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By: David Greve
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January 29, 2012 at 11:31 PM
I was recently asked this question by a customer, as we were starting to build out a migration process. My immediate thought was no, we need to migrate the mailbox first then assign an Exchange Online license to mailbox. The reason why this was first reaction was primarily due to BPOS. (BPOS was the version of Exchange Online prior to Office 365.) In BPOS, once you assign a license to user, their mailbox becomes active. This can be problematic when you are piloting some mailboxes and you are
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By: David Greve
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January 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM
During part two of this 2-part blog series, Microsoft MVP and PointBridge Professional Services Manager Dave Greve talks about the importance of communications and training within an organization migrating to Office 365. He suggests tips to minimize help desk tickets, maximize adoption early on, provide better ground support during go-live and getting users ready and excited to ensure a successful implementation.
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By: David Greve
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December 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM
During part one this 2-part blog series, I talk about the importance of user experience during migration to Office 365. Microsoft offers many capabilities that ensure an optimal user experience such as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Directory Sync and Exchange hybrid services. Additionally, I point out options for organizations with external messaging systems to provide a rich co-existence experience using third party tools.
Keep an eye out for part 2 in the coming weeks.
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By: Rene Strawser
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August 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM
I ran into an issue recently that, although was a quick fix, there was not much information posted about it. The problem came during the configuration of AD FS for single sign-on with Office 365, when AD FS looks for the Program Data container to add the specific application and certificate information within Active Directory.
Error:
"You do not have sufficient privileges to create a container in Active Directory at location CN=f2e868b0-f4f5-4648-8dda-5a031d478753,CN=ADFS,CN=Micros
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By: Rene Strawser
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June 30, 2011 at 2:44 PM
I am sure most administrators have received a request to create several AD accounts due to acquisitions, mergers, or for other reasons. I had one of those requests which consisted of populating an AD environment that was to be used for Directory Synchronization with BPOS/Office 365. There are a lot of Bulk AD scripts out in this little world wide web of ours and there are also third party applications that you could use too (for a price); however, in the pursuit of scripting, the following cam
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By: David Greve
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April 20, 2011 at 8:46 PM
As many of you are aware, Office 365 will not have BlackBerry services out of the gate. BlackBerry services are expected to be available, for free, later in the year. So what are your options? Well, the quick answer is to just move all your BlackBerry devices to a device that supports ActiveSync. Realizing this is not feasible for most organizations, for one reason or another, there has to be other options to jump on to Office 365 before BlackBerry service is available… Well there are s
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By: David Greve
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April 7, 2011 at 11:13 AM
As an organization we perform a variety of email migration types. Often times, even lately, we have seen quite a few Lotus Notes and GroupWise customers getting ready to migrate to Exchange Online (BPOS and Office 365.) These organizations vary from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands. When planning an Exchange Online migration, most customers try to avoid or minimize any sort of coexistence period. This means we have to plan for a large number of users (email objects) to migrate
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By: Rene Strawser
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March 31, 2011 at 2:26 PM
Prior to any migration, proper planning and testing should always be performed. Such is the case if you have voicemail integrated into Lotus Notes using non-standard forms and want to include voicemail as part of your migration plan.
Using Quest's Notes Migrator for Exchange (NME), which the latest version 4.4.x includes the capability of migrating from Lotus Notes directly to BPOS and Office 365, you can easily modify the tool to include any non-standard forms.
In this migration to BPOS s
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By: David Greve
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March 25, 2011 at 6:13 PM
As we get closer to the launch of Office 365, existing BPOS customers will need to start thinking about and preparing for Office 365. Office 365 comes with a significant amount of enhancements over BPOS. These enhancements will add great amount of value to the users and the company leveraging the new service. Some of the areas in which organizations will need to consider are desktop requirements, future service considerations, and general authentication/ security. Although Office 365 is
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By: David Greve
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March 25, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Recently we ran in to an issue while preparing a Lotus Notes customer (let’s call them Company A) to migrate to Exchange Online. As we started to prepare the customer for the first directory sync, the customer had a requirement to start leveraging Microsoft Online and SharePoint Online. Since the customer signed up for standard licenses, we knew were only going to create temporary accounts until the directory sync accounts could be leveraged. As the temporary accounts were created, some o
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By: David Greve
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October 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM
I recently tried setting up a SharePoint site for a client within the EMEA data center and noticed I could not logon to the Microsoft Online Service Sign-In Client (SSO.) I tested logging back in to one of my US datacenter accounts and logged in without a problem. After doing some research, it appears the SSO client sets which datacenter your client should logon to, in the registry. Unfortunately, it's not based on the UserID or related options within the UI. While most customers of Micros
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By: David Greve
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September 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Many organizations today have multiple offices throughout the country and sometimes extend globally. Often times, these offices will have groups of individuals that collaborate with one another based on teams, departments, or even project areas. The demands of collaboration across distributed environments can be challenging and it’s not uncommon for organizations to fly people cross country or around the world to improve productivity across these groups of individuals.
The cost of trave
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By: Erik Enger
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August 4, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Background
Let me explain what this means first and set some criteria for a statement like this. In the majority of cases this would involve moving little to no data which is usually the recommended approach for such a large cutover (a.k.a. flash cutover). Coexistence between on-premise mail systems and BPOS can be problematic and confusing for users as well as administrators. Shortening or eliminating this coexistence period is usually a pretty high priority goal for any mail migration proj
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By: Jeff Schertz
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February 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM There are a few scenarios where you may want to use Outlook to access an Exchange Online mailbox but cannot use the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In client. This could be due to installation or operating requirements of the client (some OS versions are unsupported) or maybe users don’t have the required permissions to install software but can at least modify Outlook profiles. Take note that this is a completely unsupported approach and might not even work on some platforms. The intent is for
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM
When setting up a new BPOS site for clients the first conversation I make sure to have is about their on-premises Active Directory solution. Most companies already have a domain even if they are currently using Notes or Groupwise for a messaging solution, I haven’t seen a fully native Novell operation where no Windows domain authentication is in place in quite a long time. But often in the midst of messaging migrations there is also some type of Active Directory transition planned or in prog
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 8, 2010 at 8:15 AM
When planning a migration up to Exchange Online, or even when working with a current customer that has already noticed this, there is one important distinction to be aware of regarding how Contact Objects are handled in the BPOS-Shared realm. Whether or not Directory Synchronization is (or will be) used with an on-premise Active Directory domain is also important.
Created in the Cloud
First off, an administrator can simply create a contact directly in the Exchange Online environment using t
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM(Okay, before I get hate mail for two iPhone related blog articles in a row let us get back to business). One of the more common questions I get when migrating clients up to Exchange Online is where can they view mailbox size information for all of the users online. This is typically more often asked during Exchange on-premise migrations where administrators are used to being able to retrieve that information from the Exchange Command Shell. Unfortunately the Microsoft Online Services Administr
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 7, 2010 at 4:18 PMSo, I just ran into this issue and thought it would be worth documenting. During countless pilot migrations of users from various mail platforms to the Exchange Online portion of BPOS I’m surprised I’m just seeing this for the first time. The Scenario Where this appears is with a standard end-user scenario of a single Microsoft Outlook profile configured for POP or IMAP access to some hosted mailbox. Also iTunes is installed on the same computer and the iPhone is configured to synchronize Cont
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By: Erik Enger
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November 21, 2009 at 9:26 AMFollowing on from mass BPOS account activations you can now perform mass password resets with the latest Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools. The PowerShell script below will read in a list of BPOS accounts and reset the password. The two fields you need in the CSV file are the email address and desired password. See the BPOS password requirements before establishing a new password. In the script below you can choose not to force the user to change the password you assign to them by changi
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By: Erik Enger
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November 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM Bulk account activations are now available with the latest Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools. If you're like me performing this in the past was a pain since you had to activate the accounts through the web portal which allowed you to activate only a handful of accounts at a time and collecting the passwords for delivery to the users was excruciating too. We now have a solution! The PowerShell script below will read in a list of BPOS accounts and activate them in BPOS. The fields you ne
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By: Jeff Schertz
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March 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
I’ve been slacking on the OCS-related blog material recently, and that’s mainly due to the projects I’ve been working on, one of which is currently wrapping up. My main focus since October has been a couple of migration projects from customer’s previously running Lotus Notes into the shared BPOS cloud.
For a little background information on the BPOS offerings, basically with the help of a simple sign-in application running on a desktop a user can have full Outlook, Live Meeting, and SharePoi
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By: David Greve
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September 22, 2008 at 11:00 PM
One of the challenges I had more recently with a migration from GroupWise to Exchange was specifically with users existing in GroupWise and users that have been migrated from GroupWise to Exchange. The scenario is, when users still exist in GroupWise, how do they email users already migrated to Exchange? The best approach, with minimal impact to the users is to continue utilizing the GroupWise address book and to also not lose frequent contacts historical information.
The challenge with m
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