Microsoft has recently launch a new tool, Azure AD Connect, to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory. This new tool will become a one-stop shop for all on-premises and Azure synchronization. This new tool will replace DirSync and AADSync. It’s touted as a simple, fast & lightweight solution.
This article will step through the installation of Azure AD Connect. As you will see below, it is quick and easy.
Microsoft has recently launch a new tool, Azure AD Connect, to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory. This new tool will become a one-stop shop for all on-premises and Azure synchronization. This new tool will replace DirSync and AADSync. It’s touted as a simple, fast & lightweight solution.
This article will step through the installation of Azure AD Connect. As you will see below, it is quick and easy.
Well, I’ve been pretty lazy in my lab environment for the last couple of months. I’ve finally decided it is time to migrate to a Windows 2012 R2 domain. Currently, I am running a Windows 2008 R2 domain with Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010. This article is the first in a couple of articles that are loosely related. This article will focus on:
Most of the projects I work include certificates in some form or fashion. Often the Certificate Authority is something that someone set up once for a specific purpose and forgot about it. When I ask, they can’t tell me which server is their CA. There are a couple of ways to locate the Certificate Authority(ies) in your Active Directory environment.
| certutil –config – -ping |
This past week at the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012 in Orlando, Microsoft Exchange Product Team, MVPs, MCMs, and community members gathered to discuss the impending release of Exchange 2013. I say “discuss” because that’s how the conference was structured. This wasn’t your typical death-by-PowerPoint with a few demos in between. These were fully interactive sessions. The first day laid the foundation for the conference by giving us an overview of the new Exchange 2013 and it’s cloud version. The following days were really deep-dive discussions with product team members, and other experts with early knowledge of the product, on topics generated by the attendees. Here is what I gathered from those sessions.
As I mentioned in my brief summary of the Microsoft Exchange Conference, you can sign up for an early look at the Office 365 preview. By going to www.office.com/preview you have access to the various Office product preview, but also the ability to sign up for Office 365 Preview. On the main page, click “Try” in the bottom right corner.
Well, the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012 is in the books and what a great conference it was. With all of the Wave 15 products leasing in the next year, there was a lot of information to cover. The primary purpose of this conference was of course to talk about Exchange 2013, but there was quite a bit of information on how the other products integrate.
Over the next few weeks I will be creating multiple blogs on various topics that were covered during MEC. If there is a particular area of interest please let me know.
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When Exchange 2003 came out, it offered Outlook Anywhere, although it was called “RPC/HTTPS”. This was an all or nothing service. In other words, if you set up Outlook Anywhere on the server then every user was able to use it. This poses a data security risk because users could connect to their mailbox from any Outlook client and download a copy of their mailbox, without using VPN or any other security checks on the remote system.
In Exchange 2007 (after SP1) and 2010, Outlook Anywhere permissions and capabilities are more granular. You can set up Outlook Anywhere within the environment and then limit the ability on a per user basis.
This article is a quick checklist for preparing your environment for Exchange 2007 or 2010.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/outlook-web-access-owa/owa-vs-outlook-in-2010.aspx
http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/exchangeandoutlook/tabid/780/entryid/12813/Exchange-Server-2010-Adoption-Excitement.aspx