Following on from yesterdays post I have now passed the 071-321: MCITP: Office 365 Administator “Congratulations on earning your Office 365, Administrator certification! We hope you enjoy the benefits of your certification and of membership in the Microsoft Certified Professional community.” My colleague Dan has also passed this exam and congratulations go out to him [...]
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MCTS – 071-323 Office 365, Administration Exam – Passed!

Today I received the following email from Microsoft: Congratulations on earning your Office 365, Administration certification! We hope you enjoy the benefits of your certification and of membership in the Microsoft Certified Professional community. This exam (071-323: Administering Office 365) was taken before public avaliblity and had to wait 3 months for the results! My [...]
Deployment Steps for OCS 2007 R2 on Windows 2008 R2

• Apply Windows 2008 R2 SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5842 • Open powershell as administrator and run the following commands o Import-Module ServerManager o Add-WindowsFeature as-net-framework,desktop-experience,telnet-client, web-windows-auth,web-mgmt-compat,web-mgmt-console,web-http-logging,msmq-server,msmq-directory,was-process-model,was-config-apis, web-static-content, rsat-adds This installs the following features [As-Net-Framework] – .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 [Desktop-Experience] – Desktop Experience [Telnet-Client] – Telnet Client (recommended not required) • Install the [...]
Active-Sync not working in Exchange 2010

ERROR ===== Exchange ActiveSync doesn’t have sufficient permissions to create the “CN=Luke Smith,OU=Support 08 No Redirect,OU=Departments OU,OU=ICS OU,DC=ics-solutions,DC=local” container under Active Directory user “Active Directory operation failed on ICS-DC-001.ics-solutions.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Access is denied. Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr: DSID-031521D0, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0 “. Make sure the user [...]
Cross-premises permissions Exchange Online Hybrid
As per 3.8.1.2 Hybrid Deployment Considerations (detailed here: http://community.office365.com/modg/default.aspx) You should consider the following before implementing an Exchange hybrid deployment: · Delegation coexistence. Delegate permissions (such as Delegate Access, folder permissions, and “Send on behalf of”) are migrated to Exchange Online but are not available after a mailbox move unless all parties are migrated at [...]