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 minutesSo 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 minuteWith 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

December 15, 2011 Dave Stork Lync, Office 365 Leave a comment

Lync 2010 on Android! Screenshots!

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve installed Lync 2010 for Android on my HTC Desire, which is upgraded to Android 2.3 via this update. Configured to use my Office 365 P1 subscription and made some screenshots! Configuration is easy, just enter the correct credentials and voila! You will have to prepare on the Lync 2010 Server end, but this is already done for Office 365. You can change your Status, the What’s happing ballon, see Options and the menu button shows the Sign Out button.

October 6, 2011 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Office 365, Personal One comment

Migrating to Office 365 Part 1: Business Case

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis series of an yet unknown number of blog posts will depict my journey from on-premise services to cloud services. I will describe my situation, the choices I had to make and the issues I’ve encountered. It will be a learning experience I wouldn’t want you to miss out on. History I have had a personal Windows Domain for educational purposes for years now. My hypotheses was that by a having a day-by-day environment to upkeep, I would learn important lessons that I

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