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Office 365 Hybrid Deployment Continuing my blog series on setting up a Hybrid Office 365 deployment with Exchange 2010 SP2. This part will detail the ADFS and SSO setup. UAG Setup So I went with the recommended, actually required, two NIC configuration for UAG, one NIC dedicated to External and one to Internal communications. To…
Sorry to my loyal and dedicated readers, you both know who you are, but I did not get much done tonight! I finalized the exchange 2010 SP2 install and got my certificate from GoDaddy.com requested and completed. But ran into some FUN (please notice the caps in fun, as in NOT FUN) with Forefront…
I am prepping my newly acquired lab servers, Thanks Catapult IT!, to set up an Office 365 Hybrid Deployment. I am doing this for several reasons: 1. Want to fully understand the new Hybrid Deployment Wizard and setup with Exchange 2010 SP2 2. Use Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) for ADFS and Exchange proxy…
Office 365 SharePoint Online – Enable External Access for a Site Wanted to enable External User access for a SharePoint Online (SPO) site. Figured this was a great way to learn for my upcoming Office 365 Microsoft Certificate Exams and also it would make a good blog post! http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/share-a-site-with-external-users-HA102476183.aspx is the help topic I…
I recieved word this morning that my session on Office 365 Hybrid Deployments with Exchange 2010 SP2 has been accepted for the inaugural Office 365 Saturday event in Redmond on February 25th. Very honored to be speaking at the first Office 365 Saturday event! Check out information about the Office 365 Saturday Organization, http://office365saturday.org/…
When I ‘m working with clients and I ask if they are interested in monitoring Linux and Unix with SCOM, they almost always say yes. When the conversation moves from I.T. managers to the Linux Sysadmins and they learn that in order deploy and discover Linux agents from the console we require the root…
Have you ever had a job that was truly amazing? Remember what that felt like? Even if you worked long hours for less money, you got up every day energized about going to work because you loved what you did and the people you worked with. Although such amazing work experiences are the…
Periodically, after doing maintenance on Exchange one or more content indexes will fail in a DAG. I have had this happen as recently as 1/13/2012, while running Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5. The command to check health is Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus The fix is to restart the MSExchange Search service on the node which has the…
So the Big Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was this week. If you are in to technology I am surely not breaking any news here. What I would like to talk about is the great news around the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform this week. Numerous new phones were announced, my top two are the two…
One of the "fun" tasks when working with clients is when we need to open the various ports on a client’s network for Configuration Manager to work properly. I’ve had to sit down with many clients and go through the TechNet port diagram countless times, to only have to do it again a few months…