In certain circumstances, it’s useful to forcefully remove disconnected mailboxes from Exchange Server 2010 that have been either disabled or soft deleted.  With service pack 1 for Exchange 2010, Microsoft introduces this capability with the Remove-StoreMailbox cmdlet.  Below is a [...]

The release of Lync Server 2013 is quickly approaching!  There’s a lot of new stuff coming (H.264 SVC, anyone?!), and so to make sure you’re up-to-date on all the changes check out the Lync Server 2013 Preview TechNet documentation library.  [...]

I recently encountered an issue at a client where their Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Group, which spans two datacenters, would fail [all databases would end up dismounted] when the WAN link connecting the sites saturated.  The simple fix was [...]

Hello everyone! I have had a big hiatus from posting to my blog, but the impending release of Lync Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2013 has brought me back to the table! Over the last year or so, I’ve begun [...]

Microsoft’s Lync Server 2010 is a very flexible (and complex) piece of software.  The Lync Server blogging community provides some of the best, most straightforward configuration procedures for much of Lync’s functionality.  Here‘s a link to a page on Stale Hansen’s [...]

Neil Johnson over at the TechNet Blogs site has drafted an excellent post (with screenshots) on the configuration necessary to connect a Mac OS X client to Microsoft’s Office 365 platform.  It’s clear that Microsoft is serious about crossing the aisle with its enterprise software [...]