Year: 2012 3 posts
Office 365 Identity Management with DirSync without Exchange Server On-Premises
This post describes how users, groups and contact are provisioned in Office 365 from the on-premises Active Directory. By using DirSync, these objects are created in and synchronized to Office 365. Without an Exchange Server and Exchange Management tools in place, it is not always obvious how these objects should be created. The following sections…
Issue with meeting invites during Office 365 staged migration
During a recent migration project, we migrated several mailboxes to Office 365 using the staged migration approach. Naturally, during the migration, users that had been migrated still sent meeting invites to on-premises users and meeting rooms. The problem was that meeting invites were actually received as clear text and stripped of the necessary attributes that…
A quick look at Windows Azure IaaS
I played around a bit with Windows Azure IaaS to see how it stacks up against Amazon EC2. We use Amazon EC2 internally for some test and demo setups that don’t always have to be running. As a practical test, I wanted to install a Windows Server 2012 domain controller in a subnet of my…