I’ve been doing some archive database moves for a client and started running into an issue where a few of the moves would fail, while a majority of the rest would run OK. Looking...
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It’s Official!
After spending most of the Memorial Day weekend studying, I knocked out my 70-417 (Upgrading MCSA to 2013) and my 70-342 (Advanced Solutions on Exchange 2013), getting over a 900 on both, and earning...
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IIS alone as a TMG replacement for Reverse Proxy?
After an arduous few weeks building my Lync 2013 lab, I finished a typical deployment plan of getting the internal workings complete (load balancing using the Citrix Netscaler Standard free licenses, redoing certificates after...
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Connecting Lync 2013 through XMPP Federation to Google Talk
One of the best improvements in my mind for Lync 2013 is the integration of the XMPP gateway into the product. If your organization does a lot of business with smaller organizations that use...
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Dynamic Distribution Groups based on user’s home database
With some recent Exchange database consolidation at a client, one of the requirements came up from the CIO to have a way for the company’s communications department to notify people effected by a certain...
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Excluding Domain Controllers in Exchange 2010
Update 5/31/2013: DO NOT PUT YOUR LIST IN QUOTES! Putting the list of domain controllers within quotes causes Exchange to view that item as a single name, versus parsing out at the commas. I’ve...
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