Monthly Archives: April 2012

Migrating Calendar & Contacts for #Office365 kiosk accounts

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This weekend is spent with a Office 365 and Exchange Online migration.

And I’m migrating from Kerio Connect to Exchange Online, since this is a IMAP migration I had to find a solution for the calendar and contacts since they are not migrated with the built in IMAP migration tools.

So I found someone in a forum that recommended Transend. And its been ok. I cant say its been a great migration experience but Transend does work if everything else works to 100% and well this is IT, things just never work 100%….

Anyway, I have 50 users on kiosk accounts, and after some digging I found out that Transend uses EWS when it upload the contacts, and guess what? Kiosk accounts don’t allow that, so there wont be any contacts or calendar for the Kiosk users if you are migrating from anything else than Exchange.

And I cant export them to PST and connect Outlook and migrate them that way.

Does anyone out there know of a smart way to migrate the calendar and contacts for kiosk users?

What kinds of IVR do you set up with Lync?

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Hi, just a quick question to you Lync admins out there.
What kinds of Response Groups and IVRs do you usually set up?

Are they mostly like 1-2 levels and quite easy configured or are they more advanced and requires some advanced workflows?

Here is a good 3 part blog series that Tom Morgan has written where the last part is especially interesting.

UCMA Workflow 1 – Introduction

UCMA Workflow 2 – Common Shapes

UCMA Workflow 3 – IVR Example

CSContactImporter lets you import OCS contacts into the #Lync database.

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CSContactImporter is a small tool for OCS 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010 which allows an administrator to import contacts into the database.
Importers are included for AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and for generic text based lists.

Download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29558

Telia starts to charge extra for using mobile VoIP

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One of the arguments to why there wasn’t support for VoIP in the Lync mobile client was that some (all) of the carriers don’t like VoIP. Now one of the largest carrier in Sweden has announced that they will start to charge a monthly extra fee on all new plans where you simply pay to use free VoIP apps.

When you use Lync on a mobile phone today and use the call via work feature the Lync server calls your cell phone and your mobile will not be charged for a outgoing call. This is actually also something that some carriers have expressed some negative thoughts about, but its technically not possible for them to stop so I guess why bother. But there will probably be some sorts of network limitations on using some apps like Skype and I hope that they wont try to block Lync.

http://www.telia.se/privat/kundservice/aktuellt/mobil-ip/

http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/telia-borjar-ta-betalt-for-skype-och-viber

Congratulations on earning your Office 365, Administrator certification – #Office365

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I did both of the beta certs back in January and last week I got two emails telling me I passed both of those exams.

Microsoft® Certified IT Professional (MCITP)

Certification Number :
D704-4776
Achievement Date :
01/18/2012

Certification/Version :
Office 365, Administrator

 

Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)

Certification Number :
D704-4777
Achievement Date :
01/16/2012

Certification/Version :
Office 365, Administration

Mastering Lync 2010 class 12-05-09

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My codeveloped lab that I´we written with fellow Lync MVP – Ståle Hansen is almost full but there are still some seats left, this will probably be one of the last chances to attend this training so if you are in Sweden make sure to book it now Winking smile

You can read more on the details of the training at http://www.labcenter.se/lab/2055 and check out the microsite for the lab www.lynclab.org for some video reviews of the training.