Micorosft Lync Online team released new three usage reports for Microsoft Lync Online.
They are integrated with Office 365, and you can find them in Admin Center, reports.
These reports shows usage of Lync Online services like below:
Active users – The number of users who have signed into Lync and took part in a P2P session or conference during a reporting period.
Total audio or video minutes - Total audio or video minutes during a reporting period
Those of you who install Microsoft Outlook 2013, have a problem with Calendar in To-Do Bar.
This problem is that it shows only today meetings. It is a problem for most of us.
But not anymore.
Microsoft released new update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 – KB2825677
After installation of this update you will see in To-Do Bar calendar appointments for up to 7 upcoming days.
I think this is the most important change in this update.
But this update also resolves problems:
Exchange Team Blog released great script to get transaction logs statistics.
With this script you can easily plan deploying your Exchange Servers.
As a output of this script you will get information about transaction logs which where generated during specified time.
Now you can determine how many transaction logs are generated on an hourly basis. This helps figure out how much bandwidth will be required when replicating database copies between sites, and what the effects will be of adding additional database copies to the solution. If designing an Exchange solution using the Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator, the percent of logs generated per hour is an optional input field.
Microsoft has released additional quarterly updates for Lync – these updates are focused on all Lync Server versions and include Lync 2013 mobile and LPE which apply to both Lync 2010 and Lync 2013.
This update doesn’t contain database update.
The October 2013 Updates cover 5 major areas:
The newest cumulative updates for Microsoft Lync Server 2013 are available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2809243
and for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493736
Updates for Lync Server 2010/2013:
| Product |
Version |
KBs |
Download |
| Lync Server 2013 |
5.0.8308.556 |
||
| Lync Server 2010 |
4.0.7577.223 |
||
| Lync Server 2010, Group Chat Server |
4.0.7577.4409 |
Exchange Team Blog released new version of great tool Exchange Server Deployment Assistant.
This version was released on 10/02/2013
The Exchange Server Deployment Assistant now combines all the on-premises and hybrid deployment scenarios from both the Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant and the Exchange 2010 Deployment Assistant into a single tool. We’ve eliminated the need for the installation of Silverlight and provide guidance for all Exchange Server deployments in a true one-stop shop experience. We’ve also kept the same, convenient question-and-answer format to create a customized, step-by-step checklist with instructions to deploy Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2010.
Using this tool first you need to select the one of the three basic deployment tracks:
Using Microsoft Exchange 2003 ?
Better hurry to change to new version.
Soon you will be left without any support from Microsoft. If you want to still have support for your Exchange Server you need to migrate to new version in 6 months.
With 04/08/2014 support for Microsoft Exchange 2003 will end.
| Products Released | Lifecycle Start Date | Mainstream Support End Date | Extended Support End Date | Service Pack Support End Date |
| Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 09/28/2003 | 04/14/2009 | 08/14/2014 | 05/25/2005 |
| Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 | 05/25/2004 | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 01/08/2008 |
| Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 | 10/19/2005 | |||
| Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition | 09/28/2003 | 04/14/2009 | 04/08/2014 | 05/25/2005 |
In Microsoft Exchange 2003, hiding the membership of a distribution list was very easy, just right click Exchange Tasks>Hide Membership in the Exchange System Management console
Unfortunately this feature is not available in Exchange 2010.
To hide members of distribution group you can use dynamic distribution group, which enumerate the group membership based on an LDAP query for a particular attribute being set on the user object.
But if you don’t want to use dynamic distribution group or members of this group can’t be connected by any attribute, then you can modify distribution group object using ADSIEDIT to modify hideDLMembership attribute.
Open ADSIEDIT console, find distribution group, open properties and find hideDLMembership then set value of this attribute to True.
This modification will prevent the expansion of groups in Outlook and OWA
You can register to free Microsoft Virtual Academy Life Event about Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
This online event Core Solutions of Exchange Server 2013 Jump Start will take place on October 8th 2013 at 9 am PDT
As a instructor team we will see :
During this session they will talk about below issues:.
– Deployment of the new Exchange roles
– Planning and managing the mailbox role
– Managing users and mailbox environments
– Managing address lists and policies
– Managing client access
– Managing mobile devices for email
– Troubleshooting message delivery
– Messaging compliance with transport rules
– Disaster mitigation and high availability
If you want to register for this session click on link below
Core Solutions of Exchange Server 2013 Jump Start – Microsoft Virtual Academy Live Event
To register you need to have MVA account, but if you don’t you can easily create it.
This session will take 8h, 9am – 5pm (PDT)
MS Press blog announced new free ebook about Windows Azure.
Whether you’re new to the Windows Azure platform or are already using it in your business, this book has something that should interest you. Most Windows Azure services are described in some detail, with screenshots used to demonstrate some of the multitude of capabilities of the platform. And for the experienced we have lots of under-the-hood insights and expert tips written by Microsoft insiders who develop, test, and use the Windows Azure platform.
Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals can be downloaded here: PDF
What’s inside:
Chapter 1 Understanding Windows Azure
What is Windows Azure?
Why use the cloud?
Resisting the cloud
Windows Azure under the hood
Windows Azure services
Windows Azure components
Windows Azure solutions
Infrastructure
Mobile
Web
Media
How to determine Lync Server version ?
Below we present few methods to do this.
Microsoft releases updates to Lync components periodically and only updates the version level of the components that actually get the update.
So Microsoft released tool which will help you to keep the Lync Server components at the latest versions.
If you download and run the LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe, this will check your Lync server and install the updated components that are needed.
But remember to download this tool periodically with the latest version of the installer.
You can check Lync Server build numbers on our site:
When you run this tool you will get all informations about versions you have installed and latest available versions like below:
English 
polski