Lync Online new reports for your business

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.

LyncOnlineReportActiveUsers

 

 

Total audio or video minutes - Total audio or video minutes during a reporting period

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Microsoft Outlook 2013 October update – change in To-Do Bar Calendar

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:

  • Appointments for up to 7 upcoming days (when space permits it) are now displayed when you have the Calendar Peek enabled in the To-Do Bar instead of only Today’s appointments (View-> To-Do Bar-> Calendar).
    Appointments for upcoming days are now also displayed when you hover on the word “Calendar” at the bottom of your Outlook window.
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Analyzing Exchange Transaction Log Generation Statistics script

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.

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Microsoft Lync 2013 and Lync 2010 cumulative update

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:

  • Lync Server 2013
  • Lync 2013 Mobile Client Updates
  • Lync 2010 Client and Server
  • Lync Phone Edition Updates
  • Skype for Kindle & iOS7 Devices

 

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

2809243

MS Download

Lync Server 2010

4.0.7577.223

2493736

MS Download

Lync Server 2010, Group Chat Server

4.0.7577.4409

2884623

MS Download

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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant new better version

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:

  • On-premises
  • Hybrid
  • Cloud Only

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Exchange 2003 soon end of support

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
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Exchange 2010 hide distribution list members

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.

 

DLHide

 

This modification will prevent the expansion of groups in Outlook and OWA

 

DLHideOutlook

 

 

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Core Solutions of Exchange Server 2013 Jump Start free webinar

You can register to free Microsoft Virtual Academy Life Event about Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.

Exchange 2013 Jump Start webinarium

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 :

  • Mike Pfeiffer – Microsoft Certified Master and Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. He’s a big fan of automation and scripting, and he is the author of the PowerShell cookbooks for Exchange Server 2010 and 2013
  • Jason Helmick – Jason is a 25-year IT veteran and Senior Technologist at Concentrated Technology. He’s an avid supporter of the PowerShell community as board member and CFO of PowerShell.Org. He is the author of ‘‘Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches’’ and contributing author to

 

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)

 

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Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals free ebook from MS Press

MS Press blog announced new free ebook about Windows Azure.IntroducingWindowsAzure

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

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Lync Server determine version

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:

Lync Server build numbers

 

When you run this tool you will get all informations about versions you have installed and latest available versions like below:

 

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