Exchange 2013 User Picture Management
Jeff Brown The dreaded ticket: a user’s photo had been updated in Active Directory, but the photo in Exchange has not updated. Interestingly enough, this was in a hybrid Exchange 2013 environment.…
Address Book Phone Number Normalization
In previous versions of Lync, normalizing phone numbers stored in user accounts in Active Directory involved using the Company_Phone_Number_Normalization_Rules.txt text file. This file contained normalization rules to take phone number…
Exchange Server 2016 Preview
The Exchange Server 2016 Preview has been out for almost a month and I’m just now getting around to taking a look at it. I attended Ignite back in May…
Exchange Mailbox Quota Notifications Not Being Generated
I recently got to dive into an issue that I found pretty interesting. It involved a user going over the database quotas for Issue Warning and Prohibit Send but never…
Skype for Business Technical Preview
Lots of information has been coming out around Skype for Business, both server and client side. One of the more intriguing parts of this product upgrade is the ability to…
Cleaning Up Leftover Lync Accounts
Two interesting problems with Lync in the past few months, and both had a similar solution. First, we had returning employees (they left and then came back to the company)…
Exchange Unified Messaging Secondary Dial Plans
Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) provides voice mail services for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems. Exchange answers the incoming call, records the messages, and places the message inside the user’s mailbox. This article…
Reconnect an Exchange Archive Mailbox
Exchange archive mailboxes are a great resource for expanding mailbox capacity. You can disconnect archive mailboxes from the primary mailbox, and Exchange 2013 introduced a different way to reconnect the…