Category: Onpremise

Azure AD Connect with ADFS customization.

So scenario was this. Customer has an Office 365 tenant all ready in-place. The users in Onpremise AD have SamAccountNames as UserPrincipalNames. The next step Is obvious. Add UPN-suffix and change UserPrincipalName to match email address. Then add mail-attribute for…

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Add a Forest Level Trust.

It has been a long time since I had to configure forest level trusts. But thank you Google. Here’s an excellent article: http://blogs.interfacett.com/how-to-configure-forest-level-trust-in-windows-server Cheers,

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Assign permissions for mailboxes before migration.

Note for my self and others 😉 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj898489%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

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Allow External senders to create meetings to a room mailbox.

This one is easy. Well hard to find, but easy. When connecting to Exchange with powershell (Onprem or Office365) get-calendarprocessing mailboxname | fl You will get the following listing: And ProcessExternalMeetingMessages with be set to False Just type set-calendarprocessing mailboxname…

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Emergency calls with Lync in Finland

Hi all, Today I go local. Sorry all readers outside Finland 😉 Today I got to solve a problem with emergency calls in Finland. 1. Create normalization rule that allows user to dial 112, but transform it to… +3979CountyNumber112 List…

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Increase the maximum MAPI session limit from 32 concurrent to 5000 concurrent

Outlook 2013 works differently, but Legacy clients need modifications to server side. In Exchange 2013: Create Throttling Policy and apply it to all mailboxes:

Then add registry key (below is for 5000 concurrent connections): [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem]”Maximum Allowed Sessions Per User”=dword:00001388…

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get-aduser old mail-attribute and set-aduser to a new one and keeping the old prefix.

So you have generated users in your ad that you want to move to Office 365. Before you dirsync the user to the Cloud you can change mail-attribute. But after the user in synced to Office365 you cannot do this…

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CRM 2013 sp1 and a new List component

Hi again, Today I got in the middle of a problem. CRM client told me:   But at the same time Web interface was working correctly. After some investigation i found that CRM for Outlook version have been updated to…

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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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