May 25, 2014 Dave Stork Active Directory, Exchange, Groupware, Migration/Transition Leave a comment

From open source groupware solution Zarafa to Exchange: Part 2, Active Directory

Reading Time: 7 minutes See also Part 1: A New Beginning When using Zarafa there are several possible directory services you can use for authentication. I will restrict this post to situations relevant to Active Directory (AD) integration. Even if you did not use Active Directory (or Zarafa for that matter) previously, I believe this post still contains valuable information. Getting to know your current environment is key if you want to change it. If you migrate from one version of a product to

May 20, 2014 Dave Stork Events, Office 365, Personal, Windows Phone / Mobile Devices Leave a comment

Behind the presentation: Office 365 apps

Reading Time: 6 minutes Last Monday evening I presented “Office 365 apps” for the Dutch NGN-NGI interest group. And obviously the presentation was interesting, I think a little behind the scenes look for this particular presentation is worth a blog post. Actually, they might complement each other! So, I was asked to present something about apps on an Office 365 themed event. That was basically the assignment and please notice the very broad scope it could have. That was the first challenge. The first

May 15, 2014 Dave Stork Issue, Office 365 Leave a comment

Does your Office 365 DNS records check fail?

Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently I was working on building an hybrid Exchange 2013 environment. During the setup for specific mail domains, Office 365 didn’t seem to see the DNS records required. In this case it was the SPF record, that would not be accepted. However the record was made as specified as requested, TTL was an hour and after several hours it still didn’t pass the check. Other records made at the same time, were checked okay. Unfortunately that delayed other required changes…