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Exchange 2013 coexistence, EAC and ECP

When you introduce Exchange 2013 into an existing Exchange 2010 environment and you want to open the Exchange Admin Center (using https://localhost/ecp or using https://webmail.contoso.com/ecp) it ‘fails’ and it opens the Exchange 2010 ECP instead. This is caused by the … Continue reading →
Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 Unified Messaging

In earlier blog posts I’ve written how to install Exchange 2013 and in another series of blog posts I’ve written how to install Lync Server 2013, including connectivity with a SIP trunk provider using a Lync 2013 mediation server. The … Continue reading →
Installing Exchange Server 2013–Part I

Exchange server 2013 consists of two server roles, the Mailbox Server (sometimes referred to as the back-end) and the Client Access Server (sometimes referred to as the front-end). All clients connect to the CAS Server and the CAS Server proxies … Continue reading →
Deploying Lync Server 2013

In a earlier blog post I explained the basics of Lync Server 2010 and how to install Lync Server 2010, including a Lync Edge Server and a reverse proxy to publish the accompanying web services. Microsoft has recently released Lync … Continue reading →
Load Balancing in Exchange 2013

I wrote about load balancing in Exchange 2013 earlier, but that blog was based on the beta of Exchange 2013. Time have passed and there’s some more insight so I decided to update this blog… In an earlier article I … Continue reading →

Upgrade to Exchange 2010 SP2 fails

Posted on February 20, 2012 by jaapwess

When upgrading an existing Exchange 2010 SP1 environment to SP2 the setup of one of the servers fails with the following error: Some controls aren’t valid. – Setup previously failed while performing the action “Install”. You can’t resume setup by … Continue reading →

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UC Technical Rollup February 2012

Posted on February 12, 2012 by jaapwess

Attached the February 2012 Unified Communications Technical Rollup. It contains information regarding Microsoft Exchange, OCS/Lync, Outlook, Forefront and other Microsoft UC related techologies, newsletters, knowledgebase articles, new downloads, webcasts etc.