RIP /Hosting Mode – Exchange Server 2010 /Hosting

I have been waiting for this for a while, http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/10/13/future-of-hosting-mode.aspx.

In summary…

• 180 U turn on hosting!
• You don’t need to use /Hosting Mode, on-premise is probably the preferred choice now
• No new features will be added to SP2 /Hosting Mode, that includes UM
• You will probably need to use an automation partner or have s**t hot Exchange Admins

While I do not agree with this, I do understand working with one product with tweaks is mush easier. Looks like it is back to the way I used to do Hosted Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 before /Hosting Mode was born.

I’ know what I’m doing for the rest of the month….

SysAdmin Required – Basingstoke

I’m looking for a Systems Administrator to join my team in Basingstoke, ideally someone with commercial experience of Exchange Server and PowerShell.

The position has been posted here, http://www.developiq.com/about-us/careers/system-administrator-microsoft.aspx. If you have great service skills and are looking for a step up from Support to SysAdmin this could also be the position for you.

Daniel

BES, Exchange 2010 Hosting Mode and EWS Impersonation

I speak with a lot of people about getting BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 working fully with Exchange Server 2010 Hosting Mode, and repeatedly come across the same problem with calendars.

While Microsoft have done an excellent job documenting Exchange Management Shell Cmdlets, RIM seems to have completely missed required sections from the deployment documentation.

With Exchange Server 2010 SP1 BES must use EWS to access calendar, to configure the service account we need to create a new Management Role.

New-ManagementScope -PartnerDelegatedTenantRestrictionFilter {Name -eq '*'} -Name BESTenants

New-ManagementRole -Parent PartnerDelegatedTenantManagement -Name BESEWS

New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role BESEWS -User "BESAdmin” -CustomConfigWriteScope BESTenants

One thing I have been surprised by is few of the automation and control panel vendors are properly documenting this which to me suggests they may be missing steps in validating their solution.

What is your experience with Exchange 2010 /Hosting and BES?

Send as permissions with Hosted Exchange 2010

If you need to assign Send As rights with Hosted Exchange 2010 it can easily be achieved with PowerShell.
I want the user Daniel to be able to send email out as the Event DL address:

Add-RecipientPermission "Event" -AccessRights SendAs -Trustee "Daniel"

Nice and easy.

Daniel

snom UC600 Optimized for Microsoft ® Lync

Well this came as surprise to me, snom have released the UC600 an Optimized for Microsoft ® Lync USB device.

To use the phone you will need Office Communicator 2007 R2 or later. I’m hopeful to get my hands on one of these to check the build quality meets the high standard on devices such as the snom 821.

More info here http://www.snom.com/en/products/unified-communications/snom-uc600/ and here http://downloads.snom.net/documentation/data_snom_UC600_en.pdf

Daniel

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