Office 365 Network Performance
Is there a way to reduce network load with Outlook/Office 365? It seems to use an inordinate amount of bandwidth just sitting there. Monitoring our firewall, the top 5 or 10 connections for packet...
View ArticleA Step by Step guide on how to easily tie your AD environment to Office 365
This week the Server Essentials and SBS product group posted a step by step guide on installing the new Server Essentials Experience Role provided in Server 2012 R2 Standard/Datacenter.If you are not...
View ArticleShare Office 365 contacts & calendar between users on different mobile phones
Hi guys,Client of mine and his small team of associates use Office 365 for Exchange connectivity and are all mainly road warriors connecting to their respective hosted mailboxes with various phones (a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Lync for Mac Challenges
Anybody able to get lync working correctly on mac. i.e working with presence?Several fixes listed on the office 365 forum including opening lync prior to office 2011, downloading upgrades, and...
View ArticleOffice365 Stuck with Error
I've been stuck for awhile on managing my hybrid connector. It does not complete, and it has an error. I've already posted a bunch of questions elsewhere about that with no luck. So i thought i...
View ArticleActive Directory synchronization Error
I am trying to sync my office 365 users with my inhouse AD. I am still setting up office 365 and still on my trial. All users synch fine, and i've tested credentials...EXCEPT me!! I have the...
View ArticleAnyone used Centrify for getting SSO for Outlook clients?
Hi All,We are about to begin our migration from on-prem Exchange 2010 to Exchange Online P2, and my boss wants to have SSO for our Outlook clients.I tried to get away with DirSync and Password Hash...
View ArticleLync For MAC 2011 and EXC_BAD_ACCESS
I have been experiencing issues with Lync for MAC 2011 constantly crashing(crashed while typing this) with the exception of EXC_BAD_ACCESS. My system:Early 2011 Macbook ProMAC OSX 10.9.1 (Mavericks) I...
View ArticleIs anyone out there using Office 365 in a mid-size company environment?
We are looking into using Office 365, and we are trying to find out if there are any downsides to using it. We are looking at the mid-size business version, that would include local copies. One of our...
View Articlechange meeting reminder default office 365
Anyone know how to change the default meeting reminder setting from powershell probably because changing on OWA or Outlook only affects those areas and I would like the change to be reflected on all...
View ArticleOffice 365 mailbox management
Hi Guys,I'm using Office 365 and was wondering how do you guys manage the mailbox's of employees who have left the company but their emails are still required and valuable to the company?Just been...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps vs Portal
I have recently set up Office 365 for work as we are eligible for non-profit status (and got free licences).I'm testing it out. I have setup an admin account, and from there a test user account. I can...
View ArticleOffice licenses vs Office 365
I find myself in situation where I'm not sure what to do.I have less than 100 Office with SA licenses and Exchange/CALs I need to add another 10 licenses.We are not willing to move to full Office 365...
View ArticleOffice 365 Pro Plus Install "Something Went Wrong"
Hey All,So we just bought some licenses for Office Pro Plus 365 and have been trying to install them on our clients. Well.... On every client we get an error that just tells us "Something Went Wrong"...
View ArticleQuestion about Microsoft Lync
Hi, we are testing Office 365 and are especially interested in Lync to see if we can drop our Webex account. But in our test conferences we have run, Lync is not usable for our clients, there is too...
View ArticleDirSync Error
I have a single user that DirSync is throwing an error for. The error is as follows:Unable to update this object because the following attributes associated with this object have values that may...
View ArticleOpinions on Office 365 (E3)
We are looking at moving to an Office 365 model, likely the hybrid setup. We currently have 300 mailboxes and 4 databases. Connectivity to the servers is not an issue but our Officers are concerned...
View ArticleReconfiguring Outlook after moving to 365 - Any tools to simplify?
I'm going to be doing a cutover migration for 60 mailboxes from 07 on premise to 365.. Is there any easy way to reconfigure Outlook on all 60 users rather than just hitting each one and adding a new...
View ArticleAnyone using Exchange Online Protection?
Working with a client who needed spam filtering ASAP for their on-premises email server, so I decided to sign them up for an EOP trial. Given the $1/user pricing, this seemed like an attractive...
View ArticleProblems with Office365 Distribution Group
I am having issues with a distro group I created in Office 365. For the purposes of this post we will call it group1@domain.comIf I send a message to group1@domain.com from my domain.com email address...
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