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Using Lync Mobile with Office 365 and Lync Online

Posted by Ståle Hansen on 12/12/2011

Now that the Lync Mobile Client is released it is important to enable your Office 365 Lync Online domain to support these clients. This blog post will specify what you need to do

Lync Mobile features

Lync mobile client is released for Windows Phone 7, iPhone, iPad, Android and later on Nokia (Symbian). The feature set is about the same accross the platforms. There is no ability to view meeting content, video or do voice over IP. The main features is therefore

  • IM and presence
  • One Click join meetings (Requires audio conferencing provider)
  • View contacts

For a detailed feature list see the TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh691004.aspx

Enable your domain for Lync Mobile automatic discovery

When using Lync Mobile over WiFi make sure you check the following

  • Open outbound port in firewall to TCP 5223 for Apple push notification
  • If you firewall proxy settings blocks SRV queries add
  • CNAME with your domain called lyncdiscover.yourdomain.com and point it to webdir.online.lync.com to your internal DNS

Thats is. Should be a simple process. In order for this to work you need to have published the Lync Online service as depicted in this kb article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2566790

References

Set up Lync mobile devices: http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/lync/1040.aspx
Deploying Lync Mobile Clients: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh691005.aspx
Ensuring Your Network Works With Lync Online: http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/lync/ensuring-your-network-works-with-lync-online.aspx

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Change the default Calendar AccessRight on all mailboxes to Reviewer

Posted by Ståle Hansen on 30/09/2011

Back in july 2010 I created a script to set the default AccessRight to Reviewer for Exchange 2010. This was a new feature for Exchange 2010 that we could use the command Set-MailboxFoldersPermission to change AccessRights on specific folders on the server level. As the calendar is a folder we now could do this organization wide using PowerShell.

The reason for creating this script is when migrating customers in Norway most of them want to allow everyone to use side by side calendaring in Outlook and Oulook Web App. In Exchange 2003/2007 we needed to instruct users how to set Default to Reviewer. This script sets it for all users. The script works for both Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2010. For Exchange 2007 check out this post on how to do it: http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/faq-give-calendar-read-permission-on-all-mailboxes-pfdavadmin/

Get the script here: http://msunified.net/exchange-downloads/script-set-calendarpermissions-ps1/

What the script does

As the picture shows you get three menu items.

  1. Will set the permission on all users and resources
  2. Will set the permission on all users and reources created the last 30 days
  3. Will give a user you specify Editor access to a mailbox you specify
    • This is good for switchboard or secretary functions

How to run the script against an Exchange Online environment

  • Connect to Exchange Online through PowerShell Remoting

$cred = Get-Credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session

  • Set Execution Policy to unrestricted

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

  • Run the script by copying the script, saving it as a ps1 file, navigate to it in PowerShell and start typing set-Cal and hit TAB to use TAB completion

.\Set-CalendarPremissions.ps1

Resources

Administering Microsoft Office 365 using Windows PowerShell: http://blog.powershell.no/2011/05/09/administering-microsoft-office-365-using-windows-powershell/

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service 2010

Posted by Ståle Hansen on 06/01/2011

Gartner released their Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) 2010 december 2010. This is the second time they release a MQ for this segment. They say it is a market that is in a maturity phase and will continue to change in the coming years. No participants are in the Leaders quadrant this year.

UCaaS is a cloud-based delivery of integrated communications capabilities spanning voice, messaging, conferencing and presence. Businesses should view UCaaS as an emerging alternative to premises-based UC platforms for improving productivity, processes and workflow.

Microsoft is a challenger with its BPOS offering. With Office 365 maybe they can become a leader in the UCasS market as they can offer Lync Online and Office Online in addition to Exchange and Sharepoint. Some of the major improvements in Lync Online is

  • Federation is now possible allowing collaboration with federated contacts
  • Combine Lync Online with On-Premise deployment as you can with Exchange 2010
  • Access to the Lync 2010 client is a benefit in it self

Read the full report here: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol14/article13/article13.html

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