Quality of Service (QoS) for Lync 2010 and Lync 2013

31st of October, 2012 / / 15 Comments

Microsoft have published a lot of documentation about Quality of Service (QoS) with Lync. There is the Word document Enabling Quality of Service with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, TechNet for QoS on Lync 2010 and TechNet for QoS on Lync 2013. From what I can see there are no QoS specific changes between Lync 2010 and Lync 2013, other than the documentation seems to have been improved – especially for the client QoS section.… [Keep reading] “Quality of Service (QoS) for Lync 2010 and Lync 2013”

Office 365 – Converting mailboxes to shared mailboxes

13th of October, 2012 / / 6 Comments

Office 365 introduces the concept of a shared mailbox. Shared mailboxes are free, as long as they are under 5GB in size.

There is plenty of documentation that describes the process to create a new shared mailbox, but how do you convert an existing licensed mailbox to a shared mailbox?

I have read through a number of Office 365 community forum threads that ask this question and provide a variety of methods to achieve this.… [Keep reading] “Office 365 – Converting mailboxes to shared mailboxes”

Office 365 – PowerShell Setup

13th of October, 2012 / / 5 Comments

PowerShell is the most important tool for Office 365 management and I find it helpful to have everything  just one click away. The following steps will give you a desktop shortcut to launch an Office 365 PowerShell session with the cmdlets loaded.

1. Install the Microsoft Online Service Sign-in Assistant and Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell available here

2. Save the following script to c:\o365.ps1:

[code language=”PowerShell”]
$Cred = Get-Credential
Import-Module MSOnline
Connect-MsolService -Credential $cred
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange… [Keep reading] “Office 365 – PowerShell Setup”

Office 365 Smart Links

12th of October, 2012 / / 8 Comments

So you’re using Federated Identities with SharePoint Online…

You may have noticed that every 1-2 days you have to re-authenticate to SharePoint Online.  This is the result of an Office 365 security feature that defines a 10 hour SharePoint cookie expiration. This authentication behavior is different to BPOS SharePoint Online, where users would be prompted to authenticate one time only. If you have come from BPOS, this change in SharePoint authentication behavior is probably undesirable. If you were excited about a transparent ‘single sign-on’ experience with AD FS 2.0 and Office 365, you might even be a little disappointed.… [Keep reading] “Office 365 Smart Links”

Controlling UI Elements with Sets in FIM 2010

12th of October, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Out of the box, FIM 2010’s methodology for handling which UI elements are visible on the FIM homepage are limited to “are you an administrator” or “are you not”. This is governed by the Usage Keyword “BasicUI”. This guide will demonstrate how you can create additional Usage Keywords tied to sets which will allow for granular control over which navigation bar and homepage elements are visible to a user.

Before we get in to how to create a Usage Keyword, let’s understand what it actually is.… [Keep reading] “Controlling UI Elements with Sets in FIM 2010”