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Exchange Scripting Agent – The Power Of Script

Exchange Scripting Agent Integration

Exchange 2010 introduced a very interesting feature – the Scripting Agent.  The intent for this component is to provide extensibility to the base management tools and ensure consistency for the execution of cmdlets in the environment.  The feature is not enabled by default and you must manually enable it if you want to leverage the Scripting Agent.

If you are looking for a way to  set default optio… Read the rest “Exchange Scripting Agent – The Power Of Script”

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How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange

The blog post on how to integrate Office 365 with Windows 2012 R2 AD FS raised an interesting question from a reader (Hi Eric!) on how should he request a certificate for the AD FS instance since there is no longer an IIS dependency.  This means that there is no longer an IIS console to generate a certificate request with.  What to do?

You could generate a certificate request, complete it and then e… Read the rest “How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange”

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How To Hide Server Manager At Logon

Since some of my test machines are a touch low on resources, having to wait for the server manager process to finish loading can be a little bit painful. On those machines a very pertinent question is: How can I disable Server Manager from auto starting?

There are group policy and local policy options to suppress this in addition to editing the registry.

There is always the option to disable it dire… Read the rest “How To Hide Server Manager At Logon”

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Exchange 2013 CU5 Released

Exchange 2013 CU5 has been released to the Microsoft download centre!  Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously.    CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one.  Exchange 2013 SPRead the rest “Exchange 2013 CU5 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU6 Released

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU6 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.  For example, the security issue that was addressed in Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 is contained in RU6. 

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Enabling AD FS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection

Security is an integral aspect of running modern IT operations.  There is a clear understanding that we need to protect our IT assets, company data and personal identifiable information.  So when we discuss a migration to Office 365, security is an inevitable topic.  One aspect that we need to discuss is around account lockout, and how to protect our Active Directory accounts as part of the overal… Read the rest “Enabling AD FS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection”

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MEC 2014 Content Available

MEC 2014 session recordings and slides are now available for everyone’s enjoyment!

MEC 2014 Sessions Available For Everyone - Yay !!!!

As always Ross Smith, Scott Schnoll and Brian Day deliver some great content that you must check out!  If you are in the throes of deploying Exchange 2013 SP1 right now, then please do look at Brian Day’s session.  You will not regret it!

Take some time to go through these 74 awesome sessions.

74 Awesome MEC Sessions - Nice !!

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3

Hosting AD FS In Azure For DR Purposes

Well then, here we are in part three already!  Previously we:

Installed AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365 in part 1

Installed AD FS 2012 R2 Proxy For Office 365 in Part 2

Now we want to change the Office 365 domain to be a federated domain.  As discussed in part 1, this means that all of the users who authenticate using this domain will become a federated identity and the on-premises AD FS server is responsi… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3”

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 2

Connect AD FS Office 365

In part one we installed the AD FS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working.

Now we need to make the AD FS infrastructure available to the Internet in a secure fashion, so that Office 365 will be able to contact the AD FS proxy to authenticate user requests.

In part three we will add the AD FS infrastructure to the Office 365 configuration,

Planning And Prerequisites

Install And C

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365

Install AD FS Office 365

When discussing and reviewing Office 365 with customers, I wanted to have a series of posts to illustrate the steps involved when deploying Office 365.   In the burgeoning drafts folder Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) was at the top, so that got finished first!

The act of deploying and configuring AD FS 2012 R2 for Office 365 will be broken down into three separate blog posts

  1. Install AD
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