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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 7)
In this series of blog posts I am looking at creating a Unified Messaging lab for Exchange Server 2010 (and 2013). Earlier posts have looked at the installation of the PBX (AsteriskNOW) and the configuration of the Exchange Server. This post will look at the configuration of the user’s settings. For each user there are […]
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 6)
Earlier parts in this blog have talked about VoIP, configured AsteriskNOW software PBX and configured inbound and outbound calls via the PBX. Now it is time to configure voicemail to be provided by Exchange Server 2013 and for the telephone users to be able to call Exchange an listen to their voicemail. In addition to […]
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 2)
This series of blog posts started with Part 1 where we discussed the requirements of the lab and what you would need from any PBX that you might have to hand. Part 2 (and the next few parts) will look at installing AsteriskNOW to provide a software PBX to support the Exchange Server unified messaging […]
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Formatting Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo
For the last blog post for today, this one looks at formatting the output of Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo as the XML that this cmdlet returns can be quite long. For example if you want to see if your server is in backpressure then you need to view the output of the ResourceMonitor component, but as this contains […]
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CRM Router and Exchange 2010
To configure the CRM Email Router with Exchange 2010 you need to do the following. Not all of these points are clearly documented on the internet. Create a mailbox (CRM_Router@domain.com) Set password never to expire Ensure that the mailbox is not hidden from the address list Login to above mailbox Enable impersonation with the following […]
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Publishing ADFS Through ISA or TMG Server
To enable single sign-on in Office 365 and a variety of other applications you need to provide a federated authentication system. Microsoft’s free server software for this is currently Active Directory Federation Server 2.0 (ADFS), which is downloaded from Microsoft’s website. ADFS is installed on a server within your organisation, and a trust (utilising trusted […]
2010, 2013, 64 bit, active directory, ADFS, ADFS 2.0, certificates, exchange, exchange online, https, isa, mcm, microsoft, Office 365, pki, tmg -
Changing ADFS 2.0 Endpoint URL for Office 365
If you are configuring single sign-on for Office 365 then you will need a server running Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0). When you install this you are asked for a URL that acts as an endpoint for the ADFS service, which if you are publishing that endpoint through a firewall such as TMG […]
2007, 2010, 2013, ADFS, ADFS 2.0, certificates, exchange, exchange online, https, hybrid, IAmMEC, ISA Server 2006, mcm, Office 365, SSL, tmg -
.DLL Errors and Blackberry Enterprise Server
During a configuration of Blackberry Enterprise Server today I found that I was getting .DLL errors when trying to create a MAPI profile on the BES Server (v5.0.2) when running IEMSTest. Well it was not the usual stuff – it ended up being the alias that had been assigned to the BESAdmin account. The policy […]
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Random Chinese Characters in Exchange 2010 SP1 Emails
I have been sent a few emails from a client that start like this: 格tml> 格ead> 猼tyle㰾!– .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } –>⼼style> ⼼head> 㰊body class=’hmmessage’> The HTML characters repeat throughout the message, but not on every message, though those sent from Hotmail are typically affected (but it […]
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P1 and P2 Headers in SMTP
P1 = the value on the MAIL FROM command of the SMTP connection (the message envelope) as defined in RFC 821. P2 = the email address in the message body as defined in RFC 822. These include the FROM, REPLY TO and SENDER fields For example, the following SMTP command sequence describes where P1 and […]