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TechDays Belgium 2013: Office 365 Do’s and Don’t’s

This year at the Techdays in Belgium, I presented a session on Office 365, and the do’s and don’t’s...

Date: 03/15/2013

Can I switch from an Office 365 E3 subscription to E1?

Imagine you have been testing Office 365 for 30 days, using the Free Trial option available for both...

Date: 07/09/2012

Take away the possibility for users in Exchange Online to change their own password

Got a question today if it is possible to prevent a user from changing his or her own password when...

Date: 06/22/2012

Using Exchange Management Shell to manage your Exchange Online and Exchange On Premises Environment

Yesterday I have had the pleasure of doing a TechNet LiveMeeting here @Microsoft Belgium, entitled...

Date: 03/16/2012

Extending your Lync monitoring data using PowerPivot and Power View

During the last Techdays here in Belgium, I have had the privilege of being able to present a...

Date: 03/09/2012

Shared Mailboxes in Office365

After getting a few questions on Shared Mailboxes, and how you can manage them in Exchange Online as...

Date: 01/10/2012

A URL post on Lync–Exchange–Online–On Premises

First: my very best wishes for 2012 to you all!!!! Second, just posting a blog post containing a...

Date: 01/09/2012

Add an Alias to a Distribution Group in Exchange Online (Office365), and Removing one...

Looking back to BPOS, the only way to add an alias to a distribution group, was by using DirSync, as...

Date: 11/15/2011

The secret about a successful export-to-pst and import-from-pst migration is called Add Custom Address, type X500

The last few months, I have had the below question pop up regularly… Question: is it possible...

Date: 10/25/2011

Exchange Online: Change Primary SMTP Address without changing Sign-In address

By default, when you mail-enable a user, that user will be given an e-mail address that matches the...

Date: 10/14/2011

Save the Date: TechDays Belgium returns on 14-15-16 February 2012!

TechDays Belgium returns on 14-15-16 February 2012! Since we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary it...

Date: 10/14/2011

Lync Online: What’s Possible?

When talking about Office365, and how you can manage the Exchange Online piece of it using Exchange...

Date: 10/13/2011

Connecting a Disconnected Mailbox in Exchange Online

When reading through the Exchange Online Service Description, it clearly states that there is a...

Date: 10/06/2011

Schedule Online Meeting using Lync for Mac?

Since Lync for Mac is now available for download from TechNet, MSDN, and through the download site...

Date: 10/03/2011

Exchange Online + Exchange On Premises = Shared Namespace, How About Mail Routing?

  Intro When thinking about configuring a hybrid environment, as in moving some mailboxes...

Date: 08/24/2011

Exchange 2010: Can you scope permissions to more than one OU?

About a month ago I got the following mail: Hi Ilse I know you had a RBAC Session at Teched. We...

Date: 06/22/2011

Exchange Online (Office365) and RBAC?

Oh yes It is perfectly possible to create and assign custom roles within Exchange Online. In this...

Date: 05/16/2011

PowerShell Script from TechDays Office365 Demo

  Today I have had the privilege of doing both a BreakOut Session on Secure Remote Access in...

Date: 04/27/2011

Office 365 Beta for Enterprises

Quite a view subscribers to the Office 365 Beta have been given access to their beta tenant, as I...

Date: 04/14/2011

Address List Segregation and Lync

  Question Is it possible to provide users with an Address List in Lync that only contains a...

Date: 03/24/2011

Schedule an Online Meeting on behalf of someone else

Question It is possible to give someone the permission to schedule an Online Meeting on behalf of...

Date: 03/18/2011

Call Statistics for a UM Server

Interesting question came up yesterday, being “does Exchange 2010 Sp1 UM provide built-in statistics...

Date: 03/03/2011

Lync Web App

A question a lot of people ask me when talking about Lync, and how it’s a single client used for...

Date: 02/27/2011

Demo Fun in Lync

If you want to add something easy but yet, amazing to your Lync environment, to highlight the power...

Date: 02/23/2011

Lync Attendant

Have you seen the Lync Attendant? Lync Attendant? Lync Attendant is an intuitive call management...

Date: 02/09/2011

Call Park and Lync

One of the plenty new Enterprise Voice features in Lync, is Call Park. This feature enables you to...

Date: 02/09/2011

Installing the Lync Edge Server

Reading the TechNet article, Installing Edge Servers, it’s pretty straightforward to deploy the Lync...

Date: 02/03/2011

TechDays 2011: Early Bird Pricing Extended Until 28 February 2011

  Register now with extended Early Bird pricing Discover new technologies and increase your...

Date: 01/27/2011

Appear Offline in Lync and other Customizations

Question: Is It Possible To Appear Offline In Lync? Answer: yes In previous releases of Office...

Date: 12/28/2010

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011!

Wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Wonderful, Healthy, Joyful 2011!! Ilse

Date: 12/26/2010

Lync and Private Line

There are a lot of new features available in Lync, and one of them is called “Private Telephone...

Date: 12/21/2010

Stored Procedures and Lync

After upgrading my demo environment from Lync RC to Lync RTM, I found that my monitoring server role...

Date: 12/16/2010

RBAC in Lync: Who can do What on Which Objects?

I love Exchange, and I was pretty impressed when I was first introduced to Role Based Access Control...

Date: 11/25/2010

Using Remote PowerShell to connect to Lync

It is possible to manage Lync remotely using the wonderful world of Remote Powershell. Here’s a...

Date: 11/25/2010

Join us and explore Microsoft Lync 2010 - The next generation of communications server

  Microsoft Lync Server 2010 ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every...

Date: 11/23/2010

Creating a Response Group in Lync

It’s been a while since I have been able to blog…but now TechEd is done, and we have...

Date: 11/23/2010

Looking for Lync Documentation

Looking for documentation on Lync? Hope these links can help you out… Microsoft Lync Server 2010...

Date: 10/20/2010

Troubleshooting Lync-Exchange OWA Integration

Received a lot of feedback on one of my previous blog posts, on how to configure Lync RC and...

Date: 10/10/2010

Register today for this ProExchange Event :-)

Shameless Copy-Paste from ProExchange Once again we managed to get the Exchange Product team over to...

Date: 09/29/2010

Configuring Lync RC and Exchange 2010 Sp1 to Enable OWA as a Lync Endpoint

This blog post is now available here:...

Date: 09/23/2010

Configuring Lync RC and Exchange 2010 Sp1 to Enable OWA as a Lync Endpoint

While configuring my demo environment with Exchange 2010 Sp1, and Lync RC, I was triggered to find...

Date: 09/22/2010

Get-MailboxFolder is not working & Exchange Web Services…getting started

Triggered by a comment/question  from Robbie De Sutter, on one of my previous blog posts...

Date: 08/20/2010

OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2010 RU4: “Did the remote peer accept our certificate”?

  Configuring the link between OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 seems pretty easy,...

Date: 08/10/2010

Configuring AD RMS and Exchange 2010 Sp1 Beta

With the release of Exchange 2010 Sp1 Beta, I was eager to find out what has changed when it boils...

Date: 07/09/2010

Bulk import pictures

A few months ago I posted a procedure on how one can import pictures into Active Directory by using...

Date: 07/08/2010

Switching from Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to 2007, or 2010?

Changing between Microsoft Office Outlook versions is definitely exciting, and sometimes even quite...

Date: 07/06/2010

Shared Mailbox and Archive: Q & A

  Had a chat with Rui Silva on Shared Mailboxes, and an interesting question came up…:-)...

Date: 06/21/2010

Support for multi-tenancy in Exchange 2010?

  Yes there is…:-) For more information, you can download the document that will help you to...

Date: 06/19/2010

Don’t forget to update your LDAP filters to OPATH filters when transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

A lot of posts have been done by the Microsoft Exchange Team to document why and how one should...

Date: 06/15/2010

RBAC-Exchange 2010 Sp1 Beta – Scopes = EMC, EMS, and ECP (!)

As described in the TechNet forums (link...

Date: 06/09/2010

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