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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: Mo Omar
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November 28, 2011 at 8:55 AMBuilding on my first post around Office 365, I’ve decided to post a short video blog series on addressing common myths around SharePoint Online. The first video in the series talks a little about the flexibility of SharePoint Online, options for developing solutions in SharePoint Online, and finally, the ability of using ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) to create a single sign-on experience between SharePoint Online and an on-premise AD implementation. I’m planning on covering some m
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By: Shalini Pasupneti
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November 21, 2011 at 12:59 AM
One of my clients running Exchange 2003 was using over 400 email domains and was trying to setup coexistence with Office 365. One of the requirements for this is to create remote domains both on-premises and in office 365 for each primary SMTP domain and currently there is not a way to automate this (Exchange 2010 SP2 due to be released shortly will do this automatically). Until then here is a small script to automate this process on premises.
$file="c:\scripts\transcript.txt"
If
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By: Shalini Pasupneti
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November 21, 2011 at 12:29 AM
Recently I had completed setup of Office 365 coexistence for a client using Exchange 2007 and verified mail flow to/from Office 365 and free busy lookups. Abruptly one day mail flow stopped to Office 365 and Exchange console was showing the message "The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed."
After a quick search on the web, I found this article on Exchange team blog here but none of the scenarios applied in my case. Mail flow stopped to
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By: David Greve
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October 23, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Many global organizations are seeking ways to deliver authentication to their global sites, in the most optimal way. With Office 365, you have the ability to provide your end-users a single sign-on experience with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), integrating with Office 365. In order to leverage ADFS, you have to plan out your authentication strategy. The major item you need to know about ADFS is how it routes the user to the ADFS servers. Today, DNS is primarily used to refe
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By: Mo Omar
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October 19, 2011 at 6:13 AMA hot topic throughout the SharePoint Conference 2011 earlier this month was the evolution of Microsoft’s cloud-based offering, Office 365, and more importantly, it’s successful adoption within large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. Within only 12 weeks since it’s release, millions of customers have taken advantage of the enterprise-class capabilities offered by Office 365. Strategic Benefits of Moving to the Cloud In a struggling economy, organizations big and small are aggres
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By: David Greve
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September 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Office 365 supports the ability to create Shared Mailboxes, right through the UI or through PowerShell commands. The Shared Mailbox is essentially an unlicensed mailbox with no direct logon capabilities. This means you cannot open the mailbox directly, within the Outlook client. What you can do is open the mailbox with an existing licensed mailbox, as long as you have permissions to the Shared Mailbox and at the right levels.
What this leaves you with is the inability to create specific O
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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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June 15, 2011 at 4:04 PM
We’ve migrated many users from an external messaging system, like Lotus Notes or GroupWise to Office 365. On one of our migrations, we ran in to an issue with a migrated user. When this user tried to logon with their AD credentials (ADFS deployed), they would constantly be prompted for their logon credentials. When we logged on to the Office 365 portal, we immediately received Access Denied for that user.
Initially we thought it was just a bad license assignment. So we removed all of
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By: Amol Ajgaonkar
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June 12, 2011 at 9:28 PM
If you have the P1 plan, you get a public web site that you can customize. This is pretty neat. Office 365 gives you plenty of tools to create your own look and feel.
Here is an overview of the basic functionality provided to customize your site.
You can set the width of the page or you can make the site full width.
The ribbon has three tabs. The first one is used for navigation. The second and the third tabs are used to design the site.
When you select the option of editing the w
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By: Rene Strawser
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May 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM
In preparing for a migration to Exchange, BPOS, or Office 365 testing is crucial. The advantage to using a third party tool such as Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange is the ability to easily modify certain attributes, such as the SMTP Target Address, for migration testing purposes.
In this scenario, the object is to prepare the environment and NME tool for migration testing using test accounts for validation. The testing will validate the proper configuration of the migration consoles and pr
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By: Shalini Pasupneti
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May 24, 2011 at 5:49 PMIn migrating from Notes to Office 365, the outlook shared address book or GAL only showed users who have active accounts in Office 365. As you can imagine this creates problems for users who have been migrated to Office365 as they are unable to find addresses of users whose mailboxes still reside in notes. All users were populated with mail and proxyaddresses attributes in AD and Directory Synchronization was running for several weeks. As a workaround, Office 365 users were setup to use an LDAP
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By: David Greve
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May 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM
While planning your migration to Office 365, you have a couple options when provisioning Shared Mailboxes in Office 365. Microsoft does not charge you to create Shared Mailboxes in Office 365, if you do it right. Here are your options to create Shared mailboxes.
Typically, when planning a migration from a Lotus Notes or GroupWise messaging system, we will create/update all of our accounts in Active Directory and allow directory sync to populate them in Office 365. After doing so, you the
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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: David Greve
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April 1, 2011 at 4:12 PM
In Office 365, you are provided with a “parent” site collection that you cannot delete/ remove. Any other site collection created is considered a site collection down level (sub site collection) to the parent site collection (for the purposes of being a shared space.) Typically (if required) you would link the breadcrumbs together by creating a portal site connection. This connection essentially adds the parent site collection to the breadcrumb navigation on the sub site collection. If you
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By: David Greve
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April 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM
While working in SharePoint Online for Office 365 I noticed a few columns missing while creating a SharePoint Designer workflow. I was running SharePoint Designer from one of my many test virtual environments, which have worked successfully in the past. Some of the columns were showing up, while others were not. After a bit of digging, I discovered that although I had the connector (old version at the time) installed, I did not have the SharePoint site listed as a trusted site. Once adding
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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: Shalini Pasupneti
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March 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM
In setting up an Office365 pilot for a customer the other day I found it doesn't give an option to choose external relay like in BPOS. If you are piloting Office365 with your domain, read-on how to avoid any service interruption to any existing office 365 users.
After adding domain, you will be provided with CNAME record to validate domain ownership. Adding the CNAME record with your DNS provider will create the domain in Office 365 as hosted by default instead of external
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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: 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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