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 AMWhen setting up a new BPOS site for clients the first conversation I make sure to have is about their on-premise 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 progres
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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 2:36 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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