Author: Harri Jaakkonen

Direct Access is an excellent vpn-solution from Microsoft. With Server 2012 R2 it got even better. There is alot of pages telling how to install it right, but in real life you have to combine some of them. So here…

Get all users Deleted Items size: Get-MailBox | Get-MailboxStatistics | select DisplayName,TotalDeletedItemSize Get a specific users Deleted Items Size: Get-MailboxStatistics <alias> | select DisplayName,TotalDeletedItemSize Purge All Users Deleted Items: get-mailbox | Search-mailbox -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent Purge a specific users Deleted Items:…

Lync 2013 Monitoring is great … well when it works 🙂 Today one customer wanted to open Response Group Usage Report and got nothing after 15 minutes on waiting. The reason was a broken index in lcscdr database. And the…

Do you know this …no? Well, neither did I. So here goes. Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory -Identity ‘autodiscover (default Web site)’ -internalUrl ($null) -externalUrl ($null) That wasn’t hard, was it? 🙂

Source: http://lyncuc.blogspot.fi/2013/01/lync-and-exchange-web-services-ews-and.html there is always confusion in how Lync is crawling Exchange Web Services (EWS). Generally it is necessary to understand how DNS must be implemented: Just remember, identify if you have DNS Split configuration, different internal and external DNS…

And Hi, Excellent article on TrustModelData by Terence Luk: http://terenceluk.blogspot.fi/2013/02/location-of-trustmodeldata-registry-key.html Location of the “TrustModelData: registry key for the Lync 2013 Client Those who are familiar with the certificate warning message: Lync cannot verify that the server is trusted for your…

Hi again, Here a nice tip from Mark Kean for automating office installations as part of moving to the cloud. Uninstall old ones: http://marckean.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/fully-automate-removal-of-any-version-office-in-preparation-for-office-365/ Install new one: http://marckean.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/fully-automate-the-installation-of-office-365/

If you can’t access Outlook 2013 to disable hardware acceleration, create the DisableHardwareAcceleration registry subkey. To do this, follow these steps: Exit all instances of Office applications (for example, Office 365, Outlook, and Lync Online). Start Registry Editor. Create the following…

Our customer has two forests. And they have the same netbios name. So no forest trust then. One of them with users and computers and the other with different usernames and their mailboxes. The dilemma is to migrate them to…

This article shows you exactly how to migrate CA Root to another server. The new server can be anything from 2008 to 2012 R2. In the Certification Authority snap-in, right-click the CA name, click All Tasks, and then click Back…