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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Integrating Exchange 2013 + Lync 2013 for UCS & OWA integration
Update 7/13/2015 – Two and half years after the original post and finally some updates! I have had a chance to fully patch my environment to the latest updates for Exchange and Lync 2013....
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Exchange 2013 Liftoff! Part 1 – Installation
Just this past week, Exchange 2013 has been RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing)! We’re still a few months away before the general public can start their installs, possibly longer for migrations since we’re waiting for...
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Exchange 2013 Liftoff! Part 1.5, Installation Troubleshooting
Updated 4/9/2014 with additional information to hopefully help you Now Microsoft has made the Exchange 2013 setup is pretty easy, but what happens when you run into problems? There are a myriad of different...
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Using Lync with an Asterisk Server & SIP Trunking
3/8/2013 UPDATE: I’ve since used these instructions to integrate with Lync 2013 and have had the same success with using Asterisk as my PTSN gateway. I’ve added some notes in the Trunks section based...
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Getting Mailbox Statistics from a select group of users
I’m working a project where they’re targeting a pilot group of users for mailbox quota information, and I was requested to put together a Powershell command that allowed them to put together a list...
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