February 29, 2012 Dave Stork Windows 8/10, Windows Deployment Leave a comment

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Install Screenshots

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve installed some screenshots of the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It was installed on VirtualBox with an 32 bit ISO. I forgot to make a screenshot were you configure the install disk, but that’s basically the same as Windows 7. Download your ISO’s here. Also Windows Server 8 Beta also became available here. And now for some screenshots! Fishy! Remember this? And here I forgot the drive configuration screenshot. But it’s basically the same as in Windows 7. First

February 28, 2012 Dave Stork Exchange 2007, Migration/Transition, Question of the day Leave a comment

Transporter Suite issues while migrating from generic IMAP to Exchange 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday we encountered an issue during the last sync from an generic IMAP server to an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 server on Windows Server 2008 R2 (there were reasons not to migrate to Exchange 2010 that are beyond the scope of this post ). We used the Microsoft Transporter Suite. Although the initial big bulk sync was performed without a hitch, after the migration weekend some new mails still had to be synced from the IMAP server (this was not

February 24, 2012 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Migration/Transition, Office 365 Leave a comment

Migrating to Office 365 Part 2: Exchange Cutover migration tips

Reading Time: 5 minutes So in Migrating to Office 365 Part 1: Business Case I’ve discussed reasons for migrating, budget and the selected solution. Now I’m going to discuss the technical migration of on-premises Exchange 2010 SP1 mailboxes to Office 365 Exchange Online. Cutover migration As I have chosen the P subscription, my options are somewhat limited as you can see in this matrix. So, cutover migration it is! The Office 365 help has a step-by-step description of the necessary steps that you need

February 9, 2012 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Management, Office 365, Question of the day 2 comments

Send As permission on Office 365 not with Add-ADPermission

Reading Time: < 1 minute With an On-Premises Exchange 2010 environment an administrator hands out Send-As permission with the Add-ADPermission cmdlet. But I found out that this doesn’t work in Office 365. In this case a P plan (no Dirsync, Federation or such), you can see the result in the screenshot: Funny thing is that if you try Add-MailboxPermission to add Send-As permission, the error message redirect you to Add-ADPermission. For handing out Send-As permissions (and other rights) in Office 365, you’ll have to use

February 7, 2012 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Management, Question of the day One comment

Do not move RBAC Role Groups out of the Exchange Security Group OU

Reading Time: 2 minutes Exchange 2010 has a massively improved admin permission model. It’s called Role Based Access Control and with it you can use predefined roles or make very customized roles if needed. I won’t go into details how it works, for the purpose of this issue you only need to know that the RBAC roles are assigned via RBAC Role Groups. These are actual Security groups within Active Directory and when assigned a RBAC Role Group within Exchange, the user is a