Lync 2013 Response Groups Usage Report not working.

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…

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How to set Exchange AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory Url’s to Empty

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? 🙂

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Lync and Exchange Web Services (EWS) and different DNS Domains- Exchange crawling e.g. for presence

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…

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TrustModelData: registry keys for the Lync Clients.

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…

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Fully automated uninstallation of Office 2007 / 2010 and Installation of Office 365 Click-To-Run

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/

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Outlook 2013 stuck on Loading user profile.

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…

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Migrate two different Exchange forest with the same netbios name to Office 365 with dirsync.

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…

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How to migrate CA Root from server to another

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…

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SMTP high availability with one ip address

We have a customer that needed to migrate from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 and keep the old ip-address in place for smtp traffic from inside and outside. In clustered Exchange 2010 and 2013 the Primary Active Manager has the…

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Add SIP address to all users in certain OU

This situation may come true if you have Onpremises Exchange and Online tenant Lync. Then you need to add a SIP address with the same name as the user is in the Online tenant. And here’s the script: $mailboxes =…

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