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Technology: Lync Skill Based Search and Basic Troubleshooting
Lync 2010 introduced a great new capability to enable people to find experts in the company called Skill Based Search. With Skill Based Search, people can search for other people based upon expertise....
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Crossfit: First Workout with Rope Climbs
Today’s workout was: 4 Rounds: 3 Rope Climbs20 KB Swings, 1.5 pood (aka 53 lbs)30 Sit-ups I have been practicing rope climbs so I thought I could do 3 in a row and since they’re in rounds of 4, then...
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Technology: Windows Phone 8
I host a series called MTC Studios where we have speakers from Microsoft who present on a variety of topics. Yesterday, I had the honor of having two folks from our Windows Phone 8 team, Jimmy Lin...
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Technology: Building a Single Server Exchange 2013 Environment
One of my customers asked me how to setup an Exchange 2013 lab to begin testing. Because of this request, I build a single server Exchange 2013 environment and document the step by step process in...
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Technology: Building a Windows Server 2012 RemoteApp server
I hope everyone had a Great Thanksgiving. I did. I took a week off. With Surface RT releasing, some of my customers were asking if they could get Outlook on the Surface RT device. Surface RT comes...
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Technology: Configuring Exchange 2013 After Install
In this post, I continue after my earlier post on installing Exchange to perform some basic configuration to make Exchange usable. I document the basic steps that should be performed after installing...
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Technology: Creating an Exchange 2013 Database Availability Group (DAG)
With Exchange 2010, Microsoft introduced a new high availability architecture called the Database Availability Group (DAG). Today, I am going to build a 2 node Exchange 2013 Database Availability...
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Technology: Building a Windows 2012 Certificate Authority
With Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013, their installation requires a bunch of certificates. To support this requirement, I set out to create a Windows 2012 Certificate Server. This blog contains that...
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Technology: Building A Lync 2013 Standard Edition Server
I needed to build a lab environment to demonstrate Microsoft’s Wave 2013 technologies (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013, Office 2013). So in this post, I am going to document the setup of an...
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Technology: Building an Office Web Apps Server
The new Wave 2013 Platform (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013) use a new server called the Office Web Apps Server. This is important not to confuse this server with the Outlook Web Access...
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Technology: Lync 2013 Best Practices Analyzer
Microsoft released a great tool to analyze your Lync 2013 environment and generate a report on any configurations that are not following Microsoft Best Practices. The tool is called the Lync 2013 Best...
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Technology: Lync 2013 Logging Tool
If you need to debug Lync and trace what is happening, then a key tool to use is the Lync Logging tool. In Lync 2013, the logging tool is located in the UCMA4.0 SDK. The UCMA 4.0 SDK can be downloaded...
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Technology: Integrating Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 (Part 1)
In Microsoft’s Wave 2013 Platform (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013), there are synergies among the three products. From the Technet article...
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Technology: Integrating Lync 2013 with Exchange 2013 Unified Messaging
Exchange 2013 has the ability to perform as a voice mail system and enables Outlook as the unified inbox to see e-mail, faxes, and voicemail. This capability is called Unified Messaging. In fact,...
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Technology: Integrating Lync 2013 with Exchange 2013 Outlook Web App (OWA)
In the Microsoft Wave 2013 Release (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013), there are cool synergies among the three products such as: Lync Archiving Integration. Unified Contact Store. High...
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Technology: Recreating Public Folder Database
One of my customers ran into an issue where he was migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010. He was building the Exchange 2010 environment. After he had gotten the first mailbox server online,...
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Technology: Integrating Polycom Endpoints with Lync
In the last week, I have gotten a couple requests from customers asking how to integrate Polycom videoconferencing endpoints with Microsoft Lync. With the newer Polycom endpoints (HDX, RPX, OTX),...
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Technology: Load Balancing the Exchange 2010 Client Access Server (CAS)
Today, I would like to discuss an issue that I have run across multiple times over the last couple years and it happened again today with a customer who called me. [Note: This article and the...
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Technology: Lync 2013 Monitoring
Happy Christmas Eve Everyone. I had a thought this morning of learning more about Lync 2013 monitoring. So, I did some study and discovered in Lync 2013: There isn’t a dedicated monitoring or...
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Dean’s Book List
Real Estate Equity Happens (9/10): I really liked this book and have read it multiple times. First part really motivates me every time that I read it. Second part has great information on real...
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