General Overview Media Bypass is an excellent new feature in Lync 2010, the successor to Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2. Currently, when an OCS Endpoint such as Communicator or Tanjay utilize Enterprise Voice, they must utilize RTAudio which an OCS Mediation Server must then transcode to G.711 which is the codec utilized on the Public Switched Telephone Network … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 Media Bypass with and without Voice Resilience
Exchange 2010 Site Resilience, Multiple DAG IPs, and Cluster Resources
Exchange 2010 allows us to have Database Availability Group (DAG) members in several AD Sites. For every subnet a DAG member's MAPI NIC is in, we must obtain a DAG IP. This DAG IP is a separate IP than is located on the MAPI NICs themselves. We take this DAG IP to the DAG using the Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup command. Multiple DAG IPs Let's take a look at an … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Site Resilience, Multiple DAG IPs, and Cluster Resources
Exchange 2007/2010 Connection Filtering and Transport Configuration
Connection Filtering Basics (Blocking Connection to the Server) Many of you know what Connection Filtering is in Exchange. It allows you to control what IPs are allowed and what IPs are blocked. Taking a look at the following image, we can see exactly what parts of Anti-Spam utilize the connection filtering agent.In the following image, we can see in what order … [Read more...] about Exchange 2007/2010 Connection Filtering and Transport Configuration
Exchange 2010 SP1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Many will be upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1 soon. Many of you also have Blackberry Enterprise Server. RIM has provided a pre-installation guide for Exchange 2010 here. I wanted to touch on one of these pre-installation steps. This is where we increase the maximum number of connections to the Address Book service. The specific guide for this step is … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 SP1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Changes in Exchange 2010 SP1 Administrator Audit Logging
Exchange 2010 SP1 changes the way Administrator Audit Logging (AAL) works to some degree. To see how Exchange 2010 RTM Administrator Audit Logging works, check out a great article by my fellow MVP Neil Hobson here. This article is not going to explain what AAL is, just what the changes are.In Exchange 2010 RTM, when you configured AAL, you had to specify what … [Read more...] about Changes in Exchange 2010 SP1 Administrator Audit Logging
