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Backup / Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 / Restore May 23, 2018
READ MOREExchange administrators go through hard times when servers crash, Reason of these crashes can vary but the result will most likely be a corrupted Database with dirty shutdown status. In my case as an Exchange Senior Consultant I came through many clients who have had power issues or an update that cause their Servers to […]
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Using Powershell to copy Files between Joined Computers in a domain While doing projects sometimes you have to work with the GPO to copy certain files, scripts to apply certain commands on clients Computers however, The GPO’s File/Folder creation method takes long time to gets created and until replication through all clients is done you’ll […]
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Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 / Microsoft Exchange / Powershell April 9, 2018
READ MOREIn migration, Powershell can be a very crucial tool to achieve success and finalize projects within deadline or even fix issues. During the time of working with Exchange we had lots of issues with users not able to send an email to their migrated colleagues due to some issues with contacts which was caused by […]
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This article presumes that you have setup all the initial steps for the Cross Forest migration to work: – Configure DNS resolution and trust between two AD forests. – Create and configure Send connector between Source.com and Target.com – Create and configure Availability service between Source.com and Target.com – Configure Source.com as accepted domain in […]
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In an Exchange Crossforest migration the distribution groups can be a very painful operation that would cause loss of time, lots of issues and continues headache if not solved within a timely manner. The migration can be a long boring process that needs to be as accurate as possible to avoid any issue related to […]
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Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 March 15, 2018
READ MORESometimes while we do Exchange projects in big environments where there more than 10 or 15 servers we need to quickly get a particular server’s hostname or IP. I created a simple PowerShell script that does the work for you #Get all mailbox Exchange Servers IP address remotely #Import Exchange Management Shell if ran from […]
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So here is the story. I was doing a cross forest project and one of the IT guys I was working with deleted the contacts and then all users in the target forest started complaining that they couldn’t send emails to the source forest users. Once we got contacts back from the backup they came […]
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Office 365 / PBX / Skype for Business 2015 / VOIP December 1, 2017
READ MOREIn hybrid scenario you might want to use PBX Online or/and use your existing on-premises PBX. Sometimes the regulation in your country is strict toward the VoIP traffic and that it can’t be used on-cloud and for this type of scenarios you’ll want to deploy the Hybrid topology and route all your VoIP traffic for […]
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When deploying Skype for business, you might want to deploy a Hybrid deployment where users are hosted on both on-premises servers and on Office 365 Skype for business. In this case You’ll need to make sure that integration is working and that you can move users directly from the SfB Control panel without even needing […]
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Office 365 / Skype for Business 2015 / VOIP December 1, 2017
READ MOREConfiguring Edge Server Edge prerequisites Install Prerequisites Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5, HTTP Activation, Windows Identity foundation, Telnet Client. Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core, NET-Framework-45-Core, NET-Framework-45-ASPNET, Web-Net-Ext45, NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45, Windows-Identity-Foundation, Telnet-Client -Source X:\sources\sxs Setup NETBIOS In order to configure Skype 4 Business Edge, we’ll have to change the Netbios to give it the name of our Domain but we won’t […]