About Michel de Rooij

Michel de Rooij, with over 25 years of mixed consulting and automation experience with Exchange and related technologies, is a consultant for Rapid Circle. He assists organizations in their journey to and using Microsoft 365, primarily focusing on Exchange and associated technologies and automating processes using PowerShell or Graph. Michel's authorship of several Exchange books and role in the Office 365 for IT Pros author team are a testament to his knowledge. Besides writing for Practical365.com, he maintains a blog on eightwone.com with supporting scripts on GitHub. Michel has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013.

The UC Architects Podcast Ep50

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Michel de Rooij

Episode 50 of The UC Architects podcast is now available. This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who is joined by John A Cook and Ståle Hansen. Editing was done by Andrew Price.

Some of the topics discussed in this episode are:

Network ports for clients and mail flow in Exchange 2013
iOS 8.2 has been released
Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013 (Part 2)
How and when to decommission Exchange Hybrid
The Office 2016 Mac Preview is here!
The Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been updated
A Guide to PowerShell for Lync and Exchange Online
Be the first to learn what’s next for Exchange and Office 365 at Microsoft Ignite
Free Load Balancer – KEMP Virtual LoadMaster
Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to enable OneDrive sync for domains that are on the safe recipients list
Office 365 for Exchange Professionals
Office 365 Partner Admin app
Making Clutter in Office 365 even better
Azure AD Premium (and EMS) available for partner use
Getting rate limiting warnings for auto-discovered partners on your #Lync edge (event id 14603)
March 2015 update for #Lync for Mac 2011 14.0.11 (KB3037358)
How do I control the Lync and Skype UI with the Skype for Business client
Managing the Skype Client UI in Skype for Business
Set up Two-Armed Kemp VLM as Reverse Proxy/HLB for Lync 2013
Latest Visual C++ 2012 update (11.0.61030) won’t let #Lync Resource Kit or Debugging Tools install
March 10, 2015 update for #Lync 2013 (KB2956174)
Lync Monitoring Reports Decoder
Updates Lync Server 2013 Management Pack
LS Storage Service event 32054 after you enable Lync 2013 Mobility in an Exchange 2010 environment
Measure your conferencing adoption today with SQL
QoS Calculator v1.2
Update to Lync 2013 mobile app (v5.8, secure app settings, bug fixes)
Lync 2012 Database Mirror Manager update
Being a UC Superhero with Lync QoE Superpowers
LyncPro: Call Monitor Pro for Skype for Business & Lync: Enhancements and Extensibility
Book – Lync Server Cookbook
Ignite
EventZero/The UC Architects party at Ignite
LyncDay becomes SkypeDays
UCBUG meeting 05/13/2015
UCDAY UK meeting 09/28/2015

More information on the podcast including references and a link to download the podcast here or you can subscribe to the podcasts using iTunes, Zune or use the RSS feed.

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The UC Architects is a bi-weekly community podcast by people with a passion for Unified Communications; our main focus is on Exchange, Lync or related subjects.

iOS 8.2 fixes Exchange-related issues

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Michel de Rooij

Today, Apple released an update for iOS which supposedly fixes, amongst other things, some Exchange-related issues. The release notes of iOS 8.2 mention the following Exchange-related fixes:

Fixes stability of Mail
Addresses an issue that caused certain events in a custom reoccurring meeting to drop from Exchange calendar
Fixes an certificate error that prevented configuring an Exchange account behind a third-party gateway
Fixes an issue that could cause an organizer’s Exchange meeting notes to be overwritten
Resolves an issue that prevented some Calendar events from automatically showing as “busy” after accepting an invite.

However, some existing complaints are not resolved by this update, such as the WiFi performance issue.

It is a natural law that for every bug that is fixed, new ones are introduced. So, some organizations may therefor want to test and accept this iOS update before giving it the green light for their Exchange environment. To block a specific version of iOS, consult this page.

More information on current issues with Exchange ActiveSync and 3rd party devices can be found in support article KB2563324.

The UC Architects Podcast Ep49

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Michel de Rooij

Episode 49 of The UC Architects podcast is now available. This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who is joined by Dave Stork, Pat Richard, John A Cook and myself. Editing was done by Andrew Price.

Some of the topics discussed in this episode are:

PIN lock and other updates to Outlook for iOS and Android
Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication
Training Course: High Availability for Exchange Server 2013
Broken IMAP on Exchange 2013 and how to fix it
Windows Mobile does not support your new SSL certificate
Introducing New-ExchangeWebsite for Exchange 2013
A quick look at the Sunrise Calendar app
RBAC Manager R2 for Exchange
BitTitan offers Nuix-as-a-service
PowerShell for MigrationWiz updated
Sign in page branding and cloud user self-service password reset for Office 365
A better way to recover a mailbox
Automated Hybrid Troubleshooting Experience
Shared Mailbox Sent Items Changes Coming to Office 365
How Groups could be so much better
Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013
Office 365: Deployment Content Moving
Azure AD Sync Service Updated
Pausing Music When On A #Lync Call – Using the Client SDK
Lync Client 2013 – Disable Customer Experience Improvement Program
New update for Lync Environment Report now supports custom Word document templates
Lync Server 2013 Control Panel crashes when you access the Route tab under the Voice Routing tab
Lync client may connect to a non federated partner, even if you though it should not
Persistent Chat – December 2014 CU – 500 Internal Server Error
Lync / Skype for Business Photo Editor Version 1.0 available now!
Do you need a Lync Server license for every Lync Server role–or is this just a Lync licensing myth?
Enabling Group Paging on Polycom VVX Phones for Lync or Skype
Issues with Unified Contact Store in combination with Lync on-premises & Exchange Online
Deep Dive into Set-CsPinSendCAWelcomeMail
Skype for Business and Lync troubleshooting 101
Update to Skype for Business / Lync Validator KHI reader. Longer list of counters + graphs
Book – Deploying and Managing Exchange 2013 HA
Book – Exam Ref 70-342 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
Book – Lync Server Cookbook
Ignite
Stale Hansen – Speaking at Ignite
UCBUG Meeting May 13th
UCDAY UK – 28th Sept by by Andrew P, Steve, Jason Wynn, Iain Smith, Adam Gent and Tom A

More information on the podcast including references and a link to download the podcast here or you can subscribe to the podcasts using iTunes, Zune or use the RSS feed.

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The UC Architects is a bi-weekly community podcast by people with a passion for Unified Communications; our main focus is on Exchange, Lync or related subjects.

The UC Architects Podcast Ep48

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Michel de Rooij

Episode 48 of The UC Architects podcast is now available. This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who is joined by John A Cook, Johan Veldhuis, Justin Morris and Tom Arbuthnot. Editing was done by Andrew Price.

Some of the topics discussed in this episode are:

Exam ref 70-342 – Advanced Solutions of Exchange 2013 MCSE is available
Download An End-to-end Experience with Groups
Considering updating your Domain functional level from Windows 2003?
Single-Click Mailbox Conversion
Access Exchange 2013 public folders in a hybrid setup
Some things to do after leaving Windows Server 2003 (from an Exchange perspective)
Multiple OWA Virtual Directories in Exchange 2013
Office 365 – Two Azure AD Premium Features Coming To All Subscribers
What’s new in Office 365: January 2015
February 10, 2015 update for #Lync 2013 (KB2920744)
Leveraging SEFAUtil for #Lync Shared Line Appearance (Boss-Admin) Delegate Configuration
What to do when you can only hear yourself think while using Jabra Evolve 80
What’s New in LyncValidator
Introducing #Lync #Skype4B User Manager
Automatic Fortune Cookie Utility/ Local & Site-tosite dial plan GUI script
Lync Server Cookbook | PACKT Books
Skype for Business Notes from Microsoft Office365 Summit | The Lync Dude
Connecting IFTTT to Lync – getting IMs when stuff happens
Lync Server 2010 CU15 Link 1 Link 2
Lync Regions and assigning Dial-In Conference Number
Ignite and Enterprise Connect Events

More information on the podcast including references and a link to download the podcast here or you can subscribe to the podcasts using iTunes, Zune or use the RSS feed.

About
The UC Architects is a bi-weekly community podcast by people with a passion for Unified Communications; our main focus is on Exchange, Lync or related subjects.

Role-based Access Control

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Michel de Rooij

It has been over 5 years (wait, what?) since I wrote an article on Role-based Access Control, or RBAC, in Exchange 2010. At that time, RBAC was a big architectural change in Exchange 2010 over Exchange 2007.

Present day, RBAC is still a much neglected topic in many Exchange organizations. It must be said that most organization can happily live with the default RBAC configuration. They have no need to dive in this versatile model to set up granular permissions in their organization. In bigger organizations, this configuration can also easily become quite complex.

For TechTarget I started writing few articles on the topic of RBAC, starting with the base components. There you can find Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.