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Office 365 ADFS Client Access Policy Builder.
Earlier this year, Microsoft released an update to ADFS (RU1) which introduced some new features of which Client Access Policies were one. Client Access Policies allow you to restrict access to Office...
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Create a function to connect to and disconnect from Exchange Online
Office 365 allows you to connect remotely to Exchange online using PowerShell. However, if you had to type in the commands to connect every time, you would be losing quite some time: $session =...
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Disappearing (online) archives after moving your mailbox to Office 365…
Office 365 offers great ways to enhance the functionalities of your on-premises deployment. By running the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (which Steve Goodman explains in this article) you can configure...
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My first impressions of Office 365
Today, Microsoft announced an entire battery of new products from their range of Office products, including the new Lync, Exchange and Sharepoint Server. Along with these new products, they also...
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Update: Disappearing (online) archives after moving your mailbox to Office 365
Update After a few weeks of mailing back and forth with Microsoft’s support, I was today (finally) able to confirm that the issue which I described below is now solved. It seems that Microsoft rolled...
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Error: You cannot synchronize the ADFS configuration database after adding a...
Introduction There are multiple ways to setup a highly available ADFS server farm. One possibility is to install multiple federation servers using the default Windows Internal Database. In that case,...
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You get an error: “The connector cycle has stopped. Object with DN failed…”
As part of setting up a hybrid configuration between Exchange on-premise and Exchange online (or when configuring Exchange Online Archiving), you also need to setup DirSync. In these scenarios DirSync...
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How to check what the version of your tenant is in the cloud (Office 365)
I sometimes get the question how one can verify what the version of Exchange they’re running in the cloud. Although it should be pretty obvious based on the GUI (Exchange 2010 vs. Exchange 2013) and...
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Exchange Online Archiving (EOA): a view from the trenches – part 1
What is Exchange Online Archiving? I’ve been meaning to write this article for quite a while now, so I’m glad it’s finally “ready”. First, let me start by introducing what Exchange Online Archiving...
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Updated DirSync can now be deployed on a Domain Controller.
Microsoft recently released a new version of Windows Azure Active Directory Sync, better known as DirSync. As the information on the Version Release History page of the tool depicts, this new build...
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Publishing multiple services to the internet on a single IP address using a...
A few days ago, someone suggested I write this article as it seems many people are struggling with ‘problem’. In fact, the solution which I’m going to explain below is the answer to a problem typically...
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Exchange Online Archive (EOA): a view from the trenches – part 2
A bit later than expected, here’s finally the successor to the first article about Exchange Online Archiving which I wrote a while ago. Exchange Online Archives and Outlook How does Outlook connect to...
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Free/Busy in a hybrid environment fail and Test-Federationtrust returns error...
Following an issue with Free/Busy in Exchange online, earlier this week, I was troubleshooting the exchange of Free/Busy information in some of my hybrid deployments as Free/Busy information was still...
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You get an error “the connection to the server could not be completed” when...
As part of running through the “New Migration Batch”-wizard, the remote endpoint (the on-premises Exchange server) is tested for its availability. After running this step, the following error is...
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The limitations of calendar federation in a hybrid deployment
Recently, Loryan Strant (Office 365 MVP) and myself joined forces to create an article for the Microsoft MVP blog regarding some of the limitations of calendar federation in a hybrid Exchange...
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Why MEC is the place to be for Exchange admins/consultants/enthusiasts!
In less than a month, the 2014 edition of the Microsoft Exchange Conference will kick off in Austin, Texas. For those who haven’t decided if they will be going yet, here’s some reasons why you should....
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This was MEC 2014 (in a nutshell)
As things wind down after a week full of excitement and – yes, in some cases – emotion, MEC 2014 is coming to an end. Lots of attendees have already left Austin and those who stayed behind are sharing...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 update enables ADFS to use alternative login ID,...
Recently, Microsoft released an update to Windows Server 2012 R2 which – next to a bunch of bug fixes – also includes new features to some of the Operating System’s components. Amongst these new...
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Help! Where do I put my Hybrid server?
As part of a hybrid Exchange server deployment, you also deploy the so-called Hybrid Server(s). The name itself might be a little misleading though. After all it’s not some sort of new Exchange server...
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New Hybrid Configuration Wizard features in Exchange 2013 CU5
As posted here, Microsoft today released Cumulative Update 5 for Exchange 2013. At first sight, this update doesn’t appear to make lots of changes – at least not visibly. However, it does contain a lot...
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