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HMC and Windows Hosting related matters. This blog will also include Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hosting Deployment.
Office 365 and BlackBerry... $0 per user per month!
Now, I thought this is an interesting move by BB that I like to share with everyone....
Date: 03/17/2011
GAL Segmentation or Segregation in Exchange Server 2010...
Microsoft has officially released a statement on the support of GAL Segregation or Segmentation...
Date: 01/27/2011
Happy Holiday!!
Hey Folks, It is this time of the year where everything seems to just slow down to almost a complete...
Date: 12/20/2010
Lync 2010 RTM.
Hey Folks, Just in case you missed this. Lync 2010 has gone gold or RTM. Fun time ahead... :)...
Date: 10/29/2010
The Next BPOS... Microsoft Announces Office 365
Finally, the name is out. ... Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next generation in cloud...
Date: 10/19/2010
HMC's Hosted Exchange to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment Migration Guide.
Hi folks, So, we have been mentioning the migration guide for Hosted Exchange in HMC to Exchange...
Date: 09/16/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #4 - Tenants
Tenant Administrators and Tenants By now you probably know that when you create a new tenant...
Date: 09/13/2010
Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 RC is here...
Alright, a quick one. To those who do not know, Communications Server 2010 was renamed to Microsoft...
Date: 09/13/2010
Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #7: OAB Servers
Yes, while the whole world is talking and about to planning to move towards the next release of...
Date: 09/10/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #3 - Resellers
Resellers The concept of Resellers in Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment, well... let me be...
Date: 09/10/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #2 - Hosters
A closer look at RBAC in Hosting Deployment In the last post, I gave a quick overview of RBAC which...
Date: 09/08/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment and Exchange Server 2010 Address List Segregation
I have seen this question being asked in the forum a couple of times and I thought it may be a good...
Date: 09/07/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment - RBAC simplified #1 - Introduction
Introduction One of the biggest changes from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010 is Role...
Date: 09/07/2010
The Future of Exchange Starts Here: Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Is Now Available
As some of you already know... Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is now RTM. Quick.. go and download it!! I...
Date: 08/25/2010
Not all the cmdlets in the E2k10 SP1 beta Hosting Deployment have the -Organization switch?
This is a quick one. I saw some questions posted in the forum on this and I thought I should give a...
Date: 08/17/2010
Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #6: Mailbox and Public Folder Database
At the heart of HMC is MPS. And at the heart of this this MPS is that 2 mysterious databases, the...
Date: 08/13/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #9 - Autodiscover
How should I really start this post? Conceptually, the way Outlook uses Autodiscover in Exchange...
Date: 08/13/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #8 - Address List Segregation
Yes, Address List Segregation, it is time to talk about it. In Exchange Server 2007, Address List...
Date: 08/09/2010
Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #5: Contacts and Groups
Hi, we have been talking about Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for the past few weeks....
Date: 08/08/2010
SharePoint 2010... Multi-tenancy Support for Hosters - It is there if you want it.
To avoid overdose of Exchange, this weekend, I took some time to look at SharePoint 2010 and just to...
Date: 08/05/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #7 - Transport Segregation
Back in 2008, I wrote a couple of blogs about the things we do to multi-tenant Exchange Server 2007...
Date: 07/27/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #6 - Btw, Remote Powershell works too. Now, that's wicked!
In Part #5, I blogged about how you can utilize Exchange Control Panel (ECP) in a hosting...
Date: 07/21/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #5 - Exchange Control Panel (ECP) in Hosting Deployment...
When you are doing the Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment, one of the sections teaches you how to...
Date: 07/18/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #4 - Wait wait... are you saying mail contact actually works now? No way!
Hey folks, that's right, mail contact actually works properly now in Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta...
Date: 07/16/2010
Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #4: OU Container to Organization - MPS to AD
In Part #3, I provided a piece of code that will retrieve from Active Directory all the OUs and then...
Date: 07/16/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #3 - Creating New Mailbox
Alright, let's continue with this. So, you have seen how we can enable the hosting mode in Exchange...
Date: 07/13/2010
Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #3: OU Container to Organization - AD to MPS
Alright, here is a piece of code like the earlier. Instead of checking the user object, this checks...
Date: 07/09/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #2 - Creating New Organization
In my previous blog, Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #1 - The First Look, I...
Date: 07/08/2010
What's not available in Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Mode
This is what documented in the Exchange 2010 SP1 beta Hosting Deployment Help file, Exchange 2010...
Date: 07/05/2010
Verify otherWellKnownObjects Integrity
A while ago, I blogged about Messing with otherWellKnownObjects,...
Date: 06/28/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting Deployment... Part #1 - The First Look
For those who are planning to move from HMC to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting deployment or...
Date: 06/25/2010
Want to ask a question on Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment?
Microsoft has created a forum to respond to any question for hosters on Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting....
Date: 06/24/2010
Checking MPS and AD Integrity... Part #2: User Objects - AD to MPS
Alright, first I provided the Powershell script to do MPS to AD check and now we are going to do the...
Date: 06/24/2010
Hosting Environment for SharePoint 2010 Products?
Thinking about Hosting for SharePoint 2010 already? Here is a model that summarizes the support for...
Date: 06/24/2010
Thinking about migrating to Exchange 2010 SP1 from HMC already?
Here is a shameless copy and paste from a deck by Microsoft Communication Sector Industry Director....
Date: 06/23/2010
Getting a quick MPS/HMC statistics...
Want to get some quick statistics on your HMC environment, specifically, what's in the MPS database?...
Date: 06/21/2010
Remove Deleted Users
Have you ever had a time when you quickly and without thinking too much or accidentally deleted the...
Date: 06/15/2010
Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Deployment
Most of you probably have heard about Exchange 2010 SP1 beta being made available a while ago. If...
Date: 06/15/2010
I am back...
Well, well, well. What do you know? My passion to blog has called me back to share and I am going to...
Date: 06/02/2010
HMC Resource Management - Part #5 - HMC Resource Management and SharePoint and OCS
In the last blog, I discussed about the HMC Resource Management for Exchange. This entry, I will...
Date: 01/27/2010
HMC Resource Management - Part #4 - HMC Resource Management and Exchange
Now, let's talk about the most confusing portion in the HMC Resource Management, which is the...
Date: 01/27/2010
HMC Resource Management - Part #3 - HMC Plan Management
In part#1 and part#2, we discussed about the databases in the HMC Resource Management and also we...
Date: 01/27/2010
HMC Resource Management - Part #2 - HMC Resource Management and Active Directory
Things have been busy for me and i haven't had the time to complete this series in a timely fashion....
Date: 09/28/2009
Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Knowledge Base Articles
This page used to provide just the HMC related updates but now it has been updated to provide the...
Date: 09/25/2009
HMC Resource Management - Part #1 - PlanManager and ResourceManager – Overall Concept
I believe one of the most mysterious parts of HMC is about the MPS engine and the Resource...
Date: 07/20/2009
Troubleshooting HMC OCS’s Address Book Segregation
HMC 4.5 has been out for a while now. We are beginning to see more and more people deploying OCS...
Date: 07/20/2009