The Story: I have got this client who constantly keeps on making the mistake of create user from Cloud and provision them with a license in an Exchange Hybrid environment. Although this is not difficult to fix but it’s not the recommended approach when creating a new user especially in a Hybrid environment since Exchange … Continue reading How to Sync Cloud User to On-premises AD ?
The Issue: So while working on a new Exchange Migration project, I have encountered a weird issue where I could see users migration batch status complaining about being stalled due to (Big Funnel). The error is showing as in the below screenshot and it doesn’t occur instantly after you start the migration of the user … Continue reading Move Request on Exchange 2019 (During failover) will warn you that it postponed due the move of DB
The Story During a project of Hybrid migration from Exchange on-premises to Exchange online, I was almost about to finalize the project by moving the last remaining users mailboxes however had an interesting issue to deal with where a user was failing with the following error: The Error after migration: Error: MigrationPermanentException: Mailbox dumpster size … Continue reading Search and Delete certain Items/Folders from a Mailbox
The story I had a project few weeks ago where my client wanted to install Skype for Business 2019 but had installed Lync before and removed the server without doing proper decommissioning which kept dirty records in AD database and had to be removed manually in order to make a new clean installation of Skype … Continue reading Deleting Old Skype for Business or Lync server from ADSI
The story: In office 365 when you’re working on Exchange 2010,2013, 2016 or 2019 in a hybrid environment things might look easy but in a big enterprises where Internet security is something being taken into account very seriously. It might cause many issues that you don’t expect at all. One of my clients whom I … Continue reading Slow Migration – Office 365
The Story (Finding Domain Joined Servers Services users) If you’re wondering which of your servers are using domain joined account or a non regular account like network service or system. You will need to go through every server’s service console and check that one by one but thanks to PowerShell this job was made like … Continue reading HOW TO GET ALL DOMAIN JOINED SERVER SERVICES THAT USING A UNIQUE OR DOMAIN USER
The Issue: Replication problem occurs between Frontend Servers and Edge If you look at the Eventviewer you might find the following error when you have finished deploying Edge or Frontend Server. Error: Failed to sync data for Routing group {563F57A3-0AC1-560A-91B4-74ACDECB2683} from backup store. Cause: This may indicate a problem with connectivity to backup database or … Continue reading Lync Front end event ID 32178
Publishing Topology on Frontend Some of the issues that might face you while you’re deploying Skype for Business/Lync is something that might be stuck within AD. A previous installation that was not properly cleaned could result in a failure of publishing the Topology. Here is one issue that I had while deploying one for one … Continue reading Lync common issues
Skype for Business Edge server deployment and Hybrid integration with Skype for Business Online In the last Skype for Business post I have upgraded my Lync 2013 to Skype for Business (Click here to go to that post). in this article I am going to install Edge server for Skype for Business to the same Lync Environment … Continue reading 2- SKYPE FOR BUSINESS EDGE SERVER DEPLOYMENT AND HYBRID INTEGRATION WITH SKYPE FOR BUSINESS ONLINE
This article guides you through the steps of doing an in-place upgrade from Lync 2013 to Skype for business. I am copying the article as is from my lab with all the errors that I have been through to give you a real experience feed back of what is this like. You might get issues … Continue reading 1- IN-PLACE UPGRADE FROM LYNC 2013 TO SKYPE FOR BUSINESS STEP BY STEP GUIDE