Category Archives: Hosting

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 →

Hosted Lync Supportability

Posted on June 19, 2013 by jaapwess

If you are thinking about offering Hosted Lync there are multiple options. The recommended way is to use the Lync Hosting Pack, a Microsoft solution for a multi-tenant Lync deployment. Lync Hosting Pack v1 is based on Lync Server 2010, … Continue reading →

HMC 4.5 – The bookmark is invalid

Posted on November 21, 2012 by jaapwess

We still have an HMC 4.5 (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration) environment running. HMC has a different approach when it comes to Exchange 2007 compared to ‘native’ Exchange 2007. Everything you want to do has to go through the MPS (Microsoft … Continue reading →

msExchQueryBaseDN and Exchange 2010

Posted on July 9, 2012 by jaapwess

In the old days when using Exchange 2007 for hosting scenarios you would use the Configuring virtual organizations and address list segregation in Exchange 2007 whitepaper. In Exchange 2007 the msExchQueryBaseDN property on a mailbox was used to limit the … Continue reading →

Building Hosted Exchange – Part V

Posted on May 26, 2012 by jaapwess

With Exchange Server 2010 SP2 using the Address Book Policies (ABP) it is possible to build your own hosted Exchange environment. Although is looks fairly easy it is quite some work. Building the platform is not difficult, but the additional … Continue reading →