This is a multi-part article. In the first part we will have a look what Location Information Services (LIS) is and how to configure. In the second part we will look at how it works and how you can troubleshoot Location Information Services.
It has been a very long time ago since I have wrote my last blog. Multiple things happened in my life which resulted in no time to write blogs anymore: finished my study, work, family etc. This weekend I decided to pickup blogging again.
SefaUtil Gui v2.1 is a new minor version is published of the SefaUtil GUI script. It contains some small improvements to fix some issues some users experienced. Issues fixed in this release are:
With pleasure I present you SefaUtil GUI v2. First thanks to all the beta tester which provided a lot of good feedback which has been incorporated in the tool.
During a migration to Office 365 I had this issue. The migration of a mailbox was stalled several times with the following entry logged in the migration log Relinquishing job because the mailbox is locked. Sometimes this occurs only once but I have seen times that the mailbox will get stuck in this phase.
In the first two parts of the blog series about troubleshooting federated sharing we had a look at the infrastructure and configuration which is required. Besides this we did some basic troubleshooting on the components involved during federated sharing. In this part we will look at some examples which I gathered during troubleshooting a federated sharing issue.
In the first part of the blog series about troubleshooting federated sharing we had a look at the server side. We discussed which parameters you should verify during troubleshooting and if they are configured incorrectly how to fix them.
By using federated sharing it is possible to exchange free/busy informative between different Exchange organizations. This can be done by using the Microsoft Federation Gateway (MSFG) when no direct trust exists between the Active Directories. The MSFG is in this case responsible for providing a ticket which is used for authentication. By using a ticket a CAS can contact the CAS from the other organization to retrieve the free/busy information.
