skills. I’ll point... [More]

We had an interesting problem at work recently, as the solution was a little complex I decided to write about it here. So, as the title suggests, we are talking Wireless networking, authentication and Mac OS X today. It’ll be fun, trust me :) Some prerequisites: We use EAP-TLS as the authentication... [More]

Today I started my day with an Office Web Apps Farm that was not working anymore. After reviewing the Event Log I figured something strange happened… :) The Event Log was basically full with .Net Runtime and Application Errors, I’ll paste some for reference. Log Name: Application Sourc... [More]

To prepare a Windows Server 2012 for a Lync 2013 installation, install the following features manually before you run the Lync setup: .Net Framework 3.5 Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 Media Foundation HTTP Activation Use the Powershell to speed up the installation: Install-WindowsFeatu... [More]

A few days ago, Microsoft released a bunch of updates for Lync 2013. I will walk through the required steps to upgrade a Lync 2013 Standard Edition server in this post. The February updates for Lync 2013 enable some new features including Lync 2013 mobile Clients, Group Call pick-up and many more… ... [More]

The use of smartphones and other mobile email clients has been increasing for quite some time. With ActiveSync being one of the widest-used protocols comes the need to manage another set of devices. As users are forced to change their domain account’s passwords from time to time, some might forget t... [More]

Daniel and I have been quite busy implementing Lync 2013 these days. One interesting gotcha thing we knew, but didn’t give a lot attention about the Lync 2013 client is, that it makes use of the LyncDiscover and LyncDiscoverInternal DNS records. These records were introduced with Lync 2010 Mobility ... [More]

This post is the follow-up to the one about AD and topology preparation and I will again use screenshots to walk through the Installation and Certificate request and assignment processes. DNS Records The last post ended with publishing the Topology, after that, the wizard provides a simple To-Do l... [More]